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TekSavvy Protests Push for Pirate Site Blocking in Court
Through the Federal Court, Bell, Rogers, and Groupe TVA are hoping to obtain the first Canadian pirate site blocking order. The companies believe that website blocking is an effective way to deal with...
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Audible fires back at book publishers, says captions are fair use
Audible fires back at book publishers, says captions are fair use "Audible Captions is not a book of any kind," Audible writes in court filing. Enlarge Nicoleta Ionescu / Getty Amazon's Audible unit...
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Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking
Switzerland's National Council has passed amendments aimed at modernizing the country's copyright law to make it more fit for the digital age. While services that host pirate sites or distribute...
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EasyDNS Threatened With Criminal Complaint over ‘Pirating’ Customer
A German law firm has threatened to file a criminal complaint against domain name registrar easyDNS. The Canadian registrar refuses to hand over personal details of an allegedly copyright infringing...
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Xtream Codes IPTV System Targeted in Massive Police Operation (Updated)
Police in Italy have announced a huge anti-piracy operation against the company operating popular IPTV service management system Xtream Codes. Searches are reportedly underway in several countries...
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Millennium Films Goes After Verystream, Streamango, and Others
Millennium Films is utilizing the US court system to put pressure on sites, services and apps that are linked to piracy. After the shutdown of the popular CotoMovies app, the company has now switched...
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Streaming Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy And The Industry Is...
from the history-repeats-itself dept As you probably have noticed, there's a growing tide of streaming video services popping up to feed users who want a cheaper, more flexible alternative to...
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MPAA Unifies Global Brand and Becomes MPA America
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has been protecting the interests of major movie studios since its formation in 1922. As time went by, its interests and operations became more global....
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Piracy Boosts Sales of Some Manga Comics, Research Shows
Publishers of Manga comics are working hard to shut down any and all pirate sites. With the planned shutdown of Manga Rock they have a major victory in sight. Interestingly, however, research shows...
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Massive Legal Bills Force TVAddons’ Adam Lackman Towards Bankruptcy
After being targeted by massive legal action in 2017, TVAddons founder Adam Lackman is still hoping to put up a fight against several major Canadian media companies. The huge costs incurred so far are...
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MPA America Quietly Takes Over Yet More ‘Pirate’ IPTV Domains
Takedowns of big 'pirate' sites and services usually come with some fanfare and publicity but behind the scenes more subtle moves are afoot. The list of domains quietly being taken over by the...
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House Judiciary Committee Doesn’t Want ‘DMCA-Style’ Safe Harbor in Trade...
The House Judiciary Committee is concerned that including DMCA-style safe harbors in new trade agreements could become problematic. The Copyright Office is evaluating the effectiveness of the DMCA and...
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Anti-Piracy Outfit “Works With ISPs” to Monitor Pirate Consumption
While it's common knowledge that anti-piracy companies like to spy on the activities of pirates, ISPs aren't regularly linked with the same kind of activity. However, with help from ISPs, a UK-based...
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( Opinion ) Pirate Bay is Not Getting Rich From Bitcoin Donations…
The Pirate Bay has accepted Bitcoin donations for more than six years. More recently, it added other cryptocoins as well. When we add up all the donations since late 2017, the income is relatively...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 09/23/19
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Spider-Man: Far from Home' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw'. 'Toy Story 4' completes...
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RomUniverse Aims to Crowdfund Legal ‘Piracy’ Battle With Nintendo
Download portal RomUniverse plans to put up a fight against Nintendo. The site, which the game publisher accuses of brazen and mass-scale copyright infringement, hopes that people will donate money to...
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Investigation Targets Telegram & WhatsApp-Based Newspaper Pirates
An investigation in Italy is targeting people who not only upload pirated copies of news publications to WhatsApp and Telegram, but those who download them too. Three key providers of content have...
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ESET: 91% of Russians Prefer Pirated Content Over Legal
If the results of a survey carried out by ESET are any indicator, Russia faces an uphill battle to combat piracy. The security company reports that just 9% of those surveyed prefer exclusively legal...
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Music Piracy Drops Dramatically, IFPI Shows
Music industry IFPI has released its latest music consumption report, revealing that music listening numbers are increasing. The report also stresses that piracy remains a threat, but fails to...
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Alleged Mangamura Admin Arrested By Japan During Deportation Flight
The alleged former operator of Mangamura, a now-defunct site blamed for causing billions of dollars in losses to the Japanese manga industry, has been arrested by Japanese police. Romi Hoshino was...
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