MPA Met With Russian Site-Blocking Body to Discuss Piracy Last week, Stan McCoy, president of the Motion Picture Association's EMEA division, met with the head of Russia's telecoms watchdog in Moscow. Rozcomnadzor says that… February 9, 2018, 18:48 by Andy Maxwell
Chrome and Firefox Block 123movies Over “Harmful Programs” Chrome and Firefox are actively blocking direct access to the popular pirate streaming site 123movies, also known as 123movieshub and Gomovies. According to Google's Safe… February 9, 2018, 14:57 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Pirate ‘Kodi’ Boxes & Infringing Streams Cost eBay Sellers Dearly Ebay and social media are popular places to sell and obtain 'pirate' streaming devices but for two sellers, things haven't gone to plan. According to… February 9, 2018, 11:12 by Andy Maxwell
Rightscorp Has a Massive Database of ‘Repeat Infringers’ to Pursue Anti-piracy outfit Rightscorp has a database of nearly a billion copyright infringements, ready to use, including many repeat infringers. Responding to a crucial court decision… February 8, 2018, 21:23 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Man Handed Conditional Prison Sentence for Spreading Popcorn Time Information A man from Denmark has been handed a six-month conditional prison sentence for spreading information about Popcorn Time. In what is being described as a… February 8, 2018, 09:58 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits RIAA: Cox Ruling Shows that Grande Can Be Liable for Piracy Too Internet Provider Grande Communications can be held liable for contributing copyright infringement, the RIAA argued at a Texas federal court this week. Responding to the… February 7, 2018, 21:35 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Jailed Streaming Site Operator Hit With Fresh $3m Damages Lawsuit Following a landmark trial last May, a founder of streaming site Swefilmer was jailed for an unprecedented three years, longer than any defendant even in… February 7, 2018, 11:03 by Andy Maxwell
Google Won’t Take Down ‘Pirate’ VLC With Five Million Downloads VideoLAN, the team behind the VLC media player, recently revealed that they turned down several tens of millions of euros to bundle their software with… February 6, 2018, 18:55 by Andy Maxwell