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Anti-Piracy Coalition ACE Goes After Clipwatching and Fembed
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, which includes Hollywood studios as well as the streaming giants Netflix and Amazon, is trying to find out who the operators of Clipwatching and Fembed...
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Unofficial Coronavirus Papers Archive Serves Up Half a Terabyte of Knowledge
With the world still grappling with the new coronavirus outbreak, an unofficial paywall-free archive of scientific papers is spreading hope, not disease, to the scientific community. Speaking with...
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US Court Orders Easybox IPTV to Pay $9.9m in Copyright Infringement Damages
A judge at a Texas court has ordered two individuals behind the pirate IPTV service Easybox IPTV to pay $9.9m in copyright infringement damages. In a judgment handed down this week, the judge...
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( Opinion ) Record Labels Question TorrentFreak’s Reliability in Court
Bright House Networks is one of several ISPs defending themselves in piracy lawsuits filed by major record labels. As part of this legal battle, the ISP submitted several documents to the court,...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/10/20
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. '21 Bridges' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Ford v Ferrari'. 'Knives Out' completes the top three. This week we have five...
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Tech Giants Warn U.S. Against EU Upload Filters and Site Blocking
Global tech firms including Google, Twitter, and Facebook, are warning the U.S. Government against the threat of mandatory upload filters. Industry groups believe that the requirements mandated by...
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Olympic Committee & Top Soccer Groups Urge US Govt. Action Over Pirate IPTV
The International Olympic Committee and leading soccer organizations including FIFA and the Premier League are urging the United States Trade Representative to apply maximum pressure to Saudi...
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CA Domain Registry Objects to Pirate Site Blocking Order
The .CA domain registry CIRA has asked the Federal Court of Appeal to hear its objections against the first Canadian pirate site blocking order. According to the registry, these blockades jeopardize...
View ArticleMovie Companies File Lawsuits in Canada Targeting 3,348 Alleged BitTorrent...
Two companies behind the movies Angel Has Fallen and Rambo: Last Blood have filed lawsuits in the Federal Court of Toronto targeting 3,248 defendants said to have downloaded and distributed the...
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Rightsholders Asked Google to Remove Five Million ThePirateBay.org URLs
Copyright holders have filed five million requests to delete ThePirateBay.org URLs from Google's search results over the past several years. Roughly two-thirds of these requests indeed resulted in...
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US Congress Starts Review on Possible Modernization of the DMCA
A new copyright-focused initiative has got underway in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Its goal is to evaluate the 22-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act with a...
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US Congress Starts Review on Possible Modernization of the DMCA
A new copyright-focused initiative has got underway in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Its goal is to evaluate the 22-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act with a...
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UK Court Finds GTA V Cheat Makers Guilty of Copyright Infringement
GTA V publisher Rockstar Games' has won a summary judgment against two men who were connected to the now-defunct 'mod menu' cheat Epsilon. The UK Intellectual Property and Enterprise Court found the...
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US Govt: Massive Jetflicks Pirate Site Was Disguised as Aviation Service
After being shut down by the FBI, Jetflicks and associated site iStreamitAll were described by the US Government as two of the largest unauthorized streaming services in the United States. A new...
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MCMC warns certified Android TV box suppliers not offer illegal streaming
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has issued a warning to all Android TV box suppliers not to misuse the SIRIM and MCMC labels. It emphasised that certification for such...
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Warhorse Studios Hilariously Infringes Pirates’ Copyrights to “Support the...
The developer of action role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance has hilariously turned the tables on the cracking group that first put a pirated copy of its game on the Internet. With its tongue...
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BitTorrent ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawsuits Skyrocket In Sweden
The number of piracy lawsuits filed against alleged file-sharing pirates in Sweden hit a record high in 2019. In total, more than 60,000 IP-addresses of alleged BitTorrent users were targeted. The...
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BPI Joins RIAA’s Takedown Battle Against YouTube Downloaders
UK music group BPI has joined the RIAA in its effort to wipe YouTube download and ripping sites from Google's search results. Using language inspired by its US counterpart, BPI repeatedly argues...
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New Wave Of Nintendo Anti-Piracy Complaints Helps Microsoft Too
Nintendo has launched a new wave of DMCA complaints at Google in an effort to make piracy-enabling devices harder to find. In common with previous efforts, the gaming giant is making strategic use...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/17/20
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Frozen 2' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Knives Out'. '21 Bridges' completes the top three. This week we have four...
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