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Prompted by concerns aired by photographers, French telecoms regulator Arcom sought to evaluate content recognition tools deployed at online content-sharing platforms. Meta's Rights Manager and Pinterest's Claim Portal were of particular...Friday, November 1, 2024 from TorrentFreak
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) continues to play a key role in expanding global site blocking efforts. After helping to establish a voluntary site blocking agreement in the Philippines, the MPA also filed the first complaints under...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from TorrentFreak
In what is believed to be the first case of its type in Japan, three men have been arrested for transcribing movies and then using the material without obtaining permission from rightsholders. Between January 2023 and February 2024, the...Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from TorrentFreak
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment says it has shut down Livehd7, a pirate site network providing free streams of Premier League, Serie A, and LaLiga matches. With over a quarter billion visits in the last 12 months alone,...Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from TorrentFreak
Technology infrastructure companies including Amazon, Google, and Cloudflare, are warning the U.S. Government about the downsides of foreign piracy blocking measures. The coalition argues that anti-piracy initiatives, including those in...Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from TorrentFreak
Japan-based publishing giant Shueisha has asked a court in the United States to issue an order that requires Google, VISA & PayPal to provide information on several pirate site operators. Shueisha's goal is to obtain enough...Monday, October 28, 2024 from TorrentFreak
For two decades, high quality screener rips leaked on pirate sites toward the end of the year. That 'tradition' ended a few years ago. More recently, however, there's been some excitement around a seemingly new type of leak, tagged...Monday, October 28, 2024 from TorrentFreak
Anti-piracy campaign BeStreamWise has been quietly expanding its membership since its launch just over a year ago. Hoping to suppress use of pirate IPTV, mostly in connection with live football, Sky, Premier League, and FACT have been...Sunday, October 27, 2024 from TorrentFreak
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Transformers One' tops the chart, followed by 'Alien: Romulus'. 'Venom: The Last Dance' completes the top three. From: TF , for...Sunday, October 27, 2024 from TorrentFreak
Brazil is considering legislation that would prohibit streaming services from charging additional fees or blocking access for users outside the registered 'household'. Representing major Hollywood studios and streaming giants like...Saturday, October 26, 2024 from TorrentFreak
Early this year, a court in the UK handed Paul Merrell a 12-month prison sentence for reselling pirate IPTV subscriptions. A respected headteacher and family man, with an otherwise clean record, the 42-year-old was hardly the...Friday, October 25, 2024 from TorrentFreak
With almost no legal access to popular Western movies, Russian cinemas have been selling tickets to short local movies to disguise the unlicensed screening of major Hollywood movies shown during the same sitting. Depending on the...Thursday, October 24, 2024 from TorrentFreak
A copyright lawsuit between popular adult site nHentai and the Californian company PCR Distributing has taken an interesting turn. Nhentai requested a protective order, in which it argues that PCR granted written permission to use its...Thursday, October 24, 2024 from TorrentFreak
Authorities in New Zealand recently confirmed that Kim Dotcom will be extradited to the United States to face a criminal prosecution in connection with Megaupload, the file-hosting site he founded. In the United States, the 500 companies...Wednesday, October 23, 2024 from TorrentFreak
Cox Communications is fighting a writ of certiorari filed by several record labels at the U.S. Supreme Court. The music companies argue that ISPs can be held vicariously liable for pirating subscribers, even when they don't directly...Tuesday, October 22, 2024 from TorrentFreak
Seattle Seahawks cornerback Tariq Woolen, who reportedly earns over $1 million a year, used pirate streaming site MethStreams to watch his own team play. This revelation came from Woolen's Instagram story, where he shared an image...Tuesday, October 22, 2024 from TorrentFreak
After Italy's Piracy Shield system blocked Google Drive last weekend, telecoms regulator AGCOM says that if Google had fully collaborated in the fight against piracy, the disruption could've been easily avoided. Meanwhile, an expert has...Monday, October 21, 2024 from TorrentFreak
Polish streaming service CDA has once again been accused of being a notorious piracy market by the Motion Picture Association (MPA). CDA sent a rebuttal to the US government, dismissing the claims as false and misleading. In addition,...Sunday, October 20, 2024 from TorrentFreak
After blocking Cloudflare to prevent IPTV piracy just a few months ago, on Saturday the rightsholders behind Piracy Shield ordered Italy's ISPs to block Google Drive. The subsequent nationwide blackout, affecting millions of Italians,...