Anti-Piracy Canada’s First Pirate Site Blocking Order Quietly Expires The first pirate site blocking order in Canada was 'discontinued' this week. The plaintiffs, including rightsholders Bell and Rogers, won't request an extension of the… December 14, 2024, 15:21 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Cox to Appeals Court: DMCA Subpoenas Don’t Apply to Us, Period In a recent filing at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, ISP Cox maintains that DMCA subpoenas don't apply to Internet providers. Several movie studios… December 13, 2024, 13:34 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits French Piracy Blocking Order Goes Global, DNS Service Quad9 Vows to Fight In an ongoing escalation of its fight against online sports piracy, media giant Canal+ secured court orders compelling DNS providers Quad9 and Vercara to block… December 12, 2024, 13:31 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Piracy Shield Blacks Out Tech News Site by Blocking Another CDN IP Italy's Piracy Shield IPTV blocking system is back in the news today after yet another completely avoidable blocking blunder. On Monday night, yet another CDN… December 11, 2024, 08:52 by Andy Maxwell
TorrentGalaxy’s Troubles Silence Popular Upload Bots (Update) Trouble continues for the popular torrent site TorrentGalaxy. After several technical issues last week, the site has become unreachable. At the same time, the related… December 10, 2024, 21:12 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Musi Decries Apple’s App Store Removal: A “Backroom Scheme” with Music Industry (Update) Music streaming app Musi claims Apple removed its app from the App Store after "backroom conversations" with key music industry players. The app developer alleges… December 10, 2024, 13:22 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Bogus Complaint Disables Itch.io, Google Ignored Same Sender For Years Indie videgame portal Itch.io is effectively offine today after a brand protection company reported the platform for "fraud/phishing" for what was a problem easily solved… December 9, 2024, 20:15 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Cloudflare Blocks Pirate Site URLs “For Legal Reasons” Cloudflare is actively disabling access to some pirate site URLs on its network, informing visitors that the requested pages are unavailable for legal reasons. While… December 9, 2024, 15:06 by Ernesto Van der Sar