MPA & ACE Need OSINT Investigators to Track Down IPTV Pirates
The MPA and strongly-affiliated Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment are the sworn enemies of illegal streaming sites, IPTV services, and…
The MPA and strongly-affiliated Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment are the sworn enemies of illegal streaming sites, IPTV services, and…
With millions of monthly users, USTVGO was one of the most visited live TV streaming portals on the Internet. As…
Elon Musk is not only one of the smartest and richest people on the planet, he’s also a passionate meme…
Early January, anti-piracy group FACT and West Mercia Police announced they would be visiting addresses in the UK to warn…
First broadcast in the Netherlands back in 1999, reality TV show ‘Big Brother’ is now a global franchise spanning more…
The World Cup is international football’s most prestigious tournament. International governing body FIFA guards its lucrative rights to the competition…
Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company…
Tomás Escobar is the CEO of Acámica, the Argentina-based tech education company he co-founded a decade ago. Escobar studied Computer…
At the start of last year, a French bill went into effect that sanctioned the formation of a new regulatory…
Early January 2022, Activision filed a lawsuit in the United States against German companies EngineOwning UG and CMN Holdings S.A.,…
Rightsholders involved in the creation and broadcasting of live events say their businesses face a persistent threat from unlicensed and…
By now, various courts around the world have concluded that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing website. In response to…
As Android-based piracy apps go, streaming app PikaShow ticks most of the usual boxes. Compatible with smartphones, tablets and set-top…
After reporting on the activities of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) for more than five years, it’s clear…
There are plenty of options for copyright holders to frustrate the operations of pirate sites, but one of the most…
With tens of millions of fans playing every month, Genshin Impact is a huge free-to-play gaming success story. While Genshin…
Over the past several decades, Sony has established itself as a leading player in the technology, music, film, and gaming…
Classic videogame Mortal Kombat has won the hearts and minds of multiple gaming generations over the last 30 years. Developed…
A quote attributed to former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill suggests that democracy is actually the worst form of government…
Streaming piracy has taken over from BitTorrent in most parts of the world, but this traditional file-sharing technology remains popular…
Over the past five years the Australian Government has committed significant resources to several copyright-related initiatives, not least the Copyright…
After gathering data and in the absence of announcements by U.S. law enforcement agencies, on December 10 TorrentFreak reported on…
Five years ago, several of the world’s largest entertainment industry companies teamed up to create a brand new anti-piracy coalition….
An awful lot has changed in the online piracy world over the last decade, but key fundamentals still underpin the…
Since 2018 the European Commission has published an annual ‘Piracy Watch List’ detailing numerous piracy threats. Based on rightsholder input,…
Member states of the European Union must allow rightsholders to protect their rights. Enforcement measures are of “paramount importance” according…
In an effort to end or at least reduce rampant cheating in Call of Duty, Activision fought back with RICHOCET…
When the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment launched in 2017 it signaled a new approach to anti-piracy enforcement. Rather than…
Following a limited launch in 2007 with just 1,000 titles, Neflix now carries more than 6,600 movies and TV shows…
Earlier this month, we reported on a series of FIFA World Cup-themed domain name seizures by US law enforcement. In…
Carrying a filing fee of less than $50, DMCA subpoena applications are certainly cheap. When approved, as they usually are,…
Z-Library has become the go-to site for many readers in recent years by providing access to millions of books, for…
Determined to reduce overall piracy, the UK government first asked and then threatened Google over pirate sites appearing in its…
Last Friday we reported that a new round of piracy-related domain name seizures was likely being carried out by U.S….
YouTube is an incredible site with an unbelievable amount of content covering every conceivable topic. But it’s certainly not perfect….
Sports piracy is prevalent around the world, with more than half of all sports fans regularly using unauthorized streaming services….
With much of the legal groundwork completed in Europe, blocking pirate sites and services is often a case of rightsholders…
Following the example of the United States, the EU began publishing its very own piracy watchlist a few years ago….
Pirate site blockades are the preferred anti-piracy tool for many copyright holders around the world. This is also the case…
From a standing start in 2017, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment is now the largest and most successful anti-piracy…
The Blender Institute develops Blender, a free and open source 3D graphics tool used to create animated films. “Blender is…
A decade ago prominent voices issued dire warnings that blocking would “break the internet,” but of course, the internet survived,…
Without doubt, Reddit is one of the most popular user-generated content sites that exists on the Internet today. The community-driven…
Development of Genshin Impact began in 2017 and when it launched in 2020 utilizing a free-to-play model, a development budget…
With nearly 12 million books, Z-Library advertised itself as the largest repositories of pirated books on the Internet. The site…
A lawsuit filed in 2021 targeting businesses, owners and individuals behind the Wallhax, SecureAC, SecureCheats and CODHax platforms, is just…
To the global audience, Ulož.to may not be a household name, but in the Czech Republic, it is massive. The…
After two decades of perpetual battles with pirates, rightsholders and their anti-piracy partners are showing momentum. There’s no victory on…
Last year, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal upheld the first pirate site-blocking order in the country. The landmark decision opened…
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed the indictment and complaint against two alleged operators of Z-Library. Following an…