Anti-Piracy Mobdro: Luminati Proxy Service “Suspended Service” To Pirate App Last week law enforcement agencies in Europe shut down Mobdro, now described as the world's largest pirate IPTV app. At least in part, Mobdro raised… March 15, 2021, 20:37 by Andy Maxwell 4
Anti-Piracy Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS Adobe regularly sends takedown notices targeting pirated copies of its flagship software products but the company doesn't limit itself to newer releases. F-Secure researcher Mikko… March 15, 2021, 14:26 by Ernesto Van der Sar 20
Lawsuits Texas Man Ordered to Pay $1.6 Million Damages for Selling Pirate Boxes on Facebook A federal court in Texas has granted a default judgment against a local resident who sold pirate streaming boxes through Facebook. The man, who was… March 14, 2021, 22:12 by Ernesto Van der Sar 3
Anti-Piracy The Dissident: Uploaded to Torrent Sites For Exposure, Delisted Via DMCA The incredible story behind the alleged state-sponsored killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is told by director Bryan Fogel in his new movie 'The Dissident'. Unusually,… March 14, 2021, 10:47 by Andy Maxwell 2
Anti-Piracy RIAA Takedown Notices Target Spotify, Deezer, and Apple Music The RIAA is known to use DMCA notices to remove pirated content from the Internet. These takedown requests are generally aimed at pirate sites and… March 13, 2021, 23:06 by Ernesto Van der Sar 5
Lawsuits Men Ordered to Pay 7 MIllion Euros in Damages For Illegal Sports Streaming Five men who administered a ring of 20 pirate sports streaming sites were found guilty of intellectual property offenses by a court in France last… March 13, 2021, 12:59 by Andy Maxwell 0
Law and Politics GitHub Wants to Get Rid Of the DMCA’s Anti-Circumvention FUD GitHub is urging the US Copyright Office to expand the DMCA anti-circumvention exemptions to eliminate FUD. The developer platform backs a proposal from Professor Halderman… March 12, 2021, 19:54 by Ernesto Van der Sar 0
Anti-Piracy ZLibrary Domains Were ‘Temporarily’ Suspended Over Copyright Infringement Claims A few days ago, several domains of the popular ebook repository ZLibrary became inaccessible. The 'suspensions' were handed down by the site's Chinese registrar, following… March 12, 2021, 11:56 by Ernesto Van der Sar 7