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
Anti-Piracy Music Piracy Sites Targeted By Europol & Bulgarian Organized Crime Unit In coordination with Europol, the General Directorate Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP), a specialist unit within Bulgaria's Ministry of Interior, says it has shut down a… April 15, 2024, 12:30 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy DMCA Notice Targeting ‘Bypass Paywalls Clean’ Isn’t The Thing to Get Angry About Bypass Paywalls Clean (BPC) allows users to bypass paywalls that exist for the sole purpose of granting access to news in return for payment. According… April 14, 2024, 16:57 by Andy Maxwell
AI-Startup Launches Ever-Expanding Library of Free Stock Photos and Music Generative AI has the potential to rapidly change our lives. It opens the door to massive productivity gains, up to the point where human skills… April 13, 2024, 11:42 by Ernesto Van der Sar