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Ukraine Cyberpolice Shut Down Pirate Streaming Site
A pirate site which served copyrighted content over a nine-year period has been shut down by Ukranian cyberpolice. With half a million users, authorities say that OnlainFilm was among the top five...
View ArticleGoogle Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results
With the aim to protect the interests of copyright holders, Google is making ‘pirate’ sites more difficult for its users to find. This week the search engine revealed more information about the scope...
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Pirate Bay is Mining Cryptocurrency Again But Forum Staff Aren’t Worried
Last year The Pirate Bay caused controversy by embedding a cryptocurrency miner to generate revenue. The site has experimented off and on since and has recently established another miner. While users...
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Dutch Pirate Bay Blocking Case Gets a Do-Over
The Dutch Supreme Court has thrown out the existing blocking order against The Pirate Bay, calling for a do-over at the lower court. This means that the Court of Amsterdam will have a fresh look at...
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Piracy: If the Internet Isn’t Broken, Should We Fix it Until it is?
There have long been warnings that tough anti-piracy measures will eventually 'break the Internet'. While that catastrophe is yet to happen, meddling in any piece of complex machinery is likely to...
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‘Well Respected’ People Send DMCA Notices to Hide Their Mishaps
The DMCA allows copyright holders to protect their work, by sending takedown requests to remove infringing material. However, some people appear to use this tool rather broadly. This includes several...
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Article 13 Lobbying Efforts Clash Before Crucial Copyright Filters Vote
In two days time, a pivotal vote will take place in the European Parliament, one that could change the direction of copyright enforcement in the EU. Framed around the so-called "Value Gap", Article 13...
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Filmmakers Settle Piracy Lawsuit With Dragon Box
Filmmakers behind the movies “Mechanic: Resurrection” and “Once Upon a Time in Venice” have signed a settlement with Dragon Box and two of its resellers in Hawaii. It's unclear whether the defendants...
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Wikipedia Italy Blocks All Articles in Protest of EU's Ruinous Copyright...
Last month, members of European Parliament voted to move forward with a sweeping overhaul of the European Union’s copyright laws that critics say will impede the spread of news, kill memes, bolster...
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Google Spends Over $36 Million to Scuttle the European Union’s Copyright...
Just how far is Google willing to go to avoid paying artists what’s fair? Several weeks ago, the European Union Legal Affairs Committee ruled on a controversial measure. Dubbed Article 13,...
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Copyright Industries Reveal Their Ultimate Goal: An Internet Where Everything...
from the now-would-be-a-good-time-to-stop-it-happening dept Yesterday, Mike took apart an extraordinarily weak attempt by the UK's music collection society, PRS for Music, to counter what it...
View ArticleKim Dotcom Loses Extradition Appeal, Will Take Case to Supreme Court
Kim Dotcom and former colleagues Mattias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato, have failed in their latest bid to avoid extradition to the United States. In a ruling handed down this morning,...
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EU Parliament Sends ‘Upload Filters’ Back to the Drawing Board
In a plenary vote, the European Parliament said no to the Copyright Directive mandate. This means that the controversial copyright reform proposal will be opened for debate and possible amendments....
View ArticleCourt: Usenet Provider Can Be Held Liable for Pirating Users
German music rights group GEMA is celebrating a legal victory against Aviteo, the company behind Usenet provider UseNeXT. The Regional Court of Hamburg ruled that the Usenet provider can be held...
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Surprise! Pirate Sites Are Affected By Market Forces Too
Pirate sites are regularly painted as places where markets are turned on their heads, with premium content being made available for free to the sounds of birds tweeting and lambs skipping across...
View ArticleMovie Companies Drag Phone Store into Piracy ‘Recommendation’ Lawsuit
Two movie studios have added Verizon retailer Victra to a piracy lawsuit. The filmmakers previously accused an employee of recommending the 'pirate' application Showbox to a customer and now state...
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Two Men Sentenced to Jail For Selling ‘Ooberstick’ Kodi Devices
Two men from the UK have been handed lengthy jail sentences for selling piracy-configured set-top devices. Glenn Burrows and Darren Wicks were behind the now-defunct Oobersticks operation which sold...
View ArticleUsenet Users Have Privacy Rights, But Pirates Can’t be Anonymous
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has scored a partial victory against Usenet provider Newsconnection. The Court of Appeal ruled that the company must ensure that it can identify potential infringers....
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 07/09/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Rampage' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Ready Player One'. 'Escape Plan 2: Hades' completes the top three. Rampage...
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Russia Adopts Draft to Prohibit ‘Piracy-Enabling’ Software
Russia's State Duma has adopted a draft law that aims to tackle software applications through which pirated content is distributed. The proposals foresee the owner or operator of an application being...
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