Site Blocking Fallout Keeps GitHub Unusable for Some Indians
Like many other countries around the world, India’s copyright law allows rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. Major entertainment…
Like many other countries around the world, India’s copyright law allows rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. Major entertainment…
News that Sky had won a new High Court injunction to tackle pirate IPTV services first appeared in the Financial…
Website blocking has become the go-to anti-piracy measure for the entertainment industries when tackling pirate sites on the internet. The…
Authorities and rightsholders in Brazil appear determined to disrupt, restrict, or completely deny access to the illegal TV market enjoyed…
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in…
When Italy passed new law on July 14, authorizing widespread internet blocking and harsher punishments for pirates who supply or…
With millions of monthly users, BitTorrent’s reign at the top of the file-sharing seemed unstoppable in 2007, but the French…
Website blocking has become the go-to anti-piracy measure for the entertainment industries when tackling pirate sites on the internet. The…
This month, the Philippines celebrates its creative industries by dedicating a special month to their work. On top of that,…
When Hollywood sets its sights on something it wants to achieve in the piracy landscape, victory may not come this…
When Italy passed new law on July 14, many believed that when the new Serie A football season began on…
Two years ago, German Internet providers agreed to voluntarily block the most egregeous pirate sites. The ISPs teamed up with…
Following intense pressure from rightsholders for lawmakers to sign off on tough legislation to block pirate IPTV services in Italy,…
Like many other countries around the world, India’s copyright law allows rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. This legal…
It’s hard to say how many times the movie, music, and more recently live sports industries have survived imminent piracy-inflicted…
For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid. This stance…
Two years ago, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal upheld the first pirate site-blocking order in the country. The landmark decision…
ISP blocking injunctions that aim to prevent regular internet users from accessing pirate sites are heavily utilized by the largest…
Over the past few weeks, football organizations and broadcasters around Europe have been obtaining and/or renewing permission to block access…
With momentum building in favor of pirate site blocking measures elsewhere in Europe, Austrian ISPs took their opposition all the…
Last week the Financial Times reported that UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky had obtained a novel blocking injunction at the High…
In common with a growing list of EU Member States, Spain operates an ongoing domain blocking program with the aim…
Founded in the last millennium, CannaPower must be one of the oldest pirate sites still around today. The site currently…
For more than a decade, Sky has found its ISP division named as a respondent in injunction applications filed at…
Unanimously approved by the Chamber of Deputies back in March and then unanimously approved by the Senate earlier this month,…
French football club Paris Saint-Germain holds the record for purchasing the two most expensive players in the world; Neymar for…
In 2021, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal upheld the first pirate site-blocking order in the country. The landmark decision opened…
Millions of passionate Italian football fans, gorging on limitless top-tier matches for the price of a beer each week, was…
Few countries welcomed pirate site blocking measures as they spread across the world over the past 15 years. Australian citizens…
For a country that regularly claims to be at war with the United States, Russian lawmakers appear to have plenty…
For responsible adults with decades of experience from which to draw their own conclusions, the idea that adults we have…
The Ministry of Digital Development, Telecommunications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation is the government body responsible for the…
In the wake of the 30+ year prison sentences handed down to the people behind Flawless IPTV, we’ve been exploring…
With torrent sites dominating the high seas of piracy in 2006, Bulgarian authorities decided to arrest Eliyan Geshev, administrator of…
After well over a decade of pushing back against pirate site blocking applications, many European ISPs now see little value…
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in…
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in…
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium and Brazil; just two letters of the alphabet and that’s already five countries that have implemented…
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…
Last month a bill crafted to crack down on pirate IPTV services was unanimously approved by Italy’s Chamber of Deputies….
Website blocking has become an increasingly common anti-piracy tool. ISPs in dozens of countries have been ordered by courts to…
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in…
When the first pirate site blocking applications began to gather momentum in Europe, those concerned about where it all might…
Italian consumers’ love for pirate IPTV services and the alleged damage suffered by broadcasters and the country’s world-famous clubs at…
In a world where clear and independent reporting struggles to get heard in a sea of sensationalized clickbait, the German…
In recent years, site blocking has emerged as a preferred anti-piracy solution in dozens of countries. These blocking measures are…
In 2021, Sony Music obtained an injunction ordering DNS resolver Quad9 to block the popular pirate site Canna.to. The injunction,…
Over the years, copyright holders have tried a multitude of measures to curb online piracy, with varying levels of success….
When people use search engines to find pirate sites or pirated content, the results they receive today represent a massively…