Court Bans DoodStream’s Owners & Associates From Running The Site
In March 2024, the major Hollywood studios, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple, teamed up in a lawsuit against popular cyberlocker platform DoodStream, previously labeled the leading global piracy threat. The U.S. entertainment companies had been filing takedown notices to prevent their copyright works being illegally shared among DoodStream’s tens of millions of users, and beyond that, many millions more. They claim the takedown notices were...
DoodStream’s ‘Proprietors’ Struggle to Comply With Hollywood Injunction
The USTR’s ‘notorious markets’ report is one of the more powerful tools available to rightsholders aiming to tackle infringement orchestrated from overseas. When Hollywood first submitted cyberlocker platform DoodStream for consideration in 2022, its framing was not dissimilar to that used to shape perceptions of Megaupload. Front and center, a cash incentive scheme that rewards DoodStream’s users based on the popularity of ‘their’...
BREIN Pulled 610 Pirate Sites and Services Offline Last Year
Supported by Hollywood and other content industries, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has a long and well-established track record. The group’s actions regularly make it into our headlines, but there is also a lot of work carried out behind the scenes. BREIN has just published its latest annual report, providing insights into the priorities of the organization and the progress being made. This was BREIN’s final year under the leadership...
YouTube Processed a Billion Content ID Copyright Claims in Six Months
YouTube is the most watched streaming platform in the world. The endless library of videos, uploaded by both amateurs and professionals, is simply unrivaled. The site’s popularity translates into hard dollars, with YouTube and its creators generating billions in yearly revenue. However, there are downsides too, as some content is shared without permission. To protect copyright holders, YouTube uses an advanced content recognition...
Organized Crime Unit Arrest Suspected Sky TV Pirate – What About His Users?
Rightsholders and their anti-piracy partners have faced an uphill struggle trying to convince the UK public that streaming copyrighted content from illicit sources is illegal. News of legal ‘gray areas’ and other perceived loopholes in the law travel fast, but in the case of unlicensed streaming, the idea that no laws were being broken had solid support. In 2017, Trading Standards went on record stating that streaming consumers had...
‘Adam Ruins Everything’ Star Suggests BitTorrent as an Option to Watch the Series
In an ideal world, there should be no reason for people to pirate. However, that world doesn’t exist. On the contrary, in recent years, movie and TV-show piracy appears to have become more relevant. The fragmented libraries of video streaming services, paired with their costly monthly subscriptions, play a part in this resurgence. Many people have become accustomed to ‘pirating’ content on the side when the services they pay for don’t...
