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Sky Sports chief Jonathan Licht has added momentum to what some believe is the beginning of the end for football's 3pm 'blackout'. Speaking at Sky's Premier League launch, Licht said "it's a conversation that's coming" while effectively admitting that the restriction fuels piracy. It actually does something far worse; it provides unrivaled justification for piracy based on logic and common sense. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-13 20:52:54 READMORE

Just weeks before its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Julian Schnabel's star-studded film 'In the Hand of Dante' has suffered a major setback after a high-quality screener copy leaked online. The leak is not an isolated incident as copies of other unreleased movies have also appeared online, some of which also have an Italian connection. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-12 17:12:15 READMORE

A California man has been ordered to pay $15 million in damages for operating the pirate IPTV service 'Outer Limits'. After the defendant failed to respond to a lawsuit brought by a coalition of Hollywood studios, Netflix, and Amazon, a district court judge in California awarded the maximum statutory damages for willful copyright infringement. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-11 20:14:22 READMORE

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' tops the chart, followed by '28 Years Later'. 'The Pickup' completes the top three. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-11 08:09:40 READMORE

The details of a new procedure for imposing and collecting administrative fines for intellectual property offenses has been published in Greece. At the bottom end of the scale, fines for accessing pirated content such as pirate IPTV streams, start at €750 per violation, increasing to €5,000 if use is commercial. For repeat offenses, fines double to €1,500 and €5,000 respectively. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-10 20:44:45 READMORE

Major academic publishers, including Elsevier and Springer Nature, are trying to unmask the operators of several shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library and Libgen. They're also targeting SLUM, a third-party uptime monitor for these unofficial libraries. A DMCA subpoena, issued by a D.C. federal court, requires Cloudflare to hand over identifying user data for possible legal action. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-09 17:34:54 READMORE

Reports that the Nigerian Copyright Commission had recently shut down a pirate site didn't sound especially interesting. Operating under MovieBox branding, currently seen on endless domains, the local site reportedly received over 130 million visits in the previous three months and was actually still in business. Indeed, plans to develop the MovieBox brand began last month, with an application for intellectual property protection underpinning all kinds of business opportunities. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-08 18:41:43 READMORE

The Paris Judicial Court has ordered top VPN providers to block yet more pirate sports streaming domains. Two rulings dated July 18th side with broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal+, rejecting the VPN providers' arguments that these blocking measures are ineffective, costly, and technically difficult to implement. A request from CyberGhost and ExpressVPN, to pause the case and refer questions to the EU's highest court, was also rejected. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-07 17:20:46 READMORE

Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency has reported a significant operation targeting a group who smuggled pirate IPTV devices from neighboring Paraguay, for distribution and nationwide sale in Brazil. Thirty-eight police officers executed 12 warrants, seizing vehicles, real estate, and other property, with assets worth up to US$6m frozen by a court. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-06 19:52:14 READMORE

After focusing on IPTV services offering pirated live football matches from Italy's Serie A, legal amendments adopted by telecoms regulator AGCOM last week will widen the scope of the Piracy Shield blocking platform. The now-infamous claim, that pirate streams will be blocked inside 30 minutes, now applies to movie and TV premieres, and other events broadcast live. The more serious issues concern VPNs, DNS providers and whoever AGCOM decides to pursue next. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-05 18:33:30 READMORE

After years of legal skirmishes, an ambitious strategy by film studio Voltage Pictures, to sue alleged BitTorrent pirates through a reverse class action in Canada, has been permanently shut down. The Federal Court of Appeal ruled that these cases, where IP addresses are the main initial evidence, are unsuited to this legal approach. Furthermore, the proposed methods for mass notification are deemed unlawful. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-04 19:28:36 READMORE

With two pirate site blocking bills under discussion in the U.S., and a third expected in the weeks ahead, a key statistic seems to be shrinking. During 2024 it was claimed that site blocking is a common tool in ~60 countries, a figure now reframed as "50 democratic countries" in the latest blocking bill. Yet if countries are excluded from the total on the basis they have never blocked, no longer block, or fail to meet the democratic threshold, the total may shrink to less than 40. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-04 05:35:06 READMORE

A man described by Sky as a "top level" pirate has agreed to pay the broadcaster €480,000 in damages. Sky's investigation of David Dunbar reportedly began on social media last November, but soon benefited from a timely anonymous tip from another country. In May 2025, Sky obtained a court order to secure evidence from Dunbar's home, but that didn't go according to plan. After being denied access to the premises, evidence was destroyed and funds were "dissipated". From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-02 16:38:12 READMORE

The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued a broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action. For now, Open Library doesn't appear to be actively blocked. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-08-01 19:52:24 READMORE

Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate. The bipartisan proposal, backed by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff, aims to create a new legal mechanism to combat foreign piracy websites. Block BEARD is similar to the previously introduced House bill "FADPA", but doesn't directly mention DNS resolvers. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-31 22:15:01 READMORE

DRM is crucial for protecting premium streaming content, with Microsoft's PlayReady a leading solution used by giants including Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+. When cracks appeared in PlayReady's armor recently, Microsoft took swift action, asking GitHub to remove a series of leaked SL3000 certificates. It appears that Amazon also responded by indefinitely suspending subscribers who attempted to try out leaked credentials. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-30 20:42:36 READMORE

With site-blocking legislation currently under discussion in the United States, a new report examines site blocking measures elsewhere in the world. Commissioned by Cloudflare, the report warns that a patchwork of measures risks disruption to the internet's global technical infrastructure. It also questions whether the claimed benefits are worth the risk in the bigger picture. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-30 03:34:53 READMORE

Medical device associations behind a lawsuit challenging a Library of Congress exemption to the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions, have failed to have the exemption ruled illegal. Motions for summary judgment from both sides went in favor of the defendants after a district court judge found that the exemption, granted for the maintenance and repair of medical devices, permits a non-infringing, transformative fair use. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-29 16:00:32 READMORE

Facebook has several anti-piracy tools and technologies to keep problematic content off the platform. This apparently includes automated keyword filters that ban mentions of piracy-related terms, regardless of the context. This resulted in the removal of several MagisTV news articles, including a press release from anti-piracy coalition ACE. Trying to spot these errors is not without risk either, as Facebook bans repeat offenders. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-28 19:37:41 READMORE