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 […]
A pub landlady in the UK Midlands city of Birmingham has been fined £50,000 (€58,940) after being caught illegally showing football on Sky Sports, having earlier received a final warning for committing an identical offence. She was also told to pay £24,000 costs for breaching copyright by showing the Premier League games. Sky Sports brought […]
A Milan Court has ruled that telcos and ISPs cannot be held responsible for protection of online content. The Court rejected the supervision order requested by pay-TV operator Mediaset Premium against telecom operators TIM, Vodafone, Wind, Tre, Fastweb and Tiscali for “violation of its exclusive rights perpetrated online by a third party”. The broadcaster had […]
Findings from content protection, data-analytics and piracy audience reconnection solutions provider MUSO reveal that nearly three-quarters of all visits to film and TV specific piracy sites in 2015 used web streaming as their method of consuming illegal content, highlighting a clear piracy audience trend change away from content ‘ownership’ using P2P/Torrents or web downloads. These […]
Advanced Television’s annual update on the challenges of content security and the latest techniques and developments in the this crucial sector. Watch as industry experts from Cisco, Irdeto, Microsoft and Nagra take on: content sharing, compliance and common approaches, risk assessment, data centre challenges and security in the cloud, IoT and frictionless 360 security, working […]
The owner of piracy site Isohunt has agreed to settle a music industry group lawsuit for C$55 million (€45.5m). Isohunt was shut down in 2013, when Fung agreed to pay $110 million to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). A court order associated with the decision details the fees as 55 million Canadian dollars […]
Advocacy body the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – which defends civil liberties in the digital world – has sued the US government on behalf of technology creators and researchers to overturn what it contends are onerous provisions of copyright law that violate the First Amendment. EFF’s lawsuit, filed with co-counsel Brian Willen, Stephen Gikow, and […]
Artem Vaulin, alleged to be the owner of popular torrenting website KickassTorrents, has been arrested in Poland, with the US seeking his extradition and closure of the site. He is facing four charges: two counts of criminal copyright infringement, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and one count of conspiracy to commit copyright […]
Pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness and Warner Bros. Pictures UK have launched the latest ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ trailer, a collaboration on family animation Storks. The trailer shines a light on the big screen and the emotional roller-coaster that moments worth paying for deliver, making us laugh, cry and jump […]
Audiovisual anti-piracy group AAPA and Europol have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which paves the way for providing further support to Europol as it enhances its capabilities to address audiovisual piracy. The MOU creates a framework for sharing intelligence, data, knowledge and expertise on online audiovisual piracy and to co-ordinate activities, where possible. The […]