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Yes, the U.S. government but published a list of the top free music and media download sites. And, gave piracy a large, big boost in the process. Hither we go (again)…
The United states of america government simply released a damning report: the 2016 'Out-of-Bike Review of Notorious Markets'. The listing, published past the Office of the United States Merchandise Representatives (USTR), highlights notorious online markets. It'due south likewise a handy guide for anyone looking to download complimentary mp3s, videos, or games.
This year's lists highlights prominent piracy hubs, as well as e-book, software, gaming, and free music download sites. The U.s.a. hopes to take downwards the following mega-offenders. Good luck with that!
4Shared.com
The report states that the cyberlocker site is well-known globally. 4Shared provides legitimate file-storage services. However, according to the USTR,
"The site also facilitates the streaming and downloading of high volumes of allegedly pirated videos, music, books, and video games. 4Shared mobile apps reportedly enable users to stream infringing content to mobile devices, while certain search and music player features may encourage music infringement."
BeeVideo.tv
BeeVideo allows users to view infringing movies and Goggle box shows on smartTVs through prepare-top boxes and mobile devices.
"BeeVideo has been downloaded more than than 12 one thousand thousand times. In one case downloaded, it allegedly provides unlimited unauthorized access to infringing content."
BookFi.net & Libgen.io (Mirror sites: libgen.info, bookfi.org, bookzz.org, booker.org, booksc.org, book4you.or, and bookos-z1.org)
Both websites allegedly brand millions of books available from superlative publishers without permission, costing publishers huge losses.
"These sites, and other mirror sites, reportedly make it possible to download—all without permission and without remunerating authors, publishers or researchers—copyrighted books by commercial publishers and academy presses; scientific, technical and medical journal articles; and publications of technological standards. Information nigh the registrants and operators of the Bookfi and Libgen family of sites is obscured but Libgen is allegedly based in Russian federation.
"Bookfi.net is hosted in kingdom of the netherlands. Information technology generates acquirement through gift carte du jour donations. Libgen has been the subject of court-ordered enforcement activeness in the United Kingdom, but continues to operate."
ExtraTorrent.cc (Mirror sites: etmirror.com, etproxy.com, extratorrentonline.com, extratorrentlive.com.)
According to the report, Ukraine provides a rubber oasis for piracy sites. ExtraTorrent commencement appeared on the Notorious Markets Listing in 2013. Several enforcement actions against the site have all the same to take the site down.
"Despite being subject to several enforcement actions, information technology maintains a global Alexa rank of 207, and rankings in Bharat, Pakistan, and China of 170, xix, and 319, respectively. This illustrates the wide touch that sites facilitating infringement can take on geographically various markets.
"The United States encourages the Government of Ukraine to take lasting action confronting those who operate Extratorrent and similar sites within Ukraine's jurisdiction."
Gongchang.com
Gongchang is a concern-to-business organization e-commerce platform. Nonetheless, it's reportedly one of several online markets in Cathay that deal in counterfeit sales. The site likewise sells counterfeit shoplifting prevention security tags.
"The GongChang platform specializes in industrial products and servicing manufacturers and retailers. Counterfeit security tags may help give an appearance of authenticity to counterfeit appurtenances or they may neglect to alert retailers who believe their goods are protected, increasing the likelihood that shoplifting will go undetected. The auction of these counterfeits at the B2B level illustrates how meaning quantities of counterfeit inputs can enter global supply chains."
Movshare Group (operating at present every bit nowvideo.sx, watchseriesfree.to, videoweed.es, novamov.com, nowdownload.ch, divxstage.to, and movshare.cyberspace)
The Movshare Grouping provides countless unauthorized copies of movies, games, music, audio, books, software, and sporting event broadcasts.
"These cyberlockers, linking sites, forums, and streaming sites all piece of work together to facilitate global distribution of allegedly infringing content. The sites are said to generate revenues through advertising and premium membership or subscription fees, and to compensate users for uploading popular infringing content. Several sites reportedly engage in domain hopping to evade constabulary enforcement and workaround search engine demotions to rising to the top of search engine results. Right holders report that Nowvideo and others in the Movshare grouping are entirely unresponsive to takedown notices"
Mp3va.com
Based out of Russia and Ukraine, the site attracts over 860,000 visits a month. Although most visitors come from the United States, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, and India. Mp3va.com sells popular music tracks for pennies.
"MP3VA'southward FAQ folio misrepresents the legality of its operations and purports to accept a license from Avtor, a rogue Ukrainian collecting society. However, the site's music download sales are not authorized and authors are not paid. Major U.S. credit menu and payment processors no longer support the site. The hosting provider is located in Russian federation and the operators announced to be located in Ukraine."
Muaban.net
Based out of Vietnam, this illegal online market place facilitates legitimate goods sales with counterfeit products. The site received over 3 million monthly folio views.
Myegy.to
Site owners founded the site in 2005. Myegy.to provides links to infringing video game files posted daily. When copyright owners file takedown notices, the operator remains unresponsive.
"This linking site was created by an anonymous web programmer in Egypt, where it is regularly among the most popular sites. The MyEgy site is in Arabic and content is available in both Standard arabic and English. The site is hosted in Russian federation and, like five other listed sites this twelvemonth, uses the country code height-level domain of Tonga (.to)."
Nanjing Imperiosus Technology Co, LTD (Domainerschoice.com)
Nanjing provides users with links to illegal online pharmacies. In turn, these pharmacies sell counterfeit pharmaceuticals, putting consumers at risk. This year, Nanjing sold domain name registration services to over 2,300 known illegal online pharmacies.
Pobieramy24.pl, Darkwarez.pl, Catshare.cyberspace, & Fileshark.pl
All sites share connections to Poland. They stand for a major hub of infringing video games.
"Betwixt the four sites, over a hundred yard links to allegedly infringing video game files are indexed. They are directing users to over a hundred one thousand files stored in cyberlockers."
Private Layer Hosted Sites (including the-watch-series.to and projectfree-telly.to)
Switzerland reportedly has a loophole restricting enforcement against pirate sites.
"However, at this time, right holders report that Switzerland is an increasingly popular host country for such sites. Other listed and nominated sites, including Putlocker, 1337x.to, Primewire.ag, and Nowvideo.sx may besides be hosted by Private Layer simply are using reverse proxy services to obfuscate the truthful host from the public and from law enforcement."
Putlocker.ch
Putlocker is among the most-visited video streaming sites in the Asia-Pacific region. Sites, such as Putlocker, overtake torrent and other sites as the primary mode of motion picture and television piracy.
"The operator of Putlocker is probable based in Vietnam. The owner appears to be taking actions to evade enforcement measures".
Rarbg.to
Commenters from the motion-picture show, television, and music industries nominated this website. The site gains prominence against competitor sites since KAT and torrentz.eu closed down. The site started almost a decade ago targeting the Bosnian market.
Rutracker.org & Rapidgator.org (formerly torrents.ru)
Similar Rarbg.to, comments from several industries nominated these ii sites. Rapidgator, hosted in Russia, provides infringing content to visitors away. The site uses rewards and affiliate schemes to compensate users based on downloads and new accounts sales. Site operators score an estimated $2 million annually.
"Rutracker, hosted in and operated from Russia, is a BitTorrent portal with more than than 13 million active accounts. The site is currently one of the most popular in the world and a top site in Russia, with an Alexa ranking of 20."
Taobao.com
Taobao provides a large book of apocryphal and pirated goods. Rights owners face up a difficult time when challenging the site. The site provides a direct consumer-to-consumer marketplace. The site ranks every bit China'south largest online shopping destination.
"Not only do apocryphal and pirated goods pose a grave economic threat to U.S. artistic and innovative industries, undermining the Chinese and global market for legitimate U.S. products, substandard counterfeits such equally auto parts pose a potential public health threat to unsuspecting consumers."
The Pirate Bay (thepiratebay.org, thepiratebay.se, with the following domains, .gl, .is, .sx, .ac, .pe, .gy, .gs, .am, .la, .gd, .mn, .vg, .fm, .sh, .mu, .tw, and .ms)
Subsequently a cursory hiatus, The Pirate Bay returns to the Notorious Markets Listing. The Pirate Bay represents a symbolic importance as the longest-running (and the almost vocal) torrent sites. In addition, the site provides links to music, movies, Tv set, books, and other copyright content.
"The Pirate Bay has allegedly had more than a dozen domains hosted in various countries around the world, applies a reverse proxy service, and uses a hosting provider in Vietnam to evade farther enforcement activity."
Uploaded.internet (formerly ul.to and uploaded.to)
The pop cyberlocker provides access to unauthorized content including books, music, television, and music. Furthermore, the website uses multi-tiered subscriptions, a referral program, and a rewards scheme to generate revenue.
"For example, the site pays rewards to users based on large file sizes, such as those for movies and television. The operator allegedly employs multiple IP addresses, domain names, and server locations to evade police force enforcement. In 2016 a German courtroom found an Uploaded operator liable for infringing content shared by its users because information technology failed to take proactive measure to prevent the same infringing works from being re-uploaded and made available for download again. Uploaded is owned by a Swiss company and is hosted in holland."
Vibbo.com (Formerly segundamano.es)
Vibbo, based in Kingdom of spain, connects users to a broad variety of products and services. The site's terms of use prohibit illegal activity. Still, some people utilise the platform to sell and distribute apocryphal security tags and circumvention devices and services.
"Circumvention devices and services break the technological protection measures in game consoles and handheld devices to enable unauthorized uses or the copying of game software. In many countries, including Spain, this is in direct violation of the law….Correct holders report that Vibbo is largely non-responsive to notices of infringing activity."
VK.com (vkontakte.com)
VK, i of Russia's meridian social networking platforms, allegedly facilities the distribution of copyright-infringing files. However, VK has reached licensing agreements with major recording companies. Furthermore, the site also took steps to limit third-party applications dedicated to downloading infringing content.
"Despite [this], VK reportedly continues to be a hub of infringing activity and continues to be listed awaiting the institutionalization of appropriate measures to promote respect on its platform for IPR of all right holders…that are comparable to those measures used by other social media sites."
Youtube-mp3.org
The report states that stream ripping represents a serious threat to musicians, record labels, and digital music delivery models. Despite legal actions against the site, the site maintains a high Alexa rating in many countries.
"YouTube-mp3 allegedly accounts for about xl percent of the world's stream ripping activeness, and the music industry estimates that it generates hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in revenue through advertising."
Warning: United states of america authorities have blasted the following sites.
In fact, before starting this twelvemonth's list, the written report dives into a quick review of concluding year'southward piracy sites.
The report begins,
"Commercial-scale trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy crusade significant financial losses for correct holders and legitimate businesses, undermine critical U.S. comparative advantages in innovation and creativity to the detriment of American workers, and can pose significant risks to consumer health and safety. The Notorious Markets Listing (List) highlights prominent online and physical marketplaces that reportedly engage in and facilitate substantial copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting."
The U.S. regime shut down the following sites (some of which came back online):
"KAT (Kickass Torrents) was allegedly 1 of the almost popular and lucrative illegal piracy sites in the world until it was taken down by a U.S. police enforcement activeness in cooperation with foreign law enforcement agencies".
"TORRENTZ.EU close downward voluntarily.
"the endmost of previously-listed CUEVANA.TV, likewise as the shutdown of previously-nominated Solarmovie.is and Mp3skull.com after federal litigation in the United States.
"Ukraine's largest file-hosting website EX.UA…will end operations."
However, the report pauses to focus on a growing outcome. Stream rippers threaten growing digital music streaming revenues.
"Digital music revenues and streaming revenues in particular stand for an increasingly important share of music manufacture growth. Stream ripping is a direct threat to this digital growth as it eliminates the demand for users to return to licensed services, thereby depriving artists and record companies of this of import revenue source."
And then once again, possibly YouTube is the bigger trouble here. After all, the video giant actively encourages stream-ripping, with Google fifty-fifty publishing helpful tutorials on the matter.
Merely that's another story entirely.
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