Anti-Piracy Russia Piracy Takedowns Up By 100%, “Western Rightsholders to Blame” Russian telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor is reporting a huge increase in the amount of infringing content it either blocked or deleted in 2023. The finger of… January 20, 2024, 12:43 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy ACE Shuts Down Popular Pirate Sites, 27+ ‘Instant Pirate Sites’ Fall Over The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, in partnership with TrueVisions, Thailand’s leading pay-tv provider, announced the shutdown of all domains associated with two popular pirate… January 19, 2024, 19:55 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Vietnam’s Pirate Site Blocklist Quietly Adds Torrent Sites Vietnam has become a focal point in the international battle against online piracy. Rightsholders have repeatedly spurred on the government to take action and while… January 19, 2024, 11:37 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Sky’s Industrial-Scale Pirate IPTV Blocking Becomes a War of Attrition Last summer, Sky TV obtained a somewhat mysterious pirate IPTV blocking injunction at the High Court in London. In the months up to November 2023,… January 18, 2024, 23:12 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Publishers Target Z-Library Domains With Millions of DMCA Takedowns Little over a year ago, the U.S. Government attempted to shut down Z-Library. Two suspects were arrested and both risk lengthy prison sentences. While that… January 18, 2024, 11:28 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Copyright Parody Exception Denied Due to Defendant’s Discriminatory Use A former city councillor who used footage from a news report, presented in a foreign language and edited in subtitles with entirely different messaging, has… January 17, 2024, 20:28 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Nigerian Police Bust Pirate Site Operators After Actress Suffers Panic Attacks The Criminal Investigations Department of Nigeria's police has arrested five suspects in one of the largest online piracy actions ever carried out in the country.… January 17, 2024, 13:37 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy JW Player Suffers Severe Traffic Loss After Dynamic Piracy Blocking Blunder A piracy blocking injunction handed down by an Indian court last September appears to have cost video delivery service JW Player over half of its… January 16, 2024, 20:57 by Andy Maxwell