Lawsuits HeheStreams IPTV Admin Sentenced to Three Years in Prison, $3m Restitution Joshua Streit, the former operator of IPTV service Hehestreams, has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay almost $3m in restitution.… March 17, 2023, 13:02 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Denmark’s Piracy Blocklist Adds YouTube Rippers & Expands to 239 Sites Denmark is one of the leading countries when it comes to pirate site blocking orders. The first blocking case started 17 years ago and since… March 16, 2023, 21:58 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy After ACE Shuts Down Streamzz, Pirates Demand Refunds But Get Zebras Instead The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment has shut down Streamzz, a stream hosting service that reportedly offered 75,000 movies and 15,000 TV episodes for display… March 16, 2023, 09:46 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Authorities Arrested ‘Leaders’ of Prolific Piracy Release Group EVO EVO, a P2P release group responsible for many high-profile movie screener leaks, mysteriously disappeared late last year. Anti-piracy coalition ACE now confirms that it identified… March 15, 2023, 21:47 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Operation 404: 11 Arrests, Hundreds of Pirate Sites, Apps & Domains Blocked Brazilian authorities are reporting a new wave of action as part of anti-piracy initiative 'Operation 404'. With support from the UK's Police Intellectual Property Crime… March 15, 2023, 10:21 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Spinrilla Wants to Ban the Terms ‘Piracy’ and ‘Theft’ at RIAA Trial Popular mixtape platform Spinrilla will face several major record labels in court next month in a trial worth millions of dollars in copyright infringement damages.… March 14, 2023, 21:57 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits High Court Bans Singer From Hitting YouTube Rival With DMCA Notices The High Court of Justice has issued a permanent injunction to stop a man filing copyright complaints against a rival's YouTube channels. As part of… March 14, 2023, 12:06 by Andy Maxwell
Law and Politics Nearly Every Person in Iraq is an Illegal Streaming Pirate, Sources Say Every year, copyright holders nominate countries with significant intellectual property challenges for a mention on the US Trade Representative's 'Special 301' watchlist. Heard at the… March 13, 2023, 22:36 by Ernesto Van der Sar