The Internet Security Task Force – a newly formed group of small businesses banding together to protect content creators and consumers from the negative effects of piracy – has called for an end to the Copyright Alert System, based on new evidence that shows the anti-piracy initiative is not only ineffective but actually makes matters […]
The UK’s Creative Coalition Campaign (CCC) – a network of creators and makers which seeks to represent the rights of the creative sector and press for effective measures to combat online copyright infringement – has welcomed the appointments of John Whittingdale as Culture Secretary and Sajid Javid as Business Secretary and calls on them to […]
A study by Sandvine shows a preference for legal streaming over piracy. “People are shifting their activities and they’ve certainly embraced streaming video,” says Dan Deeth, head of media at Sandvine, a company that tracks home Internet usage. According to its latest report,
TV2U, the content enabler and technology provider, today announced a strategic alliance with Stereoscope Cloud and Vector International to launch its TARA TV service into China. TV2U’s technology will be used by the Chinese Government to launch a state-owned video streaming service in a bid to significantly reduce piracy within the region. TV2U will lead […]
Rights-holders to the May 3rd boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao have forced recordings of the bout to be removed from the video streaming app Periscope. But US TV networks HBO and Showtime would have unquestionably been too late to prevent some users from watching the action live. The firms had charged the […]
Findings from online rights protection firm Incopro indicate that 88 per cent of the most popular websites used to obtain infringing copyright content use advertising as a key source of funding. The report – Revenue sources for websites making available copyright content without consent in the EU – analysed the top 250 websites used in […]
The Lebanon’s Economy Minister, Alain Hakim has ruled that the country’s cable operators must pay to carry the nation’s eight major TV channels. The eight broadcasters are widely carried by the region’s satellite operators but Lebanon’s cable MSOs must now charge viewers extra for what has been traditionally ‘free’ viewing. The eight TV networks are […]
OSN, the MENA region’s leading pay-TV network, successfully eliminated over 60 per cent of the illegal links of the top matches at the recent 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, and interrupted illegal viewing for over 50 per cent of the audience who were accessing pirated content, further bolstering its anti-piracy efforts. OSN worked with Viaccess-Orca, […]
The UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has marked World Intellectual Property (IP) Day 2015, taking place April 26th by announcing it has diverted more than 10.3 million illegal music and film sites to an official police warning page since July last year. Since the unit launched in September 2013, the team has been […]
Australia’s penchant for pirated content may have inadvertently scored the country a better deal on Netflix pricing, judging by comments from its chief financial officer, David Wells. In a call to investors, Wells said the company reduced the price of subscriptions to its video streaming service in countries with a high prevalence of piracy in order […]