Religious Group Targets Parent With Copyright Lawsuit Over Kids’ Curriculum
Under a concept known as Released Time for Religious Instruction (RTRI), children in the United States are permitted to leave school to receive religious instruction elsewhere. Whether an hour a day or once per week, the fact that young students are taken off-site is a component of the law. Use of the tax-supported public school system, to finance and help spread whatever beliefs various groups may have, is disallowed under the First...
Argentina Blocks 50+ Pirate Football Streaming Sites, Operator Arrested
When Argentina won the FIFA World Cup in 2022, the entire country was watching. Many people tuned in to legal broadcasts and, at the same time, illegal streams were buzzing too. With an audience of many millions, piracy is unquestionably popular in Argentina. Rightsholders are happy with that, but they’ve also complained about a lack of enforcement against pirate streaming services. The tide appears to have turned recently, in part...
PornHub Owner Obtains Pirate Site Blocking Order From U.S. Court
The name ‘Aylo’ may not sound immediately familiar but hundreds of millions of people visit its sites every month. Formerly known as MindGeek, and Manwin before that, the company conquered the online adult market over the past decade by offering free porn to the masses. Aylo is also the driving force behind free ‘tube’ sites such as PornHub, YouPorn, and RedTube. It also owns many adult brands, including Brazzers and Reality Kings,...
Piracy Shield is Hiring a Pirate IPTV Blocker, No Skills or Experience Needed
For less demanding pirates, a free movie, TV show, or live stream amounts to nothing more than the base media. In common with users of legal platforms, how that content made it to their screens is mostly of no concern. Yet if ‘How It’s Made’ had an episode revealing what goes on behind the scenes to keep sites online, in the face of constant efforts to shut them down, that might be an eye-opener. In some respects setting up a site is...
DAZN: Force Cloudflare to Join Piracy Shield, Prosecute IPTV Buyers ASAP
During an Italian Senate Committee on the future of football this week, discussions inevitably turned to the thorny issue of IPTV piracy and the first clear signs that controlling it is beyond current capabilities. Given the rhetoric leading up to the launch of the Piracy Shield system, piracy in Italy should either be extinct or at the very least, gasping for air right now. With neither of those scenarios playing out today, nor...
BREIN Shuts Down Pirate IPTV Service, Users Get a ‘Warning’
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. Anti-piracy groups around the world are actively trying to shut down these illicit operations. In Europe, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN is at the forefront of the battle. Catching IPTV Pirates In 2017, BREIN...
