In what is seen as the first test of Australia’s new copyright laws, media company Village Roadshow is to lead an action – backed by Hollywood studios – in the Australian Federal Court aimed at requiring Internet Service Providers to block piracy website Solarmovie. The move follows recent successful action in Singapore and in November […]
Open-source media player Kodi is to take action against rogue sellers who modify the software, installing broken piracy add-ons, advertising that Kodi allows the user to watch free movies and TV, and then vanishing when the user buys the box and finds out that the add-on they were sold on was “a crummy, constantly breaking […]
Attackers are stealing users’ Netflix credentials and making them available on black markets focused on providing access to the streaming service for cheaper prices, according to cybersecurity specialist Symantec. Writing in the Company Blog, Lionel Payet, Threat Intelligence Officer, notes that the entertainment streaming service’s growing popularity and global expansion has attracted the attention of […]
Free-to-air television coverage of F1 in Spain has ended, according to the Spanish sports daily El Mundo Deportivo which suggests that the 2016 world championship can only be watched by Spaniards who subscribe to Movistar. Terrestrial broadcaster Telecinco dropped its F1 coverage in 2008, with viewership dropping substantially in the years following Spaniard Fernando Alonso’s […]
Sky Atlantic will; exclusively air the third series of multi-award-winning comedy series The Trip, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The first two series have aired on BBC2 The Trip to Spain sees Coogan and Brydon’s fictionalised characters back on their culinary quest as they head off on a road […]
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 […]
Amazon has ordered four 13-episode seasons of new Amazon Original Kids Series Thunderbirds Are Go for its Prime Video streaming service. Thunderbirds Are Go is a reinvention of the 50-year-old classic Thunderbirds. The first season is scheduled to debut on Prime Video in the US later this year and will subsequently air on Prime Video […]
Netflix has acquired children’s series Beat Bugs from Thunderbird and Beyond Screen Production. The series features original characters and a world created by Josh Wakely, who will direct, write and produce the series, following a deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing for worldwide rights to record covers of The Beatles song catalogue for this production. Beat […]
The Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership has revealed the appointment of Media Prima, Malaysia’s leading fully integrated media group, as the free-to-air broadcaster for the country’s top football leagues and cup competitions for the next three seasons from 2016 to 2018. Media Prima will kick off their coverage on 13 February with two LIVE matches […]