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ACE Scores Legal Victory and Wins $25m Piracy Damages From Tickbox
ACE, the coalition of major Hollywood studios plus Amazon and Netflix, scored its first major legal win today. The company behind TickBox TV, a Kodi-powered streaming device, agreed to a stipulated...
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Pirate IPTV Investigation Leads to Two Arrests in the UK
Two people from Hampshire in the UK have been arrested on suspicion of supplying pirate TV streaming services. A 41-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were detained by police following a referral...
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Europol Operation Targets Pirate IPTV Providers, Four More Arrested
After two people were arrested in the UK this week, a Europol-led investigation into pirate IPTV services has led to four more arrests in Southern Ireland. Two men and two women were detained under...
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Copyright Cop? ISP Willingly Kept Pirates On Board, Labels Say
The legal battle between Texas-based Internet provider Grande Communications and the major record labels is heating up again. After Grande discredited the labels' lawsuit as an attempt to turn ISPs...
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Fox Sports Obtains New Order to Block Pirate Sport Site Rojadirecta
Fox has obtained another website blocking injunction against popular 'pirate' sports portal Rojadirecta. The order was handed down by Peru's National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the...
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Rapidshare’s Founder, Wife and Lawyer Stand Trial in Piracy Case
More than three years after file-hosting service Rapidshare shut down its operations, the site's founder, his wife, and a former lawyer are standing trial in Switzerland. The public prosecutor accuses...
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Pirate Bay and Demonoid Face Technical Troubles
The Pirate Bay and Demonoid, two of the oldest torrent sites on the web, are facing rough waters. TPB has had some intermittent downtime and remains inaccessible to a large group of users, while...
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Movie companies must pay to identify accused internet pirates, Canada’s top...
Ruling makes it more expensive for movie rights holders to sue suspected illegal downloaders A new copyright ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada will make it more expensive for content rights...
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Russia to Amend Copyright Law After Yandex was Forced to Remove Pirate TV...
Last month, following a lawsuit filed by several major broadcasters, Russian tech giant Yandex was forced to remove pirated TV content from its search engine. While Yandex felt the law had been...
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The Catch-22 Situation Faced By ‘Pirate’ App Developers
Developers of 'pirate' apps that provide access to mainstream movies and TV shows face a catch-22 situation that's really difficult to escape. While success and indeed reward is measured by a large...
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U.S. Wants Prison Sentence for Facebook User Who Pirated ‘Deadpool’
The US Government is recommending a six-month prison sentence for a California man who uploaded a pirated version of the movie Deadpool to Facebook. In just a few days the copy was viewed 6,386,456...
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Terrarium TV Dev Says He Could Hand User Info to Authorities
Last week NitroXenon, the developer of popular 'pirate' app Terrarium TV, announced he was shutting the project down for good. While that was a big enough blow to fans around the world, the developer...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 09/17/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Skyscraper' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story'. 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado' completes the top three. This...
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Japan Government Presents Pirate Website Blocking Proposals
Unlike countries in Europe where legislation has already been tested, there is no legal basis in Japan to block 'pirate' websites and the country's constitution forbids censorship. Now, however, the...
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International Day Against DRM Celebrates its 12th Anniversary
The Free Software Foundation's Defective by Design campaign today celebrates its 12th annual International Day Against Digital Rights Management. DRM is the controversial practice of restricting what...
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Music Group Celebrates Millions of ‘Pointless’ Piracy Takedown Notices
The Association of Independent Music has teamed up with anti-piracy outfit MUSO to help its members remove infringing links from the Internet. The early results are promising, with five million...
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PIPCU Wins Piracy Enforcement Award From US Chamber of Commerce
The City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit has been presented with the Intellectual Property Champions Award for Excellence in Enforcement from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global...
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Cloudflare Ordered to Expose YTS, Showbox, and Popcorn Time Site ‘Operators’
A recent DMCA subpoena has ordered Cloudflare to expose the people linked to various popular pirate sites and tools. The request, quietly submitted out of public sight, comes from a group of movie...
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EU Publishes Research into Malware & PUPs on Pirate Sites
The EU Intellectual Property Office has published a new study into malware and 'potentially unwanted programs' being made available on pirate sites. While many samples of malware and PUPs were found,...
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FAB IPTV Says it Has Shut Down Following Europol-led Raid
FAB IPTV, one of the major providers of unlicensed streaming content in the UK, says it has shut down completely following a Europol-led raid. The statement follows raids and arrests in both England...
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