Piracy Police Confirm FBI-Assisted Takedown of Piracy Release Group EVO Portugal's Polícia Judiciária and cybercrime unit UNC3T have confirmed responsibility for the arrest of the alleged leader of piracy release group EVO. The enforcement action… April 5, 2023, 18:50 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Take-Two Dismisses Claims Against Lead Defendants in GTA Mods Lawsuit In 2021, Take-Two Interactive sued several people said to be behind the popular re3 and reVC Grand Theft Auto fan projects. Four key named defendants… April 5, 2023, 10:15 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Music Labels Win Legal Battle Against Youtube-dl’s Hosting Provider A German court has ordered hosting provider Uberspace to take the website of the open-source youtube-dl software offline. The ruling is the result of a… April 4, 2023, 15:58 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits ‘Pirate’ Site Admins Arrested in 2015, Now Acquitted For a Second Time In 2015, the operators of 'pirate' download site Series.ly were arrested in Spain following copyright infringement complaints from rightsholders in the U.S. After a court… April 4, 2023, 09:32 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Cloudflare DNS Must Block Pirate Sites, Italian Court Confirms Cloudflare's latest appeal against a DNS-blocking injunction has been rejected. The Court of Milan found that since Cloudflare already blocks other content, restricting access to… April 3, 2023, 18:24 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Free Google Play Alternative MicroG Framed in Bogus ‘Vanced’ DMCA Notices MicroG is a free-as-in-freedom alternative to proprietary Google services, including the Play Store. Vanced, a popular app that provided an ad-free YouTube experience, relied on… April 3, 2023, 08:32 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Rightsholders Flag Official EU Website for Copyright Infringements Copyright holders have sent hundreds of DMCA notices flagging alleged copyright infringements on Europa.eu, the official website of the European Commission. The EU seems unable… April 2, 2023, 20:55 by Ernesto Van der Sar
PrimeWire Won’t Die or Stop Pirating, $21.7m Judgment Be Damned For more than a decade, pirate streaming site PrimeWire took every anti-piracy measure Hollywood could muster and simply carried on. Having seen enough, in 2021… April 1, 2023, 14:10 by Andy Maxwell