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Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/14/cant-pay-wont-pay-impoverished-streaming-service…

Monitoring firm MUSO says piracy hit a low in 2020 with 130B website visits and grew by 2024 to 216B; in Sweden, 25% of those surveyed reported pirating in 2024 (Gabriel V Rindborg/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/

Russian piracy – UAVs launched from oil tankers #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/russian-piracy-uavs-launched-from.html

As a personal message I put into my #Instagram account: 'Pirate Metal is where it's at' Instagram removed the message because I was endorsing Piracy... It's a genre, bitch not about stealing music #Alestorm I hate Artificial dumbness because that is what it is.

🤺 Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/sting-operation-kills-copycat-sports-piracy-site-with-1-6b-visits-last-year/

Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year
Original Streameast pirating site was taken down before but remains accesible today.

Once ye hoist yer sails and plunder treasures from #Piracy

Two arrested in Egypt as authorities take down Streameast sports piracy platform https://therecord.media/streameast-sports-piracy-site-takedown-arrests-egypt

Generative AI should be called "piracy soup"

A US federal jury gives five Nevada men varying prison sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/five-sentenced-for-running-piracy-streaming-site

5 Nevada men sentenced to prison for running Jetflicks pirated content site
The Justice Department said it ended “the largest internet privacy case… ever to go to trial as well as the first illegal streaming case ever to go to trial.”

«It’s an issue at the intersection of several critical problems with the modern internet: Google’s search monopoly, rampant porn piracy, a DMCA takedown process vulnerable to errors and abuse, and now the automation of all of the above in order to operate at scale.»
https://www.404media.co/how-onlyfans-piracy-is-ruining-the-internet-for-everyone/

Weren't these humanitarian activists captured by Israelis on the high seas, in clear contravention of international law? That's #Piracy !
https://www.theguardian.c…

How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone https://www.404media.co/how-onlyfans-piracy-is-ruining-the-internet-for-everyone/

Weekend Reads
* Preventing route leaks
https://blog.apnic.net/2025/09/05/preventing-route-leaks-made-simple-bgp-roleplay-with-junos-rfc-9234/
* IPTV piracy network report

Preventing route leaks made simple: BGP roleplay with Junos (RFC 9234) | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: For 35 years, accidental BGP route leaks and hijacks have been routine — a simple tweak, now defined in RFC 9234, could have prevented most of them.

Gustavo Petro of Colombia expels Israeli diplomatic mission following the detention of Colombian flotilla participants in Israel's act of Piracy.
https://www.

Colombia | Petro anunció la expulsión de la delegación diplomática de Israel en el país tras la detención de connacionales que integraban la Flotilla Global Sumud rumbo a Gaza – NODAL
NODAL - Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe

Part Two
https://thisiscanadiana.com/episode-pages/2022/7/27/the-fall-of-piracy-in-canada-part-2

So, the state of Israel (as distinguished from the citizens and residents of Israel) has resorted to high seas piracy to promote its killing of innocents in Gaza and the sale of all of that beach-shore land to Trump and friends to develop as hotels and golf courses.
Israel has a right and just claim to exist as a sovereign nation. So do the people of Palestine.
The force and strength of that claim is increasing for the Palestinians.
And the force and strength of that claim…

A US federal jury gives five Nevada men varying prison sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/five-sentenced-for-running-piracy-streaming-site

5 Nevada men sentenced to prison for running Jetflicks pirated content site
The Justice Department said it ended “the largest internet privacy case… ever to go to trial as well as the first illegal streaming case ever to go to trial.”

Anti-piracy organization ACE says a joint operation with Egyptian law enforcement shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6591670/2

Streameast, world’s largest illegal sports streaming platform, shut down in sting
The network of 80 unauthorised domains generated 1.6billion combined visits over the last year.

Podcast: AI Slop Is Drowning Out Human YouTubers https://www.404media.co/podcast-ai-slop-is-drowning-out-human-youtubers/

I don't support #Nintendo, not even through #Piracy!

Leveraging 3D Technologies for Hardware Security: Opportunities and Challenges
Peng Gu, Shuangchen Li, Dylan Stow, Russell Barnes, Liu Liu, Yuan Xie, Eren Kursshan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19309

Leveraging 3D Technologies for Hardware Security: Opportunities and Challenges
3D die stacking and 2.5D interposer design are promising technologies to improve integration density, performance and cost. Current approaches face serious issues in dealing with emerging security challenges such as side channel attacks, hardware trojans, secure IC manufacturing and IP piracy. By utilizing intrinsic characteristics of 2.5D and 3D technologies, we propose novel opportunities in designing secure systems. We present: (i) a 3D architecture for shielding side-channel information; (i…

Anti-piracy organization ACE says a joint operation with Egyptian law enforcement shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6591670/2

Streameast, world’s largest illegal sports streaming platform, shut down in sting
The network of 80 unauthorised domains generated 1.6billion combined visits over the last year.

Today I learned that privateers and piracy led to the founding of two of Canada’s largest banks. Somehow not surprising....

TLGLock: A New Approach in Logic Locking Using Key-Driven Charge Recycling in Threshold Logic Gates
Abdullah Sahruri, Martin Margala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17809 https://

TLGLock: A New Approach in Logic Locking Using Key-Driven Charge Recycling in Threshold Logic Gates
Logic locking remains one of the most promising defenses against hardware piracy, yet current approaches often face challenges in scalability and design overhead. In this paper, we present TLGLock, a new design paradigm that leverages the structural expressiveness of Threshold Logic Gates (TLGs) and the energy efficiency of charge recycling to enforce key-dependent functionality at the gate level. By embedding the key into the gate's weighted logic and utilizing dynamic charge sharing, TLGLock …

A look at CollabScan, a tool to scan short-form videos for pirated content, offered by Collab, a digital content studio founded by Vine creators (Tubefilter)
https://www.tubefilter.com/2025/08/28/collab-collabscan-digital-rights-manage…

Short-form creators can't keep their content out of pirates' hands. Collab wants to help. - Tubefilter
Since the dawn of digital content, piracy has been a problem for creators of all kinds. But those who make short-form content are particularly vulnerable, Vine might have perished (RIP), but these days, thanks to the rise of TikTok, short-form content is everywhere. Collab works with creators who publish videos on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and more. And some things never change: short-form content is still harder to protect than long-form videos.

Podcast: Trump Take Egg https://www.404media.co/podcast-trump-take-egg/

Good Morning #Canada
#Aaarrr ....
If you're a follower of #Pastafarianism then you understand. Yes, it's #TalkLikeAPirate Day, which makes it a great opportunity to post about those scoundrels who sailed the eastern coast of Canada during the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the best-known pirates to make his mark on Canada was Peter Easton. In 1612, Easton embarked on a series of raids on European fishing fleets in coastal harbours in Newfoundland and Labrador. He turned Harbour Grace into his headquarters and destroyed a Basque fleet that was intent on capturing his fort there. Part of his myth involved capturing an Irish princess who later married one of his lieutenant and settled in Newfoundland. Easton was the rare pirate who retired in France with his wealth. He was succeeded in Canadian waters by Black Bart who captured more than 400 ships over 2 year period, but who met a bloody end when he was put out of business by the British navy.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://thisiscanadiana.com/episode-pages/2022/6/29/the-rise-of-piracy-in-canada-part-1