Piracy Scammers Exploited Official EU Website for ‘Piracy’ Scams Scammers exploited a subdomain of the European Food Safety Authority to actively redirect people to piracy scams and other dubious ploys. The pages that promised… February 12, 2025, 15:24 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Piracy Crisis: Cloudflare Says LaLiga Knew Dangers, Blocked IP Address Anyway (Update) Unexplained chaos at ISPs Movistar and DIGI has prevented some customers from accessing many sites using Cloudflare for over a week. Simultaneously, football league LaLiga… February 11, 2025, 22:52 by Andy Maxwell
AI is a Key Technology in Today’s Anti-Piracy Toolbox Last week, several innovative copyright protection tools were discussed at WIPO’s Advisory Committee on Enforcement. One particularly interesting presentation came from the Portuguese company NOS… February 11, 2025, 12:14 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Piracy Device Still Sold By Company that Didn’t Pay $101m Judgment & Can’t Be Sued BeIN, Miramax and MPA-affiliated anti-piracy group AVIA, have called out a Chinese company behind a device that disables anti-piracy codes embedded in video streams. Gotech… February 10, 2025, 20:20 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Feds Seize Pirate Sports Streaming Domains in ‘Super Bowl Crackdown’ US authorities have initiated a new round of domain name seizures, targeting dozens of pirate sports streaming sites. Most likely by design, the enforcement action… February 10, 2025, 14:11 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Gazprom: 23,000 Sites/Telegram Channels Blocked, 770 Lawsuits Won in 2024 Using tools broadly similar to those preferred by its Western counterparts, in 2024, Russia's Gazprom-Media suppressed online piracy by blocking 17,400 websites and 5,700 Telegram… February 9, 2025, 09:25 by Andy Maxwell
Publishing Pirate Site-Blocking Orders is a Good Start, But It’s Not Transparency Recognition of transparency in the FADPA site blocking bill is welcome, but will it become reality? So far, many blocking regimes have lacked transparency. The… February 8, 2025, 16:41 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Rightsholders Target VPN Providers in French Court to Block Piracy In their ongoing battle against online sports piracy, French rightsholders are now seeking to extend site-blocking measures to VPN providers. Canal+ and the football league… February 7, 2025, 12:33 by Ernesto Van der Sar