MultiChoice owns the FIFA World Cup TV rights for Ghana via its SuperSport suite of channels, and last week obtained an injunction against Fly TV for allegedly pirating the FIFA football signals. Fly TV is owned by Nour Vision Ghana, and MultiChoice states that Nour have not acquired broadcast rights either for pay-TV or free-to-air […]
Tremor Video DSP, the programmatic video platform, has launched its three-point brand protection plan. Provided for free to the brands and agencies partnering with Tremor Video DSP, the plan’s core components include ensuring brand safety, combating ad fraud and policing the supply chain. Tremor Video DSP says it believes no advertiser should have to settle […]
Millions of football fans’ mobile phones are being used by La Liga to spy on bars and other public spaces to uncover whether they are pirating TV football signals, according to a report by eldiario.es. La Liga is using its app – which currently has over 10 million downloads – to access mobile phone microphones […]
Research from content protection and data-analytics solutions specialist MUSO suggests that 83 per cent of UK users who consume pirated content try to find it legally first, and that those who access unlicensed music, film and TV are actually more likely to have subscription services such as Netflix or Spotify. In the survey of 1,000 […]
Digital rights campaigning body Open Rights Group (ORG) has released figures that show that High Court injunctions are being improperly administrated by ISPs and rights holders. A new tool added to its blocked.org.uk project examines over 1,000 domains blocked under the UK’s 30 injunctions against over 150 services, with the ORG finding that 37 per […]
A man from Sunderland in the northeast of England has been convicted after illegally recording newly-released films at two cinemas and posting them on the Internet. Jordan Quartermain was sentenced to a two-year community order with 200 hours of unpaid work when he appeared at Newcastle Crown Court as a result of his crimes which […]
Oman, which has managed to stay ‘neutral’ in the increasingly bitter dispute between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, has banned the possession and import of the so-called beoutQ decoder boxes. These set-top boxes decode pirated satellite transmissions from within Saudi Arabia of legitimate broadcasts by Qatar-based beIN Sports. “The import of these decoders, called beoutQ, was […]
The all-star cast of Warner Bros Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures’ action adventure Ocean’s 8, including Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Anne Hathaway, and Helena Bonham Carter, feature in an exclusive trailer as part of the pro-copyright education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness’s ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ campaign. In […]
Qatar is involved in a diplomatic and economic row with near-neighbour Saudi Arabia that has been running since June 2017 when relations between the two countries were severed. Based in Qatar is beIN Sports (a sister business to newscaster Al Jazeera) and which has the undisputed rights to broadcast many exclusive sporting events, including the […]
As part of Operation Trojan Horse, Hong Kong Customs recently undertook a series of raids against four retail outlets in Sham Shui Po and Wan Chai. Over a two-day period (May 25-26 2018), Hong Kong Customs raided retail outlets and arrested four shop owners and four salespersons found to be selling pre-loaded TV boxes (also […]