Record Labels: ‘Hisses & Crackles’ Are No License to Copy & Digitize Old Records
The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. These archiving efforts, which started decades ago, will become more valuable over time. The same could apply to IA’s other projects, including the digitization of old books and records. Six years ago, the Archive began archiving the sounds of 78-rpm gramophone records, a format obsolete today. In addition to...
IPTV Piracy Group Members Arrested For Signal Theft, Fraud, Money Laundering
The action in Canada this week is being described as the second phase of an operation that began last year. Events were triggered when rightsholders led by Bell Media filed a criminal complaint against pirate IPTV service, Arubox TV. Following an investigation by the Quebec Provincial Police, in 2023 the Office of Criminal Assets Recovery and Money Laundering carried out five searches; a condo in Laval and premises in Saint-Eustache...
Appeals Court Vacates $1 Billion Piracy Damages Award Against Cox, Orders New Trial
Late 2019, Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, including Sony and Universal. Following a two-week trial, a Virginia jury held Cox liable for its pirating subscribers. The ISP failed to disconnect repeat infringers and was ordered to pay $1 billion in damages. Heavily disappointed by the decision, Cox later asked the court to set the jury verdict aside and decide the issue...
100s of Pirate Sites Go Dark as .TV Domains Placed on ServerHold
A few hours ago a TorrentFreak reader linked us to a list of almost 200 domains with several things in common. The vast majority have naming conventions that almost certainly point to some type of piracy activity. No shortage of the word ‘streams’ for example, along with other familiar pirate terms such as HD, cine, film, movie, plus the likes of buff, cric and crack. Sites with ‘anime’ in their domain names also stand out; they...
Racing Driver Arrested as Police Target Thailand’s Largest & Oldest Torrent Site
Press releases announcing the shutdown of yet another pirate site, more arrests, and what that means for the entertainment industry, are nothing out of the ordinary. In particularly busy periods, simply determining where one batch ends and another begins can present challenges. Yet in many cases, even the most straightforward reports have much more going on just below the surface. An announcement published Monday by the Alliance for...
Film Companies Seek ‘Torrenting History’ Related to Redditor
Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena which required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. The movie companies said they were not planning to go after these people in court but wanted to use their comments as evidence in an ongoing piracy lawsuit against Internet provider RCN. Reddit wasn’t willing to go along with the request, at least not in full. The company objected,...
