Stats Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 01/18/2021 Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'News Of The World' tops the… January 18, 2021, 00:30 by Ernesto Van der Sar 79
Piracy How the MP3, Pirates and Apple Changed The Music Industry When German engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg first released the MP3 format in the early 90s, it started a chain of events that disrupted the music industry.… January 17, 2021, 21:14 by Ernesto Van der Sar 1
Anti-Piracy TikTok Using DMCA to Take Down Reverse-Engineered Source Code Video social networking service Tiktok is using the DMCA to prevent the spread of source code related to the Android variant of its software. The… January 17, 2021, 14:43 by Andy Maxwell 13
Lawsuits Supreme Court Denies Petition from YouTube Rippers ‘FLVTO’ and ‘2Conv’ The US Supreme Court has denied the petition of YouTube rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com over personal jurisdiction questions. The sites' Russian operator Tofig Kurbanov is… January 16, 2021, 23:24 by Ernesto Van der Sar 6
Piracy Yandex & Mail.ru Reported For Abusing Dominant Positions To Facilitate Piracy An anti-piracy group representing publishers in Russia has reported Internet giants Yandex and Mail.ru to the Eurasion Economic Commission for allegedly abusing their dominant market… January 16, 2021, 14:10 by Andy Maxwell 6
Lawsuits RIAA Defeats False DMCA Takedown Notice Claims in Court Popular mixtape platform Spinrilla has failed in its legal quest to hold the RIAA liable for willingly sending inaccurate takedown notices after a federal court… January 16, 2021, 00:47 by Ernesto Van der Sar 10
Anti-Piracy YouTube-DL Fallout: Google Rejects RIAA MP3 Ripper Takedown Notices There has been an interesting development in the way that Google handles DMCA anti-circumvention notices sent by the RIAA. These have been used dozens of… January 15, 2021, 10:57 by Andy Maxwell 7
Lawsuits Member of SPARKS Scene Piracy Group Pleads Guilty One of the key members of Scene piracy group SPARKS has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. The US Government signed a plea… January 14, 2021, 22:54 by Ernesto Van der Sar 7