Uptobox Goes Dark Following Police Raids on Two French Datacenters
It’s no secret that French file-hosting platform Uptobox has been in the crosshairs of rightsholders for some time. Founded in…
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…