Anti-Piracy Wrong Logo, No Piracy Proof: French Court Rejects DNS Piracy Blocking Bids French courts continue to expand the scope of sports piracy related DNS blocking, as requested by rightsholders. While perceived as too broad by the targeted… May 15, 2025, 12:07 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy AI-Powered News Piracy Site Blocked By ISPs After Court Sides With Publishers Legal frameworks put in place to protect the audiovisual industries were never likely to exist in a vacuum forever. A coalition of publishers, whose news… May 14, 2025, 08:19 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits “Never Terminate” Policy: Music Labels Slam Grande’s Supreme Court Piracy Appeal Major music companies have fired back at Grande Communications' Supreme Court plea, arguing that the ISP's questions about copyright liability are "utterly divorced from reality".… May 13, 2025, 08:20 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy LaLiga Disregards Vercel’s Piracy Overblocking Outreach, Blocks it Again When anti-piracy enforcement talks went nowhere, LaLiga began blocking Cloudflare IP addresses, regardless of the innocent websites it also rendered inaccessible. Since early February, widespread… May 12, 2025, 11:21 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently Pirate site blocking orders issued against DNS resolvers including OpenDNS, Google, and Cloudflare are stacking up in Europe. Since similar demands may eventually surface in… May 11, 2025, 14:23 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy The Substance: Pre-Release Piracy Made People MORE Eager to Visit the Cinema The major Hollywood studios are unshakeable when it comes to the damage caused by pre-release piracy, let alone when a leaked movie appears online in… May 10, 2025, 14:31 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Pirate IPTV Owner and 7 Associates “Stole TV Signals” From Bell & Rogers A year after avoiding arrest in Canada, alleged pirate IPTV owner Éric Grenier traveled back from Venezuela on Tuesday before appearing at the Trois-Rivières courthouse… May 9, 2025, 09:47 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Fmovies: Operators of World’s Largest Piracy Ring Dodge Prison The saga of Fmovies, once a titan of the pirate streaming world, has taken another intriguing turn. Two Vietnamese operators indicted for their involvement with… May 8, 2025, 12:14 by Ernesto Van der Sar