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Last December, Paramount, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Disney and Netflix sued longtime pirate streaming site PrimeWire. The companies accused PrimeWire of encouraging site users to upload links to pirated content and facilitating access…

House > Anti-piracy > Withdrawals and seizures > Two of the biggest movie and TV streaming piracy sites have had their domain names suspended in recent days. Targets include Lookmovie and Cuevana3, both of…

House > Anti-piracy > Site blocking > Popular feed mining site Yout.com continues to use various site blocking measures around the world. In Peru, the court agreed that ISPs are no longer required to block…

House > Anti-piracy > As part of the US Trade Representative's annual Special 301 Review, Peru provided a detailed update on its copyright enforcement plans and achievements. Peru's intellectual property protection…

House > Anti-piracy > DMCA > Google's voluntary anti-piracy measures have gradually expanded over the years, resulting in unique responses. When Google removes an allegedly copyright infringing URL from its…

House > Anti-piracy > Site blocking > A new amendment to Greek copyright law allows domain names and IP addresses of pirate livestream sources to be blocked 24 hours before the start of an event. The…

In its annual Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets, the US Trade Representative (USTR) lists a few dozen websites suspected of being involved in piracy or counterfeiting. The overview is largely based on input from copyright industry…

At the end of 2020, Senator Thom Tillis published a draft discussion of the "Digital Copyright Act" (DCA), which aims to succeed the current DMCA. The DCA hints at sweeping changes in the way online intermediaries approach the problem of…

Homepage > Piracy > Twenty years ago, copies of all Oscar-nominated films leaked online ahead of the official awards ceremony. Today, screeners have become a rare breed. It's not just the result of increased…

Homepage > Prosecutions > IPTV and streaming > A Swede has been convicted for selling subscriptions to the pirate IPTV service MacIPTV. The 21-year-old served around 3,000 customers and came to the attention of…

Homepage > Anti-piracy > Italian anti-piracy group Digital Content Protection has launched a new service that helps rightsholders monitor NFT platforms, Web 3.0 projects and metaverse precursors. The company, which…

Homepage > Anti-piracy > Major rights holders and internet companies in Russia have signed a new memorandum of cooperation designed to make pirated movies, TV shows and other content harder to find. In addition to…

Homepage > Anti-piracy > Site blocking > Following the signing of a voluntary code of conduct between rightsholders and internet service providers in Spain, the government is now reporting on the results of the…

With Korean culture overwhelming us all and the growing popularity of Korean content, it's no surprise that our Bollywood filmmakers are taking a look at Kdramas and movies and getting inspired. When the trailer for Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi…

When copyright holders observe an IP address sharing unauthorized content in a BitTorrent swarm, they must match that IP address to an actual name and physical address if they want to go further. Since there is no online resource that can…

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Homepage > Anti-piracy > DMCA > Japanese manga artist Maki Murakami has gone to court in the United States after several pirate sites published her work without permission. Among the platforms is NyaHentai, a…

Homepage > Anti-piracy > DMCA > Cloudflare does not delete anything in response to DMCA takedown notices, unless it stores the content permanently on its network. However, the company will release customer…

In the summer of 2018, a report by anti-piracy firm Irdeto examined the payment processing capabilities of 400 pirate IPTV provider sites. He revealed that the majority (76%) openly advertise their payment options, with Visa, Mastercard…

Next April, a new anti-piracy group run by the Content Overseas Distribution Association of Japan will tackle anime and manga piracy, according to a report by Nikkei Asia.Illegal streaming and torrents are a huge success for the manga…

Homepage > Opinion articles > Today marks the start of the new year. As a news site focused on piracy and copyright issues, we're curious to see what 2022 has in store for us. To start with an old tradition, we'll…

One of the major anti-piracy strategies of the film and television industries is site blocking, whereby Internet service providers are forced, by court order, to deny subscribers access to specified domains. . Due to limited transparency,…

Homepage > Anti-piracy > DMCA > Manga publishing giants Shogakukan, Shueisha, Kadokawa, and Kodansha have a new set of pirate sites in their collective sights. In one action, they asked a US court to help them…

Home > Opinion articles > Google's algorithms have made life much more convenient for many people, but sometimes they lead to particular results. When searching for the best movie websites, the search engine will…

When local courts first grant copyright owners permission to block a pirate site, it is almost certain to be the first of many similar requests. In the UK, copyright owners have been blocking pirate sites for over a decade and every month…

Home > Anti-piracy > Copyright holders typically ask pirate sites to remove infringing content. This usually happens after it comes online, but the Polish branch of media giant CANAL + is trying to get a head start.…

Home > Opinion articles > The block list of pirate sites maintained by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has grown to include more than 5,000 domain names. The list is maintained by journalists from…

Home > Law and Politics > Advertising firm Popads hit back at the MPA after the Hollywood-backed group named the company a "notorious market" that facilitates hacking. Several claims are false or misleading, PopAds…

Home > Piracy > Army of Thieves will premiere on Netflix this Friday, hoping to keep up with the success of Army of the Dead. While millions of people will be watching legally, hackers have already gotten a head…

Home > Piracy > The Motion Picture Association wants the US government's cybersecurity executive order to be optimized to identify operators of pirate sites and services. Among other things, the order should require…

Home > Anti-piracy > "Free Download Manager" is an iconic download tool that has been around for almost two decades. In 2007, the software was one of the first apps to support YouTube downloads, but that's over, for…

Home > Lawsuits > Repeatedly offending > Internet service provider RCN has asked a New Jersey federal court to dismiss the piracy lawsuit filed by several filmmakers a few weeks ago. According to the FAI, the…

Home > Anti-piracy > Pirate sites like ExtraTorrent, KickassTorrents, and isoHunt vanished from the web over five years ago. Oddly enough, that hasn't stopped some anti-piracy groups from suing them, as they are…

As the popularity of Apple TV + increases, Apple appears to be struggling to cope with increasing levels of online piracy, despite concerted efforts to remove its stolen content, MacRumors found. Piracy is a lucrative business for torrent…

Home > Anti-piracy > Italian public broadcaster RAI will use NexGuard watermark technology to secure its content. The company is the first free-to-air broadcaster to implement NAGRA's anti-piracy technology, which…

Home > Anti-piracy > Cybersecurity firm Group-IB, which for several years investigated hundreds of hacker sites and their links to organized crime, is currently at the heart of a huge scandal in Russia. Company…

Home > Anti-piracy > Blocking sites > Italian football league Serie B has obtained an injunction aimed at preventing the illegal transmission of its football matches by illegal IPTV providers during the 21/22…

Home > Law and Politics > Russia has implemented a wide variety of anti-piracy laws and procedures in recent years. Thousands of copyright infringing sites have been blocked and even app stores and search engines…

Home > Anti-piracy > Blocking sites > Efforts to make pirate sites more difficult to access have resulted in two new waves of blockades in the UK. Elsevier and Springer Nature's action now forces major ISPs to…

Over the past two decades, online piracy has proven to be a daunting challenge for the entertainment industries. Some copyright owners have attempted to prosecute individual pirates in court, but increasingly third-party intermediaries…

Home > Piracy > Over the past five years, the snahp.it hacking streaming site has provided information and links to all kinds of pirated content, including movies and TV shows. The site operated in the so-called DDL…

Home > Lawsuits > Applications and sites > The makers of popular films such as "Hunter Killer", "Automata" and "I Feel Pretty" are seeking more than $ 10 million in damages from VPN provider LiquidVPN. The…

Home > Lawsuits > Copyright Trolls > Virgin Media subscribers who receive letters accusing them of film piracy may find resolving their case to be a costly affair. TorrentFreak understands that claims run into…

Home > Anti-piracy > DMCA > Copyright owners have sent billions of takedown requests to Google. Their goal is to make it harder for people to find pirated content through the search engine. However, in some…

Twenty, thirty, or even forty years ago, movie piracy was done relatively quietly between trusted suppliers, friends and family. With the rise of the Internet, however, the discussion of how to get movies without paying for them has…

For over seven years, Popcorn Time has been a thorn in the side of movie studios large and small. The "Netflix for Hackers" offers an easy-to-use app that opens the door to a library of thousands of streaming movies and TV shows. Legal…

Home > Anti-piracy > Withdrawals and foreclosures > The global anti-piracy group Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment maintains intense pressure on unlicensed streaming platforms. In a new wave of cuts,…

Home > Piracy > DMCA summons can be a powerful weapon for entertainment companies looking to identify operators of pirate sites. The Creativity and Entertainment Alliance and its MPA partners were back in court…

Home > Anti-piracy > DMCA > Google has received several takedown notices claiming to be from the US Copyright Office, asking the search engine to remove "problematic" URLs. The government agency, which is…

Home > Anti-piracy > DMCA > The American Society of Composers has asked Google to remove hundreds of URLs from its search results. The reported pages are accused of "circumventing DRM", but the anti-piracy…

Residence > Anti-piracy > DMCA > Ukrainian TV station TRK sent a rather bizarre take down request to Google. The company's anti-piracy partner, Vindex, has asked the search engine to remove a search result…

Residence > Anti-piracy > YouTube rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com have closed their doors to visitors from the US and UK. The services are "permanently unavailable" according to a message posted on the sites. The…

Residence > Piracy > Like many countries, Taiwan hopes to deter its citizens from using set-top boxes configured for hacking. In recent days, however, public figures including the former mayor of New Taipei City and…

Home > Anti-piracy > DMCA > According to an alert issued in response to repeated allegations of copyright infringement, Comcast suspended an Xfinity account for eight hours, warning that a further infringement…