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( Opinion ) Can a New Anti-Piracy System Really Defeat Cinema “Camming”?
On April 24, 2019, within hours of Avengers: Endgame being released in China, at least two copies of the movie appeared online after being recorded in cinemas. The movie industry is determined to...
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Torrent Site MagnetDL Shuts Down
Torrent Site MagnetDL Shuts Down The popular magnet torrent search engine MagnetDL has closed its doors after seven years. With its clean and easy-to-use interface, the site was the go-to site for...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 05/20/19
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 05/20/19 The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Shazam!' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Avengers: Endgame'....
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Italian Version of Article 17 Requires LEGAL Content to Be Filtered Out
Italian Version of Article 17 Requires LEGAL Content to Be Filtered Out Last Friday the text of the new EU Copyright Directive was published on the Official Journal of the EU. However, due to glaring...
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How Game of Thrones Made Piracy History
How Game of Thrones Made Piracy History The final episode of Game of Thrones marked the end of one of the biggest piracy topics in history. The show made dozens of piracy headlines over the years,...
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Game of Thrones Piracy in Russia: 180,000 Takedowns, Mirror Wars & Capitulation
Anti-piracy outfit Group-IB has released data on what it took to protect Game of Thrones from online pirates in Russia. Across the last four seasons alone, the firm executed 180,000 successful...
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Popular Streaming Site Pelispedia Shuts Down, Operators Arrested
Popular Streaming Site Pelispedia Shuts Down, Operators Arrested Uruguayan authorities, helped by Interpol and the US movie industry, have arrested the alleged operators of the popular streaming site...
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SET TV IPTV Reseller A-Box TV Ordered to Pay Dish $2 Million in Damages
SET TV IPTV Reseller A-Box TV Ordered to Pay Dish $2 Million in Damages A-Box TV, a company that acted as a reseller of 'pirate' streams provided by the now-defunct IPTV service SET TV, has agreed to...
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There Were 140 Piracy ‘Incidents’ in UK Cinemas Last Year
Years have gone by without a single movie leak tracing back to a UK cinema, but that changed in 2018. The Cinema Association reports that there were three movie leaks from local theaters last year, as...
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Award-Winning John Lennon Photographer Sues Universal Music For $150,000
Award-Winning John Lennon Photographer Sues Universal Music For $150,000 Award-winning photographer Allan Tennanbaum has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Universal Music in New York....
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Reddit KOs Piracy-Focused MMA Community, Ex-UFC Fighter Gets The Blame
Reddit KOs Piracy-Focused MMA Community, Ex-UFC Fighter Gets The Blame Piracy of UFC and other live MMA events got a little bit harder this week after Reddit banned its popular /r/mmastreams...
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Movie Company Uses DMCA Subpoena Shortcut to Identify Pirates
Movie Company Uses DMCA Subpoena Shortcut to Identify Pirates When copyright holders want to identify pirates in the US, they have to file a lawsuit. However, in Hawaii, the people behind the film...
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Chinese Game of Thrones Pirates Unaffected By US ‘Trade War’
Chinese Game of Thrones Pirates Unaffected By US ‘Trade War’ Last Sunday's Game of Thrones finale was enjoyed by millions around the world but those trying to view through the official channel in...
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Cox Business Subscriber Doesn’t Want Identity Revealed in Piracy Lawsuit
As part of the ongoing lawsuit with several record labels, ISP Cox Communications agreed to identify thousands of business subscribers accused of sharing pirated material. One of the affected...
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Hundreds of Thousands of ‘Pirate’ Sites Disappear Following Takedown Notices
New research reveals some interesting findings regarding the volume, senders, and targets of takedown notices. One of the most intriguing findings is that hundreds of thousands of domain names...
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1XBET: The Bizarre ‘CAM’ Brand That Movie Pirates Love to Hate
1XBET: The Bizarre ‘CAM’ Brand That Movie Pirates Love to Hate If people want to watch the latest blockbusters on the small screen, the easiest option is to download a 'cammed' copy from the...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 05/27/19
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 05/27/19 The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Us' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Shazam!'. 'Avengers:...
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YouTubers and record labels are fighting, and record labels keep winning
Glenn Fricker didn’t run into any issues when he uploaded a video about digital music editing to YouTube in 2014. But in April, nearly five years and 600,000 views later, he received an email from...
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RIAA Subpoenas Target Yet Another Huge YouTube-Ripping Site
RIAA Subpoenas Target Yet Another Huge YouTube-Ripping Site BRE The RIAA has obtained DMCA subpoenas designed to uncover the identity of the individuals behind yet another huge YouTube-ripping site....
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Movie Companies Sue ‘YTS’ and ‘YIFY’ Site Operators in US Court
Several movie companies are trying to shut down the largest torrent site on the Internet through the Hawaiian federal court. The filmmakers accuse the persons behind YTS.am and yifymovies.is of...
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