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News Following a lawsuit filed by the Italian Publishers Association and anti-piracy group FAPAV, a court in Milan has ordered famous torrent site TNTVillage to stop all of its file-sharing activities. While the order is being hailed as a victory for copyright holders, the site actually shut itself down in September. By their very nature, […]
Mac users who plan to upgrade to Catalina, the latest version of Mac OS, won’t be able to use the desktop version of uTorrent. Both uTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline are not compatible with the new operating system and users will be automatically upgraded to the browser-based “Web” clients instead. uTorrent for Windows first came out […]
For more than two years, major UK ISPs have been sending out copyright infringement notices to subscribers caught sharing content using BitTorrent. The voluntary scheme, run by rightsholders, had ambitions to educate ‘pirates’ to buy from legitimate sources. TorrentFreak can today confirm that ISPs have stopped forwarding notices after the program was terminated by the […]
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has obtained a court order to prevent the managers of two Facebook groups from sharing copyright eBooks online. Four people, including a 49-year-old woman, have agreed to pay a settlement but face significant additional penalties if there are any future infringements. Pirated eBooks can be downloaded from dozens if not hundreds […]
Charter Communications has responded to the piracy liability lawsuit filed by a group of prominent record labels. The ISP filed a motion at a Colorado federal court, asking it to dismiss the vicarious liability claims. Charter argues that it doesn’t directly profit from copyright-infringing subscribers, nor does it have the ability to control them. Regular […]
The owner of a popular post-fight boxing commentary channel on YouTube is demanding that the UFC stops taking down his videos, which only use still images from fights. With help from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Boxing Now’s John MacKay points out that his videos are fair use, adding that unwarranted takedown notices harm his business. […]
Within the movie industry there are increasing calls to replace DVD screeners with online streaming versions. The Emmys already plan to do so. Some fear that this change will be the end of screener leaks, but others, including pirate release group EVO, disagree. Last week the news broke that the Emmys will make the switch […]