Nintendo’s DMCA Operation Continues With Lockpick, Kezplez-nx Takedowns
More recent generations of video gamers will undoubtedly have their own ideas about which company in business today has made…
More recent generations of video gamers will undoubtedly have their own ideas about which company in business today has made…
Seven years ago, a new global anti-piracy coalition emerged under the umbrella of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The Alliance…
Anti-piracy outfits come in all shapes and sizes and due to the nature of the business, there has been no…
Over the last quarter-century the piracy landscape has regularly received major blows from which many believed it could never recover….
The United Kingdom is no stranger to website blocking. The High Court granted permission for a blockade against Newzbin2 in…
In February 2023, Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security revealed an extension to Operation 404, an ongoing anti-piracy operation…
In the summer of 2009, hackers from all over the world gathered at an outdoor conference near Vierhouten in the…
In a world where there’s always someone telling people what to do, Garry’s Mod is a breath of fresh air….
England is widely regarded as the ‘home of football’ and the Premier League is its top competition, drawing hundreds of…
In a world where users can have their own ChatGPT-like AI instances up and running on their own PCs, in…
After almost two decades reporting on the piracy landscape, speaking with hundreds of people involved in all aspects of piracy…
Without doubt, Reddit is one of the most popular user-generated content sites that exists on the Internet today. Last month,…
During the 6th meeting of the Policy Subcommittee of the Copyright Subcommittee of the Cultural Affairs Council in Japan last…
Despite intense pressure from the United States, including criticism as part of the USTR’s reports on notorious pirate sites and…
If the vision for the creation of the web included a day one feature that could restrict access to content,…
For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid. This remnant…
Way back in 2010, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN embarked on a mission to have The Pirate Bay blocked in the…
It’s no secret that the Motion Picture Association (MPA) views site-blocking measures in the United States as the logical next…
Three years ago, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal upheld the first pirate site-blocking order in the country. The landmark decision…
Since its official launch at the start of February 1, 2024, much has been said and written about Italy’s ‘Piracy…
Anti-piracy organization CODA (Content Overseas Distribution Association) is a permanent fixture on the front lines of Japan’s war against online…
Two billion copyright claims are processed every year through YouTube’s Content ID platform – a staggering figure that underscores the…
From the moment Italian authorities announced they would build the most ambitious anti-piracy blocking system ever seen, it was clear…
Plex is a multifunctional media software and service that allows users to easily access all of their entertainment in one…
There are thousands of pirate sites on the Internet but only a few will receive a permanent entry in the…
To say that Italy’s much-heralded pirate IPTV blocking scheme got off to a controversial start would significantly underplay events of…
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is the world’s most active anti-piracy coalition, with tentacles all around the globe….
After more than two years of incalculable losses following Russia’s full-blown invasion in 2022, Ukraine continues to defy the odds…
Ever since Italian authorities announced their intent to introduce an even more aggressive anti-piracy blocking system than the one already…
After initially denying that Italy’s new Piracy Shield anti-piracy platform had been responsible for any over-blocking, last week telecoms regulator…
Pirate sites are frustrating rightsholders across all continent and many of them see website blocking as the solution. In Ecuador,…
Pirate site blocking is one of the entertainment industry’s favorite enforcement tools. In recent years, it’s become a common practice…
In a little over a week’s time, Italy’s Piracy Shield system will have been fully operational for two whole months….
Most anti-piracy tools and mechanisms, whether dedicated online platforms or legislation crafted to achieve a particular goal, have issues that…
Unless they already have links to existing platforms or can somehow benefit from traffic previously destined for a popular preexisting…
It took less than a week for Nintendo’s lawsuit against the company behind the Yuzu Switch emulator to have the…
The head of Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM has confirmed that long-promised fines targeting end users of illegal streaming services will…
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is the world’s most active anti-piracy coalition, initiating and assisting enforcement efforts around…
Early 2023, Brazil’s National Film Agency (Ancine) and local telecoms regulator Anatel (National Telecommunications Agency) announced a new anti-piracy partnership….
With over 420 million code repositories, GitHub takes pride in being the largest and most advanced development platform in the…
Late last month we reported on the latest copyright claim data made available by YouTube. In the first half of…
How can we be sure that site-blocking really works? Because if it didn’t work, I was informed recently, rightsholders wouldn’t…
Last week, we reported that an Indian dynamic+ court order had taken down movie-web’s demo site, along with several other…
There’s rarely a shortage of conflict and controversy in the perpetual online piracy wars. For some, the David versus Goliath…
To protect copyright holders, YouTube regularly removes, disables, or demonetizes videos that contain allegedly infringing content. For years, little was…
There was a time when visiting a pirate site was much like visiting any other. Keen to attract eyeballs wherever…
When attempting to block pirated content online, there is always a significant risk that legitimate content will be blocked too….
This weekend, we reported that the open source movie search app movie-web lost control over the domain name of its…
Following a statement that Italy’s all-new anti-piracy system had received top marks from telecoms regulator AGCOM for “working perfectly,” on…
Italy’s Piracy Shield blocking platform is the mechanism through which sports rightsholders exercise their right to use state-approved tools in…