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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies Of The Week – 03/23/15

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<br />The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Interstellar' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings.' 'Into The Woods' completes the top three.<br /><br />This week we have four newcomers in our chart.<br /><br />Interstellar is the most downloaded movie for the second week in a row.<br /><br />The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise.<br /><br /><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/category/dvdrip/feed/">RSS feed</a> for the weekly movie download chart.<div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; padding-left: 0px;">
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<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; padding: 0.75em 0.8em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">7</strong></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; padding: 0.75em 0.8em;">(…)</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; padding: 0.75em 0.8em;"><a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_water_diviner/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353f45;">The Water Diviner</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; padding: 0.75em 0.8em;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3007512/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353f45;">7.7</a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CkLC4Zr2Mw" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #353f45;">trailer</a></td></tr>
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies Of The Week – 03/23/15

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Interstellar' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Exodus: Gods a...

Music Group Wants ISPs To Spy On Customers To Stop Piracy

Unknown 0 P2P, Technology 8:53 AM

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<br /><i>In a response to the draft code tabled to deal with the Australian online-piracy problem, some of the world's largest music publishers have presented a set of draconian measures. ISPs should not only use technology to spy on their own customers, but also to proactively block access to infringing content and websites.</i><br /><br />Following intense pressure from the Australian government, ISPs were warned that they had to come up with a solution to online piracy or face a legislative response.<br /><br />In collaboration with some rightsholders, last month a draft code was tabled by ISPs which centered on a three-strikes style system for dealing with peer-to-peer file-sharers using systems including BitTorrent.<br /><br />In a response to the code just submitted by the Australasian Music Publishers Association (<a href="http://www.ampal.com.au/">AMPAL</a>) – which counts EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music among its members – the companies accept that the proposals are moving in the right direction but suggest boosting them in a number of ways.<br /><br />Firstly, in an attempt to plug the so-called ‘incorporation’ loophole, the publishers say that all Internet subscribers should be subjected to the graduated response scheme, not just residential customers. While that suggestion could cause all kinds of problems for businesses and providers of public wi-fi systems, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.<br /><br />AMPAL says it recognizes that the code requires rightsholders to do their own online monitoring of file-sharers. It’s a practice employed around the world in every jurisdiction where “strikes” systems are in place. However, the publishers would prefer it if the draft code was amped up to the next level.<br /><br />“The Code does not place a general obligation on ISPs to monitor and detect online copyright infringement,” the publishers write. “AMPAL submits that ideally the Code should include such a duty using ISPs’ monitoring and filtering techniques.”<br /><br />The publishers don’t elaborate on their demands but even in this form they are troubling to say the least.<br /><br />While rightsholders currently monitor only file-sharers distributing content without permission, in theory and to meet AMPAL requirements ISPs may have to monitor the activity of all customers. Not only that, the ‘filtering’ aspect would mean that ISPs become much more than mere conduits of information, a real problem for those seeking to avoid being held liable for infringing activity.<br /><br />But AMPAL’s plans for ISPs go further still. Not only should they be pro-active when it comes to monitoring and warning subscribers, ISPs should also use technology to actively block access to infringing content on other levels.<br /><br />“The Code does not require ISPs to block access to infringing material. AMPAL submits that ideally the Code should include provisions obliging ISPs to take such action following provision of the relevant information by Rights Holders and/or following discovery of copyright infringing websites by ISPs’ monitoring and filtering techniques,” the publishers write.<br /><br />Again, AMPAL provides no elaboration, but on face value these suggestions will horrify ISPs. The premise is that after being told by a rightsholder that specific content is infringing, ISPs should use filtering technology to stop its subscribers from sharing that content. Difficult – if not impossible.<br /><br />Furthermore, ISPs should be both responsive to rightsholder request and pro-active when it comes to the practice of blocking ‘infringing’ websites. Who decides the criteria for such blocking isn’t detailed, but presumably AMPAL feels well placed to do so and that the ISPs should do its bidding.<br /><br />When it comes to dealing with subscribers, AMPAL is also seeking penalties for those who persistently disregard infringement notices. The current proposals allow rightholders to request the details of errant subscribers after they get caught sharing content three times, smoothing the way for legal action. But AMPAL wants more.<br /><br />“AMPAL submits that ideally additional options should be available to Rights Holders in the form of sanctions or mitigation procedures to be imposed on Account Holders,” the publishers write.<br /><br />“Rights Holders are severely limited in the realistic damages that they can recover. Litigation in this area is costly and difficult particularly for the small to medium enterprises that make up a large proportion of all rights holders.”<br /><br />Describing the draft code as “an important initial step”, AMPAL says that a revised code to incorporate its demands should be implemented in the future.<br /><br />“Only with a concerted effort by ISPs, Rights Holders and government can the damaging effects of online copyright infringement be addressed,” the trade group concludes.<br /><br />Finally, in its submission to the draft code the BBC expresses concern that subscribers could use <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/">VPN technology</a> to circumvent the whole system.<br /><br />“The code is ill equipped to deal with consumers who spoof or mask their IP addresses to avoid detection, behaviour that we believe will increase as a result of an introduction of a notice scheme,” the BBC <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/bbc-warns-of-australians-avoiding-piracy-code/">said</a>.<div>
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Music Group Wants ISPs To Spy On Customers To Stop Piracy

In a response to the draft code tabled to deal with the Australian online-piracy problem, some of the world's largest music publishers...

The U.S. Court Extends Global Shutdown Of Dvd Ripping Software

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<br /><i>A federal court in New York has issued a paralyzing verdict against the Chinese-based DVD ripping company DVDFab. Ruling in favor of AACS, the licensing outfit founded by Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft, Intel and others, the court has issued an updated injunction granting the seizure of several domain names belonging to the software vendor.</i><br /><br />Last year the decryption licensing outfit <a href="http://www.aacsla.com/home">AACS</a> launched a crackdown on DRM-circumvention software.<br /><br />The company sued the makers of popular DVD ripping software <a href="http://www.dvdfab.cn/">DVDFab</a>. It won a preliminary injunction based on the argument that the “DVDFab Group” violates the DMCA’s anti-circumvention clause, since their software can bypass DVD encryption.<br /><br />Initially DVDFab did not respond to the court, so the order was entered by default. However, after the injunction was issued the company responded in the name of Feng Tao, with a request for the court to revise its earlier judgment.<br /><br />One of the counterarguments DVDFab raised was that the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions don’t apply worldwide, and DVDFab was promising to no longer do business with U.S. customers.<br /><br />“It is well-established that the Copyright Act doesn’t apply extra-territorially,” the company argued, asking the court to quash the injunction or limit it to the United States.<br /><br />AACS contested the good intentions of DVDFab and showed the court that the software was still readily available to the U.S. public. According to AACS the circumvention software was still being offered and promoted though new domains and services.<br /><br />For example, new circumvention tools and services were offered from TDMore.com, BluFab.com, Boooya.org, DVDFab.de, and FabImg.net, among others. To stop DVDFab from bypassing the court order, AACS asked for an updated injunction to cover these new products and domains.<br /><br />This week District Court Judge Vernon Broderick ruled on the motions from both sides with AACS the clear winner<br /><br />The Judge argues that DVDFab’s explanations for the continued offering of software in the U.S. are not credible so has ordered the seizure of several new domain names.<br /><br />“Tao’s explanations for his continued trafficking of infringing products into the United States—the product is not his, the product was not created ‘primarily’ for AACS circumvention, or the product was not intended for U.S. users — is simply not credible. The record overwhelmingly demonstrates these statements are not true,” Judge Broderick writes.<br /><br />The injunction (pdf) bars DVDFab from distributing its software in public and allows AACS to seize seizure a wide range domain names. In addition, the company’s social media accounts are to be blocked and other services including online banks cut off as well.<br /><br />While the Judge understands that the DMCA doesn’t apply in other countries he argues that, considering DVDFab’s conduct after the initial injunction, it will only be effective if it applies worldwide.<br /><br />“It was not my intention to sweep within the Preliminary Injunction lawful conduct, i.e. entirely extraterritorial conduct. However, Defendant’s recalcitrant persistence in accessing the United States market makes clear to me that no more narrowly-tailored relief would be effective,” the Judge writes.<br /><br />As a result DVDFab will lose control over TDMore.com, BluFab.cn, BluFab.com, Boooya.org, DVDFab.de, DVDFab.cn, FabImg.net, Woookao.cn, and Woookao.com which were found to be in violation of the DMCA. Two other domains, TDMore.cn and Boooya.com, were not added as there’s not enough evidence that they are operated by the software vendor.<br /><br />There is no doubt that the broad injunction will severely impact the Chinese company. Aside from its domain names, the court also ordered payment processors to stop working with DVDFab, which will make it very hard for the company to sell its products anywhere in the world.<div>
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The U.S. Court Extends Global Shutdown Of Dvd Ripping Software

A federal court in New York has issued a paralyzing verdict against the Chinese-based DVD ripping company DVDFab. Ruling in favor of AACS,...

How to Deal With a Cheating Boyfriend

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Cheating may be a deal-breaker in your relationship, or it may not, depending on the circumstances. There are lots of different factors to consider, and emotions at stake. Follow these steps to help decide how to go forward.<br />
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Method 1 of 4: How to Know He’s Cheating</h3>
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Investigate. Play detective, and notice his suspicious mannerisms. Ask yourself the following:<br />
Has he been less intimate with you? If you notice sex become less frequent, he might be getting something on the side.<br />
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Is he “working late” more frequently? If “working late” becomes more regular, or if he’s spending nights away “on business,” he’s probably seeing someone else. Unless he’s been overwhelmed with work, in which case he probably tells you all about specific things he’s stressed about. If he’s vague about his late nights and business trips, and doesn’t tell you very much about them, there’s a solid chance he’s seeing someone else.<br />
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Does he check his phone a lot, and is he secretive about it? Some men are simply more private than others, but if he becomes defensive when you ask him who he’s corresponding with, he’s hiding something.<br />
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgmfHjGrJ2HWn_EBgJYseYZzePOpKtniS-crxA8xy8CmCFkFs7mpWjuUgFKRwoXnBcsKW1zfoPqmRo9VfytAnjBbMIYlAlcUtZIDEKseZtCx_4fISxiJpBoM242erzgky3WtSDgH1cl05pYbMv_xxy-b77ntBCttdqVoQtUczK4WElIg3uU8VV_UoyzIqG7Wmxlj9yTXctxklKpHGMEYdfVmPdMQ2LNFjCPS0yL96vX6OoMAVCTzj59vQbRyWk3zrGgpt5shvCEms9LNIH1BqOMBgx7EA=" />Has he become protective of his personal accounts? More so than usual? If he suddenly installs a password on his cell phone or computer, or starts intercepting the mail to open bank statements in private, he is likely having an affair.<br />
Has he been withdrawn and distant from you lately? If he’s behaving anxious around you, there’s a chance he’s having an affair. But remember, men can be distant for many reasons, so don’t go jumping to conclusions. But if he is being unfaithful, he will most likely be nervous, whether it be out of guilt or paranoia.<br />
Has he been snide to you in front of company? He may try to justify their infidelity by convincing himself you’re the bad guy.<br />
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhUBL-LjT1m6gRErRuRJjR5V3qKTEh1jdKJo6la1bjStdk-nrRDvsttw3BHXzj3vsGistHqDt9zTZD1OQKbCXn5TrzM-ajWMVASyjYQPUsZUg0LkPpqLuJl5twibB6jbgLLGQFYHBf1BsAseh_P8yobyP_7le5ZJRaBkj3UTY8ijV_yq7_TDKXHCL7NMjyvrvV2kqbDmEl-2uNSk1pad3j6is29xp0QeV4pKYVIiMldqbzoH-Vcz-pfYpDLA2fejJF1mB5pqdZiRWBS2ur2_x_0UkLdoA=" />Has he been mentioning a female acquaintance or colleague a lot more lately? This may mean he has a crush, whether he knows it or not. The good news is, if he still mentions her to you, he may not have acted on those feelings yet, since they’re still tantalizing him. If he did the deed already, he’d probably never mention her again.<br />
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Ask the woman that he’s having an affair with, if you know or suspect who she is. Most women will sympathize and tell the truth. Oftentimes, this is exactly what she wants—for you to know. She may want you to leave him, so she can have your man all to herself. Many women are offended to be somebody’s secret, or second choice.<br />
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Ask him. He may not answer honestly, but you can still infer by his reaction whether he is hiding something.<br />
If he reacts defensively or nervously, and fervently denies all accusations, he's hiding something.<br />
If he "doesn’t dignify your question with an answer," it’s usually because he doesn’t want to lie to you, but he really doesn’t want to tell the truth. If instead of answering, he asks, “How could you think that? Don’t you trust me?” he’s probably just avoiding your question.<br />
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh6B9H4RiLTHZjUmssa3jlwv0IyuWRAXrjG0ztB_U0m5oTJD5E9l52Jw6u7_7X6GXBxQ1VAY9zEy15NtDHDZzmnTleaqIgrCxYlb1CI0E_Z_35nHxS_LKuj8X4YTtgBnTuTt2iAGDrh6oESsBKljYRZ59GfcaWblrK6gsq3gHBWMRpCJe7WvQKaVy8bSSu9RmRhCOn7i4PnO1V0TIKvWm_AlULNM-N5sDLyq4rPvmcYNXKwsfej6M4vfm0XS2YjOZeS0tL8GoZLbR6RzWgbipdnI9dGAw=" />If he comes clean, it is for one of two reasons. Either he is telling you because A) he wants to leave you, or B) the guilt of the affair is killing him. If he breaks down and cries, or keeps his head down when he tells you, it’s because he’s ashamed and he regrets his actions. Ask him what his intentions are in telling you, whether he wants to work things out with you or not.<br />
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Method 2 of 4: How to Confront Him</h3>
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Prepare yourself for every possibility beforehand. “Cheating” isn’t always black and white. Depending on how many times he’s cheated on you, how long he’s been unfaithful, how invested he is in his affair(s) and how many women he’s been with, you may be able to salvage your relationship.<br />
If he’s exclusive to one mistress and he sees her frequently, and buys her things, and does romantic things with her, this means he’s in love with her and your relationship is over.<br />
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjUBOYlIAMnDL2pU2d5OT5TNrw0F3mwDQgH7zCFIwjFeZHNK1oaeUyiwlrGUiQ0Opyjcp_a1NP_sZJNsAs7Rqo8_Ny__tVn5hKK43F1uLou7XclgSiPnxwkB2iJYaLNYyDa7A3yHpSL2hoNz7eQBa6d91XgahomoEvY6BWNFDYFwbb2WndxzNpIG9bta1BFbn3yVu0w2XR1U5w4R7p8A52gNC4j4OQ3d5i_dHqd4FDKi2S2UIIwJW8n60rXqd89NeGmuN-7uSp80uCCVOmTF9-qZbiXhw=" />If he’s slipped up several times, but always with different women who he cares nothing about and hasn’t kept in touch with, he may be fixable, because this means you still give him something other women don’t, if you’re the only one he’s with repeatedly. But you will have to make a change if you want him to change his ways, or it won’t work, and he’ll fall back into old habits.<br />
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhuvv0ya1uP2SGdX9bSE9Ynx5-yJehuzBAwOW8RM3h-VdzsHT9ARt-ZuwO-QdoB8Hm2o3BC4EN97Mq5QlsfixBi7RsBVuRdqDK5TIkkrw142xo3StZGbHXUdkP85r8mf6nT_AUYifLqvqnSjg6bmP48ip8VlwtLh0dYYL5HISRkf334MZVx450RA9ZRP7NrhvUybAc4Q1f-0wcx9FgfCCjsgkTvOMPp2Q8mCsSG6q4LyQyjNQbkWsFudBKQJ8tJwZnfm-SIZGV34QjF1o2KCsMk40YDHw=" />If he only cheated once, and it was out of character, and he sincerely, utterly regrets it, he deserves a second chance.<br />
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Decide what you consider a deal-breaker. Where will you draw the line? When you find out how seriously he’s been cheating, at what point will you be through with him? How willing are you to forgive him and move on?<br />
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Realize that you may be partly to blame. Obviously, his actions are inexcusable, but they may be the result of something deeper, and you may be part of it. Ask yourself if you’ve been driving him away. Maybe you’ve been snapping at him, putting too much pressure on the relationship, getting serious too quickly, or not getting serious enough. It could be any number of things, but you may not be satisfying all his needs, and if you want to work things out, there may be aspects of yourself you have to change.<br />
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Confront him calmly. If you approach him angrily, he will immediately be on the defensive, and he won’t be rational or honest with you.<br />
Be as understanding as possible. Let him be heard. Listening to him may relieve some of the tension that led him to betray you in the first place.<br />
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Ask him specifically how much he cheated.<br />
How many times?<br />
How many women?<br />
How frequently?<br />
How long has it been going on?<br />
Has he cheated in past relationships?<br />
How serious is he about these women/this woman?<br />
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Ask him what his intentions are with you. Does he want to stay with you? Or was cheating his easy way out of this relationship? Is he in love with someone else?<br />
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Decide if you are willing to work through this, or if you're through. Should you stay or should you go?<br />
If in your heart, you can't fully forgive him, and you don't think you'll be happy if you stay with him, it isn't worth your misery to try to work through it, no matter how much you wish you could.<br />
If you believe in him and trust him to stay faithful from hereon, you should give him a second chance.<br />
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Method 3 of 4: If You Stay Together</h3>
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Tell him what he needs to do to earn your trust back.<br />
You may feel it's necessary for him to stop going on facebook or remove some of his female contacts from his phone.<br />
Be careful of forbidding him from speaking to someone entirely, because this may drive him to want to do it.<br />
You are fully justified in asking him to remove his password from his phone. If you feel it's necessary, you may ask him to disclose his Facebook password, or for access to his personal email, but like I said, this may lead him to feel trapped and cheat again.<br />
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Ask him what he needs from you. Something may have been missing from your relationship that drove him to pull away from you.<br />
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Communicate. From hereon out , it's clear you can't let tensions escalate. Trust is built on openness and honesty.<br />
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Cheating can be avoided altogether if you know what causes it. Avoid doing the following:<br />
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Give him space. Don't smother him. If you're clingy or possessive over him, he may push you away. If he feels trapped with you, he may resort to cheating as a means of freeing himself.<br />
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Satisfy him sexually. If he doesn't feel his needs are being met, he will find a way to meet them, and if you can't satisfy those needs, he'll find someone else who will.<br />
Be adventurous in bed and open to do the things he wants to do, as long as his demands are reasonable.<br />
Boring or repetitive sex can drive him to find somebody else to satisfy his urges.<br />
Genuinely enjoying sex makes all the difference. If he thinks he isn't satisfying you, this may cause him to reassure his ego that he is good in bed by satisfying someone else.<br />
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Be careful not to play the blame game with him. Blaming and accusing him for every little thing will push him to seek acceptance elsewhere, not just sexual acceptance, but emotional as well.<br />
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Don't partake in power struggles. Love is not a competition, so don't try to win. Dismissing everything he says or being condescending with him will cause him to retaliate.</div>
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Whether someone's actually having sex outside of the relationship or not, here are 6 signs that a partner's online activity is threatening to your relationship. (I use the he pronoun here, but of course, infidelity crosses gender and sexual orientation.)<br />
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Compulsive smartphone use can be a constant source of friction within romantic relationships, as one partner feels cut off from the person who is more engaged with a device than with the in-person conversation they're supposed to be having. When your partner is chuckling or otherwise responding emotionally to his device, yet not making any effort to let you in on what's going on in his mind at the moment, it creates a thick wall between you. No, you shouldn't expect anyone to be an open book about every single thing they're doing online—boundaries, and a certain amount of privacy, have an important place in any healthy relationship. But if his digital conversations are frequently taking him away from being present with you, and he makes no effort to bridge that gap, then his attentions, and priorities, may well lie elsewhere.</div>
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Twenty years ago, if a friend or coworker called your partner at 11 p.m. while the two of you were winding down for bed, you'd probably have been taken aback. But smartphones have changed all that, and it's gradually grown more acceptable to text someone—and even to expect a response–long into traditionally intimate, late-night hours. A wayward text from friends late at night is not necessarily a cause for concern, and some couples actually choose to wind down on their devices, side-by-side. But when his online conversations start regularly making their unwanted way into your bedroom late at night, whether by his initiation or the other person's, then you may already be playing second fiddle to another relationship.</div>
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With more and more people sleeping with their smartphones—which evidence shows(link is external) does not exactly foster healthy sleep patterns—the likelihood of someone having private online communiqués grows as well. It's one thing for him to be idly surfing Facebook at 3 a.m.—but if he's trying desperately to hide it from you when you happen to wake up, you have to wonder why.<br />
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People who are behaving inappropriately and trying to hide it often have a heightened vigilance against getting caught, and you can see this in their automatic physical behavior. If he seems to be almost compulsive in protecting his phone, closing out browser windows or shielding you from even glimpsing any of his communication, h<span style="font-family: '';">e also gets defensive about how much time he spends on his phone, or even tries to accuse you of bad behavior, </span>chances are high that he's desperate to keep you from seeing it—probably for a reason. This might show in an increased startle response, or irritability if you idly pick up his phone for innocent reasons.</div>
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Many people can't even recognize all of their own Facebook friends, let alone their partner's. We all may have coworkers, friends of friends, and random people from our middle-school debate team on our friend lists that our partner wouldn't be able to pick out of a lineup. But if someone is all over your partner's wall, and seems to show a level of intimacy and humor with him that you're not privy to, the fact that he has not talked about this person could be a sign that there's really something to hide.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>Sukki Singapora</b> is the kind of person who electrifies the Internet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her bright blue hair falls in waves around her neckline as she discusses, over Skype from London, her passion and art form: burlesque dancing. She talks eagerly about confronting the patriarchy of her native home Singapore with a simple desire to express her sexuality.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even in pixels, Singapora’s charisma is contagious.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Being armed with a digital megaphone is clearly the life for which Singapora was destined, though it began by accident. As a teenager, she discovered burlesque dancing on the Internet and was intrigued by the style of strip-tease, often performed for audiences of women.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet, she couldn’t attend any classes or dare to dance in public because burlesque was outlawed in Singapore. She instead turned to the Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr accounts of burlesque stars, and used YouTube videos to teach herself. What began in 2011 as a hobby soon turned into both a fledgling career and a years-long battle as an activist to legalize burlesque performance in Singapore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I chose burlesque, but I’m not encouraging everyone to start strip-teasing,” she says. “My message is that you should be empowered to do whatever you want as a woman.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This can be a dangerous message on the Internet. It can inspire some to harass and hunt a woman down, online or in real life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In February, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wrote in an internal memo admitting that "we suck at dealing with abuse and trolls." The recent death and rape threats made against feminist cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian, and the mob mentality of Gamergate, among other prominent intimidation campaigns, have made the Internet and social media seem wholly unwelcome to women with an opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And yet, the opposite is also true. Digital connectivity provides women with a very public way to assert their identities, build a supportive private or public community, and by some measure, liberate their bodies from injustice or oppressive societal norms.</span></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span class="microcontent" data-description="“We often look at the Internet as one dark long alley in which women are consistently and only unsafe,”" data-fragment="we-often-look-at" data-micro="1">“We often look at the Internet as one dark long alley in which women are consistently and only unsafe,”</span> Carol Stabile, a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, tells <em>Mashable</em>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stabile, who also teaches in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, points to the way campus sexual assault survivors have used social media, particularly Twitter hashtags, as an example of how women communicate with each other as a form of empowerment online.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“There’s this way in which you can connect the dots and see the patterns because of those amplifications of voices,” she says.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong>Sukki Singapora, once alone in her curiosity</strong> about burlesque, created a private Facebook group for other women in Singapore to talk about it openly. That group now has 120 members and Singapora’s own <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SukkiSingapora" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">page</a> has received 24,000 likes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the time, burlesque was illegal. In order to teach classes, Singapora says she had to present them as yoga workshops and hire a bouncer to guard the door. The government, she says, warned clubs against hosting performances, and dancers feared arrest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In January 2015, Sukki Singapora became the first woman to perform burlesque legally in Singapore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“It was like a legal safe space where you could share ideas and not fear repercussion,” she says of the private Facebook Group.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Though not all of the members wanted to become burlesque dancers, they no longer worry about what might happen if they did. Burlesque dancing became legal in January, and Singapora, whose stage name recognizes her native roots, was the first woman in her country to give a public performance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I did something that was not accepted by my culture, and was not seen as the norm, and I did it anyway," she says. “It encouraged other women to do the same; that is true empowerment.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong>A whimsical photo posted on Facebook</strong> in April 2014 had a similar effect for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/masihalinejad" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Masih Alinejad</a>, an Iranian parliamentary journalist known for confronting the government with evidence of corruption.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Upset by how her Facebook newsfeed was “full of news and pictures of suffering” in Iran, Alinejad uploaded a photo of herself — without a traditional headscarf, or hijab — dancing beneath blossoming trees in London. Appearing in public without a hijab in Iran is a punishable offense.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Users flooded the post with wishful comments, hoping that one day they might be able to do the same thing in Iran,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She posted a second photo of herself driving without a headscarf. The image was a celebration of what Alinejad calls the “guilty pleasure” of removing one’s hijab to feel an uncommon “moment of freedom.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It didn’t take long, Alinejad says, before she was bombarded by photos of women in Iran capturing the same clandestine moment. The Facebook Page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">My Stealthy Freedom</a>, which now has more than a quarter million likes, was born. It is a visual catalogue of women defying their country’s law and custom.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like Singapora, Alinejad felt alone in her beliefs, but discovered camaraderie through social media.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"></span><span class="microcontent" data-description="“How can you describe being all alone one day,” she says, “and the next you have tens of thousands of women reaching out and wanting to be part of the movement?”" data-fragment="how-can-you-describe" data-micro="1">“How can you describe being all alone one day,” she says, “and the next you have tens of thousands of women reaching out and wanting to be part of the movement?”</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The page now hosts one thousand photos, but participating in this movement does not come without risks. Alinejad warns women that the page garners international attention; anyone who sends a photo should be prepared to be recognized.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alinejad says she is harassed daily, from spam attacks to threats and insults. Last year, she says the Iranian state-run media falsely reported that three men raped her in public.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“These are not just personal attack [sic] but reveal a degree of hatred against women specially those who asks for their right,” she wrote. “At first I thought it was too much but I never gave up then and I am not going to give up.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alinejad’s protest is not against the hijab in principle, but rather the compulsory law that strips women of their autonomy. My Stealthy Freedom, she says, a platform “for voiceless people to accumulate their voices and make it louder.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong>At first, Sara Bartosiewicz-Hamilton didn’t necessarily think</strong> she was voiceless.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nearly a decade ago, Bartosiewicz-Hamilton learned she carried a gene mutation known as BRCA, which can greatly increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer. Bartosiewicz-Hamilton, who lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, opted for a preventive mastectomy and reconstructive surgery in 2007, but never felt comfortable with the results.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sara Bartosiewicz-Hamilton, left, founded the public and private Facebook pages for Flat & Fabulous, a group for women who do not have reconstructive surgery following a mastectomy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When she finally had her implants removed in 2012, she sought advice from women about how to wear clothes without breasts. It seemed like a simple request, but much of the conversation amongst cancer survivors focused on reconstruction. A friend, who’d also had a mastectomy, told Bartosiewicz-Hamilton that if she wanted to join a community of like-minded women, she’d have to build it herself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bartosiewicz-Hamilton and her friend co-founded the Flat & Fabulous private Facebook Page, which has 1,600 members. A <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FlatANDFabulous" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">public version of the page</a> has nearly 3,000 likes. Bartosiewicz-Hamilton also has an intimate understanding of the role breasts play in American culture and the female identity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Studies have shown that most women with mastectomies do not have reconstructive surgery, but Bartosiewicz-Hamilton felt she belonged to a minority. Several members even said doctors postponed their mastectomies pending a psychological assessment of their desire not to have implants.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bartosiewicz-Hamilton says the decision liberated her from unforgiving standards of beauty and femininity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The moment I had my reconstruction removed, it was almost like a switch went off in my head,” she says. “I will never fit into society’s expectation of what a woman should be, and I’m free. That was so empowering.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the message she imparts to members of Flat & Fabulous — that beauty does not live and die by the breast.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not everyone agrees with Bartosiewicz-Hamilton, however. A close friend questioned her decision, and when she first blogged about her decision to undergo a mastectomy, someone harassed her anonymously online.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Though a painful lesson, she believes critics are fueled by their own inner turmoil.</span></div>
<b><span style="color: #444444;">“It’s almost like they’re so entrenched in trying to fit into this box called societal expectations,” she says. “It’s personally insulting to them that I would choose to live outside of that box and be happy and love myself.”</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Carol Stabile, at the University of Oregon, says women like Singapora, Alinejad and Bartosiewicz-Hamilton may find empowerment through social media, but also face unintended consequences once they receive attention from a larger audience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"They want support for their identity...but by putting it on Facebook, they also run very real risks," she says. "These are persistent virtual identities and once you go out there, you don’t have control over them. You don’t have control over the narratives in the same way."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Still, Stabile says that one of the alternatives — a "moral panic" in which women need to be protected from the vagaries of the Internet — is often a scenario in which women aren't in control, either.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Women are out there protecting themselves," she says, "and I think that’s more interesting."</span></div>
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