Live ‘Piracy Shield’ Data Exposed By New Platform Reveals Akamai IP Blocking
After initially denying that Italy’s new Piracy Shield anti-piracy platform had been responsible for any over-blocking, last week telecoms regulator…
After initially denying that Italy’s new Piracy Shield anti-piracy platform had been responsible for any over-blocking, last week telecoms regulator…
Following a statement that Italy’s all-new anti-piracy system had received top marks from telecoms regulator AGCOM for “working perfectly,” on…
The music industry obtained a pioneering injunction to compel Danish ISPs to implement site-blocking measures back in 2006. The goal…
Early December the English Premier League announced a new broadcasting rights deal worth a staggering £6.7 billion (US$8.5 billion). Running…
Copyright holders have made serious work of website blocking in recent years, expanding the practice to over forty countries worldwide….
Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company…
Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare serves millions of customers and provides a variety of connectivity and privacy features to the…
DMCA subpoena applications filed at courts in the United States provide a relatively inexpensive mechanism for compelling intermediaries to hand…
Launched by South Korean tech giant Naver Corporation in 2004, Webtoon gained popularity as a hosting platform for a specific…
Website blocking has become the go-to anti-piracy measure for the entertainment industries when tackling pirate sites on the internet. The…
Manga comics have always been popular on pirate sites but where other categories have seen stalled growth, manga piracy boomed….
With momentum building in favor of pirate site blocking measures elsewhere in Europe, Austrian ISPs took their opposition all the…
Last summer, the US Copyright Claims Board (CCB) officially launched. Through this Copyright Office-hosted venue, rightsholders can try to recoup…
The Pirate Bay has been around for nearly two decades, which is quite an achievement considering the immense legal pressure…
Website blocking has become an increasingly common anti-piracy tool. ISPs in dozens of countries have been ordered by courts to…
The InterPlanetary File System, more broadly known as IPFS, has been around for a few years now. While the name…
Human beings have a tendency to want things they can’t have. A modest interest in a particular item or activity…
After thriving in what was once a localized traditional market, Japanese comics known as ‘manga’ took the world by storm….
Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company…
Competition is almost inevitable in business and as a key driver of innovation, that’s mostly a good thing. Unfair competition,…
Legal action filed last week by two Arizona-based companies aims to prevent pirate sites distributing their content. That’s not unusual…
Website blocking has become an increasingly common anti-piracy tool around the globe. In dozens of countries, ISPs have been ordered…
In June, the US Copyright Claims Board was launched. Through this venue, hosted at the US Copyright Office, rightsholders can…
Website blocking has become an increasingly common anti-piracy tool around the globe. In dozens of countries, ISPs have been ordered…
Ten years ago millions of people from all over the world spoke out against a U.S. bill that would’ve allowed…
After winning three lawsuits against three pirate streaming sites, earlier this year a coalition of Israel-based media companies obtained an…
In 2017, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince decided to terminate the account of the controversial neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer. “I woke…
In common with many countries in Europe, Austria couldn’t escape pressure from rightsholders to implement site blocking to prevent piracy….
Popular Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company…
When video and broadcasting companies take on their pirate site competitors it’s only natural that once they have their day…
When United King Film Distribution, DBS Satellite Services, and Hot Communication won copyright lawsuits against three pirate streaming sites in…
This April, United King Film Distribution, DBS Satellite Services, and Hot Communication (all members of Israel-based anti-piracy group Zira) won…
When torrent sites, streaming portals and IPTV services suddenly disappear or find themselves fighting a lawsuit, it’s common for users…
Following the example set by United States, the EU started publishing its very own piracy watchlist in 2018. The biannual…
In common with similar groups and their rightsholder partners in other sectors, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) plays a key…
After more than two decades of declining fortunes, 2021 was a blockbuster year for global recorded music revenues. With a…
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment is a global anti-piracy coalition that counts the major Hollywood studios, Netflix, Amazon, and…
Football is the number one sport in the UK and every week, millions of passionate fans cheer on their favorite…
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and their partners in the Alliance of Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) are on a mission…
Early this week news broke that major manga publishers Shueisha, Kodansha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa were about to sue Cloudflare in…
CDN company Cloudflare provides its services to millions of websites all around the world, enabling them to stay online with…
While pirate sites offering mainstream movies and TV shows regularly pull in millions of visits every month, just a few…
Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years….
When launching an investigation into a pirate site there are many publicly available sources that can be trawled for information….
Last week we reported that a San Francisco law firm acting for Japanese publisher Shueisha had filed an ex parte…
Last year, Texas-based model Deniece Waidhofer sued Thothub for copyright infringement after the site’s users posted many of her ‘exclusive’…
With a fanatical audience that now reaches beyond Japan and around the globe, demand for manga and anime content is…
Earlier this month, several copyright holder groups sent their annual “Notorious Markets” recommendations to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). The…
When torrent sites were gaining significant traction in the mid 2000s, discovering information about their infrastructure and even their operators…
Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years….