Anti-Piracy Google’s Piracy Purge: 3.5 Billion DMCA Takedown Notices in a Year Google has completed the busiest twelve months ever on the DMCA takedown front. The popular search engine processed a record-breaking 3.5 billion takedown requests during… February 15, 2025, 14:27 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy ProtonVPN: Site Blocking Is an Attack on Users’ Online Freedom In France, rightsholders have taken legal action to get large VPN providers on board with their pirate site blocking program. The aim is to prevent… February 14, 2025, 16:29 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Record Labels Target 20 ISPs in Pursuit of BitTorrent Pirates and Damages Predictions of a looming music industry apocalypse, fueled by users of LimeWire and similar peer-to-peer apps, have long-since been replaced by all-you-can-eat music services. In… February 14, 2025, 08:42 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy DAZN Escrows €35m TV Rights Bill as Football Piracy Row Boils Over French football clubs held emergency talks after broadcaster DAZN withheld millions of euros in TV rights payments due this month. The dispute concerns DAZN's claims… February 13, 2025, 10:24 by Andy Maxwell
Piracy Scammers Exploited Official EU Website for ‘Piracy’ Scams Scammers exploited a subdomain of the European Food Safety Authority to actively redirect people to piracy scams and other dubious ploys. The pages that promised… February 12, 2025, 15:24 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Piracy Crisis: Cloudflare Says LaLiga Knew Dangers, Blocked IP Address Anyway (Update) Unexplained chaos at ISPs Movistar and DIGI has prevented some customers from accessing many sites using Cloudflare for over a week. Simultaneously, football league LaLiga… February 11, 2025, 22:52 by Andy Maxwell
AI is a Key Technology in Today’s Anti-Piracy Toolbox Last week, several innovative copyright protection tools were discussed at WIPO’s Advisory Committee on Enforcement. One particularly interesting presentation came from the Portuguese company NOS… February 11, 2025, 12:14 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Piracy Device Still Sold By Company that Didn’t Pay $101m Judgment & Can’t Be Sued BeIN, Miramax and MPA-affiliated anti-piracy group AVIA, have called out a Chinese company behind a device that disables anti-piracy codes embedded in video streams. Gotech… February 10, 2025, 20:20 by Andy Maxwell