Movie Studios Awarded $51.6m Piracy Damages Against IPTV Service Nitro TV
In April 2020, Columbia Pictures, Amazon Content Services, Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, plus three companies owned by…
In April 2020, Columbia Pictures, Amazon Content Services, Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, plus three companies owned by…
MindGeek is one of the leading players in the adult entertainment industry. Formerly known as Manwin, MindGeek conquered the online…
There’s no denying the many victories of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) over the past few years. The…
Last year, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among…
Last year, YouTube released its first-ever copyright transparency report. The streaming platform revealed that the vast majority of all claimed…
In a market saturated with tens of thousands of games spanning dozens of genres, videogamers don’t have to look far…
More than a decade ago, TorrentFreak reported on YouHaveDownloaded.com, a new service dedicated to BitTorrent tracking. Knowing that most BitTorrent-based…
In response to mass cheating in Destiny 2, last year Bungie began filing lawsuits against entities involved in the creation…
UK broadcaster Sky has never been particularly fond of people pirating its content. It’s a battle that’s raged for more…
US broadcaster DISH Network has a reputation for chasing down anyone involved in piracy of its content. From large IPTV…
Pornhub is without a doubt one of the most visited adult entertainment outlets on the Internet. The ‘entertainment’ platform is…
For website operators trying to get information into the public eye, the last thing they need are legal threats claiming…
Roughly 25 years ago, Google started its business as a simple and straightforward search engine. The startup swiftly captured a…
Downloading audio and video is prohibited by YouTube’s terms of service but there are numerous ‘stream-ripping’ sites available on the…
Three years ago, the RIAA began targeting YouTube ripping sites by sending relatively rare takedown requests to Google. Instead of…
After being sued by Bungie in a Washington court during the summer, a teenager accused of cheating in Destiny 2…
One can only imagine the crew’s screams of pain when they discovered that a clerical error had robbed ‘Night of…
This July at a Washington district court, Destiny 2 developer Bungie filed the latest in a growing list of lawsuits…
Over the years, dozens of entertainment industry companies have used copyright law to protect their rights online. Some have targeted…
In 2019, a Virginia jury ordered Internet provider Cox Communications to pay a billion dollars in damages to record labels…
Efforts to hold internet service providers in the United States accountable for the piracy activities of their subscribers are gaining…
For many people, Google is the go-to starting point when they need to find something on the web. With just…
The popularity of user-generated content sites like YouTube has led to millions of regular people becoming proud content creators in…
A class action lawsuit filed by Maria Schneider against YouTube more than two years ago has support from artists who…
Many digital file formats allow creators to embed additional data to provide details of ownership or any other relevant information….
GitHub is no stranger to copyright complaints. Last year, the developer platform removed nearly 20,000 projects in response to DMCA…
Given the very nature of the platform, right from the start YouTube’s future was never destined for plain sailing across…
It’s no longer a surprise when big videogame developers take escalating legal action against fan coders. Nintendo, for example, has…
Every day, millions of people from all over the world submit posts, comments, and other content to Reddit. The social…
Reddit is without doubt one of the most popular user-submitted content sites that exists on the Internet. The community-driven platform…
In August 2021, US broadcaster DISH Network, Sling and NagraStar sued pirate IPTV service Nitro TV. The case focused on…
With over 200 million code repositories, shared by more than 80 million users, GitHub is the largest online developer platform…
Piracy tracking firm MUSO aims to help rightsholders convert pirates into paying customers. This is a noble goal and the…
In August 2021, game developer Bungie filed a flurry of lawsuits in the United States against entities accused of offering…
Few people need to be reminded of the massive success story attached to HBO’s hit TV series, Game of Thrones….
DISH Network’s campaign against the pirate IPTV ecosystem is large but also unique. Anyone involved, from the biggest fish to…
In today’s ‘click-and-play’ world, almost anyone can launch their own pirate site. Servers ready to accept self-installing scripts are available…
One criticism of legitimate streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video, involves content discovery. Even if people subscribe…
Over the years, Twitch streamers have been increasingly targeted by DMCA takedowns, which can cause quite a fuss. Many of…
Nintendo has been tackling videogame piracy for a very long time but a lot of water has gone under the…
Earlier this month we reported on what initially appeared to be just another DMCA subpoena application to identify an alleged…
Copyright holders send out millions of takedown notices a day, hoping to remove pirated content or making it harder to…
The RIAA was well within its legal rights when it sued thousands of file-sharers in the early 2000s. But it…
Every day an estimated 30 million players jump into Roblox, an online game where players can play games created by…
Tackling online piracy is a complicated endeavor that can easily backfire. This is also true for takedown notices. Week in…
Earlier this year, Bungie and its enthusiastic Destiny fan community were plunged into chaos. Using the DMCA’s takedown process as…
Around October 2020 a Twitter user called ‘MrMoneyBags‘ began posting critical messages targeting billionaires. Brian Sheth, the former President of…
In August 2021, US broadcaster DISH Network plus Sling and NagraStar sued pirate IPTV service Nitro TV. According to the…
When Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, section 1201 outlawed circumvention of technological protection measures controlling access…
Late August 2022, game developer Bungie filed a lawsuit against the creators of software that enabled cheating in Destiny 2….