The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has passed judgement on the copyright case GS Media v Sanoma Media Netherlands. The judgement says that posting a hyperlink on a website to works protected by copyright and published without the author’s consent infringes copyright if those hyperlinks are provided for profit and in the […]
Figures exclusively revealed to advanced-television.com indicate that between the period September 2nd and September 7th, the complete set of Narcos Season 2 episodes was downloaded 1,118,799 times. The episodes were also downloaded one-by-one in many cases, with Episode 1 downloaded 710,407 times in this way. According to content protection and data-analytics solutions specialist MUSO, the […]
According to news service Torrent Freak, major media owners have asked many legitimate providers – including themselves in some cases – to be removed from search links due to confusion at the service companies that a takedown service. Torrent Freak reports that Vobile – which requests hundreds of thousands of takedowns a month – acting […]
Not for the first time Pakistan’s media regulator, PEMRA, is threatening tough action against unauthorised India satellite channels being carried on its cable networks. PEMRA is launching its own bouquet of satellite DTH channels in October. BBC Monitoring is reporting that a meeting August 31st at PEMRA headquarters, the PEMRA chairman Absar Alam, told delegates […]
Content services protection and enhancement specialist Viaccess-Orca’s Adaptive Sentinel dual card and cardless conditional access system (CAS) has been selected by French telco Orange (of which it is a subsidiary) to strengthen the security of its new Ultra High Definition (UHD) set-top box (STB). According to Viaccess-Orca, Adaptive Sentinel ensures best-in-class software and hardware security […]
The Music Publishers Association (MPA) has become the seventh partner to join Operation Creative, the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) initiative designed to disrupt and prevent websites from providing unauthorised access to copyrighted content. The MPA has joined existing partners; the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) the Federation Against Copyright (FACT), The […]
Ghana’s special police unit, the Communications Fraud Unit, has raided the studios of Angel TV, and accused the station of signal theft of Multichoice’s Supersports channel. Angel TV is alleged to have used signals showing the July Euro 2016 football championships and the current Rio Olympics without authorisation. Multichoice Ghana in a statement said that […]
Independent media advisory group Compact Media has launched a new division – Compact Tech – which provides a range of products and solutions to help film and TV companies manage their business and their assets with greater efficiency. Products and services range from Digital Asset Management (DAM), Marketing Asset Management (MAM), Client Portal Creation, Cyber […]
A City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) operation has led to the arrest of three people who are suspected to have orchestrated the distribution and transmission of thousands of illegally modified TV set-top boxes to people worldwide. Detectives from PIPCU executed a series of dawn raids on 10 August, at a business […]
In its latest effort to combat piracy further, US pay-TV operator DISH has filed a lawsuit against the makers of the Loolbox streaming device, which unlawfully retransmits numerous Arabic TV channels. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas and names Defendants Lool Tech Co., Limited and Shenzhen […]