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Scott Disick is officially a guest in his own home ... meaning he can't come in without Kourtney Kardashian's permission. Scott showed up at the family residence in Calabasas Sunday, but this time his Rolls had to veer left in the visitors line at… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/scott-disick-family-home-blocked-permission-kourtney-karsashian-photos/]View the full article[/url]

Let there be no doubt ... Kanye West has the most adorable chick in the game wearing his chain -- as 'Hova once put it. North West stepped out with Mom Monday in NYC but her outfit -- complete with combat boots and a fat gold chain -- was… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/north-west-wearing-gold-chain-just-like-kanye-kim-kardashian/]View the full article[/url]

Jay Z got lost in the moment, emotionally belting out lyrics to one of his wife's mega-songs. Jay was standing with Nick Jonas, watching Beyonce perform "1 + 1" Saturday at the Budweiser Made in America Concert in… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/jay-z-beyonce-sings-nick-jonas-made-in-america-video/]View the full article[/url]

[img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/cityoflondonpolice.jpg[/img]Early last Thursday morning the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) were again mobilizing against online piracy. Following a joint investigation with licensing outfit PRS for Music, officers from PIPCU and Merseyside [url="https://torrentfreak.com/uk-police-arrest-prolific-pirate-bay-uploader-150903/"]police raided an address[/url] in Everton, Liverpool. Their target was a 38-year-old man believed to be involved in the unlawful distribution of music online. In addition to uploading the UK’s Top 40 Singles to various torrent sites each week, police said the man also ran his own website offering ‘acapella’ audio tracks. Police further added that the man generated “significant” advertising revenue from his endeavors while possibly costing the industry “millions” in lost revenue. A tip received by TF indicated that the man was connected to several accounts on the world’s major torrent sites, including The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents. We can now reveal that the accounts were registered in the name of ‘OldSkoolScouse’. For those outside the UK, the term ‘scouse’ refers to the accent found primarily in and around the Liverpool area. [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/scouse-kickass.jpg[/img] As shown in the KickassTorrents screenshot above, the profile links to a domain – www.oldskoolscouse.co.uk. Up until last Friday (the day after the raid) the domain linked to another site, www.deejayportal.com, which was billed as the “Number #1 community and resource, for DJs & Producers.” As can be seen from the image below, DeeJayPortal featured acapella tracks as described by the police. [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/scouse-deejay.jpg[/img] It remains unclear how many users each domain had, but in the bigger picture the numbers are very small indeed. At its height DeeJayPortal appears to have barely scraped the world’s top 200,000 most popular sites while OldSkoolScouse is currently outside the top three million. Both domains went down last Friday, as did the OldSkoolScouse Twitter account and Facebook page. As illustrated below, the former regularly announced torrent uploads of the UK Top 40 to DeeJayPortal. [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/scouse-twitter.jpg[/img] [url="https://torrentfreak.com/how-file-sharers-ruin-their-online-privacy-150322/"]Yet again[/url] it appears that the arrest last week was a case of rightsholders and police targeting low-hanging fruit. Using widely available research tools we were able to quickly uncover important names plus associated addresses, both email and physical. It seems likely that he made close to no effort to conceal his identity. Due to being in the police spotlight it will come as little surprise that there was no weekly upload of the UK’s Top 40 most-popular tracks from OldSkoolScouse last Friday, something which probably disappointed the releaser’s fans. However, any upset would have been very temporary indeed. As shown below, at least four other releases of exactly the same content were widely available on public torrent sites within hours of the UK chart results being announced last Friday, meaning the impact on availability was almost non-existent. [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/top40-releases.png[/img] However, perhaps of more interest to the police and rightsholders is the impact the arrest will have on the public’s perception of how risky it is to engage in online piracy in the UK. Certainly, more people are being arrested in the UK file-sharing scene than in the United States currently, quite a surprise considering the aggressive anti-piracy stance usually taken in the U.S. Finally, it will be really interesting to see if the arrest last week will conclude with a case going to court. PIPCU have made many arrest announcements connected to online piracy in the past two years, yet to our knowledge not one person has gone to trial. Source: [url="https://torrentfreak.com"]TorrentFreak[/url], for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, [url="http://torrentfreak.com/top-popular-torrent-sites-2015-150104/"]torrent sites[/url] and [url="http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/"]ANONYMOUS VPN services[/url]. [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=NYgG6ANdbdw:C4B4sHB5O8M:yIl2AUoC8zA"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA[/img]</img>[/url] [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=NYgG6ANdbdw:C4B4sHB5O8M:D7DqB2pKExk"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?i=NYgG6ANdbdw:C4B4sHB5O8M:D7DqB2pKExk[/img]</img>[/url][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~4/NYgG6ANdbdw[/img] [url=http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/NYgG6ANdbdw/]View the full article[/url]

Martin Milner, who starred in the huge hit '60s and '70s show "Adam 12" -- which spawned generations of kids who wanted to become cops -- has died. L.A. Police Chief Charlie Beck tells TMZ, "Milner's depiction of a professional and tough yet… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/martin-milner-adam-12-dead-dies/]View the full article[/url]

The Walmart truck driver who crashed into Tracy Morgan's limo wants the criminal charges against him dismissed, because he says the superstore has made it impossible for him to get a fair trial. Kevin Roper claims in legal docs there have been a… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/tracy-morgan-truck-driver-wants-criminal-charges-dismissed/]View the full article[/url]

Donald Trump showed Tom Brady some love, and now Tom's returning the favor ... with a locker room shout out to Trump's campaign slogan. One of those red "Make America Great Again" caps was spotted in Tom Terrific's locker at Gillette… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/tom-brady-locker-donald-trump-hat-make-america-great-again/]View the full article[/url]

Floyd Mayweather has one tough lady in his corner -- the NFL's first female coach Jen Welter -- who will follow in Justin Bieber's footsteps and walk the boxer to the ring to fight Andre Berto. As we previously reported, Mayweather had already… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/jen-welter-floyd-mayweather-ring-entourage-andre-berto-fight/]View the full article[/url]

This is BRUTAL ... and also very, very awesome. British reality star Jamie Laing -- one of the stars of "Made In Chelsea" -- got absolutely annihilated during a charity rugby match in London ... all thanks to a former member of the All… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/u-k-reality-star-obliterated-by-rugby-star-hospitalized-broken/]View the full article[/url]

Travis Scott is warning people not to jump all over him because he has nothing but respect for the LGBT community ... despite the fact he hurled homophobic slurs at his fans. Scott is apologizing for an incident back in March, when he got pissed… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/travis-scott-homophobic-slurs-concert-apology-tweets/]View the full article[/url]

Pedro Pascal -- one of the stars of "Narcos," arguably the best show on TV -- says his character would have a real shot at catching El Chapo. He makes a good point, that it's harder than ever for anyone to evade… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/pedro-pascal-narcos-netflix-el-chapo-video/]View the full article[/url]

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[img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/pirate-bay.jpg[/img]Last week Norway became the latest country to block access to The Pirate Bay. A local court ordered Internet providers to [url="https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-sites-must-pay-legal-costs-of-own-blockade-court-rules-150902/"]block users’ access[/url] to several large ‘pirate’ websites in the hope that it will decrease online copyright infringement. The local Pirate Party is now vigorously protesting the ruling and has decided to fight back. Since the sites will be blocked on the DNS level the party is [url="http://itavisen.no/2015/09/04/piratpartiet-setter-opp-apen-dns-server/"]countering[/url] by providing their [url="https://www.piratpartiet.no/dns/"]own DNS servers[/url]. “We want a free and open Internet for everyone. The copyright industry’s fight for control over culture has put us in a situation where this is no longer the case in Norway,” Pirate Party co-chairman Øystein Middelthun tells TF. “The censorship is easy to bypass, by simply changing your name server, so we decided to practice what we preach and offer such a service to all those affected by the problem,” he adds. Indeed, since the sites’ IP-addresses are not blocked the blockade can be easily circumvented by changing the DNS settings on one’s device or computer. The Pirate Party is not the only company offering alternative DNS, OpenDNS and Google have a similar service. The Pirate Party’s DNS has added benefits though, as it supports additional Top Level Domains including .geek or .pirate, and the Namecoin based .bit. In addition, it operates from Norway with minimal logging to guarantee users’ privacy. The Pirates note that the order will have minimal effect on people’s sharing habits. However, Middelthun is concerned about the slippery slope, where companies and the authorities get to dictate what people are allowed to see online. “The blocking order is yet another sad step down the road towards the dystopic world imagined by George Orwell. At the same time it achieves absolutely nothing of what the plaintiffs are hoping for,” he tells TF. “The dangerous thing about it is that it sets a precedent. It is easy to imagine how the scope could be expanded to include other websites somehow considered immoral, and while the current technical implementation is easy to circumvent, hardening it is equally easy once society has accepted censorship in the first place,” Middelthun adds. The DNS service is not limited to Norwegians. Everyone who wants an unfiltered DNS service is welcome to use it. Previously the UK Pirate Party [url="https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-shuts-down-pirate-bay-proxy-after-legal-threats-121219/"]ran into trouble[/url] when they launched a Pirate Bay proxy in response to a local blockade. The Norwegian Pirates don’t expect that their DNS will be targeted, but if it does they are prepared to fight back. “Running a public DNS service is fully legal, so we do not expect any legal trouble. A scenario to consider is if the copyright industry, or surveillance hungry politicians, started pushing for strictly regulating DNS- and/or VPN-services,” Middelthun says. “If this scenario came true, we will fight it with everything in our power. It is paramount that the Internet remains free, or society would suffer greatly,” he concludes. Source: [url="https://torrentfreak.com"]TorrentFreak[/url], for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, [url="http://torrentfreak.com/top-popular-torrent-sites-2015-150104/"]torrent sites[/url] and [url="http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/"]ANONYMOUS VPN services[/url]. [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=dB0ow9vb97w:1LQw8braNDA:yIl2AUoC8zA"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA[/img]</img>[/url] [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=dB0ow9vb97w:1LQw8braNDA:D7DqB2pKExk"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?i=dB0ow9vb97w:1LQw8braNDA:D7DqB2pKExk[/img]</img>[/url][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~4/dB0ow9vb97w[/img] [url=http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/dB0ow9vb97w/]View the full article[/url]

The man once married to porn legend Jenna Jameson has just been blackballed from an exclusive private school ... a school which had already admitted his son and accepted his money, but sent a last minute rejection because they said his life was… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/jenna-jameson-jay-grdina-son-school-lawsuit/]View the full article[/url]

Someone snuck a picture during the autopsy of Vester Flanagan, the man who shot and killed a Virginia reporter and cameraman, and it's being shopped around to the media. We were contacted by someone who sent the pic, taken on an autopsy table. We… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/vester-flanagan-virginia-tv-shooter-autopsy-photo/]View the full article[/url]

Major turmoil behind the scenes with the L.A. Clippers ... the players are fuming, the staff is confused ... and multiple sources tell us all roads lead to a conflict involving Steve Ballmer's first major hire. After Bill Simmons said the… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/l-a-clippers-power-struggle-steve-ballmer-doc-rivers-gillian-zucker/]View the full article[/url]

Fifth Harmony got their big break on "X Factor" just like One Direction, but the girl group doesn't see it ending for them anytime soon. Dinah-Jane Hansen and Normani Hamilton told our photog at LAX,… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/fifth-harmony-not-breaking-up-one-direction/]View the full article[/url]

Bow Wow has a short attention span on the subject of all things green, because his uber-fancy BMW hybrid is a thing of the past ... because it's lost its cool factor. We got BW out at 1 OAK in WeHo Thursday night,… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/07/bow-wow-sells-spaceship-bmw-hybrid/]View the full article[/url]

[img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/minions.jpg[/img]This week we have five newcomers in our chart. Minions is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise. [url="http://TorrentFreak.com/category/dvdrip/feed/"][b]RSS feed[/b][/url] for the weekly movie download chart. [b]Ranking[/b][b]([url="https://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-of-the-week-083115/"]last week[/url])[/b][b]Movie[/b][b]IMDb Rating / Trailer[/b]torrentfreak.com[b]1[/b](8)[url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/minions/"]Minions[/url] (HDRip)[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2293640/"]6.7[/url] / [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfql_DoHRKc"]trailer[/url][b]2[/b](2)[url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mad_max_fury_road/"]Mad Max: Fury Road[/url] [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/"]8.4[/url] / [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjBb4SZ0F6Q"]trailer[/url][b]3[/b](4)[url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/selfless_2015/?"]Self/less[/url] [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140379/"]6.5[/url] / [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc4sz6neHDs"]trailer[/url][b]4[/b](1)[url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avengers_age_of_ultron/"]Avengers: Age of Ultron[/url] (Web-DL)[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395427/"]7.8[/url] / [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmeOjFno6Do"]trailer[/url][b]5[/b](3)[url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/san_andreas/"]San Andreas[/url] (Web-DL)[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2126355/"]6.4[/url] / [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VflsU3kZE"]trailer[/url][b]6[/b](…)[url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/straight_outta_compton/"]Straight Outta Compton[/url] (Subbed HDRip)[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1398426"]8.3[/url] / [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyoew4T74_w"]trailer[/url][b]7[/b](7)[url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/southpaw_2015/"]Southpaw[/url] (HDrip)[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798684/"]7.8[/url] / [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvkfIpFO0VU"]trailer[/url][b]8[/b](…)[url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/welcome_back_2015/"]Welcome Back[/url] (DVDscr)[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3159708/"]5.1[/url] / [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIKfSPbsuyw"]trailer[/url][b]9[/b](…)[url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/entourage/"]Entourage[/url] (HDrip)[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674771/"]7.0[/url] / [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGSE_XPF4_g"]trailer[/url][b]10[/b](9)[url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terminator_genisys/"]Terminator Genisys[/url] (Subbed HDTV rip)[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340138/"]7.0[/url] / [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62E4FJTwSuc"]trailer[/url]Source: [url="https://torrentfreak.com"]TorrentFreak[/url], for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, [url="http://torrentfreak.com/top-popular-torrent-sites-2015-150104/"]torrent sites[/url] and [url="http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/"]ANONYMOUS VPN services[/url]. [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=bxQZYpBSdpg:gGOuX0jOSVw:yIl2AUoC8zA"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA[/img]</img>[/url] [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=bxQZYpBSdpg:gGOuX0jOSVw:D7DqB2pKExk"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?i=bxQZYpBSdpg:gGOuX0jOSVw:D7DqB2pKExk[/img]</img>[/url][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~4/bxQZYpBSdpg[/img] [url=http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/bxQZYpBSdpg/]View the full article[/url]

Roberto Esquivel Cabrera -- the man sporting a 19-inch penis -- just got an offer that could change his life...and the way he walks. We're told Vivid honcho Steven Hirsch offered to pay for medical treatment on Cabrera's two pound penis.… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/06/19-inch-penis-man-vivid-sex1-tape-surgery/]View the full article[/url]

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[img]https://torrentfreak.com/images/google-bay.jpg[/img]Google’s public records for DMCA notices received date back to a single week in July 2011 and as far as the trends at the time were concerned, it was a pretty busy period. According to the company’s [url="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/"]Transparency Report[/url] a little under 130,000 notices were processed, with the next batch in August ’11 a little busier at 158,000. By November ’12 things had really begun to heat up, with 2.88m notices handled in a single week. What followed was a steady increase month on month interspersed with massive spikes, such as the 11.68m URL deluge witnessed during a week in October 2014. In July 2015, records were broken again, with another [url="https://torrentfreak.com/google-asked-to-remove-18-pirate-links-every-second-150802/"]highly unusual week[/url] in which 12.5m notices were processed by the search giant. Or, to put it another way, Google dealt with requests to remove 18 ‘pirate’ links every second. And now, just weeks later, that staggering record has been shattered again. In a single week (beginning August 18, 2015) Google processed a mind-boggling 13,685,322 allegedly infringing URLs. That’s almost 23 copyright complaints handled by the search giant every single second – or 100 URLs in the time it took to read this sentence. [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/urls-each-week.png[/img] In the most recently reported month, 5,991 copyright holders and 2,683 reporting organizations requested the removal of 55,702,393 URLs from 80,256 domains. The most complained about services were all file-hosting sites including Chomikuj.pl (1,089,458 URLs), Rapidgator.net (711,175) and Uploaded.net (664,299). The big question is what’s been driving these massive figures. Are pirates flooding the Internet with more content than ever before? Or perhaps anti-piracy outfits are simply becoming more adept at discovering it? Both of those things are indeed a possibility but two other sets of circumstances are undoubtedly inflating the figures reported by Google. Interestingly, they’re both a direct result of copyright holder actions. While domain takedowns have inconvenienced several large sites in recent times, those affected are increasingly using multiple domains to mitigate the problem. It’s a strategy now being employed by many of the leading torrent sites – cut one head from the hydra and another appears, as the saying goes. For example, The Pirate Bay currently operates several domains, which forces anti-piracy groups not only to take down specific content on [url="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/thepiratebay.se/"]thepiratebay.se[/url] (3,564,910 URLs so far) but also [url="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/thepiratebay.gd"]thepiratebay.gd[/url] (601,518) [url="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/thepiratebay.am/"]thepiratebay.am[/url] (373,444), [url="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/thepiratebay.la/"]thepiratebay.la[/url] (690,648), etc etc…ad nauseam. [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/tpbhydrax.png[/img] This means that for a piece of content previously found on a single URL on ThePirateBay.se alone, rightsholders now have to send a similar notice for every other domain the site decides to put into action. It’s a never-ending battle that’s causing millions of additional takedown demands. Another big issue is caused by site blocking. Again taking The Pirate Bay as an example, there are now dozens if not hundreds of active proxies, mirrors and clones, each of which attract their own sets of takedown demands. As can be seen from the image below (which shows only part of the problem), this also causes millions of additional notices to be sent to Google. [img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/tpb-proxylist.png[/img] Overall there seems to be very little that anyone can do to stop the tide of notices being sent to Google but perhaps most importantly they appear to be having almost no effect on content availability. All popular movies and music tracks remain just a few clicks away. Let’s not forget, Google takes down links to content, not the content itself. Admittedly search results for the same are becoming less useful (and are even driving people [url="https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-measures-putting-internet-users-at-risk-150503/"]towards malware[/url]), but of course Google is only part of a much bigger puzzle and pirates adapt very quickly. Source: [url="https://torrentfreak.com"]TorrentFreak[/url], for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, [url="http://torrentfreak.com/top-popular-torrent-sites-2015-150104/"]torrent sites[/url] and [url="http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/"]ANONYMOUS VPN services[/url]. 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Tyga lashed out at baby mama Blac Chyna, and again the trigger is Kylie Jenner. A lot of people think Tyga's cash poor, and the Ferrari he got for Kylie's 18th birthday was leased. Apparently Tyga thinks one of those people is BC, because of his… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/06/tyga-blac-chyna-amber-rose-kylie-jenner-ferrari/]View the full article[/url]

The Uber driver who claims he was robbed by UCLA football star Ishmael Adams says the guy was acting "drunk and belligerent" from the moment he got in the car ... and he claims Adams got violent when he tried to kick him out of the ride. TMZ Sports… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/06/ucla-football-star-drunk-and-beliigerent-says-uber-driver/]View the full article[/url]

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