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(Opinion) Oops! EU Piracy Watchlist Includes a Perfectly Legal Site
Earlier this week the European Union published its very first 'Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List'. The goal is to identify problematic "pirate" sites and encourage foreign enforcement authorities and...
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Shuttered Leechers Paradise Tracker Will Rise From the Dead to Serve Millions
Leechers Paradise, one of the world's longest-standing and most important BitTorrent trackers, recently shut down after 12 years serving hundreds of millions of torrent users. Now, however, a return...
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Warner Bros. Files Copyright Complaint Against Harry Potter-Inspired Kickstarter
A Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a 'sizzle reel' to pitch a horror story collection to production companies has been hit with a takedown notice. According to Warner Bros., The Monster Book of...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 12/17/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'First Man' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Venom'. 'Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle' completes the top three. This week we have four...
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ISP Faces ‘Net Neutrality’ Investigation For Pirate Site Blocking Retaliation
After being ordered to block a number of piracy-related domains following a complaint from academic publisher Elsevier, Swedish ISP Bahnhof retaliated by semi-blocking Elsevier's own website and...
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Courts Want “Something More” Than an IP-Address to Catch Pirates
Following a high-profile order at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this summer, copyright holders are facing a roadblock in their quest to demand settlements from alleged file-sharers. Referencing...
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National Party Wins Copyright Damages Appeal Over Eminem Track
New Zealand's National Party has won its appeal against Eminem's publishers. The party was previously ordered to pay $600,000 for infringing the copyrights of Eminem's track "Lose Yourself" in a 2014...
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Battlestate Games Issues Dozens of DMCA Takedowns to ‘Silence’ YouTuber
Battlestate Games, the company behind the multiplayer shooter game Escape from Tarkov, has issued dozens of DMCA takedown requests against YouTuber Eroktic. While it's commonly known that DMCA notices...
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Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices
The rules for Canada's notice-and-notice regime will change following the passing of C-86, the Budget Implementation Act. Moving forward, rightsholders will not be allowed to send copyright...
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Netflix Quick to File Complaint With New Thai Anti-Piracy Agency
Netflix has become one of the first companies to file a copyright complaint with a newly-formed anti-piracy agency in Thailand. Launched just yesterday, COPTICS is a partnership between Thai police...
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Judge Recommends Dropping ISP Grande’s DMCA Safe Harbor Defense
Texas-based Internet provider Grande Communications has no right to a safe harbor defense, US Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin argues. The ISP failed to adopt and reasonably implement a repeat copyright...
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Kim Dotcom Extradition Case Headed to the Supreme Court
Kim Dotcom and former Megaupload colleagues Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato, and Bram van der Kolk are being allowed to take their extradition battle to the New Zealand Supreme Court. A decision released...
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Australian Court Orders ISPs to Block 181 ‘Pirate’ Domains, Including...
Australia's Federal Court has issued an injunction which requires local Internet providers to block 181 pirate domains linked to 78 'sites'. The injunction targets more sites than ever, including...
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Vodafone Blocks Two Pirate Streaming Sites Without a Court Order
ISP Vodafone has begun blocking a pair of illicit streaming portals in unusual circumstances. Burning Series and Serial Stream were rendered inaccessible on Tuesday, but not as the result of a...
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Hollywood Asks Court to Halt ‘Pirate Box’ Whac-a-Mole
'Dragon Box' has changed its business model a few times this year. Facing a lawsuit from the major Hollywood studios, Netflix, and Amazon, the streaming box supplier switched to a new subscription...
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Court Returns Seized Laptops to Accused GTA V Cheat Developer
An Australian man who's accused of developing the "Infamous" cheat for GTA V had some of his personal belongings returned this week. The items were seized following a complaint from Rockstar Games and...
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Pirate IPTV Subscriptions Remain Rampant in North America
New data published by Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that 5.5% of US and Canadian households access pirate IPTV services, typically through set-top boxes. This translates to...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 12/24/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'First Man' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Aquaman'. 'First Man' completes the top three. This week we have three newcomers in our...
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Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules
The Higher Regional Court of Saarbrücken has confirmed that domain registrars can be held liable for the infringements of pirate sites. Even a single link can require a registrar to take a domain...
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New UK ‘Live’ Sports Injunction Will Target Pirate Streams Until 2020
The High Court has issued a new injunction that will compel several major Internet service providers in the UK to block pirate boxing streams in real-time. Queensbury Promotions, the home of the...
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