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City of London Police formed the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit over a decade ago. Since then, the specialist anti-piracy unit has targeted pirates of all kinds. The Intellectual Property Office's latest Report and Accounts states that PIPCU is funded using millions of pounds from 'IPO surpluses.' That money appears to have been put to work; PIPCU reports reveal successes against large-scale IPTV pirates and in one case, a record-breaking restraint of ill-gotten gains. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-24 18:11:00 READMORE

The French Supreme Court has confirmed that Société Générale rightfully terminated a payment processing agreement with file-hosting service 1fichier. The cyberlocker failed to monitor and prevent the storage of pirated material, which it had contractually agreed to do. When Mastercard raised red flags, the bank was therefore was within its right to take action. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-23 18:27:19 READMORE

The CCIA, which represents global tech firms including Amazon, Cloudflare and Google, is sounding the alarm over Italy's "Piracy Shield" blocking scheme. The group's European branch urges the EU Commission to step in to prevent overblocking and to promote transparency. Additional measures requiring Internet services to actively report illegal activity on their networks are seen as problematic too. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-23 01:19:36 READMORE

Following the surprise arrest of founder Pavel Durov in France last year, Telegram's suddenly improved attitude towards content complaints was unexpected, and appears to be holding. After channels operated by Z-Library and Anna's Archive were shut down recently, Russian media outlets are reporting the suspension of a channel operated by RuTracker, one of the most resilient torrent trackers in history. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-22 16:44:17 READMORE

Reddit finds itself in court once again as movie companies continue to seek information on the site's users. After several rejections, the case is now before the Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals. The rightsholders argue that the IP addresses of six users who discussed piracy related matters are key evidence in a lawsuit against ISP Frontier. Reddit counters, stressing that the users' First Amendment right to anonymous speech is at stake. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-21 22:15:58 READMORE

Meta is among a long list of companies being sued for allegedly using pirated material to train its AI models. Meta has never denied using copyrighted works but stressed that it would rely on a fair use defense. However, with rightsholders in one case asking for torrent client data and 'seeding lists' for millions of books allegedly shared in public, the case now takes a geeky turn. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-21 01:57:02 READMORE

A man who ran an IPTV piracy operation from his home in Birmingham, UK, has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for fraud offenses. The case is a rare example of a seller sourcing their own content but may have been slightly overhyped. Following raids in 2021, "hundreds of thousands" were said to use the service, a figure quietly rounded down to just 2,000. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-20 16:09:38 READMORE

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Kraven The Hunter' tops the chart, followed by 'Gladiator II'. 'Venom: The Last Dance' completes the top three. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-20 07:09:40 READMORE

Despite blocking thousands of illegal streaming sites, Italy's 'Piracy Shield' anti-piracy program has failed to deliver increased viewership for legal services like DAZN. This revelation appears in data provided by telecoms regulator AGCOM, which oversees the blocking regime. It adds fuel to the already heated discussions, which divide stakeholders and copyright representatives. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-19 22:38:18 READMORE

Those capable of quickly bypassing video game copy protection are revered by impatient pirate players. On average, games protected by anti-tamper tech Denuvo enjoy 68 days crack-free before succumbing to piracy. Yet new research focused on MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) and video game preservation, reveals that a sample of 712 protected games, released as far back as 1979, took an average of 10.6 months each to crack. Total cracking time: 628 years. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-18 21:12:33 READMORE

In 2024, legal action taken by Spain's top-tier football league led to telecoms giant Telefonica disclosing the identities of alleged pirates among its own subscribers. Telefonica's cooperation was to be expected, as it just obtained the rights to broadcast LaLiga matches for 1.2 billion euros. In contrast, details of an anti-piracy agreement between the two companies, one that seems to operate in the opposite direction, wasn't expected at all. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-18 03:59:16 READMORE

This week, several domain names of the Japanese adult pirate website MissAV were redirected to seizure banners. The legal basis for these confiscations wasn't initially clear, but new information ties the action to a U.S. court order. In addition to losing their domain names, the MissAV defendants must pay $4.5 million in damages. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-17 18:52:03 READMORE

Poppy Playtime is a massively popular horror game released by the indie studio Mob Entertainment. The game is available across various platforms, including the Google Play Store, where copyright-infringing versions are also available. Despite several complaints, Google allegedly failed to remove these unauthorized apps, which prompted the game developers to take legal action. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-16 21:05:15 READMORE

Telegram is one of the most popular messaging tools, chosen by many online services to stay connected with their audiences. Major shadow libraries Z-Library and Anna's Archive used Telegram until this week, when both accounts were terminated for copyright infringement. While these websites offer infringing content, both were cautious to avoid copyright troubles on Telegram. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-16 02:17:51 READMORE

With considerable encouragement from Hollywood and affiliated anti-piracy groups, in 2021 the Malaysian government stepped up its site blocking measures. An official statement published this week reveals that between 2021 and November 2024, a total of 3,682 pirate sites were blocked to prevent exploitation of local content. Interesting, perhaps, but after 15 years of effort, did site-blocking actually work and, if so, who benefited, and how? From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-15 17:10:50 READMORE

In its annual report published last week, the U.S. Government listed MagisTV as one of the most notorious piracy services. The mention comes after the IPTV provider, which is mainly popular in Latin America, boldly applied for a U.S. trademark. This trademark is unlikely to be granted without protest, but that doesn't seem to be a major issue; the service has already rebranded itself as FlujoTV. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-14 20:00:03 READMORE

Making use of free Wi-Fi offered by pubs, bars, cafés, and other businesses, is now an everyday event for millions of people. For the owner of the 3 Little Piggies café in Cork, Ireland, providing free Wi-Fi led to an allegation of music piracy from his ISP and advance notice of potential disconnection. What followed was an extremely rare apology, for reasons deserving of a much closer look. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-14 02:33:13 READMORE

With billions of annual visits, MissAV ranks among the 60 most-visited websites on the internet. The porn site mostly caters to an Asian audience where rightsholders see the 'pirate' site as a major threat to their business. Through a legal procedure, adult entertainment company FANZA 'confiscated' the MissAV.com domain, as well as ThisAV.com. However, MissAV swiftly bounced back on a new domain. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-13 18:54:44 READMORE

Nhentai.net, a popular adult site with dozens of millions of monthly visits, has asked a California federal court to dismiss a piracy lawsuit filed last year by publisher PCR Distributing. Among other things, the site argues that PCR lack sufficient ownership of the copyrights in question and has previously granted permission for the use of the content. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-01-13 06:38:01 READMORE