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The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) found broad support from organizations that rely on copyright, including the Motion Picture Association of America, [1] the Recording Industry Association of America, [1] Macmillan Publishers, Viacom, and various other companies and unions in the cable, movie, and music industries.
The Digital Citizens Alliance is a United States non-profit organization focused on internet safety issues. [1] It releases reports focused on malware, credit card theft, online drug sales to teens, piracy, and overall Internet consumer safety.
A directory is also a site where users can find other websites. Some sites focus on certain content – such as etree that focuses on live concerts – and some have no particular focus, like The Pirate Bay. Some sites specialize as search engines of other BitTorrent sites.
On its face, the r/piracy subreddit is an online forum for discussing the topic of digital piracy, but it can lead to the sharing of illegal content. Westend61/Getty Images
Illegal streaming of films grew 38.6 per cent between 2021 and 2022, data from piracy research firm Muso revealed, while visits to free streaming sites rose by nearly 9 per cent.
As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [22] [23]
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These websites are mainly unlicensed gambling, pimping (known as vice related activities), copyright infringement/piracy, and for spreading falsehoods. Some websites may be blocked because they are suspected scam websites. [1] However, websites that are blocked in Singapore are easily circumvented by a DNS change without the need to use a VPN. [2]