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A landmark anti-piracy agreement that saw search engines in Russia voluntarily delete allegedly-infringing links officially ran out last Monday. It now appears that the parties have reached a new agreement that will extend the initiative until the end of October with an option to continue to the end of the year. Last year, leading Russia-based […]
The anti-piracy memorandum signed by rightsholders and major Internet companies in Russia has expired. This means that search engines no longer have to remove allegedly-infringing content from their indexes. Whether they will continue to do so in advance of legislation compelling them to do so now appears reliant on goodwill. Following intense pressure on local […]
While it’s common knowledge that anti-piracy companies like to spy on the activities of pirates, ISPs aren’t regularly linked with the same kind of activity. However, with help from ISPs, a UK-based anti-piracy company says it operates a system that monitors consumption of pirate content over broadband networks by providing the ISPs with piracy intelligence. […]
The UK’s Premier League has been working very hard to deter piracy over the past year, with success. A new report shows that hundreds of thousands of live streams and video clips were blocked or removed. In addition it’s revealed that the League was a key player in the takedown of the popular Soccerstreams subreddit. […]
France’s Ministry of Culture and Communication says that the country’s anti-piracy agency, Hadopi, will likely merge with the Higher Audiovisual Council, an institution with the role of regulating electronic media. The plan is to create a more powerful authority capable of regulating both audiovisual and digital communications. France has been working hard to disrupt online […]
The RIAA is refusing to share information about the effectiveness of the “Six Strikes” Copyright Alert System with Cox Communications. The ISP subpoenaed the data as part of an ongoing piracy liability lawsuit. The company wants to show that its own anti-piracy measures worked better than the alternative that was praised by the music industry. […]
The Federation Against Copyright Theft has confirmed that last month it helped to serve cease-and-desist notices to individuals at 16 premises in the UK connected to the supply of illegal sports streaming services. The action was taken in collaboration with the Premier League and law enforcement agencies. Last month, the North West Regional Organised Crime […]
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 notorious site. Since anti-piracy efforts are unlikely to beat the site, perhaps it’s time for the publishers to draw a lesson from Sci-Hub instead? Sci-Hub has often been referred to […]
Top Italian football league Serie A has launched a brand new campaign with its CEO claiming that cinema, TV and football will be “destroyed” by piracy. Directly underneath, however, Serie A is carrying adverts for 1XBET, the Russia-based gambling outfit that has its branding plastered over dozens of cam-recorded pirated movies. 1XBET is an official […]
Earlier this month, the US Department of Commerce requested input from the public on several piracy-related matters. Specifically, it wanted to know more about counterfeit and pirated goods that pass through online third-party marketplaces, and how this can be curbed. Responding to this request, industry groups MPAA, IFTA, CreativeFuture, and SAG-AFTRA bundled their views on […]