Anti-Piracy Pirate IPTV Users Largely Face No Risk of Arrest, UK’s Top Piracy Cop Concedes Since October 2023, relentless high-profile media reports have warned that UK-based users of pirate streaming services run a serious risk of arrest. Those claims sit… April 23, 2025, 13:05 by Andy Maxwell
Piracy MPA and RIAA Want to be Heard in Crucial DMCA Subpoena Appeal The MPA and RIAA want to have their say in a crucial third-party Ninth Circuit appeal about the use of DMCA subpoenas against alleged online… April 22, 2025, 21:21 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Vercel Slams LaLiga Piracy Blocks as “Unaccountable Internet Censorship” Cloud-based web application platform Vercel is among the latest companies to find their servers blocked in Spain due to LaLiga's ongoing IPTV anti-piracy campaign. In… April 22, 2025, 08:27 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Nintendo Seeks Damages & Broad Injunction Against ‘Pirate’ Game Streamer Nintendo is hoping to wrap up its lawsuit against gamer Jesse Keighin, aka EveryGameGuru, after he failed to answer the complaint. The game giant seeks… April 21, 2025, 12:14 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Research The Piracy Pandemic: COVID-19 Led to a Surge of New Pirates New research published in the Journal of Cultural Economics documents how the COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in "new pirates". Contrary to simple narratives, increased… April 20, 2025, 18:26 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy ACE & MPA Quietly Seized Dozens of Pirate Domains in Q1 2025 Since it's launch in 2017, the Alliance for Entertainment and Creativity has established itself as the most powerful coalition of its type on the planet.… April 19, 2025, 14:38 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Reddit’s Copyright Removals Drop to Multi-Year Low Reddit's latest transparency report reveals a notable reversal in copyright takedown trends. After years of increases, the platform removed just over 550,000 items last year… April 18, 2025, 11:59 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy MPA & ACE Subpoenas Target Dozens of Potential ‘Burner’ Pirate Streaming Sites A new batch of DMCA subpoenas obtained by ACE and the MPA target dozens of pirate streaming sites, some with a few thousand visits per… April 17, 2025, 15:23 by Andy Maxwell