Anti-Piracy RIAA Takes Down Popular Music Piracy Discord Over Adele ’30’ Leak (Updated) A popular Discord server specializing in music piracy has been taken down by the RIAA. Sources inside the RipRequests community suggest the problem stemmed from… November 22, 2021, 13:41 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Piracy Reporter Retracts Takedown Notices After Misconfiguration Targets Legitimate Sites Piracy tracking firm MUSO recently asked Google to remove tens of thousands of non-existing URLs, including those of mainstream sites such as Amazon, Variety, Billboard,… November 21, 2021, 15:50 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy MPA Obtains New Pirate Streaming Blocks, ACE Seizes More IPTV Domains The Motion Picture Association has obtained permission to block dozens more pirate streaming and torrent domains in the UK. In parallel, the Alliance for Creativity… November 20, 2021, 14:57 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking Last December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen for copyright… November 19, 2021, 21:14 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits SPARKS Piracy Bust: Extradited Brit Pleads Guilty to Criminal Copyright Infringement One of the key defendants in the criminal prosecution of the Scene piracy group SPARKS has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. The… November 19, 2021, 10:46 by Ernesto Van der Sar
“The NFT Bay” Claims to Share Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs NFTs are unique blockchain entries through which people can prove that they 'own' something. However, the underlying images can be copied with a single click.… November 18, 2021, 21:40 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy YouTubers Who Uploaded Movie Edits Receive Suspended Prison Sentences After being arrested earlier this year, three people have been handed suspended prison sentences and fines for uploading so-called "fast movies" to YouTube. Their trial,… November 18, 2021, 10:35 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Miramax Sues Tarantino for Copyright Infringement Over “Pulp Fiction” NFT Sale Miramax is suing director Quentin Tarantino over his plans to sell exclusive Pulp Fiction NFTs, which could be worth millions of dollars. The movie studio… November 17, 2021, 18:01 by Ernesto Van der Sar