Anti-Piracy Cloudflare ‘Resists’ Piracy Blocks, U.S. Govt. Opposes EU Co-Op Obligations A decision by Canal+ to target public DNS resolvers to reinforce pirate site blocking, ended with a French court ordering Cloudflare and Google to deny… October 23, 2025, 08:31 by Andy Maxwell
Law and Politics Anti-Piracy Groundhog Day: Recycled Arguments Plague USTR’s Notorious Markets Review Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative uses input from copyright holders to update its list of notorious piracy markets. The process… October 22, 2025, 10:36 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits DISH Identifies Lemo/Kemo Pirate IPTV Operators & Sues U.S. Reseller for $27M DISH Network has filed a new $27 million copyright infringement lawsuit, this time identifying the alleged operators of the Lemo and Kemo IPTV services. The… October 21, 2025, 09:49 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy IPTV Pirates May Soon Be Named and Shamed, Italian Minister Says Having established itself as a moving and unpredictable target, it's widely accepted that piracy cannot be defeated using a single tool. Italy's toolbox is one… October 20, 2025, 08:46 by Andy Maxwell
ISP Blocking of No-IP’s Dynamic DNS Enters Week 2 Reports that No-IP's dynamic DNS service had stopped functioning date back more than a week. After blocking the service, Spanish ISPs displayed 'Error 451' and… October 19, 2025, 12:27 by Andy Maxwell
Piracy Manga Pirate Site Operator Fails to Dodge DMCA Subpoena Over Cloudflare Cache Rightsholders can breathe a sigh of relief after a California federal court concluded that Cloudflare can be compelled to comply with DMCA subpoenas. The anonymous… October 18, 2025, 16:50 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Direct Sales & Direct Anti-Piracy Action Underpin Japan’s Plan For Explosive Growth With a mission to dramatically increase overseas sales of anime, manga, video games, and other creative content by 2033, Japan's Entertainment and Creative Industry Strategy… October 17, 2025, 07:55 by Andy Maxwell
Piracy Record Labels Fire Back at Cox in $1B Supreme Court Piracy Case, Cite Termination ‘Hypocrisy’ A group of major record labels has fired back at Cox Communications, asking the Supreme Court to uphold the $1 billion piracy liability verdict. The… October 16, 2025, 13:14 by Ernesto Van der Sar