What Remains of Content ID Lawsuit Seems Unlikely to Change YouTube
According to the most recent order in Maria Schneider’s copyright lawsuit against YouTube, the long-running case is still scheduled for…
According to the most recent order in Maria Schneider’s copyright lawsuit against YouTube, the long-running case is still scheduled for…
Despite the growing availability of legal options, online piracy remains rampant. In Japan, manga comics are a particularly popular category….
On January 2, 2015, a new system designed to assist copyright holders and better protect consumers went live in Canada….
Internet provider Cox Communications has been on the sharp end of several piracy lawsuits in recent years. The biggest hit…
After well over a decade of pushing back against pirate site blocking applications, many European ISPs now see little value…
Operating from 2016 until 2018, the Flawless IPTV service copied subscription TV broadcasts from official (and unofficial) sources and then…
Bungie’s pursuit of people behind Destiny 2 cheat operation Elite Boss Tech, is pushing forward and showing no sign of…
At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest YouTube rippers took the unprecedented step of taking…
Similar to any other online platform that deals with user-generated content, Instagram processes copyright complaints on a daily basis. Most…
When the French government formed a new anti-piracy agency called Hadopi, the mission was to significantly disrupt BitTorrent and similar…
Two years ago, Spanish-born movie tycoon Carlos Vasallo sued YouTube at a Florida federal court over various piracy-related claims. The…
The use of lawsuits to solve complex commercial disputes suggests that no amount of talking will ever produce the desired…
Most artists and music labels share their music with the public on YouTube, free of charge. The popular video platform…
Last fall, a Texas federal jury found Grande Communications liable for willful contributory copyright infringement and ordered the ISP to…
After filing a series of lawsuits against cheat developers, cheat sellers, resellers, and even gamers who use cheats, there’s little…
Bungie’s relentless pursuit of cheat developers, sellers, and resellers was probably crafted to send a deterrent message. After another judgment…
Obtaining a proper education can give people a leg up in life, but this privilege does come at a price….
Over the past several years, major videogame companies have taken cheat developers, sellers, and resellers to court in the United…
Two years ago, a group of several film companies including the makers of Hellboy, Rambo V, The HItman’s Bodyguard, and…
Hosting companies, CDN platforms and consumer ISPs face an increasing risk of being held liable for the activities of their…
Offering piracy-related services is a serious offense in the UK for which several vendors have received multi-year prison sentences in…
When the global music industry declared YouTube-ripping platforms public enemy number one and responsible for most music piracy online, the…
Music fans love to share mixtapes and have done so for decades but sharing these ‘tapes’ over the Internet is…
Supported by Hollywood and other content industries, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has been battling online piracy for almost a quarter…
Every day, millions of people from all over the world submit posts, comments, and other content to Reddit. In many…
Over the past several years, a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. Several game…
When a company like Nintendo puts out a press release, the entire world pays attention. This week was no different….
Ever since its launch in 2009, rightsholders have complained that file-hosting platform 1fichier.com fails to take intellectual property rights seriously….
The official stable release of the first person shooter game Dark and Darker is eagerly awaited by hundreds of thousands…
In the fall of 2020, the U.S. Government indicted three members of the infamous Team Xecuter group, the masterminds behind…
Last summer, the US Copyright Claims Board (CCB) officially launched. Through this Copyright Office-hosted venue, rightsholders can try to recoup…
Pirate sites with tens of millions of visits each month are large enough to consider themselves global players yet some…
Rick Falkvinge founded the first Pirate Party on January 1, 2006, and then rallied the masses in Sweden six months…
Over the past two decades, online piracy has proven a massive challenge for the entertainment industries. Copyright holders have tried…
For those who care to remember it, November 2016 was a dark month for communities with a penchant for sharing…
In 2021, a group of Grand Theft Auto enthusiast programmers released ‘re3’ and ‘reVC’, a pair of reverse-engineered modifications for…
The major record labels don’t want the public to download music from YouTube, which is common practice for millions of…
In 2014, David Tardà, Andreu Caritg, and Oriol Solé were hard at work in Spain developing Tviso, a service with…
When the first pirate site blocking applications began to gather momentum in Europe, those concerned about where it all might…
Operators of pirate IPTV services in the United States risk prison sentences and civil copyright infringement lawsuits when things don’t…
More than a decade has passed since Kim Dotcom’s file-storage empire Megaupload collapsed after becoming the prime target in a…
In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating…
After reporting on all things BitTorrent-related for the 13 years leading up to May 2018, TorrentFreak spotted something out of…
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has been at the forefront of the anti-piracy battle since the turn of the millennium. For…
In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating…
Last fall, several of the world’s largest music companies including Warner Bros. and Sony Music prevailed in their lawsuit against…
Over the past two decades, online piracy has proven a massive challenge for the entertainment industries. Some copyright holders have…
Focusing on MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL content, Hehestreams was no ordinary IPTV service. Instead of copied streams, captured from…
Operating a mixtape site is not without risk. By definition, mixes include multiple sound recordings that are often protected by…
Having developed a highly automated system that attempts to deal with huge and increasing instances of piracy, YouTube has shown…