Pirate Site Blocking Agency Reveals How and Why Pirates Circumvent Blocking
This year, major rightsholders are hoping that data from similar programs overseas will persuade Congress that site-blocking is a measured…
This year, major rightsholders are hoping that data from similar programs overseas will persuade Congress that site-blocking is a measured…
The United Kingdom is no stranger to website blocking. The High Court granted permission for a blockade against Newzbin2 in…
Since its launch early February, Italy’s Piracy Shield system and its operators have been at the center of a series…
In a world where users can have their own ChatGPT-like AI instances up and running on their own PCs, in…
For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid. This remnant…
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…
From the moment Italian authorities announced they would build the most ambitious anti-piracy blocking system ever seen, it was clear…
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…
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….
Unless they already have links to existing platforms or can somehow benefit from traffic previously destined for a popular preexisting…
How can we be sure that site-blocking really works? Because if it didn’t work, I was informed recently, rightsholders wouldn’t…
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…
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in…
There’s no shortage of reasonable arguments that support the existence of a comprehensive anti-piracy system in Italy, capable of returning…
While anti-piracy enforcement actions are likely to be at the highest level ever seen, there’s no shortage of sites and…
In recent years, rightsholders have repeatedly teamed up with Egyptian law enforcement to tackle several large pirate sites and services….
In the early 2000s, powerful entertainment industry groups were demanding action to prevent “wholesale theft” of their content online, much…
In recent years, Hollywood has played close attention to major pirate sites and services with connections to Vietnam. Representing rightsholders,…
Last summer, UK broadcaster Sky obtained a High Court injunction that requires local ISPs to block pirate IPTV services illegally…
JW Player was born around 2005 as an open source project, taking its name from the initials of main developer,…
At the height of the online file-sharing boom, the phrase ‘Sharing is Caring’ was a reminder that peer-to-peer file-sharing systems…
Over the past several years and especially over the past several months, major rightsholders’ interest in India appears to have…
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in…
Over the past decade, platforms including Sci-Hub, Libgen and Z-Library have broken through a sea of movie, TV show, music…
For a long time, pirate site blocking was considered a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid. This stance was…
The launch of the BeStreamWise online anti-piracy campaign early October was preceded by action in the ‘real’ world. After being…
Italy’s Piracy Shield anti-piracy system reportedly launched last week, albeit in limited fashion. Whether the platform had any impact on…
When Italian lawmakers finally passed new law in the summer designed to crack down on pirate IPTV providers once and…
Like many other countries around the world, India’s copyright law allows rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. Major entertainment…
News that Sky had won a new High Court injunction to tackle pirate IPTV services first appeared in the Financial…
Website blocking has become the go-to anti-piracy measure for the entertainment industries when tackling pirate sites on the internet. The…
Authorities and rightsholders in Brazil appear determined to disrupt, restrict, or completely deny access to the illegal TV market enjoyed…
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in…
When Italy passed new law on July 14, authorizing widespread internet blocking and harsher punishments for pirates who supply or…
With millions of monthly users, BitTorrent’s reign at the top of the file-sharing seemed unstoppable in 2007, but the French…
Website blocking has become the go-to anti-piracy measure for the entertainment industries when tackling pirate sites on the internet. The…
This month, the Philippines celebrates its creative industries by dedicating a special month to their work. On top of that,…
When Hollywood sets its sights on something it wants to achieve in the piracy landscape, victory may not come this…
When Italy passed new law on July 14, many believed that when the new Serie A football season began on…
Two years ago, German Internet providers agreed to voluntarily block the most egregeous pirate sites. The ISPs teamed up with…