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APK Download Site Must Pay $150,000 For Offering Pirate Streaming Apps
Several movie companies, including the makers of "The Hitman's Bodyguard" and "London Has Fallen," have scored a significant victory in a Hawaii court. The order, which was issued against the...
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Steam’s Beefed-Up VPN Ban is Anti-Competitive & Could Even Encourage Piracy
Steam has implemented new measures to prevent VPN users from spoofing their locations to buy games at cheaper prices available in other regions. While that's Steam's choice, it's an anti-consumer...
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Japanese Government Appoints Hello Kitty as Copyright Ambassador
Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs, a body of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, has hired Hello Kitty to become its Copyright Ambassador. According to the people...
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The Pirate Bay Receives Under $5 in Bitcoin Donations Per Day
When The Pirate Bay added support for Bitcoin donations in 2013, copyright holders were worried. Cryptocurrencies provided a new revenue stream that was impossible to stop. Today, Bitcoin...
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UFC Pirate Ordered to Pay $32m in Damages Says He Was Bullied & Paid Nothing
A man who was ordered to pay $32m to the UFC for pirating its events more than six years ago has broken his silence. Steven Messina, previously known online as 'Secludedly', says he didn't pay a...
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The Once Mighty Pirate IPTV Platform ‘cCloud’ Announces Its Demise
A few years ago cCloud had millions of monthly users. The IPTV linking service, which offered free access to many premium TV channels, proved to be a big hit. After a combination of legal pressure...
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Police Arrest Youth For Uploading Pirated TV Shows to YouTube
When people repeatedly upload copyright content to YouTube they can have their accounts suspended by the platform. For an Indian youth that uploaded TV shows to the site without permission, matters...
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Finas disappointed with e-commerce platform selling pirated films, 'Keluarga...
KUALA LUMPUR : The National Film Development Corporation (Finas) is conducting an investigation into the sale of pirated local films on e-commerce platforms. Finas Chief Executive Officer, Ahmad...
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Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 08/03/20
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Greyhound' tops the chart, followed by ‘The Kissing Booth 2'. 'The Old Guard' completes...
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Hollywood Targets ‘Iran’s YouTube’ and Israeli Newspaper in Pirate Site...
A group of major Hollywood studios, Netflix, and other movie companies have filed a new pirate site blocking application in Australia. The companies request local ISPs to block a wide range of...
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French Anti-Piracy Agency Generated €87,000 in Fines From €82m in Public Funding
French anti-piracy agency Hadopi has published its latest annual report, revealing data on its fight against pirates using P2P systems such as BitTorrent. Since its inception 11 years ago, the...
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AVG Anti-Virus Made The Pirate Bay Unusable
Over the past days, The Pirate Bay was stripped of all content for users of AVG anti-virus. The security software flagged Pirate Bay's resource domain apibay.org as a potential threat. The exact...
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Torrent Piracy Saves Silent Bob’s 50th Birthday Drive-In Cinema Party
When friends of Kevin Smith, aka Silent Bob, threw a 50th birthday party for the actor/director at a drive-in cinema in the US, the plan was to watch the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. Unfortunately,...
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Model Sues Cloudflare and Thothub in Mass Piracy Lawsuit
Texas-based model Deniece Waidhofer, known for selling access to sexy photos of herself online, is taking action against Thothub, a site that publishes leaked copies of her work. The site, its...
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FBI Help German Authorities Secure $29.7m in Crypto From Pirate Streaming Site
In 2013, Movie2K was one of the largest 'pirate' streaming sites on the Internet generating more traffic in Germany than Twitter. After making arrrests last year, local authorities assisted by the...
View ArticlePirate Streaming Sites are Switching Their Identity
Pirate streaming sites are continuously switching their domain names. Why? Because the anti-piracy law has given the right to the respective governments to ban piracy streaming sites. The pirate...
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CIPPIC and CIRA Warn Federal Court of Pirate Site Blocking Dangers
The .CA domain registry and CIPPIC have filed their intervention in the Canadian pirate site blocking appeal. The groups argue that the blocking injunction sidelines the telecoms regulator and...
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Report: US Pirate IPTV Industry is Worth $1 Billion, So Who’s Making Big Bucks?
The entertainment industry-backed group Digital Citizens Alliance and content protection company NAGRA have published a new study which estimates the pirate IPTV market in the US to be worth a cool...
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ISP Cox Asks Court to Reduce Piracy Damages By $243 Million
Cox Communications is requesting a reduction of the piracy damages awarded by a Virginia jury last year in favor of a group of prominent music companies. The ISP argues that 2,438 duplicate or...
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Disney Reminds Court That Pirate Megavideo Indexing Site Still Owes $500K...
When pirate sites agree to settle lawsuits, these cases tend to disappear into the night. However, when stream-linking site 66Stage agreed to pay Disney $500K in 2010 for linking to pirated movies...
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