Continued efforts by the police electronic crime prosecution departments in Greece and Cyprus have resulted in twelve more cases involving piracy of pay-TV satellite services. These were heard before the Public Prosecutor and criminal prosecutions have been initiated against the defendants. Since 2010, when the first judgments were pronounced for the piracy of pay-TV signal in Greece, there have been [...]
Three brothers from Northern California have been charged with operating an illegal website which offered pirated streaming of popular TV shows and movies. They face up to five years in prison. The State Attorney General’s Office confirmed that Hop Hoang and his brothers, Tony Hoang and Huynh Hoang were arraigned on multiple counts each, including grand theft, conspiracy and receiving [...]
The State Duma next week plans to adopt a bill on online piracy designed, in part, to prevent the illegal posting of films and music on torrent trackers, United Russia Deputy Viktor Pinsky, deputy chair of the House Committee on Criminal Legislation, told RIA Novosti. Last week, a group of deputies submitted a bill to the State Duma setting out [...]
The Season 3 finale of Game Of Thrones has prompted an all time high for illegal downloads. The episode set a new BitTorrent record with more than 170,000 people sharing an episode simultaneously, and over a million downloading the episode less than 24 hours after its premiere on HBO in the US. The previous record was for the show’s season [...]
The date for Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom’s extradition hearing has been put off from August until at least November, and may not be until April next year. That means the extradition hearing could be potentially held more than two years after Dotcom was first arrested after the police raid on his mansion north of Auckland. A spokeswoman for North Shore [...]
Nigeria’s Copyright Commission has supplied evidence against a number of local TV pirates responsible for relaying DStv signals to around 500 homes in the town of Ikot Ekpene in Akwa Ibom State. Mr Ubong Obot has been arrested and charged with illegally transmitting the broadcast signals of MultiChoice/DStv. Obot was allegedly installing kit for a cost of Naira 5000 and [...]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has confirmed that Stofa, Denmark’s second largest cable operator, has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for Internet TV to provide an enhanced revenue security foundation for Stofa’s SmartTv over-the-top (OTT) solution. The video service is delivered over-the-top of Stofa’s existing [...]
Viaccess-Orca, a global leader in the protection and enhancement of content services, will showcase its engagement and security solutions at the ANGA COM Exhibition & Congress from June 4-6 in Cologne, Germany. Viaccess-Orca’s services are designed to offer effective responses to the growing threat of content services piracy by protecting content rights, assets and revenues, all while providing smooth content [...]
Anne Sweeney, President of Disney-ABC Television Group, has branded the Barry Diller-backed Aereo online TV service as “opportunistic piracy”. Interviewed at the AllThingsDigital conference, Sweeney said: “I think Aereo is wrong, it is illegal, and it is opportunistic piracy, It’s taking advantage of our content, of our creative community, and using it for their own gain. That’s why we’re prosecuting [...]
The long-awaited fourth season of Arrested Development made its Netflix debut on Sunday and although Netflix itself has not released official data, network intelligence company Procera has offered up a preliminary report of the impact of the cult show on overall Netflix traffic. Highlights from the report, which sampled 10 different networks that it monitors across the US, include: For [...]
