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The popular torrent meta-search engine Torrentz2 is the go-to site for many avid BitTorrent users. Aside from indexing classic torrent sites, Torrentz2 recently expanded by adding Google to its index, which apparently has a pretty impressive collection of unique torrent hashes. More than 80 million in total. Like every general search engine on the web, […]
A California Federal Court ordered the now-defunct IPTV service SET TV to pay $7.6 million in piracy damages. In addition, the company is forbidden from operating a similar service in the future. The default judgment was issued in favor of several major Hollywood studios, Amazon, and Netflix, which filed the lawsuit last year. Last year […]
Video streaming service VidAngel, which allows users to filter objectionable content from movies and TV-shows, has to pay $62.4 million to Disney and Warner Bros. The company is liable for copyright infringement after it streamed movies without permission of the rightsholders. In addition, it violated the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision, by ripping DVDs. Founded in 2013, […]
Leading Kodi add-on resource TVAddons has gone through some rough times in recent years. The site’s founder was sued in the US and Canada, but despite the legal pressure, it remains online today. While some expected the ‘cleaned up’ addon repository to languish, it still ‘serves’ millions of people per month. Dedicated streaming set-top boxes, […]
Millions of people tuned into the heavyweight championship bout between Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr last weekend. While many paid to see it, ‘pirate’ streams were flourishing as well. According to piracy tracking firm MUSO, 12 million people watched it through unauthorized YouTube videos. The fight between Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr last […]
A-Box TV, a company that acted as a reseller of ‘pirate’ streams provided by the now-defunct IPTV service SET TV, has agreed to pay U.S television provider Dish $2,000,000 in damages. SET TV itself agreed to pay DISH a settlement of $90,000,000 in 2018. Last June, popular ‘pirate’ IPTV service SET TV went offline after […]
Data published by piracy monitoring firm MUSO suggests that the season opener of Game of Thrones was pirated 54 million times in the first 24 hours. Unauthorized streaming services were most used, while torrent downloads were good for roughly ten percent of the total. Most pirates come from India, followed by China and the United […]
Four individuals connected to three once-popular pirate sites have gone on trial in Spain. The quartet is made up of the founder of the sites and three investors. One of the sites was previously labeled a “notorious market” by the US Government. Jail sentences are being sought by the prosecution with entertainment groups demanding more […]
Several Canadian media companies including Bell, Rogers, and Videotron have scored a victory against Infinity TV, a local seller of ‘fully loaded’ set top boxes. The Federal Court in Canada has issued a consent judgment, in which the box vendor agreed to pay a CAD$5 million settlement. The increasing popularity of specialized “pirate boxes” has […]
A district court in Florida has ordered 27 pirate site operators to each pay $1 million in damages. The default judgment was ordered in favor of media giant ABS-CBN, which has scored several victories in US courts this year. The sites in question are mostly smaller streaming portals that offer access to ‘Pinoy’ content in […]