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 […]
A report from the US Department of Commerce has recommended amendments to copyright law that would provide both more guidance and greater flexibility to courts in awarding statutory damages. The Department suggests the recommended amendments would ensure continued meaningful protection for intellectual property while preserving the dynamic innovation that has made digital technology so important […]
In the wake of figures indicating that 2015 was the most successful year ever at the Australian cinema box office, a senior industry executive has warned of the threat of piracy to the future of filmed entertainment. Findings from the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA) show a 14 per cent increase from 2014 […]
Alianza Contra la Piratería de Televisión Paga (Alianza), the anti-piracy association of the leading companies in the Latin American pay-TV industry, has revealed details of what it says is a complete study to date of on-line video piracy in South America. The report was prepared by UK consulting group NetNames. The study covers nine countries […]
Irdeto, a specilaist in digital platform security, has announced a strategic partnership with Aspera, an IBM company and creator of technologies that move data at maximum speed. The new partnership enables forensic watermarking capabilities which insert watermarks in real-time with no impact on delivery quality or speed. By combining Irdeto Tracemark with Aspera’s FASP transfer […]
For the fourth year in a row Game of Thrones has been identified as the most pirated TV-show on the Internet according to TorrentFreak. The Walking Dead is firmly in second place, followed by The Big Bang Theory. With an estimated 14.4 million downloads via BitTorrent,
A New Zealand court has ruled that Kim Dotcom, founder of closed-down file-sharing site Megaupload, can be extradited to the United States to face online piracy charges. After a nine-week hearing, Judge Nevin Dawson found there was “overwhelming” evidence to support extradition. The decision comes almost four years after NZ police raided Dotcom’s mansion at […]
Following the successful 2013 raid of five homes in The Netherlands cities of Apeldoorn, Enschede, Vlagtwedde and The Hague, content pirates arrested during these raids have been sentenced at the Zutphen courthouse. Two defendants received 100 hours of community service, two months of conditional imprisonment and two years’ probation. This followed an extensive collaborative effort […]
Disney has felt a great financial disturbance in the Force, as thousands of people downloaded the latest Star Wars film for free instead of paying to see it at the cinema. Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened in cinemas worldwide last week and a copy of it has now somewhat inevitably landed on the major […]
Five members of a UK underground piracy group that wanted to be the first to release the latest blockbusters on the web have been jailed for more than 17 years. The case, which marks the first time that ‘release groups’ have been prosecuted, follows an investigation led by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) – […]