Warner Music is Looking for an Anti-Piracy Expert to Monitor Leaks
Music piracy has been around for decades and there are no signs that it will disappear anytime soon. While legitimate subscription streaming services are commonplace today, some people prefer to download or rip music instead; particularly people with limited financial means. That’s a problem for labels and music publishers alike. According to the RIAA, the U.S. economy loses billions of dollars annually due to piracy. This estimate is...
What’s the Safest & Most Trusted Site to Download Pirate Streaming Apps?
Receiving and imparting advice allows humans to benefit from the experiences of others, without ever having to suffer the consequences of making the same mistakes themselves. While that’s a great theory and a lovely thought, it’s a poor substitute for knowing that today’s disaster is your own work and yours alone. What’s infinitely worse than that is blindly allowing strangers on the internet to make big decisions, and then having to...
UFC Links Increase in Piracy Numbers to ESPN Price Hikes
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has promoted mixed martial arts fights for three decades, turning the sport into a billion-dollar industry. The company is known for its aggressive stance against piracy. UFC President Dana White has repeatedly called out pirates and even got into a keyboard fight with a trolling streaming pirate. UFC has also called on lawmakers to help them address the piracy problem. In U.S. Congress...
Cloudflare Can’t Be Forced to Use Piracy Shield to Block IPTV, Court Tells Serie A
Despite providing a range of services for free that millions have come to rely on, and others that improve security and uptime for millions more, not everyone views Cloudflare’s key products as universally positive. In Italy, where it took just a couple of weeks for the Piracy Shield blocking system and Cloudflare to start bumping heads, the reasons for conflict are on full display. Running from its core through to every product it...
U.S. Copyright Groups Urge Canada to Prioritize Anti-Piracy Enforcement
The Canadian Government is no stranger to having its copyright policies critiqued. The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), for example, has repeatedly placed its northern neighbor on a “watch list” because it fails to properly deter piracy, and then the EU followed suit. To tackle copyright concerns, Canada has made several changes to its laws in recent years. Rightsholders can also obtain pirate site blocking injunctions at...
Japan vs. Manga Piracy: $800m Losses & 100 New Pirate Sites in One Month
Last month, Japan-based anti-piracy group Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ) ran a newspaper advertising campaign in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France. Its launch on July 17 was declared “Manga Day” and its purpose was to raise awareness of manga piracy by thanking those who pay for comics, rather than attacking those who do not pay. The ad below ran in the New York Times, with variants making an appearance in La Repubblica, El...
