Operation 404: USDOJ, PIPCU, ACE, MPA, IFPI, ESA, EPL & More Target Pirate Sites
Over the past four years, anti-piracy campaign Operation 404 has become a permanent fixture in the enforcement calendar with the…
Over the past four years, anti-piracy campaign Operation 404 has become a permanent fixture in the enforcement calendar with the…
During the summer the UK government announced a new inquiry to investigate what needs to be done to “maintain and…
In the unlikely event people haven’t noticed, the internet isn’t what it used to be. In so many ways it…
Website blocking has become the go-to anti-piracy measure for the entertainment industries when tackling pirate sites on the internet. The…
With more than a billion impressions per month and over 30,000 active advertisers, PropellerAds is a serious player in the…
For those trying to avoid identification by anti-piracy groups with considerable but nevertheless finite resources, staying out of reach is…
Early October the Motion Picture Association (MPA) submitted its latest overview of ‘notorious’ piracy platforms to the US Trade Representative….
Piracy release group EVO was long considered one of Hollywood’s main targets, publishing thousands of movie and TV show titles…
Over the past two decades, online piracy has proven a massive challenge for the entertainment industries. It’s a global issue…
When Hollywood sets its sights on something it wants to achieve in the piracy landscape, victory may not come this…
There’s no denying the many victories of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) over the past few years. The…
Many pirate sites have attracted large volumes of traffic over the years but a relatively new breed of streaming portals…
Legal video streaming services such as Amazon, Disney, and Netflix are booming. At the same time, there’s a flourishing dark…
While some anti-piracy groups focus on taking content down, others prefer to take entire sites down. The benefits of the…
It’s not unusual for piracy groups to have dozens of domains in storage for when things go wrong, but none…
Major Hollywood studios Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner, plus relative newcomer Netflix, are all members of the Motion Picture…
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…
Legal video streaming services such as Amazon, Disney, and Netflix are booming. At the same time, there’s a flourishing dark…
Mid-February, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) announced that MyCima, one of the largest pirate streaming sites in the…
During international holidays, news in a tight niche like ours can completely dry up, so when an exciting headline suddenly…
For people who enjoy movies and TV shows but prefer not to hand over a monthly subscription, Pluto TV is…
When Extreme Download (Extreme-Down.com) first appeared on the internet around 15 years ago, it linked to movies hosted on sites…
The MPA and strongly-affiliated Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment are the sworn enemies of illegal streaming sites, IPTV services, and…
Tomás Escobar is the CEO of Acámica, the Argentina-based tech education company he co-founded a decade ago. Escobar studied Computer…
After reporting on the activities of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) for more than five years, it’s clear…
A quote attributed to former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill suggests that democracy is actually the worst form of government…
When users of popular IPTV provider SmoothStreams.tv began reporting issues with the service mid-July, few could’ve predicted events to follow….
When several major studios filed a copyright lawsuit against PrimeWire last year, it shouldn’t have come as much of a…
In April 2020, Columbia Pictures, Amazon Content Services, Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, plus three companies owned by…
Whenever it’s mentioned and no matter where in the world, the word Hollywood conjures up images of glamor, untold riches,…
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) represents several of the world’s largest movie industry companies. Traditionally its members were restricted to…
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….
Over the years, copyright holders have tried a multitude of measures to curb online piracy, with varying levels of success….
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has been a key player in the anti-piracy fight for decades and this position has…
With thousands of piracy sites operating online today, the overall chances of being targeted by the Alliance for Creativity and…
In August 2021, US broadcaster DISH Network, Sling and NagraStar sued pirate IPTV service Nitro TV. The case focused on…
In April 2022, several Hollywood studios and Netflix won an injunction to shut down PrimeWire, a long-standing illegal streaming site…
Pirate IPTV services disappear on a regular basis but when SmoothStreams.tv ran into trouble mid-July, there were ominous signs that…
There are many options for those seeking a cheap pirate IPTV package but it’s rare for any single provider to…
In the content protection arena, the term ‘whac-a-mole’ is known all too well. When pirates or their links appear in…
In response to a call for evidence from the House of Lords Committee on the Fraud Act 2006 and Digital…
In the summer of 2017, a large coalition of major entertainment industry companies announced a new phase in the war…
In August 2021, US broadcaster DISH Network plus Sling and NagraStar sued pirate IPTV service Nitro TV. According to the…
When torrent sites, streaming portals and IPTV services suddenly disappear or find themselves fighting a lawsuit, it’s common for users…
In terms of drama, excitement, politics and at times pure theater, Sweden’s connection with iconic file-sharing battles is unrivaled, largely…
Online anonymity is a great good for many poeple but increasingly there are calls for stricter identity checks. Such requirements…
Last December, Paramount, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Disney and Netflix sued PrimeWire, one of the most recognizable pirate streaming sites of…
Despite the absence of any similar coordinated scheme in the United States, Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros….