France Claims it Has Cut Live Sports Piracy By 50% in Six Months
For more than a decade the Hadopi agency (High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights…
For more than a decade the Hadopi agency (High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights…
As pirate site blocking programs expand around the world, Denmark already has more than 15 years of experience in this…
In November, billions of people from all over the world will tune in to watch the FIFA World Cup in…
After more than 15 years of site-blocking processes in dozens of countries, new instructions to block pirate sites have become…
After winning three lawsuits against three pirate streaming sites, earlier this year a coalition of Israel-based media companies obtained an…
Website blocking and cour-ordered domain suspensions are common anti-piracy measures in several parts of the world. India has been at…
Copyright holders are increasingly demanding that ISPs should block access to pirate sites in order to protect their business. This…
In common with many countries in Europe, Austria couldn’t escape pressure from rightsholders to implement site blocking to prevent piracy….
When ‘pirate’ sites are blocked by ISPs, the operators often get creative and find ways to bypass these restrictions. In…
Absorbing knowledge online is essentially free but those who curate that knowledge may have their own plans on where, when,…
Despite taking significant action to reduce all kinds of online piracy, Brazil remains on the United States Trade Representative’s ‘Watch…
Spanish top-tier football league LaLiga is a corporate giant. During the 2020/21 season, LaLiga clubs achieved revenues of almost 3.2…
Faced with the impossibility of filing lawsuits against every single site offering content without a license, rightsholders all over the…
Popular Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company…
Last year, we noticed that Google had delisted several popular pirate sites from its search results in some countries. In…
Pirate site blocking in the UK is now commonplace, with the movie, TV show, music, live sports and publishing industries…
It’s been 16 years since music industry group IFPI pressured Danish ISPs to block Russian music site AllofMP3. In 2022,…
When video and broadcasting companies take on their pirate site competitors it’s only natural that once they have their day…
When United King Film Distribution, DBS Satellite Services, and Hot Communication won copyright lawsuits against three pirate streaming sites in…
Over the past several years, The Football Association Premier League has been working hard to combat the availability of illegal…
Over the years, copyright holders have tried a multitude of measures to curb online piracy, with varying levels of success….
In March, a Dutch court ordered local ISP Delta to block access to the torrent sites 1337x, LimeTorrents, YTS, RARBG,…
This April, United King Film Distribution, DBS Satellite Services, and Hot Communication (all members of Israel-based anti-piracy group Zira) won…
Late April, three copyright lawsuits filed by United King Film Distribution, DBS Satellite Services, and Hot Communication ended in victory…
With illegal streaming of live sporting events still causing headaches for leagues and broadcasters alike, rightsholders continue to demand more…
In dozens of countries around the world, copyright holders have the ability to take legal action to compel ISPs to…
Laws that attempt to deter copyright infringement by punishing pirate site operators exist in most developed countries around the world….
Over the years, copyright holders have tried a multitude of measures to curb online piracy, with varying levels of success….
In terms of drama, excitement, politics and at times pure theater, Sweden’s connection with iconic file-sharing battles is unrivaled, largely…
Earlier this year, producer and cinema investor Moshe Edery fired warning shots across the bows of Mastercard, Visa and American…
For more than a decade, various copyright industry groups have called on Google and other search engines to help contain…
Despite the absence of any similar coordinated scheme in the United States, Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros….
Indonesia has been very active on the anti-piracy front in recent years, with the government ordering Internet providers to block…
Pirate site blocking is a common practice in dozens of countries around the world. In most cases, ISPs are ordered…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than a month. It isn’t going to plan. In parallel…
In 2018, Canada’s Federal Court approved the country’s first pirate site-blocking order. Following a complaint from major media companies Rogers,…
Pirates and rightsholders alike understand that eliminating all piracy is an impossible task but if the last 20+ years of…
After Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it became clear that the conflict would result in devastating loss of…
Earlier this year, we noticed that Google had removed several popular pirate sites from its search results. In the Netherlands,…
Around the world, there is a variety of blocking schemes targeted at pirate sites. Some require ISPs to block access,…
For many years we’ve been reporting on efforts by Russian authorities to restrict access to internet content deemed ‘dangerous’ by…
In the UK it’s possible for copyright holders to obtain High Court injunctions to have pirate sites blocked by major…
The music industry has pushed for site blocking measures around the world, with quite a bit of success. Among the…
Pirate site blockades are the preferred anti-piracy tool for many copyright holders around the world. This is also the case…
By providing a massive library of scientific and academic publications for free, Sci-Hub and Libgen have achieved a somewhat unique…
Pirate site blocking was a novelty ten years ago, but today it’s common practice in many countries. This is also…
Website blocking is without a doubt one of the favorite anti-piracy tools of the entertainment industries. The UK has been…
As illegal IPTV subscriptions maintain their popularity among those looking for a cheap live TV fix, rightsholders from all over…
After well over a decade of rightsholders using the legal system to compel ISPs to block sites on copyright infringement…
For many years there have been established processes for removing infringing content and links to infringing content from the internet….