Lawsuits Man Pleads Guilty to $23m YouTube Content ID Scam A man at the center of a copyright scam that abused YouTube's Content ID system to fraudulently obtain more than $23m to the detriment of… April 23, 2022, 00:46 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy MPA Wants Stricter Online Identity Checks to Catch Pirates The Motion Picture Association (MPA) would like stricter identity checks to become part of a new trade agreement between the U.S. and the Indo-Pacific region.… April 22, 2022, 23:23 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy New Phase of ‘Operation 404’ Targets Pirate IPTV & TV Streaming Sites 'Operation 404', a Brazilian anti-piracy initiative carried out with support from the US and UK, claimed more successes this week. Police executed 13 search and… April 22, 2022, 09:32 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Spanish Pirate Site Operator Gets Two-Year Prison Sentence, Mother Walks Free A Spanish man who operated five pirate sites, offering a wide variety of content, has received a two-year prison sentence from a Madrid court. At… April 21, 2022, 20:27 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits MPA Wins Piracy Battle, US Court Orders PrimeWire to Shut Down Several Hollywood studios and Netflix have prevailed in their battle to shut down pirate streaming site PrimeWire. Despite PrimeWire recently removing all links to pirated… April 21, 2022, 10:53 by Andy Maxwell
Piracy Poses Concern as Netflix Subscribers Drop for the First Time For the first time ever, Netflix has reported a drop in subscriber numbers. The streaming giant lost over 200,000 subscribers during the first quarter of… April 20, 2022, 20:18 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy MPA Signs New Anti-Piracy Deal Committing to “Rolling Site-Blocking Regime” The Motion Picture Association and the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines have committed to developing a piracy monitoring system and "rolling site-blocking regime" to… April 20, 2022, 10:10 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy 85 ‘Pirate’ IPTV Apps Reported as Illegal But Most (If Any) Carry No Content Over the years, software players have been developed to play various media types. VLC, for example, is a content-agnostic tool that can play most media,… April 19, 2022, 20:28 by Andy Maxwell