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Filmmakers File Piracy Lawsuit Against ‘Alleged’ RARBG Users (Update)
The makers of the films 'Ava' and 'Rambo V: Last Blood' have filed a lawsuit targeting 16 alleged movie pirates. The complaint suggests that the defendants are registered users of the popular torrent...
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Time For a Real Response to Supposed Malware in Pirate Streaming Devices
After endless claims that supposed malware in pirate streaming apps is putting Internet users in peril, it's now time to bring these threats into the open. The challenge for anti-piracy groups is to...
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Pirate Bay Domain That Sold for $50,000 Now Redirects to Proxy
A few weeks ago the domain Piratebay.org was sold at auction for $50,000. The domain was previously owned by the official TPB team, who 'forgot' to renew it. After the domain briefly promoted a...
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Pirate Streaming Sites Raided By Thai Police For Streaming Hollywood Movies
Thailand's Department of Special Investigation has raided and shut down three pirate streaming services after they provided access to content owned by the MPA and local companies. The platforms were...
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Court Dismisses Charter’s Claim of 'False' RIAA DMCA Notices
Internet provider Charter Communications accused several major record labels of violating copyright law by sending DMCA notices for content they don't own. The ISP argued that these notices also...
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Twitch apologizes to streamers for its mishandling of music copyright
Twitch apologizes to streamers for its mishandling of music copyright In a blog post, the platform explained why it sent that weird email last month Twitch published a blog post today with the...
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Swiss Police & Europol Shut Down Pirate IPTV Service in First-of-a Kind Action
Following a criminal complaint filed by Canal+ and anti-piracy company NAGRA, an IPTV provider distributing more than 84,000 TV shows and movies has been shut down by local police with assistance from...
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Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ From DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
Search engines generally aim to return the most relevant results, but that's not always the case. Earlier this year we reported how popular pirate sites were dropping from Google's top results and the...
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Hollywood, Netflix & Amazon Agree $40m Judgment With Pirate IPTV Provider...
During the summer, members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment which include Hollywood studios, Netflix and Amazon, sued pirate IPTV service Crystal Clear Media for mass copyright...
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5,500 Pirate IPTV Servers Shut Down By 700 Police Officers Around Europe
A massive law enforcement operation across Europe has reportedly shut down 5,500 servers used to stream pirated TV broadcasts, live sports, and movies to the public. According to the European Union...
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Google Takes Down Repositories That Circumvent its Widevine DRM
GitHub has removed several repositories that helped to bypass Google's Widevine DRM, which is used by popular streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon. Google requested the code to be removed as...
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uTorrent Inventor Wins Prestigious Technology Innovation Award
Ludvig Strigeus, the Swedish programmer who made uTorrent and also helped to create Spotify, has been awarded the prestigious Polhem Prize. Strigeus received the technology innovation award for his...
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BREIN Cracks Down on ‘Open Directory’ Piracy – But What is It?
BREIN says it has closed down several "open directories" after they offered thousands of pirated eBooks to users in breach of copyright. With some operators now liable to pay settlements to the Dutch...
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La Liga Nominates Namecheap, eBay, Telegram and Shopify for ‘Piracy Watchlist’
Spanish football league La Liga has reported several pirate streaming sites and illegal IPTV services to the US Trade Representative. The sports organization's recommendations for the annual...
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Unmask 25 Pirate Site Owners: ACE/MPA Piles Pressure On Tonic Registry
This week the MPA and RIAA reported the Tonic domain registry to the USTR as a notorious pirate market. As pressure mounts, two DMCA subpoenas obtained by the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment...
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GitHub Defies Copyright Cops, Restores youtube-dl
Last month, GitHub removed a popular tool that is used to download videos from websites like YouTube after it received a DMCA takedown notice from the Recording Industry Association of America. For a...
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42,800+ 'BitTorrent Pirates' Targeted By Copyright Trolls in Sweden in 2020
In 2020, Sweden has maintained its position as a priority target for companies aiming to extract cash settlements from alleged BitTorrent pirates. Data released by ISP Bahnhof reveals that thus far...
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“Rise of the Trolls” Torrent Warns Downloaders of YTS and ExtraTorrent
A pirated copy of the documentary "Rise of the Trolls" warns users about the potential dangers of using YTS and ExtraTorrent. The warning, which deserves some nuance, refers to the fact that YTS...
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Xtream-Codes Breaks Silence 14 Months After Historic IPTV Anti-Piracy Raids
In 2019, popular IPTV management platform Xtream Codes was dismantled as part of reported raids against pirate IPTV providers. After massive anti-piracy action was reported across Europe again last...
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youtube-dl is back
Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back Abby Vollmer Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to...
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