Google Removes Pirate IPTV Services From UK Search Results
The United Kingdom is no stranger to website blocking. The High Court granted permission for a blockade against Newzbin2 in…
The United Kingdom is no stranger to website blocking. The High Court granted permission for a blockade against Newzbin2 in…
Copyright law crafted decades ago to prevent infringement in an analog world has in many cases held up remarkably well…
Last November, IPTV subscription resellers operating from channels4cheap.com (C4C) and purchase-iptv.com found themselves being sued by broadcaster DISH Network. After…
The joint press release issued Monday by the Premier League and Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) was unusual right…
In recent years, copyright holders have paid close attention to a growing number of large piracy services with connections to…
In a world where users can have their own ChatGPT-like AI instances up and running on their own PCs, in…
Way back in 2010, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN embarked on a mission to have The Pirate Bay blocked in the…
For the best part of 15 years, maybe more, Sweden was rarely out of the piracy headlines. Kept busy by…
The global popularity of the English Premier League signals huge potential for growth, at least when local complications can be…
Operating a pirate IPTV service can be a dangerous endeavor, no matter where one’s located. In the United States, home…
Being able to receive and impart knowledge and ideas with other people is one of the most important things any…
Orders handed down by courts presiding over novel intellectual property cases routinely convey clear instructions, regardless of underlying complexity. With…
The head of Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM has confirmed that long-promised fines targeting end users of illegal streaming services will…
Javier Tebas Medrano is the president of LaLiga, Spain’s most prestiguous football league. Medrano’s position makes him the most powerful…
News that the Provincial Court of Pontevedra has handed down substantial fines to individuals behind a very large pirate IPTV…
There’s rarely a shortage of conflict and controversy in the perpetual online piracy wars. For some, the David versus Goliath…
Italy’s Piracy Shield blocking platform is the mechanism through which sports rightsholders exercise their right to use state-approved tools in…
The action in Canada this week is being described as the second phase of an operation that began last year….
Thanks to a global pooling of knowledge and intelligence, answers to our most difficult questions are just a few clicks…
From the very beginning and from every possible angle, this story makes almost no sense. But it will, eventually. By…
In the early 2000s, powerful entertainment industry groups were demanding action to prevent “wholesale theft” of their content online, much…
One of the key goals of the Premier League’s prosecution of Flawless TV was to send a clear deterrent message…
A DISH Network copyright infringement lawsuit filed in February 2022, demanded $32.5m in damages from UK-based CDN company DataCamp. The…
If it was possible to recall and then count every anti-piracy campaign targeted at the UK public since the dawn…
Almost half a decade ago, eight Las Vegas men were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to violate criminal…
With more ways to stream online video than ever before, protecting video continues to be a key issue for copyright…
For the past few years, regional police forces in the UK have shown a growing interest in cracking down on…
To a background of seemingly unstoppable corporate and political momentum, challenging the introduction of Italy’s much-heralded pirate IPTV blocking system…
Perhaps more than any other broadcaster, beIN Sports understands the potential for piracy to spin out of control. When a…
Last summer, UK broadcaster Sky obtained a High Court injunction that requires local ISPs to block pirate IPTV services illegally…
TV drama ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ tells the story of the Post Office ‘Horizon’ scandal and the lives…
Pirate IPTV services are a major cause for concern among broadcasters globally. In Italy, illegal streaming has grown in relevance…
When U.S. broadcaster DISH Network files another new lawsuit in the U.S., targeting various players in the IPTV ecosystem, the…
When Italian lawmakers finally passed new law in the summer designed to crack down on pirate IPTV providers once and…
With few signs that public appetite for cheap but illegal streaming services will subside anytime soon, law enforcement agencies all…
In recent years, rightsholders in Sweden have reported significantly increased consumption of pirate IPTV services, and law enforcement’s inability to…
News that Sky had won a new High Court injunction to tackle pirate IPTV services first appeared in the Financial…
While premium IPTV services have built a reputation for beating legal platforms on both selection and price, they also cost…
According to data published by the UK’s Office for National Statistics, UK residents made 15.6 million visits to Spain in…
Popular pirate IPTV service Beast TV built one of the most recognizable brands the illicit sector had even seen. That…
An announcement by Spain’s National Police (Policía Nacional) this morning was in many respects nothing out of the ordinary. In…
Across the globe, law enforcement and copyright holder groups are teaming up to tackle online piracy of all shapes and…
Authorities and rightsholders in Brazil appear determined to disrupt, restrict, or completely deny access to the illegal TV market enjoyed…
The all-round pirate IPTV ‘product’ widely available today was relatively unknown just a decade ago. When acceptable quality, capacity, presentation,…
While the continued proliferation of cheap albeit illegal pirate IPTV subscriptions is a problem for Sky, the broadcaster’s engagement with…
In response to constant claims by Italy’s multi-billion euro football and broadcasting sectors, that pirate IPTV services were “killing football”…
When Italy’s pirate IPTV blocking system eventually gets off the ground, it’s possible that up to hundreds of thousands of…
In the absence of sudden momentous events, shaping entrenched public opinion requires astute calculations and considerable patience, built on a…
The Italian government, lawmakers, telecoms regulator AGCOM, broadcasters, and football leagues invested considerable resources to get new law over the…
Following a request by the Office of the United States Trade Representative for stakeholders to identify so-called ‘notorious markets’ involved…