A BitTorrent Client WebUI Shouldn’t Be Shared With The Entire Internet
The word ‘open’ in a connected world can be something positive. Open source, for example, or open library. On other occasions the opposite can be true; unnecessary ports left open on a router springs to mind. For millions of people using devices that appear to configure themselves, whether something is open or closed is irrelevant. If a device immediately works as promised, oftentimes that’s good enough. The problem with some...
2.5 Billion Visits: ACE Targets 9anime Among Several Pirate Anime Sites
In the face of legislation designed to thwart its growth, seizures, prosecutions, dozens of arrests and countless prison sentences have done little to prevent piracy. Anti-piracy enforcement actions, including dozens by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, have taken hundreds of sites out of the game. That’s a solid base for arguing that piracy volumes could’ve been much worse without so much enforcement. The reality is that...
Court Orders Instagram to Expose Pirates, Boot Their Accounts, and Purge URLs
Similar to any other online platform that deals with user-generated content, Instagram processes copyright complaints on a daily basis. Most of these arrive in the form of DMCA notices, in which rightsholders requests the removal of a specific image, video, or URL. The number of removals runs in the hundreds of thousands during a typical month, without getting noticed by the public at large, but if Instagram users continue to post...
‘Trusted Flagger’ Anti-Piracy Tools Raise Concern at US Chamber of Commerce
The US Chamber of Commerce 2023 International IP Index report is a pretty big read at 213 pages, but for those interested in intellectual property matters, it’s an interesting one too. The report benchmarks the IP frameworks in 55 major economies and rates them based on how effectively they protect all kinds of intellectual property. Countries and regions with a reputation for cracking down on infringement tend to gravitate towards...
Pirate IPTV Data Center Raid Took Down Several Innocent Websites
The Internet is littered with shady IPTV services that offer a lot, for very little money. These deals often seem too good to be true and in most cases they are; at least for those who prefer to stay on the right side of the law. Pirate IPTV Raid This week, Dutch fiscal police (FIOD) landed a major success in the battle against this type of piracy by shutting down one of Europe’s largest IPTV operations. This wasn’t just a random...
Sharp Rise in Piracy Rates Across Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Norway
Mediavision has been tracking citizens’ piracy habits across the Nordic countries since 2010. The company’s annual report for Spring 2023, based on a survey conducted in March, has just been released. With Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway under the spotlight once again, Mediavision’s pan-Nordic consumer survey aims to measure unlicensed content consumption among 15 to 74-year-old respondents, across categories including movies and...
