Anti-Piracy RipRequests Dead After RIAA ‘Hand Delivers’ Piracy Cease-and-Desist Last month, RipRequests, a popular Discord server specializing in music piracy, went down after receiving a complaint relating to an early leak of Adele's album… December 20, 2021, 11:48 by Andy Maxwell
Fakku Sends DMCA Takedown Request Targeting TorrentFreak Fakku is one of the few companies that succesfully transformed a 'pirate' operation into a legitimate business. After this transformation, the 'hentai' publisher started to… December 19, 2021, 21:22 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy Malaysia Passes Bill to Imprison Illegal Streaming Pirates For Up To 20 Years Malaysia's House of Representatives has passed amendments to copyright law that will boost the country's deterrent against those who facilitate access to pirate content via… December 18, 2021, 23:07 by Andy Maxwell
Sci-Hub Founder: Academic Publishers Are the Real Threat to Science, Not Sci-Hub Elsevier and other academic publishers see 'pirate' site Sci-Hub as a major threat to science and their own multi-billion-dollar industry. Through a lawsuit in India,… December 18, 2021, 10:29 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Twitch Users Can Now ‘Stream’ Movies & TV Shows Without Fear of DMCA Strikes Streaming copyright protected content on UGC platforms without permission can be a recipe for disaster. Certainly, popular music and movies present a serious risk of… December 17, 2021, 11:34 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits YouTube Urges Court to Dismiss Chaotic Class Action Copyright Lawsuit In the summer of 2020, musician Maria Schneider filed a class action lawsuit against YouTube demanding access to takedown tools and claiming that the service… December 16, 2021, 20:36 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy This Year’s ‘Anti-Piracy Award’ Goes to the EU Intellectual Property Office The Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance has announced the winner of its annual "Anti-Piracy Award." The honors go to a team at the European Observatory on Infringements… December 16, 2021, 12:58 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Reddit Bans ‘No Way Home Leaks’ For Excessive Copyright Complaints Reddit's patience with a subreddit dedicated to leaks and spoilers relating to the expected blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home has been stretched to breaking point.… December 15, 2021, 21:30 by Andy Maxwell