The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has welcomed the adoption by the US Senate of The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (H.R. 644). The legislation will streamline legitimate trade, deepen cooperation between enforcement agencies and rightsholders, and address a series of intellectual property issues, including codification of the Intellectual Property Rights […]
The 4th Edition of the International IP Index published by the US Chamber of Commerce has revealed that half of the 38 economies benchmarked recognised the benefits of intellectual property (IP) and strengthened their systems – in turn improving their overall scores from last year. The index is based on 30 measurable criteria critical to […]
In a seeming victory for Australian online content pirates, the Hollywood studio behind the film Dallas Buyers Club has dropped its attempts to demand reimbursement from alleged copyright infringers. Dallas Buyers Club LLC had until midday February 11th to lodge a second appeal against an August Federal Court decision which effectively prevented it from engaging […]
Donuts, the largest operator of new domain name extensions, and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have agreed an initiative they say will help ensure that websites using domains registered with Donuts are not engaged in large-scale piracy. Under the terms of the agreement, the MPAA will be treated as a ‘Trusted Notifier’ for […]
The US’s leading creative industries, whose products and services are fostered and protected by copyright laws, has called on the US Government to leverage US trade agreements and other trade tools to further open key international markets to opportunities for legitimate digital business, and to address acts, practices and policies that stand as obstacles to […]
The Pirate Bay, the infamous file-sharing torrent service, has added a browser plug-in that now allows lets users stream content directly from the website – meaning there’s no need to download the file through a program such as BitTorrent. The Swedish website has made the change by introducing support for TorrentTime, a browser plug-in that […]
Content protection and data-analytics solutions specialist MUSO has revealed what it describes as a major new addition to its range of market analytics and audience connection products with the launch of Retune, developed to help rights owners market their content directly to piracy audiences, and enable those audiences to reconnect to licensed content. According to […]
According to a poll from Essential Research conducted in January, 66 per cent of Australians who download films, TV shows and music from peer-to-peer (free) sharing sites also subscribe to Netflix, Foxtel or other paid streaming service subscribers. This appears to indicate that if the content was available via those paid streaming services, piracy wouldn’t […]
Content and platform security specialist Friend MTS is ramping up the fight against video piracy with the introduction of Viper, which it says is the first technology-led anti-piracy solution specifically designed to tackle the growing threat from illegal IPTV set-top boxes. Friend MTS will showcase the solution at the CABSAT show in Dubai in March. […]
Accessing free streams of top football matches is putting devices, and personal privacy, at great risk, says a study by computer science researchers at Stony Brook University in New York. It says the most popular sites attract upwards of eight million visits per month. But like many free services, the pirate sites rely on advertising […]