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The advent of the internet and its subsequent development in the mainstream have given rise to a perpetual, collaborative, global…
The advent of the internet and its subsequent development in the mainstream have given rise to a perpetual, collaborative, global…
Under the current DMCA legislation, US-based Internet services are expected to remove infringing links, if a copyright holder complains. This…
For many people, Google is the go-to starting point when they need to find something on the web. With just…
The UFC, NBA and NFL are without a doubt among the most recognizable sports brands in the world. Their events…
Japanese manga comics remain massively popular online but with that comes high levels of piracy that publishers are struggling to…
Generative AI models such as ChatGPT have captured the imaginations of millions of people, offering a glimpse of what an…
In July 2021, U.S. broadcaster DISH Network and subsidiary Sling TV filed a copyright lawsuit in a Texas district court…
Roughly 25 years ago, Google started its business as a simple and straightforward search engine. The startup swiftly captured a…
After reading the introduction to Bungie’s latest lawsuit, which targets makers and sellers of Destiny 2 cheats, one gets the…
In October 2021 when DISH Network filed yet another lawsuit against a pair of IPTV sellers in the United States,…
Over the past couple of decades, thousands of people have leveraged the masses of pirated content available online to make…
Dozens of times each year, global anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment files DMCA subpoena applications at a court…
In a lawsuit, filed in the U.S. early January 2022, videogame giant Activision targeted German companies EngineOwning UG and CMN…
The most dependable things in life tend to be the things most easily taken for granted. In the piracy ecosystem,…
IPFS is a decentralized network that makes it possible to efficiently distribute high volumes of data between peers while avoiding…
With over 142k members, the ‘AI Hub’ Discord server is a thriving community that opens the door to lots of…
Copyright holders send out millions of takedown notices a day, hoping to remove pirated content or make it harder to…
Legal video streaming services such as Amazon, Disney, and Netflix are booming. At the same time, there’s a flourishing dark…
According to the original complaint filed July 2, 2020, this was a case about “copyright piracy” and how YouTube, the…
According to the most recent order in Maria Schneider’s copyright lawsuit against YouTube, the long-running case is still scheduled for…
Manga comics are popular around the globe in a content category that has seen piracy grow significantly in recent years….
Bungie’s pursuit of people behind Destiny 2 cheat operation Elite Boss Tech, is pushing forward and showing no sign of…
A few years ago, the RIAA started targeting YouTube ripping sites by sending relatively rare takedown requests to Google. Instead…
In the face of legislation designed to thwart its growth, seizures, prosecutions, dozens of arrests and countless prison sentences have…
If the best ideas are always the simplest, in 2016 software developer Elias Saba hit the jackpot. Two years after…
Japanese manga comics have always been popular on pirate sites but, where other categories have seen stalled growth, manga piracy…
The use of lawsuits to solve complex commercial disputes suggests that no amount of talking will ever produce the desired…
There’s no denying that the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has been rather successful over the past few years….
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the availability of unlicensed music “remains an issue for the…
Bungie’s relentless pursuit of cheat developers, sellers, and resellers was probably crafted to send a deterrent message. After another judgment…
Nintendo’s N64 console went on sale in Japan in June 1996, selling for ¥25,000 (around US$185). By the end of…
When the global music industry declared YouTube-ripping platforms public enemy number one and responsible for most music piracy online, the…
In the United States, consumer ISPs have been handing over the identities of suspected BitTorrent pirates for years, mostly because…
Over the past several years, a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. Several game…
Tracking BitTorrent pirates isn’t all that hard since IP addresses are broadcasted publicly. With help from Internet providers, these addresses…
The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down. It is…
Upcoming first-person shooter game Dark and Darker is scheduled to launch later this year, but even at this early stage…
Faced with millions of instances of copyright infringement every day, many rightsholders use anti-piracy companies to help stem the tide….
The Pirate Bay has been around for nearly two decades, which is quite an achievement considering the immense legal pressure…
Every day, millions of people from all over the world submit posts, comments, and other content to Reddit. The social…
As Nintendo’s official website for Switch game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom states, “The adventure begins on…
In 2021, a group of Grand Theft Auto enthusiast programmers released ‘re3’ and ‘reVC’, a pair of reverse-engineered modifications for…
With no serious threat of being held to account, the DMCA takedown notice system is seen by some as a…
The European Union recognizes that online piracy poses a serious threat to copyright holders and the public at large. In…
On February 21, 2023, Twitter chief Elon Musk published a tweet suggesting that Twitter’s algorithm would be “made open source”…
There’s something special about professionally produced textbooks. From the information inside to the tactile feel of the paper, textbooks can…
Legal video streaming services such as Amazon, Disney, and Netflix are booming. At the same time, there’s a flourishing dark…
Human beings have a tendency to want things they can’t have. A modest interest in a particular item or activity…
Having developed a highly automated system that attempts to deal with huge and increasing instances of piracy, YouTube has shown…
As Reddit fights to protect the identities of users who simply participated in piracy-related discussions, two new cases filed last…