Security researchers at advertising fraud protection and human verification specialist White Ops have exposed the most profitable and advanced ad fraud operation ever seen by the industry. Dubbed ‘The Methbot Operation’ after references to ‘meth’ in the code of the bot itself, this single group of Russian-based operators is stealing as much as $3 million-$5 […]
The Productivity Commission, the Australian Government’s principal independent review and advisory body on microeconomic policy and regulation, has suggested that timely and cost-effective access to copyright content is the best way to reduce infringement, recommending that the Government should make it easier for users to access legitimate content by clarifying the law on geoblocking. The […]
A man from the northwest England city of Liverpool has been sentenced to 12 months in custody after pleading guilty to illegally distributing chart hits online, potentially costing the music industry millions of pounds and depriving the creators of the content fair remuneration for their work. In what they describe as a milestone case, the […]
Australian telcos must block access to sites infringing content copyright and divert web users towards a web page created by movie studios, the Federal court has ruled. Pay-TV operator Foxtel welcomed the decision, calling it a “major step in directly combating piracy”. Sites such as The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, Torrent Hound, IsoHunt and SolarMovie are […]
Following the first legal case involving a supplier of IPTV systems which enable viewers to watch unauthorised content, a man from the East Midlands city of Nottingham has been jailed. Terry O’Reilly was sentenced to four years in prison. A second supplier who worked with O’Reilly, Will O’Leary, pleaded guilty and received a two-year suspended […]
Findings from digital platform security specialist Irdeto indicate that content theft by pirates has become a fully-fledged business and a formidable competitor to established pay-TV operators. According to the data,
Joined by Members of Congress, the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) – a private sector coalition of associations representing US copyright-based industries – has released a detailed report highlighting a record $1.2 trillion (€1.11trn) economic contribution by the core copyright industries to the US economy. The report – Copyright Industries in the US Economy: The […]
Italy has been plagued for more than 10 years by dozens of unlicensed Italian pirate broadcasters. Indeed, they have been on air for so long that they have become part of the ‘normal’ transmission pattern. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has received many complaints from countries adjacent to Italy about interference on a total of […]
Following the 2013 raid of five homes in the Netherlands cities of Apeldoorn, Enschede, Vlagtwedde and the Hague which resulted in the 2015 convictions of two pirates, a further three pirates arrested during these raids have been sentenced at the Zutphen courthouse. Two defendants received 200 hours of community service and three months of conditional […]
Pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness, The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm are collaborating to inspire audiences to choose cinema in a new trailer for IP awareness tied in with the first Star Wars standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The campaign launches with a 35” exclusive trailer featuring […]