AGCOM Admits ‘Piracy Shield’ Blunder, Cloudflare Urges Users to Complain
In a little over a week’s time, Italy’s Piracy Shield system will have been fully operational for two whole months….
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…
Over the past year, new artificial intelligence tools and services have been surfacing everywhere. The same can be said for…
Late 2019, Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, including Sony and…
In 2007, Netflix shifted from distributing optical media via the mail to streaming content online. Apple released the first iPhone…
“The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman…
Unless they already have links to existing platforms or can somehow benefit from traffic previously destined for a popular preexisting…
In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating…
Orders handed down by courts presiding over novel intellectual property cases routinely convey clear instructions, regardless of underlying complexity. With…
In recent months, we have reported on the rollout of Italy’s blocking regime and the Piracy Shield system which operates…
In the past two decades, Internet traffic has exploded with more bytes being transferred in each successive year. While this…
One of the most frustrating aspects of DMCA notices outside the usual complaints aired by rightsholders, is their ability to…
Internet provider Cox Communications has been on the sharp end of several piracy lawsuits in recent years. The biggest hit…
It took less than a week for Nintendo’s lawsuit against the company behind the Yuzu Switch emulator to have the…
The Oscars is the most prestigious movie awards show of the year, one that’s closely followed by hundreds of millions…
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…
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….
Starting last year, various rightsholders have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. The list of complainants includes record…
When pirated copies of “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” came out nearly two decades ago, The Pirate Bay changed its…
ALPA, the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle) has been active in France since the…
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…
Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena that required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who…
How can we be sure that site-blocking really works? Because if it didn’t work, I was informed recently, rightsholders wouldn’t…
Under U.S. law, online service providers must respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts…
Last Updated on March 6, 2024 by Tim Wells The Diggz Xenon Matrix Build is one of the most common…
News that the Provincial Court of Pontevedra has handed down substantial fines to individuals behind a very large pirate IPTV…
Available on Windows, Linux, and since 2023, Android, Yuzu claims to be the most popular open-source Switch emulator in the…
Last week, we reported that an Indian dynamic+ court order had taken down movie-web’s demo site, along with several other…
Library Genesis (LibGen) is one of the oldest shadow libraries on the Internet, offering free access to millions of books…
Anime piracy site B9Good first appeared way back in 2008, initially operating under B9DM branding. Defying the usual odds, 15…
There’s rarely a shortage of conflict and controversy in the perpetual online piracy wars. For some, the David versus Goliath…
At the start of the last decade, The Pirate Bay teamed up with Sweden’s Lund University to conduct the largest…
Anime is growing globally as an entertainment category and this popularity surge isn’t limited to legal platforms. Today, several of…
In countries where internet access faces restrictions, from general government censorship through to more limited site-blocking programs to protect copyright,…
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…
It’s not uncommon for people to wander into some corner of the overall emulation scene with a specific question: Are…
Over the years, plenty of TV show episodes have leaked online in advance of their official release. Game of Thrones…
In recent months, rightsholders of all ilks have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. The list includes record…
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…
The last time over 200 pirate sites went offline at the same time was…..well, probably never. Certainly, so many sites…
Italy’s Piracy Shield blocking platform is the mechanism through which sports rightsholders exercise their right to use state-approved tools in…
In recent months, Movie-Web has quickly gained popularity among a particular group of movie aficionados. The open source software, which…
For many people, Google is the go-to starting point when they need to find something on the web. With just…
The InterPlanetary File System, more broadly known as IPFS, has been around for nearly a decade. While the name may…