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Africa's film industry is ripe to boom. Idris Elba wants to be there for it.
A 2021 UNESCO report said that Africa's film and audiovisual industries could add $20 billion to th…
Eve Crosbie,Nathan Rennolds
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Apple just pulled this piracy app from the App Store
Apple appears to have removed Kimi, a piracy app that featured a library of free films and shows to…
Aaron Mok
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Indian OTTs might lose $3 bn to piracy this year as leaked content sites see 62 mn footfalls
Media platform Disney+Hotstar filed a first information report (FIR) at Bengaluru cyber cell agains…
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India loses $2.5 Bn to Online Movie Piracy every year
The numbers are mind-boggling to say the least. "Some unofficial estimates show that the overall re…
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'Wonder Woman 1984' flopped at the China box office ahead of its HBO Max debut. A surge in piracy could be next.
The "Wonder Woman" sequel pulled in a disappointing $38.5 million in its international debut, with …
Travis Clark
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Popcorn Time, the infamous 'Netflix for piracy' app, has made its return amid the coronavirus pandemic
The app, Popcorn Time, became an instant hit when it launched in 2014 as a free - albeit, illegal -…
Paige Leskin
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Facebook now blocks people from sharing links to notorious piracy site The Pirate Bay
In the prompt on Facebook that stops users from sharing links to The Pirate Bay, it says links to t…
Ben Gilbert
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Movie piracy in China has surged because of the coronavirus outbreak and experts say it could forecast a global trend
China's box office was down by nearly $2 billion in the first two months of the year compared to th…
Travis Clark
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The 2011 pandemic movie 'Contagion' is surging in rentals and piracy due to the coronavirus and has hit the No. 7 spot on iTunes
Directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, and more, "Contagion" is about a p…
Travis Clark
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The most awaited Marvel movie couldn't escape being a victim of piracy
The finale to Marvel’s Avengers movie line-up is one of the most awaited movies ever with first day…
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What can companies do to protect themselves against online piracy?
In our experience we have found two main kinds of entities who upload pirated files online. First a…
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Ekta Kapoor spent two sleepless nights tracking pirated links of Udta Punjab
Present at a theatre here to see the fans' reactions, Ekta was asked about the film finally releasi…
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#UdtaPunjab: From Aamir Khan to Karan Johar and their Tweets against piracy, a day after movie is leaked online
Just two days before release, ‘Udta Punjab’, was leaked online. Phantom Films has filed a copyright…
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Anthony Hopkins’ new film will be sold as an NFT — here’s what that means for creators and the ones buying it
Anthony Hopkins’ new film Zero Contact is going to premier as a non-fungible token (NFT) on a new p…
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Putin's new internet advisor allegedly owns a piracy site
But he's also been a soft touch on piracy, recommending that authorities don't "terrorize" the publ…
Rob Price
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Camcorder Video Piracy In India And Who It Affects The Most
In the middle of this cat and mouse game, only mainstream Bollywood films seem to not get too affec…
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A French magazine was just fined €10,000 for writing about piracy
The magazine released a special issue last summer advertising the "the best software and websites t…
Lucy England
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A Ukrainian man has been arrested for allegedly running a $1 billion piracy site
Vaulin was arrested by US authorities in Poland on Wednesday because a server for Kickass Torrents …
Sam Shead
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Somali Piracy: More Sophisticated Than You Thought
Qat-chewing is big (and generally legal) business in much of the region, and the role of Somalis in…