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News Amazon, Netflix, and several Hollywood studios have added another victory to their legal track record. A federal court in California has granted a default judgment which orders the owner and an employee of the IPTV service Set-TV to pay over $7 million in piracy damages. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the anti-piracy […]
Breaking A man who ran several US-based ‘pirate’ websites has pleaded guilty to one count each of criminal copyright infringement and tax evasion. Talon White, 29, faces up to five years in prison and must pay more than $4m in restitution to the MPAA and IRS, while forfeiting around $4.8m in cash, crypto, and property. […]
News Police in New Zealand have reportedly seized $6.7m in cryptocurrency and $1.1m in cash as part of a money laundering investigation. According to a local report, a man from Hamilton allegedly received the funds from a US-based movie piracy site he helped to create. PayPal noticed unusual activity on an account linked to the […]
A new survey published today suggests that up to five million people may have accessed football matches illegally in the UK at some point in their life. While that headline figure is high, it’s the confusion among many consumers that seems the greatest concern for outfits like the Premier League. Football, or soccer as it’s […]
Sports streaming piracy is seen as a major threat to the industry. However, new research suggests that there’s also a significant upside to it. GumGum Sports and MUSO find that pirates add £1 million in ‘uncaptured’ sponsorship value for every Premier League game. The Premier League has been battling streaming piracy for a long time. […]
Several Hollywood studios, Amazon, and Netflix, are requesting millions of dollars in damages from SET TV, an IPTV service that was sued last year. The company initially denied the copyright infringement allegations but stopped responding a few months ago. As a result, it’s now facing a default judgment. Last year the Alliance for Creativity and […]
A veteran uploader of cracked software to sites like The Pirate Bay and 1337x says that nine years of uploads have resulted in millions of downloads. ‘Thumper’ began on TPB in April 2010, later achieving ‘Trusted Uploader” status. The motivation? “Sharing is Caring,” she insists. Probably not Thumper Every week, millions of pirates head off […]
Significant legal action against alleged operators of pirate sites have traditionally been carried out with great fanfare. However, a case underway in federal court in Oregon is a very different beast, particularly given its scale and form. The case filed in the district court May 6, 2019, reveals the United States government seeking forfeiture of […]
With over 20 million subscribers of its main channel and over 30 million over its entire network, WatchMojo is one of the largest players on YouTube. The Montreal-based video production company has been around for well over a decade and continues to expand its viewership, despite fierce competition. While WatchMojo owes a lot of its […]
A broad coalition including Canada’s major ISPs is requesting several changes to the country’s copyright law. They want a standard for copyright infringement notices, so the millions of requests can be handled more easily. In addition, they call for a useful deterrent to stop rightsholders from sending piracy settlements requests. The Business Coalition for Balanced […]