Pirate IPTV Astrologer Received Signals But Failed to Predict Copyright Lawsuit
Thanks to a global pooling of knowledge and intelligence, answers to our most difficult questions are just a few clicks away on the internet today. Since in many cases those answers aren’t necessarily right, or even right at all, that might explain why some seek advice from outer space. For a fee, astrologer Vaneet Sharma and his company Astro Vastu Solutions (AVS) reportedly supply all kinds of advice. However, when DISH offered AVS...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 02/19/2024
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. Downloading content without permission is copyright infringement. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have three newcomers on the list. “The Iron Claw” is the most downloaded title. The most...
Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
When Bram Cohen released the first version of BitTorrent in 2002, it sparked a file-sharing revolution. At the time bandwidth was a scarce resource, making it impossible to simultaneously share large files with millions of people over the Internet. BitTorrent not only thrived in that environment, the protocol remains effective even to this day. BitTorrent transfers rely on peer-to-peer file-sharing without a central storage location....
Pirate Site Shut Down For Trademark, Cybersquatting & Copyright Violations
Lawsuits filed in the United States targeting pirate sites usually focus on breaches of copyright law, typically direct and secondary infringement, or violations of the DMCA, depending on individual circumstances. Allegations of copyright infringement also featured in a complaint filed at an Arizona court in 2023, which hoped to quickly shut down a popular pirate site. Somewhat unusually, however, federal trademark infringement and...
Pirate Site Blocking Boosts Legal Consumption, Research Finds
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in several dozen countries prevent subscribers from accessing a variety of ‘pirate’ sites. New blocks are added every month and rightsholders are actively lobbying to expand the measure to the United States. While site blocking is by no means a panacea, copyright holders are convinced that it has a notable...
Piracy Shield IPTV Blocks Reportedly Hit Zenlayer CDN’s Innocent Customers
There’s no shortage of reasonable arguments that support the existence of a comprehensive anti-piracy system in Italy, capable of returning revenue to broadcasters, local football clubs, and rightsholders in general. On the other side of the debate, consumers of pirate IPTV services argue that a virtual monopoly, in which competition isn’t allowed to exist, is the very reason pirate IPTV services became so popular in the first place....
