PAYPAL CLOSES DOWN ACCOUNTS OF CHINESE PIRATES

Chinese pirates selling bootleg copies of American movies online will no longer be able to collect payments for the discs via PayPal, the online payment platform and the Motion Picture Association of America jointly announced today (Thursday). In a joint statement issued at the MPAA’s Singapore office, the companies said that after a three-month-long investigation, […]

AVATAR IS MOST PIRATED MOVIE EVER

The film that earned the most at the box office in 2010 was also the most pirated. According to TorrentFreak.com, which tracks BitTorrent websites, 20th Century Fox’s Avatar was downloaded 16.58 million times in 2010. (The film was actually released in December 2009, but TorrentFreak does not indicate whether Avatar was bootlegged online during that […]