Movie & TV Giants Say French Pirate Site Audiences Are Continuously Shrinking
ALPA, the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle) has been active in France since the…
ALPA, the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle) has been active in France since the…
Those who stream content illegally online are regularly portrayed as generating huge profits at the expense of legitimate content owners….
For more than a decade, the French government has produced a report detailing the digital content consumption habits of French…
When cassette recorders, VCRs and similar devices hit the mainstream, entertainment companies with business models reliant on customers buying copies…
During the summer of 2017, French law enforcement booked a massive success with the shutdown of T411, a popular semi-private…
With millions of monthly users, BitTorrent’s reign at the top of the file-sharing seemed unstoppable in 2007, but the French…
Following the creation of its Hadopi anti-piracy agency over 13 years ago, France monitored and stored data on millions of…
It’s no secret that French file-hosting platform Uptobox has been in the crosshairs of rightsholders for some time. Founded in…
The World Cup only takes place every four years so when the opportunity to see the world’s best players arrived…
The insidious nature of a developing addiction often takes people by surprise, regardless of the substance involved, but especially when…
When the French government formed a new anti-piracy agency called Hadopi, the mission was to significantly disrupt BitTorrent and similar…
Orders for ISPs to block sites on copyright infringement grounds used to be rare and controversial. Any imposition of ‘internet…
Orders for ISPs to block sites on copyright infringement grounds used to be rare and controversial. Any imposition of ‘internet…
For those who care to remember it, November 2016 was a dark month for communities with a penchant for sharing…
At the start of last year, a French bill went into effect that sanctioned the formation of a new regulatory…
As widely reported for most of this year, French anti-piracy agency ARCOM and numerous rightsholders have been using all available…
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) represents several of the world’s largest movie industry companies. Traditionally its members were restricted to…
At the start of this year, a French bill went into effect that sanctioned the formation of a new regulatory…
After jumping into the hot seat on January 1, 2022, the fledgling Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (ARCOM) has…
For more than a decade the Hadopi agency (High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights…
After more than 15 years of site-blocking processes in dozens of countries, new instructions to block pirate sites have become…
Legal streaming services offering access to top tier football in Europe have a few unique selling points over piracy platforms….
Faced with the impossibility of filing lawsuits against every single site offering content without a license, rightsholders all over the…
At the start of this year, a new bill went into effect in France that created a new regulatory body….
In the early days of file-sharing the demise of a large pirate site or service would mean just that. The…
“I woke up to the sounds of a door breaking down. I got out of bed and saw screaming people…
For many years there have been established processes for removing infringing content and links to infringing content from the internet….
For more than a decade the Hadopi (High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on…