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News The United States, Canada, and Mexico have signed a new trade deal that will replace NAFTA. The USMCA deals with a wide range of trade topics including copyright issues. Despite warnings from rightsholders and some lawmakers, the agreement offers liability protections for Internet companies, including a DMCA-style safe harbor provision. More than a quarter-century […]
News A sub-Reddit dedicated to jailbreaking iOS devices put itself into lockdown yesterday after several DMCA notices were filed against the discussion forum. Various sources reported that the notices were filed by Apple, in an attempt to hinder distribution of jailbreaking-related tools and information. While that remains unconfirmed, Apple did use the DMCA to take […]
News The two companies behind nearly all U.S. file-sharing lawsuits in recent years haven’t filed any new complaints recently. Instead of submitting hundreds of new complaints, there are none. It’s unclear why both companies have halted their efforts but it could have something to do with recent legal developments. While most piracy activity has shifted […]
That Google knows every detail of what its users search for is no secret – after all, the company itself processes all of the requests. Armed with this data, Google publishes its annual ‘Year in Search‘ report, the latest of which appeared yesterday. From our perspective, there were very few – if any – piracy-related […]
News Media giant ABS-CBN has filed a lawsuit against a Texas man who stands accused of of selling pirate streaming devices. The defendant, who allegedly promoted the boxes through various Facebook pages, faces millions of dollars in potential damages. ABS-CBN, the largest media and entertainment company in the Philippines, is continuing its legal campaign against […]
News Popular ‘pirate’ IPTV provider Helix Hosting appears to be facing a crisis after someone claiming to be a hacker posted a message on the service’s homepage. According to the statement, Helix failed to pay a ransom so as a result, the personal details of customers and resellers, plus an owner’s name, address and phone […]
Breaking Developments over the past few days indicate that The Pirate Bay may about to fully launch a brand new feature. In addition to traditional magnet links, many titles now feature a subtle ‘B’ button which allow users to stream movies and TV shows directly in the browser on a new site called BayStream. The […]
Stats The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Ad Astra’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’. ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ completes the top three. This week we have two newcomers in our chart. Ad Astra is the most downloaded movie. The data for our […]
News YouTube and Google are liable for infringing the copyrights of Indian filmmaker Suneel Darshan, a local court has ruled. The video platform was ordered to pay compensation and must prevent similar infringements going forward. In its defense, YouTube argued that it’s a neutral intermediary which responds to takedown notices, but that’s not enough, the […]
Breaking The RIAA, IFPI, and Music Canada teamed up earlier this year to shut down file-hosting platform DBR.ee, claiming it infringed their members’ copyrights. A replacement site, that later appeared at a new URL, is now being targeted by the RIAA after it obtained subpoenas against Namecheap and Cloudflare. In May 2019, TF discovered that […]