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China video sites confident public will pay

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China's video industry confident it can beat piracy, persuade public to pay for online content BEIJING (AP) — When media studies student Liu Zhiqi settles down to watch a movie or TV...
    






Bloat, Censorship, Reaction: UK Government Takes Control Freak Approach To Tech

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Britain’s Coalition government has been desperate to be seen as on the cutting edge of technology since the beginning of its term. It is bizarre, then, that it pressured some of the country’s...
    






Bitcoin’s Incredible Year

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Last year at this time, valued at just $13.50, one Bitcoin could get you a movie ticket if you could find a theater that had 1) heard of Bitcoin and 2) accepted it. Fat chance. Luckily, Bitcoin...
    






How ‘Her’ Created A Hyper-Realistic Future With A Sparse Budget

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The real world is full of scuff marks and dents. Rust and signs of aging. But CG objects and cities? They’re likely to look unrealistically smooth—like the entire world was built an hour before the...
    






Game of Thrones is the Most Pirated Show of 2013: The FBI is Coming

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The list of the most pirated shows of 2013 has been published and the show at the top is a repeat from last year. According to the list compiled by TorrentFreak, Game of Thrones was the most pirated show of 2013. The show had an estimated 5.9 million downloads compared to an estimated 5.5 million viewers on TV. That means more people pirated the show than watched it on HBO.

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Rounding out the top ten list in order are Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Big Bang Theory, Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, Suits, Homeland, Vikings, and Arrow.

More people pirated Homeland than watched it on TV as well. It’s cool to see Arrow on the list, that is one of my favorite shows and I just started watching it on Netflix. Of course, while the level of piracy is flattering, keep in mind that it’s us paying subscribers who actually fund these amazing productions.

[via TorrentFreak]

Problems With The iOS 7 Jailbreak Over Taig And Pirate Apps

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The newly released jailbreak for iOS 7 appears to have run into a few teething problems. Specifically, inside the jailbreak was a connection to Taig and that in itself appeared to be feeding data out...
    






Hollywood Vet Producing TV Shows For China – Viewers And Brands Love Them

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“I have been in China for a long time and I thought this kind of thing was impossible, how did you do it?” That was my first question for Larry Namer, the legendary Hollywood producer and writer who...
    






Feds Indict Three More Alleged Employees Of Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts

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Ross Ulbricht, the alleged Dread Pirate Roberts and administrator of the Silk Road drug website, may be spending Christmas in a jail cell in Brooklyn, New York. But as the FBI widens its crackdown on...
    






At Least Two Moderators Of ‘Silk Road 2.0’ Drug Site Forums Arrested

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The resurrection of the popular Silk Road drug website known as “Silk Road 2.0″ has been online for less than two months. But law enforcement already seems to be closing its net. On Friday morning an...