Lawsuits Operator of ‘Bitcoin Invested’ Pirate Site Movie2K Charged After More Than a Decade More than a decade ago, Movie2K was one of the largest pirate sites on the Internet. Serving a German audience, the streaming portal shut down… yesterday, 11:49 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Ex-Mangamura Owner Must Pay $11m to Publishers; He Says He Won’t A court in Japan has ordered the former operator of pirate site Mangamura to pay 1.7 billion yen ($11m) in damages to manga publishers Shogakukan,… April 18, 2024, 19:18 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Uptobox Was Shut Down in 2023; A Court Will Decide Whether to Resurrect It Downtime at file-hosting platform Uptobox last September was initially described as a serious technical problem. It soon became apparent that several major Hollywood studios, StudioCanal,… April 18, 2024, 08:02 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Despite 155 Piracy Incidents in Cinemas, Pirates Suffer Worst Year Since 2012 With shorter theatrical windows, access to legal streaming services, and a preference for consuming movies in higher quality, copies of films recorded in theaters are… April 17, 2024, 21:07 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Reddit Reports Surge in Copyright-Related User Bans Reddit's latest transparency report reveals that user bans for repeat copyright infringement skyrocketed in the last half of 2023. The company attributes the 258% increase… April 17, 2024, 11:32 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Manga Publishers Grill YouTube & TikTok on Piracy and Content ID Restrictions During a recent copyright meeting at Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, representatives from Google (YouTube) and ByteDance (TikTok) were asked to… April 16, 2024, 19:04 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Key Defendant in Anna’s Archive Lawsuit Denies Any Involvement With the Site American nonprofit OCLC sued Anna's Archive in February for allegedly hacking its WorldCat database and posting the records online. The only named defendant, a software… April 16, 2024, 11:39 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy Pirate Site FMovies Rivals Major Streaming Platforms in U.S. Web Traffic Every month, many millions of Americans visit pirate streaming site FMovies to bypass paid subscription services and watch movies and TV series for free. The… April 15, 2024, 21:50 by Ernesto Van der Sar