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Senators and Copyright Office Want Streaming Piracy Loophole Fixed
Streaming piracy has taken over from illegal downloading over the past several years. Despite this growth, however, under US law it's generally seen as a lesser offense than downloading. Lawmakers are...
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EBook.bike Owner Says Deficient DMCA Notices Means No Case to Answer
Former Pirate Party leader Travis McCrea says he has "no case to answer" in the copyright lawsuit filed by John Van Stry. According to a request to file a motion to dismiss at a court in Texas, DMCA...
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Tensions Rise as Copyright “Small Claims” Bill Moves Forward
Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of the CASE Act, a new bill that proposes to institute a small claims court for copyright disputes. As the bill moves to the Senate, tensions...
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( Opinion ) Inside the UK’s ‘Pirate’ IPTV Blocking System
Thanks to an injunction obtained by the Premier League, ISPs can now be ordered to block 'pirate' IPTV services whenever they air live Premiership football games. The entire system is highly secretive...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 07/29/19
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Godzilla: King of the Monsters' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Avengers: Endgame'. 'Hellboy' completes the top three. This week...
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‘Hosting Providers Who Turn a Blind Eye to IPTV Pirates Should Be Prosecuted’
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has successfully targeted dozens of vendors of copyright-infringing IPTV services. However, the problem remains. According to BREIN, hosting providers play an important...
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Operators of Pirate Streaming Site Pelispedia Sentenced to Prison
Two Uruguayan operators of the popular Latin American pirate streaming site have been sentenced to three years and four months prison each. The man and woman, who are a couple, were arrested earlier...
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Premier League & UEFA Obtain Court Orders to Block Piracy in 2019/20
The Premier League and UEFA have both been granted fresh permission by the High Court to have the UK's major ISPs block 'pirate' streams in real-time. The orders, obtained via separate processes, are...
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File-hoster ‘Instaudio’ Announces Shutdown Citing Legal Pressure
Instaudio, a file-hosting service specialized in audio, has stopped accepting new uploads. The site is shutting down completely in a few weeks. According to the site's operator, rising costs, abuse...
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RIAA Targets Picosong Over Leaked Kanye West Track
The operators of popular music upload site Picosong say that their project will shut down in October. The stated reason is that there are "better alternatives" so the site isn't needed anymore....
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Legal Movie Sites Could Get Special ‘Tag’ in Search Results to Deter Piracy
Legal online video sites may soon feature a special marker in search results if proposed amendments to copyright law are passed in Russia. The Ministry of Culture believes that giving consumers the...
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“Hellboy” Sues Torrent Site YTS and Several Users
HB Productions, the company that owns the copyrights to the movie Hellboy, is suing the operator of torrent site YTS.lt. The complaint, filed at a federal court in Hawaii, also targets 19 "John Doe"...
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Home Owners to Be Held Liable For Pirate Boxes, Malaysia Says
The National Film Development Corporation Malaysia says it is preparing proposals that would hold home owners responsible for the use of pirate boxes in their property. Controversially, the chairman...
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IPTV Service SET TV Must Pay $7.6 Million in Piracy Damages
A California Federal Court ordered the now-defunct IPTV service SET TV to pay $7.6 million in piracy damages. In addition, the company is forbidden from operating a similar service in the future. The...
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DISH Sues ‘Pirate’ IPTV Providers Including Two Already ‘Seized’ By ACE
DISH Network and NagraStar have filed yet another lawsuit targeting several 'pirate' IPTV providers in the United States. Interestingly, two of the named suppliers - TVStreamsNow and OneStepTV - have...
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Retired Police Officer Wants $48,773 from Copyright Troll
A retired police officer in his 70s, who was falsely accused of sharing several adult films via BitTorrent, wants the copyright holders to pay up. After both parties failed to reach an agreement, the...
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Mindgeek Asks Cloudflare to Unmask Tube Site Uploaders
MG Premium, a company operated by Mindgeek, is trying to unmask people who uploaded their videos to several 'tube' sites. Via DMCA subpoena applications filed in a Washington federal court, the porn...
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uTorrent Desktop Client Will Stop Working on New Mac OS
Mac users who plan to upgrade to Catalina, the latest version of Mac OS, won't be able to use the desktop version of uTorrent. Both uTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline are not compatible with the new...
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RIAA Asks Cloudflare to Unmask Owner of Turbobit
Turbobit, one of the longest-standing file-hosting sites on the Internet, is being targeted by the RIAA which wants Cloudflare to unmask its owner. Interestingly, two other sites detailed in the...
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Charter: Fast Internet Speeds are Not Just for Pirates
Charter Communications and a group of prominent record labels are continuing to go head to head in court. The ISP has filed a new reply in support of its motion to dismiss the vicarious copyright...
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