Pirates Who Lost $90m IPTV Lawsuit Sued Again For Launching More Services
Troubles are mounting for the former operators of SetTV, a pirate IPTV service that was previously ordered to pay $90 million in damages to DISH Networks. After being accused of launching more pirate services in breach of an injunction in that matter.....»»
LimeWire Founder “Not Thrilled” That ‘Strangers’ Exploit the Brand for NFT Marketplace
The LimeWire name brings back many memories for many early adopters of P2P file-sharing. The popular application shut down well over a decade ago but according to many mainstream news outlets, it's making a comeback as an NFT marketplace. In reality,.....»»
PrimeWire Removes Pirate Movies & TV Shows To Frustrate Court Injunctions
After being sued by a coalition of major Hollywood studios and Netflix, pirate streaming giant PrimeWire has moved to yet another new domain. According to its operators, the action was taken to counter domain seizures. In an additional twist, all lin.....»»
Court Overturns ‘Pirate’ IPTV Prison Sentences Due to Unenforceable Copyrights
The Patent and Market Court of Appeal has overturned the prison sentences of three men who were criminally prosecuted for their involvement with IPTV service ATN. The Swedish court ruled that, while the service broadcasted copyrighted content from be.....»»
Major Streaming Piracy Sites Have Their Domain Names Suspended
Two of the largest movie and TV streaming piracy sites have had their domain names suspended over the past few days. The targets include Lookmovie and Cuevana3, both of which have millions of regular visitors. The suspensions, issued by the .io domai.....»»
YouTube Vanced App Forced to Shut Down ‘For Legal Reasons’
YouTube Vanced is an extremely popular Android app that improves the standard YouTube experience with new features including ad-blocking and background play. Unfortunately, however, the software has come to the end of the road. The developer team say.....»»
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 03/14/2022
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' tops the chart, followed by ‘The Adam Project'. 'Blacklight' completes the top three. From: TF, for the latest news.....»»
Torguard Settles Piracy Lawsuit and Agrees to Block Torrent Traffic on U.S. Servers
TorGuard has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by several movie companies last year. The VPN provider stood accused of failing to take action against subscribers who were pirating films. As part of the settlement, TorGuard agrees to bloc.....»»
ACE & MPA Target Dozens of Streaming Pirates, Some With a Subtle New ‘Trick’
With a fresh batch of DMCA subpoena applications filed in the US, the MPA and ACE want Cloudflare to hand over the personal details of dozens more pirate streaming site operators. One application is of particular interest since it contains what appea.....»»
‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Blu-Ray Leaks Early on Pirate Sites
A high-quality Blu-ray copy of 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' has leaked online, weeks before the official physical release. The pirate copy comes courtesy of EVO, the same group that previously leaked many other prominent titles. While the Blu-ray source.....»»
Anonymous Hacks Russia’s Roscomnadzor Site-Blocking Agency
A hacker claiming affiliation with the decentralized international hacktivist collective Anonymous claims to have breached and leaked the database of Russian telecoms and censorship agency Roscomnadzor. The 820GB trove reportedly contains over 360,00.....»»
ACE Says It ‘Shut Down’ Two Pirate Sites But That’s Not Quite The Full Story
This week the piracy investigation unit of the MPA revealed that in 2019, 1,400 pirate sites existed in North America but by 2021, that number had reduced to 238. "We will find you and shut down your servers," pirates were warned. Soon after, the All.....»»
EUFA Wants Ukraine to Increase Anti-Piracy Protection, After The War
European football federation UEFA wants Ukraine to offer effective protections against live streaming piracy. Ideally, pirated streams should be taken offline within 105 minutes, before "the damage is fully inflicted." The comments were made while ma.....»»
Court: iTunes DRM Removal is Irrelevant for Piracy Liability Lawsuit
Over a decade ago the major record labels agreed to remove DRM from music on Apple's iTunes Store. ISP RCN believes that this move may have increased piracy and wants to know who was involved in this decision, to aid its defense in an ongoing piracy.....»»
VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion
Russia's determination to control the minds of its citizens is proceeding full force. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor has forced Google to delist tens of thousands of new URLs that link to VPN resources providin.....»»
Pirate IPTV ‘Nitro TV’ Fails to Pay Own Lawyer, ACE & MPA Move In For The Kill
The ruination of those behind pirate IPTV service Nitro TV now seems almost inevitable. A lawsuit filed by DISH Network could result in a $100m judgment and in another, filed by members of the Alliance for Creativity, the only defendant to appear has.....»»
Youtube-dl’s Hosting Provider Fights Record Labels’ Lawsuit
Hosting provider Uberspace has asked a German court to dismiss the copyright infringement lawsuit Sony, Warner and Universal filed a few weeks ago. The case revolves around the open-source youtube-dl software for which Uberspace hosts the website; no.....»»
Netflix Continues to Expand its Global Anti-Piracy Team
Netflix wants to expand its global anti-piracy team. To keep up with growth, the streaming giant has created a new position that brings together many facets of the company's content protection work under one lead. Among other things, the ideal candid.....»»
Russia Will Probably Legalize Some Software Piracy to Mitigate Sanctions
With no signs that Vladimir Putin intends to stop his military campaign against Ukraine, there are hopes that sanctions will press the Russian president to stop the killing. However, Russia has plans to live under sanctions if necessary, which may in.....»»
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 03/07/2022
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Blacklight' tops the chart, followed by ‘The King's Man'. 'Scream' completes the top three. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battl.....»»