Netflix’s First Pirate Site Blocking Application Granted in Australia The first 'pirate' site blocking application in Australia featuring US streaming giant Netflix was granted by a judge in Federal Court this morning. Netflix successfully… August 19, 2019, 11:17 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits DISH Files $10m Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Easybox IPTV After sending hundreds of fruitless cease-and-desist notices to 'pirate' IPTV provider Easybox IPTV, DISH Networks has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the service in… August 18, 2019, 19:39 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Efforts Are Unlikely to Beat Sci-Hub Elsevier and other academic publishers see 'pirate' site Sci-Hub as a major threat to their billion-dollar industries. Many researchers, however, can't function properly without the… August 18, 2019, 08:53 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Man Tried to Burn Down Telecoms Watchdog to Avenge Pirate Site-Blocking A man in Russia who admitted to attempting three arson attacks says he took action in response to the authorities blocking pirate sites. The prosecutor… August 17, 2019, 19:32 by Andy Maxwell
Disney and Charter Team Up on Piracy Mitigation The Walt Disney Company and Charter Communications have signed a new distribution agreement. Aside from providing more Disney content to Charter subscribers, the companies will… August 17, 2019, 06:08 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Cloudflare Flags Copyright Lawsuits as Potential Liabilities Ahead of IPO Cloudflare, the CDN company currently serving around 20 million Internet domains, sites, applications and APIs, has filed to go public. In its statement, the company… August 16, 2019, 17:18 by Andy Maxwell
YouTube Forbids Monetizing Short Music Clips Through Manual Content-ID Claims YouTube has announced that it will update its manual Content-ID claiming policy. Starting next month, rightsholders are forbidden from manually claiming videos that use short… August 16, 2019, 05:12 by Ernesto Van der Sar
‘Google Blocked TorrentFreak From Appearing in Search Feature’ Documents released by whistleblower Zachary Vorhies suggests that Google actively blocked hundreds of sites, including TorrentFreak, from its Google Now service. The blocklist doesn't provide… August 15, 2019, 14:09 by Ernesto Van der Sar