Police Website Offers Pirated Live Sports Streams as IPTV FOIA Requests Denied
For the past few years, regional police forces in the UK have shown a growing interest in cracking down on…
For the past few years, regional police forces in the UK have shown a growing interest in cracking down on…
Perhaps more than any other broadcaster, beIN Sports understands the potential for piracy to spin out of control. When a…
Despite MPA/ACE having enough investigators to field both teams in a football match, while players argue with an in-house referee…
The exact nature of ‘Partners Against Piracy’ (PAP) can be a little disorientating at times. In March 2020, the Kenya…
Those who stream content illegally online are regularly portrayed as generating huge profits at the expense of legitimate content owners….
Early December the English Premier League announced a new broadcasting rights deal worth a staggering £6.7 billion (US$8.5 billion). Running…
For more than a decade, the French government has produced a report detailing the digital content consumption habits of French…
A study published in September by the European Union Intellectual Property Office found that by late 2022, each internet user…
Authorities and rightsholders in Brazil appear determined to disrupt, restrict, or completely deny access to the illegal TV market enjoyed…
Accurately predicting how, when and where the next wave of pirate sites will emerge to become the next big threat…
When Hollywood sets its sights on something it wants to achieve in the piracy landscape, victory may not come this…
The recent release of The Pirates vs The Premier League podcast series was a great opportunity to hear fresh voices…
For a country that regularly claims to be at war with the United States, Russian lawmakers appear to have plenty…
Many pirate sites have attracted large volumes of traffic over the years but a relatively new breed of streaming portals…
The World Cup only takes place every four years so when the opportunity to see the world’s best players arrived…
With pirate IPTV services first seeping and then exploding into the mainstream around 2016/17, the launch of streaming service DAZN…
Pirate IPTV providers and streaming websites offering discounted or even free access to live sports broadcasts are controversial worldwide. Rightsholders…
In mid-January, the European Commission (EC) issued a call for evidence to support a proposed “toolbox” of measures to combat…
Major Hollywood studios Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner, plus relative newcomer Netflix, are all members of the Motion Picture…
Brazil’s crackdown against pirate sites, IPTV services, infringing apps, and other mechanisms delivering illegal content to the masses, continues to…
In the wake of the music industry’s destruction of Napster, hopes of a file-sharing vacuum were overwhelmed by a laundry…
Mid-February, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) announced that MyCima, one of the largest pirate streaming sites in the…
In an effort to make ends meet, many people in the UK are cutting back on luxuries. Fewer nights out…
The UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office has published a new edition of its Online Copyright Infringement Tracker study. The annual…
Numerous reports published by the European Union over the past decade have linked higher levels of content piracy with lacking…
Member states of the European Union must allow rightsholders to protect their rights. Enforcement measures are of “paramount importance” according…
When several major studios filed a copyright lawsuit against PrimeWire last year, it shouldn’t have come as much of a…
In a country where more than 770 burglaries go unsolved every day, it’s no surprise that some people consider free…
Another week and yet another announcement from the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment revealing the demise of even more pirate…
After jumping into the hot seat on January 1, 2022, the fledgling Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (ARCOM) has…
Rightsholders involved in the creation and distribution of live events say they are being undermined by massive online piracy. Illegal…
For almost a year we’ve documented Hollywood’s legal battle to permanently shut down movie and TV show streaming site, PrimeWire….
Ten years ago the High Court in London ordered all major ISPs in the country to block The Pirate Bay….
After years of trying to contain the meteoric rise of illegal streaming sites and pirate IPTV services, rightsholders in Europe…
For more than a decade the Hadopi agency (High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights…
With thousands of piracy sites operating online today, the overall chances of being targeted by the Alliance for Creativity and…
In April 2022, several Hollywood studios and Netflix won an injunction to shut down PrimeWire, a long-standing illegal streaming site…
In the content protection arena, the term ‘whac-a-mole’ is known all too well. When pirates or their links appear in…
Over the past several years, The Football Association Premier League has been working hard to combat the availability of illegal…
Over a period of more than 10 years, companies run by businessman Steven King found ways to utilize copyrighted content…
When torrent sites, streaming portals and IPTV services suddenly disappear or find themselves fighting a lawsuit, it’s common for users…
For the past three years, authorities in Brazil have displayed new momentum in the battle against all types of pirate…
Last December, Paramount, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Disney and Netflix sued PrimeWire, one of the most recognizable pirate streaming sites of…
While all kinds of measures are promoted as the best way to deal with pirate streaming sites and unlicensed IPTV…
On September 11, 2018, following an investigation and referral by the Federation Against Copyright Theft, two people were arrested in…
In December 2021, Paramount, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Disney and Netflix sued PrimeWire, one of the most recognizable pirate streaming sites…
Last month the European Parliament voted on the final text of the Digital Services Act and it was approved by…
An interesting lawsuit filed in a Texas court during the summer last year saw DISH Network and Sling TV partner…
There are lots of pieces of information that can help anti-piracy groups form a strategy to deal with an infringing…
In December 2016 and after substantial work to amend the law, an Australian court ordered the blocking of several pirate…