PIRACY is gradually losing its appeal thanks to easy-to-use legal services like Netflix and Spotify, new statistics have shown. Legal streaming is on the rise in the UK, research by the Intellectual Property Office has demonstrated. Hugely popular subscription services like Netflix and Spotify continue to gain popularity amongst Britons, whilst the blanket ban on torrent websites like ThePirateBay make piracy increasingly difficult. The UK Intellectual Property Office claims there has been a 10 per cent increase in the number of Britons using legal services, since 2013. The survey also highlighted that 62 per cent of all UK internet users have downloaded or streamed music, TV shows, films, computer software, videogames or e-books. That's up from 56 per cent in 2013. Interestingly, the survey also showed that a staggering 54 per cent of all music streaming and downloads in the UK were accessed via YouTube. A similar survey was conducted in Australia in parallel with the Intellectual Property Office study. The research showed that while British and Australian users consumed online media at similar rates – illegal downloading for UK consumers was half the rate of their Australian counterparts. However – despite the apparent increase in legal steaming in the UK, piracy is still rampant. One in five Britons watch or download their media illegally, the Intellectual Property Office study revealed. Intellectual Property Minister Baroness Neville Rolfe said: "It’s great news that a huge proportion of UK consumers are going online to enjoy Music, TV Shows, Video Games and e-books legally, supporting our creative industries to grow and showing the benefits of making legal content widely available. "By building a clear picture of online streaming and downloading trends we can work with industry and international partners to tackle the problems of internet piracy and increase public awareness of the ways people can download and stream legally." In an effort to tackle online piracy, the Conservative government has provided £5.56million in funding up to 2017 for Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit to tackle copyright infringement.

Don Bluetigers Namaste à vous tous, Après de longs mois de stabilité quant aux rentrées de dons, nous ne pensions pas devoir vous lancer cet appel. Nous savons pertinemment que vous êtes sur d'autres trackers et que la relance incessante de demandes de dons est légion. Egalement, nous comprenons que les temps sont aux vacances et que ce genre de message est autant lassant pour vous que pour nous. Cela étant, Bluetigers doit faire face à une dure réalité, blablabla, les "douloureuses" blablabla "la structure Bluetigers" blablabla "le paiement des serveurs", bref, comme à l'accoutumée, nous faisons appel à votre générosité pour nous aider à assumer, une partie des créances du tk. En prime : une promotion VIP à 30 euro ! Nous tenions également à remercier cette minorité et fidèles donateurs qui sont chaque mois toujours auprès de nous, warm kisses Cordialement Le Staff Bluetigers. Translation Don Bluetigers After months of stability as receipts for donations, we did not have to make this appeal to you. We know that you are on other trackers and the incessant stimulus donation! requests is legion. Also, we understand that times are holidays and that this kind of message is so boring for you and for us. However, Bluetigers faces a harsh reality, blah, the "painful" blah "Bluetigers the structure" blah "payment server" in short, as usual, we appeal to your generosity to help us assume part of the debts of the tk. Bonus: VIP promotion to 30 euro! We also wanted to thank this minority and loyal donors who each month still with us, warm kisses Best Regards The Staff Bluetigers.

Bonjour @ tous, Un petit mot pour vous dire que les inscriptions sur invitation ferment à la fin du mois. Nous avons également augmenté le pot commun à 500 000 points! (il y a plus d'activité et donc plus de point générés). Enfin merci de nous soutenir financièrement ,l'été étant souvent une période creuse (nous sommes le 22 et les dons ne sont que de 25% de l'objectif mensuel). Merci à tous pour votre participation ! Le Staff Translation Hi @ all, A quick note to tell you that the inscriptions on invitation close at the end of the month. We also raised the pot to 500 000 points! (there is more activity and therefore more generated point). Finally thank you to support us financially, summer is often a slow period (we are 22 and donations are only 25% of the monthly goal). Thank you all for your participation! the Staff

DONATIONS AND NEW STAFF Paypal donations! For those that wanted to donate to the site, but found bitcoin too confusing, we've re-added the ability to donate using paypal. If you're interested in donating to us this way, send a staff PM entitled "PayPal Donation" for further instructions. Thank you for your support! New Henchmen & a new Curator! We'd like to welcome two new members to our FLS team: mjanosko and tacobongo. We're very excited to have them and are sure they will be excellent henchmen, so be sure to say hello when you see them in the forums. Finally, please give a warm welcome to Hyzenthlay who is joining our curator team! Hyzenthlay will be helping us keep torrents in check along with the other curators. Curators perform an essential role as maintainers of our growing archive, we simply couldn't function without them, so we are especially grateful to any who take up this particular task. So long, and thanks for all the fish. It is with a heavy heart that we also say goodbye to ComicGod, who has recently decided to retire from his position as developer. ComicGod has been an integral part of 32pages, since its inception as comicbt many years ago. He spearheaded the transition to the new Gazelle base, and undertook the mammoth task of customizing the code to work for our purposes. He is a truly talented developer and above all a friend to the site. CG, we hope to see you around.

YouTube has been given just days to respond to copyright infringement complaints or face blocking measures in Russia that for some could take down the whole site. The local telecoms watchdog says that since YouTube has failed to completely remove links to two TV series despite earlier complaints, action is being taken against the site. Following intense pressure from local and international entertainment companies, on August 1, 2013 Russia introduced a brand new anti-piracy law. Initially covering only movies, the law allowed websites offering ‘pirate’ content to be blocked by local ISPs if they fail to respond to complaints. Late November 2014 the law was further amended to include all copyrighted content except images. The legislation has been used dozens of times to threaten unresponsive sites with blocking at the ISP level, but in many cases operators have complied to ensure they keep off Russia’s blocklist. Surprisingly the world’s largest user-generated content site YouTube today finds itself perilously close to becoming a new addition. The problem dates back several months when TV shows owned by TNT-network appeared on the site without authorization. In April, YouTube received requests from local telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor to delete the content and apparently responded in a timely manner. However, fresh monitoring carried out by Roskomnadzor this month reportedly found almost 140 links to the same content, an event that prompted the watchdog to initiate the start of the blocking procedure. “On the application of the right holder ‘TNT-Teleset’ and in accordance with a decision of the Moscow City Court from April 7, 2015, tentative interim measures of protection of the exclusive rights to [two TV series] have been implemented against social networking website YouTube.com,” Roskomnadzor announced. “Notification with a request to remove the unlawfully placed materials has been repeatedly directed at the administration of the Internet resource. Currently, access to the illegal videos has not been limited.” For YouTube, the clock is now ticking. Roskomnadzor is alerting Russian users that on Monday July 27 YouTube pages will be added to Russia’s national register of copyright violators. However, due to the way blocking is sometimes implemented, Roskomnadzor warns that for some the entire site may be rendered inaccessible. “The video hosting site has a huge audience, and for some users the resource could become completely unavailable,” Roskomnadzor’s Vadim Ampelonsky told local media. “The administration of YouTube has always responded to our needs and removed illegal content. But in [this case] this hasn’t happened for reasons that aren’t apparent to us. We very much hope that we will not have to put YouTube on the blocklist registry.” It’s unclear why YouTube hasn’t responded to the requests of Roskomnadzor. The company is usually responsive to complaints and it should be trivial to add the TV shows in question to its ContentID system so that uploads of the same can be spotted in the future. But in any event, YouTube has just days to respond before the banhammer falls. Source torrentfreak.com

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Doctor's Orders: Οι εγγραφές είναι ανοιχτές... Step into the TARDIS Θα ανοίξουμε για λίγο καιρό και πάλι τις εγγραφές για να μαζέψουμε νέα μέλη και να δώσουμε μια φρέσκια πνοή στο Φανταστικό. Διαδώστε το και εσείς όπου κρίνετε... Σκοπός είναι να μαζέψουμε τους λάτρεις του Φανταστικού, ανθρώπους που θα εκτιμήσουν όσα προσφέρουμε σαν κοινότητα. Translate Doctor's Orders: Registrations are open ... Step into the TARDIS will open for a while again the recordings to gather new members and give a fresh impetus to the Imaginary. Spread yourself where you think ... The aim is to gather lovers imagine, people who will appreciate what we offer as a community.

Universal Pictures has sent a rather unfortunate takedown notice to Google. The movie outfit wants the search engine to take down the IMDb listing for one of its movies, as well as other legitimate content. Google, has yet to respond to the self-censorship effort and is currently investigating the request. In an effort to make piracy less visible, copyright holders send dozens of millions of takedown notices to Google every month. Unfortunately not all of these requests are as accurate as they should be. Due to the high volume of often automated notices and the fact that copyright holders don’t check the validity of all requests, there are many questionable requests are made. This week we spotted a dubious takedown notice from Universal Pictures, targeting several perfectly legitimate URLs. The movie studio’s tracking company apparently failed to properly screen the request as it lists the official IMDb page of the blockbuster Furious 7. The Internet Movie Database is widely regarded as one of the top sources to find information on movies and having the page de-listed from Google certainly doesn’t help to prevent piracy. https://torrentfreak.com/images/fastimdb.jpg Aside from Furious 7, the same notice targets “copyright infringing” links to the movie Hacker. Here, the movie studio also made an unfortunate mistake asking Google to remove a news article from Techdirt, covering the Hacking Team leak. And while we’re on the topic of self censorship, it’s worth noting that Universal Pictures also asked Google, in a separate notice, to remove http://127.0.0.1from the search results. The mistakes were made by the French branch of the movie studio, which only recently began sending takedown notices to Google. The company has reported less than 200 URLs thus far including the mistakes above. While Universal is the rightsholder, it’s worth noting the notices are sent by Trident Media Guard (TMG), the private company which also carried out file-sharing network monitoring for the French Government’s Hadopi scheme. The good news is that Google hasn’t removed any of the inaccurately reported URLs just yet. The search engine is still validating the validity of the claims and will probably reject the requests. In the meantime, Universal Pictures and TMG should reconsider their takedown campaign, or at least improve their monitoring tools. https://torrentfreak.com/universal-a...d-more-150722/

Acid Is Now Hiring We may be looking for some new blood on the staffing team, how many? we do not know. but if your interested feel free to apply. but before you do please read the following and think about it first. What We Req: On Site Activity (forums etc) IRC Activity - this is a must for communicating with other staff and for helping users that join any of our irc channels looking for help. Some free time to deal with site duties. What We Dont Req: Applying if you know you dont have the time to do any staff duties, it only wastes all our time So Whats Involved: Various roles have different jobs to do, but generally its helping users with issues, maintaining forums, Editing torrents, Enforcing seeding rules, Hanging out blethering in irc and helping people if they require it. How Much Time Are We Talking: If your pc is on you can idle in irc and help as you see them, site wise a few hours each week should cover it but if your on site a few hours each day anyway then it shouldnt be a problem, training! may take some extra time initially but once you get yer bearings youll be fine. What If I Dont Lnow Anything: Providing you know the basics then thats all you really need to know, you can learn as you go, we all still learn new things every day. If your still interested feel free to drop us a email to [email protected] tell us why you want to be staff an what you could bring to the table, be honest an put your username in the subject box. Tongue Good Luck an thanks for taking the time to read and apply.

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UK high court has recently quashed regulations to allow people to legally copy CDs and other content for their private use. The court decided that the government was incorrect in deciding not to introduce a compensation scheme for copyright owners who faced losses in result of their copyright being infringed. The court decision was obtained by the Musicians’ Union, UK Music and the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, who claimed that the new regulations that don’t provide for a compensation scheme would result in £58m annual loss of revenues for rights owners. When introducing the new regulations, the government said that they would cause almost no harm, which makes compensation unnecessary. However, the court decided that the evidence presented by the government did not justify the claim of “no harm”. The government introduced the changes last October, and prior to that date it was illegal to copy the contents of a CD on to a laptop, smartphone or MP3 player for personal use. The changes read that now making of personal copies was allowed, as long as they were for private use only. Besides, the new regulations stated that only the person who purchased the original copy of the content was legally allowed to copy it, while friends or family weren’t. However, the court agreed that the case had raised a range of legal issues for British and European law, most of which were ruled in the government’s favor. Apparently, the music industry welcomed the new measures but objected to the lack of a fair compensation scheme to compensate copyright holders for the harm caused. While other EU countries provide appropriate compensation, the British government failed to do so

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About 80 per cent of Australian online pirates would not be encouraged to stop infringing even if they received a letter from their ISP saying their account would be suspended or internet speeds slowed, a government commissioned survey shows. Between March and May this year, both the Australian and British governments conducted surveys to measure online copyright infringement across different content types, with the Australian research closely modelled on Britain's approach. The Australian survey — commissioned by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Department of Communications and undertaken by Taylor Nelson Sofres​ (TNS) Australia — involved interviews with 2630 individuals and found that approximately 20 per cent of Australians would be impacted by the threat of receiving a letter from their ISP (80 per cent would not). Further, it found that only 21 per cent would be encouraged to stop infringing if they received a letter saying their account would be suspended, 17 per cent if the letter indicated their account had been used to infringe, and 17 per cent if the letter said their internet speed would be restricted. Meanwhile, only 5 per cent of respondents said nothing would make them stop pirating. The top three things that would encourage Aussies to stop? If legal services were cheaper (39 per cent), if everything Australians wanted was available legally (38 per cent), and if everything they wanted was available legally online as soon as it was released elsewhere (36 per cent). These are views both Labor's Ed Husic and the Australian Greens' Scott Ludlam have been expressing, as well as consumers groups such as CHOICE. John Stanton, chief executive of the Communications Alliance, which represents Australian ISPs, said the survey pointed to the need for heightened efforts by rights holders to make legal online content available to Australian internet users in a timely and affordable way, as part of an integrated strategy to minimise online infringement. Mr Stanton pointed to the upcoming copyright notice scheme code (which does not includes sanctions such as suspension of consumers' accounts) as one way to curb piracy in Australia. The code has been submitted it to the communications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, for approval and is due to be in place by September. Anti-piracy, website blocking legislation also recently came into force and it's expected rights holders will soon make use of it to request judges order ISPs to block certain sites, such as The Pirate Bay and KickAssTorrents.

Several anti-virus vendors have begun blocking uTorrent after identifying the software as malicious or potentially dangerous. In addition, Google Chrome is currently blocking several pages on uTorrent's official website. According to the reports the popular file-sharing application is linked to riskware and trojans. With millions of new downloads per month uTorrent is without doubt the most used BitTorrent client around. The software is the main source of revenue for the San Francisco based company BitTorrent Inc. and generates income through advertisements and bundled software. The latter now appears to be causing trouble as several anti-virus vendors have begun listing uTorrent as a security risk. The scanning result below from VirusTotal shows that at least six anti-virus applications, including ESET and Symantec, have flagged the software as problematic. The anti-virus scans associate the uTorrent.exe file with Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT and the controversial OpenCandy bundling software. While this isn’t the first time that uTorrent has been flagged in this manner, we haven’t seen it being reported by this many independent tests before. In addition to action by the anti-virus companies, uTorrent is also being blocked by Google in several ways. When attempting to download the latest stable release of the torrent client, Chrome flags the software as malicious and blocks the download, although this only appears to happen sporadically. Google is also actively blocking several pages that link to uTorrent and other BitTorrent Inc. software. According to Google, parts of the uTorrent website contain “harmful programs.” The same “harmful software” warning from Google also prevented millions of people from accessing popular torrent sites earlier this month. A Google spokesperson informed us that this was the result of the company’s increased efforts to block programs that make “unexpected changes” to people’s computers. “Google Safe Browsing’s ability to detect deceptive software has steadily improved,” the company explained in a recent blog post. “In the coming weeks, these detection improvements will become more noticeable in Chrome: users will see more warnings about unwanted software than ever before,” Google adds. These and the other uTorrent threat reports all seem to be triggered by bundled third-party software bundled. There is no indication or evidence that the BitTorrent client itself is harmful. We asked BitTorrent Inc. for a comment on the recent reports but the company has yet to respond.

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Australia's relationship with the internet is entering new territory. Things are getting serious, and it all hinges on a bold new love affair with video streaming. 2015 has brought an explosion of subscription video on demand services. Presto and Stan* arrived in January, followed by global leader Netflix in March. Just six month ago, there were 315,000 subscribers in Australia, watching Quickflix - an elder in the space and a homegrown brand, but one which has struggled to make the most of the video streaming boom - plus a long tail of specialist providers, mostly offering sports. Now, according to technology analyst firm Telsyte​, there are more than 2 million subscribers, with more than 1 million signed on to Netflix, which is trailed by Stan, Presto, and Quickflix. The rapid uptake has stunned even Netflix, which more than beat its KPIs for new overseas subscribers in the three months to June 30. (Australia and New Zealand were the only new markets it added in the quarter.) But video streaming requires our internet service providers to have robust infrastructure, and to use it in more sophisticated ways, and that largely caught Australia off guard, says telecommunications analyst Paul Budde. "I think it's fair to say everybody underestimated the effect of Netflix," he says. Streaming one minute of video generates more than 200 times more web traffic than sending an email, and four times more than streaming one minute of music, according to the Internet Society. That figure is even higher for high-definition video. ISPs pre-empted the spike in demand for data by upping their data caps and offering unmetered deals on partner streaming services, so consumers could binge on Orange Is The New Black or Better Call Saul without busting their entire data allowance in a night. But while customers lapped it up, it backfired for some. Less than a month after its Australian launch, Netflix, which is unmetered for iiNet customers, was hogging up to a quarter of iiNet's broadband traffic, causing major congestion problems on the network during peak viewing periods. Chief executive David Buckingham says iiNet has since accelerated network upgrades originally planned for six months from now in order to fix the problem. Other ISPs have seen the dramatic effects of streaming in different ways. Optus said the period of peak user demand on its network has grown by about 1.5 hours, thanks to its customers increasingly switching to streaming rather than watching free-to-air TV in the evenings. Telstra says all forms of video content, including subscription video streaming and videos viewed through apps such as YouTube and Facebook, now account for "well over half" the traffic on its fixed broadband network - up from 30 per cent before Netflix's arrival. All of this bandwidth costs money, and while generous data deals have helped stymie a bill shocks for customers, the result has been smaller margins for telcos. Budde says video streaming is a milestone event similar to the arrival of the smartphone, which has a sudden, unpredictable and irreversible effect on our data consumption. Cisco predicts global consumer video-on-demand traffic will double in the next four years alone. Experts are calling the coming explosion in internet traffic an "exaflood" (an exabyte is 1 quintillion bytes). According to Netflix's own ISP speed index, which ranks providers on the quality of streaming Netflix on their networks, Australia lags well behind the top speeds of dozens of other developed nations, and even a few surprising outliers such as Mexico and Argentina. Telsyte research shows more than half of fixed broadband users in Australia don't think their internet connection is fast enough for streaming video, with one in five planning to upgrade within a year. That means having a better, faster connection, and that's where Australia's high-speed fibre National Broadband Network (NBN) comes into play. "We think people who spend, say, a month testing out Stan would happily consider spending another $10 a month to upgrade to a 100MB fibre connection for a better experience," Telsyte managing director Foad Fadaghi​ says.

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