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Rightsholders Ask Europe for Broad “Know Your Customer” Checks to Deter Piracy
In a letter sent to the European Commission, a large group of anti-piracy organizations and copyright holders calls for stricter online identity checks. As part of Europe's planned Digital Services...
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Operation Evil Web: Police Target 58 Sites, IT Experts & 1,000 IPTV Subscribers
Police in Italy are reporting a large operation against a network involved in IPTV. The Guardia di Finanza says that 58 sites and 18 Telegram channels have been blocked while four IT experts with...
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Movie Companies Sue YTS Users Who Ignored Settlement Demands
Several movie companies have filed a new lawsuit targeting three users of the popular torrent site YTS. The alleged pirates were identified based on data that was previously provided by the site's...
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841 Alleged Pirates of Movie ‘The Outpost’ Targeted in Canada Federal Court
The company behind the war drama film The Outpost has filed a mass copyright infringement lawsuit in Canada. The statement of claim targets 841 'Doe' defendants who allegedly downloaded and shared the...
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US Copyright Groups Want China to Support Rigorous Piracy Filters and Site...
The MPA, RIAA, and other entertainment industry groups, would like China to tweak its copyright law and open the door to pirate site blocking. The groups propose several other changes and want the...
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Games Cracker ‘EMPRESS’ Wants to Crowdfund Denuvo Cracks
A games cracker who has previously bypassed Denuvo's anti-piracy detection and placed games online says that, in order for this to continue, pirates need to dig deep. 'EMPRESS' says that funding is...
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PRS Music Reports Mysterious Stream-Ripping Boom in Dubious Piracy Report
A new report published by PRS for Music reveals that UK traffic to stream-ripper sites has skyrocketed over the past three years. The findings reveal a massive 1390% traffic boost. Intrigued by these...
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Operator of Popcorn Time Information Site Receives Conditional Sentence
A man arrested in 2015 for running a site that provided information about the Popcorn Time piracy app has been sentenced in Denmark. The 38-year-old received 20 days probation and was subjected to a...
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Google Received Copyright Takedown Notices For 3 Million Unique Domains
Google has reached a new milestone. Over the past several years, copyright holders have asked the search engine to remove URLs from three million unique domains. These include blatant pirate sites...
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Greek Pirate Site Blockade Expands With Hundreds of Pirate Bay, YTS, and...
Following a request from a local anti-piracy group, Greek ISPs are required to block access to block over 200 new domain names. Most of the targeted domains are proxies for The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and...
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Russia Joins WIPO Project to Block Pirate Revenue But There’s Still No...
After two years of development the World Intellectual Property Organisation launched its BRIP database in 2019 with the aim of strangling advertising revenue to pirate sites. Russia says it will now...
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The perils of building a career on YouTube: Guitar teacher's channel nearly...
Vid platform has biased its takedown procedures in favour of copyright owners, says lawyer YouTube broadcaster Gareth Evans, who has 770,000 subscribers for his guitar tutorial channel, had an...
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Plex Sues Streaming Service That Will Run Blockbuster Movies Before Theaters
A new streaming service set to premiere blockbuster movies before they reach theaters is facing legal action. Due to launch on October 2, the Zee Plex "Cinema2Home" platform hopes to pull in large...
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Bill Murray Responds To Doobie Bros. Copyright Letter With Snark, No Offer To...
from the listen-to-the-musicians dept It's true that you don't often find us here siding with copyright holders in debates over copyright. It's not that there isn't a place for that sort of...
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Twitch's Soundtrack app lets streamers play background music without getting...
Live listening is okay, but recording is not, so this app keeps the background music separated from the stream TL;DR: Twitch streamers can rest a lot easier now when it comes to DMCA issues with...
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Interest in Kodi Declines After a Turmultuous Few Years of Piracy Headlines
After many years of being mentioned in the same breath as movie and TV show piracy, interest in the Kodi media player appears to have peaked and is now on the decline. That's according to Google...
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Accused Movie Pirate Couple End Up in Court After Profane Tirade
Two movie companies have filed a lawsuit accusing an Arizona couple of downloading and sharing its movies through the YTS website. The husband and wife pair initially appeared to resolve the issue...
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House Committee Hearing Shows Disagreement on How to Fine-Tune the DMCA
U.S. lawmakers are considering updating the DMCA to bring it into line with current piracy challenges. A detailed consultation process resulted in a set of recommendations from the Copyright Office...
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HorribleSubs Pirate Anime Site Throws in the Towel, “Killed By COVID”
HorribleSubs, one of the most visited pirate anime sites on the Internet, has shut down. According to its operators, difficulties balancing time between working on the project and doing other things...
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US Indicts Members of ‘Piracy’ Group Team-Xecuter, Two Arrested
The U.S. Government has indicted three members of the infamous group Team-Xecuter, the masterminds behind various Nintendo hacks. Two of the members have been arrested and are in custody., but the...
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