Category Archives: Piracy

VC’s Back Crunchyroll: Guts? Brains? Or Sheer Stupidity?

Crunchyroll. You might vaguely remember some noise around this video-streaming site (let’s call it a YouTube clone) that hosts largely japanese “cartoons”, or anime, as its also known, as it got some coverage by TechCrunch and Venturebeat a few months ago. The noise was around the fact that it was generating bongo traffic, [...]

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Hollywood Going After Chinese Torrent Sites? Oh, The Droll Naivite!

I promised myself I would wean back my blogging, but I came across this piece of news, and I just couldn’t help myself: looks like Hollywood (read: the MPA) is unsheathing their knives and have targeted Chinese torrent sites, in particular, as they are distributing pirated movies with seeming impunity.  Blah, blah, blah, the post [...]

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