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| Aug 1, 2024 | DCA's Responsible Markets Initiative to Scrutinize Growing Impact of Online Markets on Economy and Internet Safety | From Tickets to Accommodations to Drugs to Domains Names to Goods and Services, Consumers Need Online Markets to be Trustworthy and Safe
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Digital Citizens Alliance today launched the Responsible M... |
| May 15, 2024 | Ozempic Craze + TikTok = Scams: Bad Actors Are Dangling Weight Loss Drugs to Con Americans Out of Their Money, Investigation Finds | TikTok Hosts Dozens of Scammers Peddling Ozempic and Other Weight Loss Drugs – But the Only Thing Likely to Get Lighter is Americans' Bank Accounts
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Exploiting Americans' craving for Ozempic, online s... |
| Nov 5, 2023 | PropellerAds Labels MPA’s Piracy Claims “Harassment” and “Defamation” | With more than a billion impressions per month and over 30,000 active advertisers, PropellerAds is a serious player in the online advertising industry.
The Cyprus-based company works with advertisers and publishers from all over the world a... |
| Oct 31, 2023 | State Attorneys General Warn Public About Piracy Scams and Malware | Over the years we have seen dozens of anti-piracy campaigns. Initially, many of these tried to appeal to people’s morals.
You wouldn’t steal a car, right?
This type of messaging doesn’t work for everyone, so more direct tactics have also be... |
| Jun 24, 2023 | Sharing Your Credit Card With a Shady Pirate IPTV Service Isn’t a Brilliant Idea | In recent years, many people have canceled their expensive cable subscriptions, opting to use cheaper Internet TV instead.
While there are plenty of legal streaming options available, there’s also a broad offer of IPTV services that are spe... |
| Sep 18, 2022 | Piracy Advertising Researchers Fall Victim to Ransomware Attacks | Over the years we have seen dozens of anti-piracy campaigns. Initially, many of these tried to appeal to people’s morals.
You wouldn’t steal a car, right?
This type of messaging doesn’t work for everyone, so more direct tactics are explored... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | The biggest barrier to electric cars isn’t tech – it’s making public chargers feel safer and more accessible | Charging an EV at an unknown public charger can sometimes leave drivers feeling vulnerable. Samantha Lee/Business Insider Most EV charging happens at home or at the workplace. Despite this, the public charging infrastructure still isn’t up ... |
| Aug 17, 2021 | Amazon, Facebook and Google Paid Millions to Pirates, Study Finds | Most pirate sites and apps won’t survive without advertising revenue. This is why the advertising industry is seen as an important partner to combat piracy.
Major copyright holder groups hope to convince major players to stay clear from any... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Advertising Fuels $1.34 Billion Illegal Piracy Market, Report By Digital Citizens Alliance And White Bullet Finds | Amazon, Facebook, and Google are Among Recognizable Brands Funding Piracy Websites and Apps
Online criminals who offer stolen movies, TV shows, games, and live events through websites and apps are reaping $1.34 billion in annual advertising... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Advertising Fuels $1.34 Billion Illegal Piracy Market, Report by Digital Citizens Alliance and White Bullet Finds | |
| Feb 23, 2021 | COVID-19 Lockdown and Piracy: A Toxic Combination for Cybersecurity, Digital Citizens Alliance Research Finds | |
| Feb 9, 2021 | Scam Artists Using Social Media To Market Illegal Sales of COVID-19 Vaccines to U.S. Consumers | |
| Sep 8, 2020 | What's in a (Domain) Name? COVID-19 Scams, Sex Trafficking, and Date Rape Domains a Click Away, Report Finds | |
| Aug 19, 2020 | Streaming Piracy Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry | Pirated streaming subscription services, a billion-dollar industry with large profit margins, have been on the rise for the last two years.
They give users access to premium cable and sports content, still-in-theater films, DVD content, Ama... |
| Aug 17, 2020 | Report finds content pirates make $1 billion per year stealing and reselling TV shows and movies | A new report about stolen entertainment content explains the ecosystem that includes wholesalers, retailers, customers, and sometimes cybercriminals.
Image: Digital Citizens Alliance and NAGRA
At least 3,500 online marketplaces generate abo... |
| Aug 7, 2020 | Report: US Pirate IPTV Industry is Worth $1 Billion, So Who’s Making Big Bucks? | In June, TorrentFreak published an article which gave a very brief outline of the pirate IPTV business, in particular how those services are sold and how customers are serviced.
The report scratched only the surface of what is a highly orga... |
| Apr 1, 2020 | YouTube sellers found touting bogus coronavirus vaccines and masks | YouTube has been criticized for continuing to host coronavirus disinformation on its video sharing platform during a global health emergency.
Two US advocacy groups which campaign for online safety undertook an 18-day investigation of the v... |
| Oct 18, 2019 | Cloudflare Refutes MPA and RIAA’s Piracy Concerns | Earlier this month several copyright holder groups sent their annual “Notorious Markets” complaints to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).
The recommendations are meant to call out well-known piracy sites, apps, and services, but Cloudfla... |
| Jun 11, 2019 | Security expert bristles at EV charging station proposals | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Apr 25, 2019 | Kodi alternative Mobdro steals users' Wi-Fi passwords, seeks to access shared media and installed apps | Mobdro is a streaming app that can be installed on any Android device, including phones, tablets, Amazon's Fire TV Stick, and Google's Chromecast. It has been gaining in popularity for a while now, especially after all the negative press su... |
| Apr 25, 2019 | Mobdro Pirate Streaming App Slammed in Malware Report | In recent years, millions of users around the world have turned to Android-based applications for their piracy fix.
They’re mostly free and easy to install, quickly providing access to the latest movies, TV shows, live sports, and PPV event... |
| Jul 27, 2017 | Hackers Use Pirate Sites to Ruin Your Life, State Attorneys General Warn | In recent years copyright holders have tried many things to dissuade the public from visiting pirate websites.
They often claim that piracy costs the entertainment industry thousands of jobs, for example. Another strategy to is to scare the... |
| Jun 8, 2017 | Online Platforms Should Collaborate to Ban Piracy and Terrorism, Report Suggests | With deep ties to the content industries, the Digital Citizens Alliance periodically produces reports on Internet piracy. It has published reports on cyberlockers and tried to blame Cloudflare for the spread of malware, for example.
One of ... |
| Jul 22, 2016 | Digital Citizens Slam Cloudflare For Enabling Piracy & Malware | For the past several years, one of the key educational strategies of entertainment industry companies has been to cast doubt on the credibility of so-called ‘pirate’ sites.
Previously there have been efforts to suggest that site operators m... |
| Jan 21, 2015 | Alleged Silk Road 2.0 Accomplice Arrested on Conspiracy Charges | Federal investigators have confirmed that another arrest has taken place in connection with black market website Silk Road 2.0.
Acting US attorney Annette Hayes announced that Brian Richard Farrell, 26, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion ... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | After Silk Road Raid, the Dark Net Is 'Darker Than Ever' | Last month's FBI raid on Silk Road 2.0 has done little to slow the drug, weapon, and stolen identity trade on the dark net—in fact, shutting down the relatively tame Silk Road created a vacuum that was immediately filled with sites that are... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | After Silk Road takedowns, Dark Web drug sites still thriving | Cyrus Farivar reader comments 38 with 31 posters participating
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Over a year after the shuttering of the ori... |
| Oct 6, 2014 | Dark Markets Grow Bigger and Bolder in Year Since Silk Road Bust | In this concluding article of our series looking at Silk Road, a year after its closure, we examine the impact the Silk Road bust had on the dark markets and their most widely used digital currency, bitcoin.
The FBI may have taken down the ... |
| May 1, 2014 | How Deep Web Scams Helped Silk Road 2.0 Turn Crisis into Opportunity | The online trade in illicit drugs is bigger than ever, according to a new report published this week.
This is despite the closure of the original Silk Road marketplace by the FBI in October last year, and a crisis in the Internet's underwor... |
| Feb 19, 2014 | “Pirate Sites Generate $227 Million In Ad Revenue a Year” | It’s no secret that running a torrent portal, linking site, or cyberlocker can be highly profitable. Thus far, however, only a few have attempted to quantify the money that flows into these businesses.
This week the Digital Citizens Allianc... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | The average piracy site makes $4.4M each year on ads from Amazon, Lego, etc. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Pirated movies and TV shows are only part of the ... |
| New study claims that pirates make $70 million a year by spreading malware | They say crime doesn’t pay, but a new study estimates that pirates make somewhere in the range of $70 million every year by installing malware on the devices of unsuspecting users.
DON’T MISS: Netflix still dominates online streaming, and i... |
| The biggest barrier to electric cars isn't tech — it's making public chargers feel safer and more accessible | Most EV charging happens at home or at the workplace. Despite this, the public charging infrastructure still isn't up to snuff. Building it out will still take time, but there are many companies tackling the issue.
Listen to The Refresh: In... |
| The weight-loss drug boom has become one of the internet’s biggest scams | Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk continue to ramp production facilities and capacity for booming weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, with Lilly this week announcing a $3 billion investment to increase obesity drug production at a Wisconsi... |
| Report Links Piracy to Drugs, Weapons, and the Mafia; Calls for U.S. Site-Blocking | Links between piracy and organized crime have been around for several decades.
The framing first emerged in the late 1990s, when the IFPI raised concerns about transborder smuggling of pirated CDs by criminal networks. Back then, most pirac... |
| After SOPA’s Painful Death, Safe Site Blocking Claim Disputed By Cloudflare | Unveiled earlier this year by Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Rep. Darrell Issa respectively, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA) and the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA) have underlying differences but much in common.
Both bills would... |
