Lawsuits RIAA and Rightscorp Defeat RCN’s Claims of “Fraudulent” Piracy Notices The RIAA and its anti-piracy partner Rightscorp have won a legal battle over allegedly 'fraudulent' piracy notices. A New Jersey federal court dismissed the complaint… July 1, 2021, 23:18 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits OMI IN A HELLCAT: Indictment For Gears Reloaded IPTV Imminent Omar Carrasquillo, aka OMI IN A HELLCAT, says he's about to be indicted for offenses related to his pirate IPTV service Gears Reloaded. Carrasquillo was… July 1, 2021, 12:00 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Nintendo Fears Relaunch of Pirate Site So Asks for Legal Protection Nintendo won a $2.1 million summary judgment against the operator of the pirate site RomUniverse last month. The California federal court denied a permanent injunction,… June 30, 2021, 21:45 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Comcast Suspends Internet Connection For Downloading Torrents According to an alert issued in response to repeated allegations of copyright infringement, Comcast has suspended an Xfinity account for eight hours, warning that a… June 30, 2021, 11:35 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Court Orders YouTube Rippers to Log and Share Data with Record Labels A Virginia District Court has ordered the Russian operator of two popular YouTube rippers to keep extensive logs of user activity and hand these over… June 29, 2021, 22:10 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits High Court Grants Default Judgment in Bitcoin.org Copyright Infringement Case The High Court in London has issued an injunction in favor of Craig Wright, the self-professed inventor of bitcoin. The Australian computer scientist filed a… June 29, 2021, 11:23 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Twitter Suspends India’s Minister of Communications After Sony DMCA Notice Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, has fired off a broadside against Twitter after it suspended… June 28, 2021, 18:50 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Reverse-Engineered GTA Code Back Online After DMCA Counter-Notice The ReGTA team has successfully disputed Take-Two Interactive's takedown of the "re3" and "reVC" projects. Without a legal response from the game publisher, GitHub restored… June 28, 2021, 11:13 by Ernesto Van der Sar