With Torrent Sites Facing the Heat, Pirates Get Creative With Google Drive and Other Services. As crackdown on torrent sites continues around the world, people who are pirating TV shows and movies are having to get a little more creative. Cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and Kim Dotcoms Mega are some of the popular ones that are being used to distribute copyrighted content, according to DMCA takedown requests reviewed by Gadgets 3. Google Drive seems most popular among such users, with nearly five thousand DMCA takedown requests filed by Hollywood studios and other copyright holders just last month. Each DMCA requests had listed a few hundred Google Drive links that the content owners wanted pulled. Whats interesting though is that while at times pirates upload full movies to Google Drive or other cloud services, in other cases, these Google Drive links are empty and just have a You. Tube video embedded. The company on its part introduced hash matching, a mechanism to detect infringing content, earlier this year. But as evident from the ongoing abuse, it seems to be falling short. You. Tube videos stream really well even on poor connections, so that makes sense but You. Tube is also easy to search, and pirated files are taken down quickly, so this is surprising, rightHacker Hijacks CoinHives DNS Server to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency Using Thousands of Websites. Microsoft stream block could end illegal downloads as Kodi and torrent crackdown continues MICROSOFT patents a new technology which is aimed at identifying and. Latest India StockShare Market News, NSE, BSE, Global Market, Sensex Nifty. Live Business News headlines on IPO, StockShare tips, Personal Finance, Budget, Tax. As crackdown on torrent sites continues around the world, people who are pirating TV shows and movies are having to get a little more creative. It turns out that the pirates found a simple workaround the videos are simply uploaded as unlisted, so they dont turn up in search results. The links to these videos are then shared as Google Drive links through discussion forums and other channels so its difficult for the content owners to find the videos and get them taken down. Dropbox, Microsofts One. Drive, and Mega are no different from Google Drive in this regard, but the volume of takedown notices suggests they are not being used as widely. While there were more than 4,7. DMCA requests to pull Google Drive links last month, only about 1. Mega links were filed during the same period. There were less than a dozen requests pointing to Dropbox and One. Drive each. Popular video sites You. Several former Facebook news curators, as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially inject selected stories. 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You can still find a number of movies on the site, and oddly enough, also things like game trailers and music videos that could safely be posted on other sites as well. So why Google Drive Its very easy to create a Google account, which can then be used to access a plethora of companys services including Drive and You. Tube. Ease of use plays a major part in why people are using Google Drive, says Jon, a resident of Switzerland, whom Gadgets 3. Reddit. Google Drive has one of the simplest user interfaces among cloud storage services, Jon who works in IT services explained in a conversation over Reddit. Its fairly easy to upload media files like movies there, and to create documents that can be shared online. People use these documents to list a bunch of links to other file sharing websites, and direct links to torrents. The documents can also allow other users to add more links, making it easier to find files. Sharing such documents, or entire media files, is easy too, requiring less than five clicks. Relatively abundant availability of free storage space by Google also makes Drive more enticing to customers, Jon added. Google offers 1. 5GB of free Drive storage, while One. Drive and Dropox offer five, and two gigabytes of free storage space respectively. These Google Drive links, as well as links to those of other cloud storage services, are then shared by people on select subreddits, forums, and Facebook groups. Over the past two weeks, Gadgets 3. Facebook groups where people openly share such files and request more movies and TV shows. These groups on social media are crucial for people who are using Drive to distribute files. Theres no search engine to scan through and find relevant Google Drive or entries from other cloud storage services. This makes it hard for copyright holders to find the links, while they remain easy to distribute. Crackdown on torrent websites. Jon, who didnt share his last name, said people are moving to Google Drive and other services because authorities worldwide continue to crackdown on torrent websites and other file sharing services. In the last two years, Kickass. Torrents, Extra. Torrent, Shaanig, Yify Torrents and other websites, which together heydays used to garner over 5. Similar. Web, have all shut down. Moreover, Internet service providers are increasingly making it difficult to access the few torrent websites that are still in operation, Jon said. Youve got to be part of a private tracker, public torrenting is over, he told Gadgets 3. Private torrent tracking websites usually require users to be invited which in itself is a difficult process. There are several publicly accessible torrent websites that continue to exist, but torrenting is getting more difficult by day, multiple people told Gadgets 3. Public sites are mired with pop up windows filled with ads trying to sell them malware, which makes it a poor experience. Perhaps the most creative pirates. The most unusual service that is being abused for distributing content that we came across is My Maps. Its a feature Google introduced in 2. Anyone can visit the My Maps website, and create a custom map by pointing to a location on the map, adding a title, and filling up a description box. Google doesnt verify what kind of information users are sharing in description, so you can again easily share links to unlisted You. Mime Type For Rar Files'>Mime Type For Rar Files. Tube streams, or Google Drive files to download. Proshow Gold 3.2.2047 Serial. What this means is that people can then share locations on maps, which lead to the pirated movies. Erik Mandre, managing director at Eesti Autoriiguste Kaitse Organisatsioon, an Estonian organisation that works with several content stakeholders on copyright protection, says that several places have emerged over the months for illegal content distribution. We try to do our best to protect the producers and video distributors but of course finally it is up to Google, he told Gadgets 3. Generally speaking on the Web, crooks can do everything and they do not need to prove their license to distribute the content, but right holders must fill a lot of formalities and even then, some cases are going in favour of crooks. Thats the life on the Internet. Burden of proof is on us all the way, he said. On its part, Mandre said, Google does swiftly respond to take down notices. The company has also made it much easier to file such requests. On You. Tube, for instance, one can find the ability to contest ownership of the content on every video. In a statement, a Google spokesperson said the company takes copyright infringement very seriously, but declined to share more. Its against our policies to post copyright infringing links or content. Rightsholders can and do notify us when copyrighted material has been posted and we work quickly to review and take action on those notices. Torrent. Freak Wikipedia. Torrent. Freak abbreviated TF is a blog dedicated to reporting the latest news and trends on the Bit. Torrent protocol and file sharing, as well as on copyright infringement and digital rights. The website was started in November 2. Dutchman using the pseudonym Ernesto Van Der Sar. He was joined by Andy Enigmax Maxwell and Ben Jones in 2. Regular contributors include Rickard Falkvinge, founder of the Pirate Party. The online publication e. Commerce. Times, in 2. Ernesto as the pseudonym of Lennart Renkema, owner of Torrent. Freak. 7 Torrent. Freaks contents are free content under a Creative Commons. Attribution Non. Commercial license. Their lead researcher and community manager is the Pirate Party activist Andrew Norton. Specialist AreaseditAccording to Canadian law scholar Michael Geist, Torrent. Freak is widely used as a source of original reporting on digital issues. Examples are The New York Times,1. The Guardian,1. 2CNN,1. The Wall Street Journal,1. Flemish newspaper De Standaard. Frequent areas of reporting include And other news affecting copyright, privacy and everything related to file sharing2. Notable HistoryeditOn August 1. Torrent. Freak reported that Comcast had begun throttling its upload bandwidth, specifically against Bit. Torrent users. This made seeding, which is an essential part of the Bit. Torrent protocol, effectively impossible. It was later determined that Comcast was using Sandvine products, which implement network traffic shaping and policing, and include support for both blocking new and forcefully terminating established network connections. Comcast has denied these claims whenever they have been asked to comment. A guide, for customer service representatives when asked about Comcasts Bit. Torrent throttling, was leaked to The Consumerist on October 2. In October 2. 00. March 2. 01. 1 Torrent. Freak ran short lived video news service titled torrentfreak. Andrej Preston, founder of torrent site Suprnova made available for streaming and download on Mininova. On August 2. 1, 2. Comcast threatened Torrent. Freak for writing about publicly available court documents. The underlying document links a Comcast subscriber with the Prenda Law firm. The court case where the document was filed was a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by AF Holdings for alleged infringement of an adult movie. In August 2. 01. 3 web blocking technology implementation by Sky Broadband blocked the site for UK customers after EZTV manipulated its DNS servers3. January 2. 01. 4. ReferenceseditPouwelse, Johan Renkema, Lennart 2. 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