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Disney Deletes Print-on-Demand Sale Claiming Rights to Denmark’s The Little...
A woman who uploaded one of her own photographs to print-on-demand site RedBubble says she has been hit with a takedown notice by Disney. The photograph, which features the 107-year-old The Little...
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ETTV Moves to New Domain Name After Operator Goes Missing
TV-torrent distribution group ETTV switched to a new domain name a few days ago. While domain changes are not unusual, the background to this decision is quite worrisome. According to a top ETTV...
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Kendall Jenner Posts Video of Herself on Instagram, Gets Sued For Copyright...
Model Kendall Jenner generates considerable sums from her Instagram account but according to a lawsuit filed in California, not all of that is raised legally. The complaint states that Jenner...
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‘YouTube is Not Required to Share Email and IP-Addresses of Movie Pirates’
YouTube is not required to hand over the email and IP-addresses of pirating users, Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe advised in an opinion to the EU Court of Justice. The opinion concludes that EU...
View ArticleBulgaria Plans to Take Down Top Torrent Sites, with U.S. Assistance
The Bulgarian Government is actively trying to take down several top torrent sites. The country's Combat Organized Crime Unit are working together with U.S. authorities to shut down servers and...
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Russia Pirate Sites Dump 1XBET in Favor of Identical Yet Legal 1XStavka
A study published in 2019 revealed that controversial gambling company 1XBET, known for placing adverts on pirate sites, had become the third most active online advertiser in Russia. Now, however,...
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Accused Pirate Walks Free After Bank Statements Show he Was Not at Home
The Copenhagen City Court has dismissed a copyright infringement claim against a man who stood accused of movie piracy. Proving one's innocence can be tricky in file-sharing lawsuits. In this case,...
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uTorrent is the Most Used BitTorrent Client By Far
Every day, dozens of millions of people use BitTorrent to download and share files. Although there is a wide variety of clients to choose from, fresh data reveal that uTorrent remains the top choice...
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‘Pirate’ Porn Sites Under Pressure as MG Premium Tightens the Screw
In a wave of new DMCA subpoena applications, MG Premium is hoping to discover the identities of individuals said to be responsible for pirate uploads on tube sites. However, given the way that the...
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Movie & TV Giants Sue ‘Pirate’ Nitro IPTV For ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement
A coalition of entertainment companies headed up by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against 'pirate' IPTV service Nitro TV. Alleging...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 04/06/20
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Bad Boys for Life' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Gentlemen'. 'Bloodshot' completes the top three. This week we have two...
View ArticleMovie Company Boss Urges US Senators to Make Streaming Piracy a Felony
In the United States, criminal copyright infringers can be sentenced to five years in prison. However, this is not the case for streaming piracy, which is seen as a misdemeanor, punishable by a...
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Watch Tower DMCA Subpoena Case Hots Up as Anonymous Objector Gains Traction
When the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society filed an application for a DMCA subpoena recently , it hoped to obtain the identity of an 'apostate' who allegedly uploaded its videos to YouTube in...
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Company Registers YTS and Popcorn Time Trademarks to Promote Legal Streaming
The Hawaiian company "42 Ventures" has registered various piracy-related trademarks. The company currently owns the US word marks for YTS, Popcorn Time, and Terrarium, which it uses to target key...
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Russia Wants New Fines For Platforms That Don’t Remove Pirated Content Fast...
Russia's Ministry of Culture has plans to further tighten up the country's response to the availability of pirated content online. Under current law, platforms can be ordered by a court to block or...
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Piracy and File-Sharing Traffic Surges Amidst Covid-19 Crisis
Hundreds of millions of people are being asked to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic. This is having a widespread effect on worldwide consumption habits including Internet usage. New data...
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ACE and MPA Help to Shut Down Taiwan’s Largest Pirate Movie and TV Show Site
Police in Taiwan have shut down 8maple.ru, the country's largest pirate movie and TV show site. The action came in the wake of an investigation by ACE, the MPA and Japan-based anti-piracy group...
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Court Allows ISP to Question Rightscorp’s Credibility at Piracy Trial
Texas-based Internet provider Grande Communications will be allowed to question the business practices, financial situation, and credibility of anti-piracy tracking firm Rightscorp at trial later...
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Pirate Set-Top Box Seller Has Jail Sentence Overturned Due to Prosecution Error
A man who was sentenced to three months in jail for selling piracy-configured set-top boxes will not be imprisoned following a successful appeal. The original prosecution, carried out privately on...
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Pirate Bay No Longer Uses Cloudflare, Visitors Sent to ‘Black Hole’
The Pirate Bay is no longer using the services of Cloudflare. The whois record for the main ThePirateBay.org domain was updated a few hours ago and now points to the nameservers of EasyDNS, the...
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