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‘Piracy Audiences Are Untapped Pools of Wealth’
This week UK telecoms regulator Ofcom announced that streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon are now more popular than traditional pay-TV. It's a sign that the Internet plays a crucial role in...
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Russia Has Permanently Blocked 3,400 Pirate Resources
Site-blocking is the in-vogue anti-piracy mechanism and in this respect, Russia is taking matters to extremes. According to an announcement from the authority tasked with managing Internet...
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LimeTorrents Fights Blocking Efforts With New Domain and Homepage
Torrent site LimeTorrents has changed its domain name and updated its homepage in response to various blocking efforts. The site hopes to bypass ISP blockades, at least temporarily, but also to...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 07/23/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Escape Plan 2: Hades' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Rampage'. 'Tully' completes the top three. This week we have two newcomers...
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Nintendo Asks GitHub to Shut Down Game Boy Emulator
Many gaming fans love to play old console games in browser emulations, but Nintendo is less amused by these fan-made recreations. Last week the company sued two sites that offered access to its games,...
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Music Industry Lawyer Calls For Criminal Investigation Over Article 13 Vote
A high-profile defender of artists' rights is calling for a "full-blown criminal investigation" into what happened during the Article 13 'copyright filters' vote earlier this month. Lawyer Chris...
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BitTorrent Inc. Officially Confirms Acquisition by TRON Foundation
BitTorrent Inc, the parent company behind the popular file-sharing client uTorrent, has confirmed its acquisition by the TRON Foundation. This means that the company, which once was one of Silicon...
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MPAA: Doing Nothing About Online Lawlessness Chills Free Speech
Doing nothing about online lawlessness chills free speech, the MPAA has told the NTIB. To improve the situation, online platforms should take more responsibility for illegal content and domain names...
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Twitch launches the 'Twitch Creator Camp' to help novice streamers learn the...
Twitch wants to improve the success rate of newer streamers In brief: The promise of riches and fame has undoubtedly drawn many streamers to Twitch, but when they arrive, the difficulty associated...
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Mozilla: Copyright Laws Stifle Creativity and Innovation
Mozilla sees intellectual property legislation as a threat to the open Internet because it stifles creativity and innovation. The foundation, best known for its development of the Firefox browser, is...
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Sony, Universal and Warner Ask Sky to Disconnect Pirate Subscribers
Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music and Universal Music have teamed up to demand that Sky Ireland implements a so-called "three strikes" regime to deal with pirating subscribers. Its understood...
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RIAA Wants to Uncover The ‘Music Mafia’ Pirates
The music industry faces piracy adversaries of all shapes and sizes. While most pirate sites and services simply offer all the music they can find, there is a mysterious group that has a more narrow...
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Spotify hits 83 million paid subscribers, 180 million monthly active users
Spotify added 8 million paid subscribers in the second quarter In context: Spotify is still the largest streaming music outfit around but it's no longer the only major player on the field. Apple...
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Sky Blocks Pirate Sites With Traffic Analysis and Google Cloud
Sky is required to block pirates sites after the Premier League obtained an order from the High Court. While the ISP was a defendant in that case, it appears that as a broadcaster it's prepared to...
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Record Labels Are Willing to Settle ‘Repeat Infringer’ Case with ISP
The major record labels are willing to settle their 'piracy' lawsuit with Internet provider Grande Communications. The RIAA members made an offer two months ago but the ISP says it requires more time...
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Court: UEFA Can Expand Its Pirate Stream Blocking Efforts
In the UK, UEFA has obtained an extension and expansion of the High Court injunction which requires ISPs to block servers streaming live European football matches without permission. The order is...
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No, Pirate Sites Are Not the #1 Online Source For Malware
This week UK non-profit Internet Matters published a new guide designed to protect children from the apparent perils of using pirate sites. Like several before it, the report claims that pirate sites...
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DI.FM Thwarts Pirates But Prefers to Focus on Great Electronic Music
DI.FM, also known as Digitally Imported, offers the most comprehensive selection of electronic music channels available online today. Available in ad-supported and premium flavors, the service has...
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Google Categorically Refuses to Remove The Pirate Bay’s Homepage
It's hard to spot consistent trends in the mass influx of DMCA takedown notices Google receives. One thing is pretty clear though, the search engine consistently refuses to remove The Pirate Bay's...
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German Supreme Court: WiFi Operators Not Liable For Pirating Users
Unlike most other countries in Europe, offering free wifi in Germany has been fraught with difficulty since local laws have failed to protect operators when users carry out infringements. Now,...
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