Harry Potter Publisher Goes on a Bizarre Anti-Piracy Rampage The publishing platform responsible for marketing J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series has gone on a bizarre anti-piracy rampage. Pottermore and its anti-piracy partners told Google… April 14, 2016, 20:50 by Andy Maxwell
Paramount: We Own The Klingon Language The ongoing lawsuit between Paramount Pictures, CBS Studios and the crowdfunded Star Trek spin-off "Prelude to Axanar" is raising some interesting copyright questions. The spin-off… April 14, 2016, 10:49 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Firm Wants ISPs to Pay for Pirating Subscribers Piracy monetization firm CEG TEK is recommending that the U.S. Copyright Office should hold ISPs responsible for pirating subscribers. Among other things, the company proposes… April 13, 2016, 20:41 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy Fails to Prevent Another Box Office Record Piracy is not killing the movie business. According to the MPAA's Theatrical Market Statistics report the industry has just turned in a record year, with… April 13, 2016, 11:07 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy RIAA Says YouTube is Running a DMCA Protection Racket In the latest broadside in the content takedown debate, RIAA chief Cary Sherman has suggested that Google-owned YouTube is short-changing the labels by operating a… April 12, 2016, 19:41 by Andy Maxwell
MovieSwap Cancels DVD Cloud Streaming Service A service which planned to receive millions of DVDs from its members, rip them, and serve them remotely from the cloud to any device, has… April 12, 2016, 16:00 by Andy Maxwell
Chrome, Firefox and Safari Block KickassTorrents as “Phishing” Site Chrome and Firefox are actively blocking direct access to the popular torrent site KickassTorrents. According to the browsers, Kat.cr is a "deceptive site" or "web… April 12, 2016, 10:10 by Ernesto Van der Sar
U.S. ISPs Refuse to Disconnect Persistent Pirates The U.S. broadband association USTelecom, a trade association representing many ISPs, is taking a stand against abusive takedown notices and a recent push to terminate… April 11, 2016, 18:30 by Ernesto Van der Sar