Last Tuesday, Chinese authorities shut down more than 2,000 websites and confiscated more than 2 million pirated publications in a crackdown on copyright infringement.
According to the authorities, the nationwide law enforcement examined more or less than 63,000 websites, deleted more than 700,000 links to pirated publications, and Read more
Whilst legal proceedings commence in the United Kingdom against file sharers of the film ‘The Company You Keep‘. Ongoing education of the general public continues as industry representatives try to engage directly with consumers on exactly ‘what is copyright infringement’. Read more
On February 22, Dallas Buyers Club LLC filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Doe-174.64.14.54. The unknown defendant from Louisiana allegedly illegally downloaded and distributed the movie Dallas Buyers Club through peer-to-peer network BitTorrent; and this kind of lawsuit is the first of its kind filed in the Middle District of Louisiana. Read more
Before BitTorrent became popular, it can be credited for an impressive 35% of all internet traffic as studies indicated a decade ago. Yet, in the years that followed, video streaming was introduced to the public with the launch of YouTube, and Netflix soon after. This resulted to a change in the internet traffic distribution. So in the United States, BitTorrent lost a significant share of the total internet traffic. Read more
Adi Lederman, an Israeli who was accused of hacking Madonna’s unreleased ‘Rebel Heart’ recordings online, received a 14-month jail sentence from the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on July 9, 2015. Read more
Karan Johar-SS Rajamouli’s movie ‘Baahubali’ which is considered to be the most luxurious Indian movie ever made this year will not be released on theaters in Kerala. Read more
Due to the leaked pirated copies of the blockbuster film ‘Premam’, the anti-piracy cell police of Thiruvananthapuram have decided to include in the investigation the people who are involved in the making of the film. Read more
Last June 30 at dawn, thousands of set-top boxes and a number of sat-navs were seized by the Metropolitan Police’s London Regional Intelligence Unit together with the Government Agency Intelligence Network (GAIN) and Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) in Feltham and Sunbury. Read more
A local magazine in France named Téléchargement (Download) was fined €10,000 for releasing an issue showing readers different ways where to find and download pirated films, like Dallas Buyers Club, Automata, Olympus Has Fallen, etc., TV shows, games, and music online. Read more
After a long investigation, the Polish police raided a property of a “criminal group” involved in online piracy. Three men aged 24-33 years old accused of running unauthorized video distribution online were arrested in Wroclaw, Poland. Read more