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Updated: 2023-11-30 14:30:00
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Operation 404: USDOJ, PIPCU, ACE, MPA, IFPI, ESA, EPL & More Target Pirate Sites
Updated: 2023-11-29 07:40:06
The results of the sixth wave of ongoing anti-piracy campaign Operation 404, an international effort featuring USDOJ, PIPCU, ACE, MPA, IFPI, ESA, EPL, and many more, have been revealed. A total of 24 search warrants were executed across Brazil, Argentina, and the United States, 606 sites and apps, including 40 in the UK, were seized, suspended or blocked, with news of arrests still coming in.
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Shopify Files Fresh Lawsuit over DMCA Takedown Harassment
Updated: 2023-11-28 20:56:01
At the peak of the online shopping season, Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify filed a new lawsuit to take a stand against DMCA abuse. The company filed a complaint at a Florida federal court, accusing an Orlando resident of filing dozens of false takedown notices, allegedly to advance their own commercial interests.
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Google Bans ‘Downloader’ Again Following Markscan DMCA Notice
Updated: 2023-11-28 10:01:19
Close to seven years online and after more than 50 million installs, in May 2023 Android app 'Downloader' was removed from Google Play following a baseless copyright complaint. The app was restored three weeks later by which time Downloader had lost almost half its userbase. A few hours ago, Google suspended Downloader again in response to a substantially deficient takedown notice filed by anti-piracy outfit Markscan.
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Court: Cloudflare is Liable for Pirate Site, But Not as a DNS Provider
Updated: 2023-11-27 17:07:50The Cologne Higher Regional Court in Germany has confirmed that Cloudflare's CDN must stop facilitating access to the (defunct) pirate music site DDL-Music. Failing to do so makes the company liable. The company doesn't have to take any measures on its public DNS resolver, however, since the Court ruled that the service operates in a purely passive, automatic and neutral manner.
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Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown
Updated: 2023-11-27 08:15:31A series of arrests that began in late August and continued into last week has sparked concerns that a relatively rare 'Scene' crackdown targeting the top of the so-called 'Piracy Pyramid' may be underway in the Nordic region. A long-running investigation involving Denmark's Special Crime Unit appears to be the common denominator. Coincidentally, several groups have stopped releasing.
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Rightsholders Reported Five Million Unique ‘Pirate’ Domain Names to Google
Updated: 2023-11-26 14:18:49Over the past several years, copyright holders have asked Google to remove URLs from five million unique domains. These include blatant pirate sites such as The Pirate Bay, but also legal streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+. What stands out most is that a tiny fraction of all domains are responsible for the majority of the trouble.
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File-Sharing Giant Uloz.to Bans File-Sharing Citing EU’s Digital Services Act
Updated: 2023-11-24 18:00:04File-sharing and hosting giant Ulož has announced a radical change to its business model. The Czech site has been under fire for some time and was recently branded a 'notorious market' by the MPA. However, Ulož says that an imminent ban on file-sharing in favor of a private, cloud-based storage model, is due to the strict conditions imposed by the EU's Digital Services Act.
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AimJunkies Maintain That Cheating is Legal, Appeals Bungie’s $4.3 Million Arbitration Award
Updated: 2023-11-24 06:05:39
The legal battle between game developer Bungie and cheat seller AimJunkies is taking a detour through the Court of Appeals. In its opening brief, AimJunkies hopes to reverse a multi-million dollar damages award for DMCA violations, arguing that the arbitration process was biased and against the rules.
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Google Asked to Deindex iptv-org, The World’s Largest Free IPTV Repo
Updated: 2023-11-23 14:00:00
The goal of the iptv-org repo on GitHub is to offer an index of IPTV streams already freely available on the web. While the volume ebbs and flows, that generally means a library of 8,000 TV channels or more, available to users in seconds, and totally free. The project has weathered several storms over the years and thanks to Spanish football league, LaLiga, another one is brewing right now.
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ISP Optimum Questions ‘Evidence’ For Billion Dollar Piracy Lawsuit
Updated: 2023-11-22 21:38:29Internet provider Optimum faces a billion-dollar damages claim for allegedly turning a blind eye to pirating subscribers. These allegations are made by several music companies based on evidence provided by tracking company Rightscorp. Optimum is not convinced that the evidence is reliable and accurate; the ISP also questions Rightscorp's business practices.
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€300m Per Year Rightsholder ‘Private Copying’ Payouts Face Scrutiny
Updated: 2023-11-22 15:10:16In 1985, France introduced a levy on blank media, such as cassette tapes and CDs, to compensate rightsholders for copies of their works made for private use. The main source of revenue today is smartphones; a levy of roughly 17 euros per sale means an annual payout to rightsholders of almost €300m. Alongside the streaming explosion and a system unchanged for a decade, one that critics describe as "dysfunctional", the levy now faces renewed scrutiny.
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Cloudflare Blocks Abusive Content on its Ethereum Gateway
Updated: 2023-11-21 21:58:21Cloudflare is a content-neutral Internet infrastructure service. The company aims not to interfere with the traffic of its clients and users but, in some cases, it has to take action. This means responding to DMCA subpoenas and takedown requests for hosted content, for example. In addition, Cloudflare now reports it has blocked access to 'abusive' content on its Ethereum gateway.
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Pirate IPTV: Brit Arrested in Benidorm After Social Media Ads Raised Suspicion
Updated: 2023-11-21 00:54:24A 62-year-old man from the UK has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of receiving over 5,500 payments for pirate IPTV subscriptions totaling £185,000. Police launched an investigation after a broadcaster filed a complaint against social media accounts offering illicit packages containing exclusive sports content.
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Star Trek Fan Blog Triggers New Entry in Automattic’s DMCA “Hall of Shame”
Updated: 2023-11-20 21:13:49For Star Trek fans, 'La Sirena' refers to the Kaplan F17 Speed Freighter that was prominently featured in the 'Picard' series. For people more interested in adult content, 'La Sirena' (69) is associated with a Venezuelan actress. The differences are clear but takedown company DMCA Piracy Prevention has trouble distinguishing between the two, which motivated Tumblr's parent company Automattic to add the outfit to its DMCA "Hall of Shame".
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Hollywood to UK Govt: Investigating Pirates “Increasingly Difficult”
Updated: 2023-11-20 00:53:01The UK government's Culture, Media and Sport Committee is conducting an inquiry into the challenges faced by the film and high-end television industry. Submissions by the Motion Picture Association and member studios praise the UK for its "gold standard" IP framework but then complain that it's becoming “increasingly difficult” to identify pirates using services in the UK.
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 11/27/2023
Updated: 2023-11-11 16:35:32Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Oppenheimer' tops the chart, followed by 'The Creator'. ‘Leo' completes the top three.
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