Tag: piracy

• BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story | The Verge

  July 4, 2026

  The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core. https://www.theverge.com/tech/959848/bittorrent-story-25-years-piracy more ›

• The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

  March 22, 2025

  Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the… more ›

• A South African startup is using bitcoin to turn…

  July 23, 2017

  A South African startup is using bitcoin to turn digital pirates against each other » The scholarly environs of the New Media research lab at Stellenbosch University in South Africa… more ›

• The internet is a great international distribution…

  January 1, 2014

  “The internet is a great international distribution tool, but it’s also a marketing tool. So if you’re going to market something to people and then not give it to them,… more ›