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Rising electricity prices and free streaming are doing what decades of lawsuits could not: shut down internet pirate sites.
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While posing as a defender of artists and the "creator economy," Bandcamp's former owner Epic Games paid the largest fine in history for manipulating users into unwanted purchases and violating rules intended to protect children.
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