Two new studies examining digital piracy across Latin America reveal that consumers who use illegal streaming, download, and IPTV services face dramatically higher risks of malware, phishing, financial fraud, and data compromise than users of legitimate online platforms. The research was commissioned by anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE). Conducted by cybersecurity […]
IP House and the Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) have released research exposing the growing convergence between global piracy networks and organised crime. The report, Organised. Piracy. Crime.: How Global Piracy Networks Became Organized Crime Syndicates – And What Needs to be Done About It, provides comprehensive analysis of how large-scale digital piracy has evolved into […]
Spain’s Guardia Civil has dealt a fresh blow to online piracy after blocking KodiSpain, a platform that allegedly provided illegal access to live Spanish football matches. The operation followed a joint complaint filed by LaLiga and Telefónica. Users were reportedly able to watch matches from Spain’s top two divisions through the service. The latest move […]
A man from Milford Haven in South West Wales has admitted a series of piracy offences said to have caused an estimated £6 million (€6.9m) loss to pay-TV providers including Amazon Prime, BT Sport and Sky. Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court heard that Michael David Barrow operated over a five-year period, supplying aadapted Amazon Fire TV sticks […]
Spain’s top-flight football league LaLiga is claiming a record blow against audiovisual piracy, securing criminal convictions, damages and fines against one of the largest illegal IPTV networks. The criminal network had more than 2 million users and thousands of channels across three continents, including IPTVStack and RapidIPTV, through which it generated revenues of up to […]
Millennials who grew up in the heyday of file sharing are most likely to access music or video content illegally in the US today. But members of Gen Z are almost equally as likely to search out pirated content on the internet. This is the result of a survey by Statista Consumer Insights. Almost half of […]
The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) has signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs); one with the Alliance for Manga and Webtoon (AMW), a French organisation related to manga and webtoons, and the other with L’Autorité de Régulation de la Communication Audiovisuelle et Numérique (Arcom), the regulatory authority responsible for audiovisual and digital communications in France. […]
Irdeto, the specialist in digital platform security, has announced the signing of a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Binance, the cryptocurrency platform globally by trading volume and users. This agreement continues the evolution of Irdeto’s Cyber Services portfolio, particularly its Investigations and Payment Disruption capabilities, by enabling early identification and intervention against cybercriminals who […]
Motion Picture Association Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin has reaffirmed the body’s commitment to protecting copyright in the age of AI. Delivering his annual State of the Industry address at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Rivkin noted that every time there had been a new advancement, the industry had persisted. “We’ve adapted. We’ve thrived. We’ve always […]
Spain has introduced an unprecedented system to block illegal sports broadcasts in real time, marking a significant escalation in the fight against digital piracy and directly affecting users who rely on unauthorised streaming services. The initiative, reported by elEconomista, follows a landmark ruling issued on March 23rd by a commercial court in Barcelona. The decision […]