Cloud TV Service Boss Sentenced to 3 Years Prison Plus $505,000 Damages
Given the ongoing shift in the TV market away from terrestrial and satellite delivery in favor of IP-based services, cloud recording services are no longer the big deal they once were. When TVkaista launched in Finland way back in 2007, storing video in the cloud certainly wasn’t taken for granted as it is now. The service came with a program guide and allowed users to record and store TV shows from 15 local channels. TVkaista said...
MPA & ACE Rack Up Over 3,000 Pirate Site Domain Seizures
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment regularly announces site closures following enforcement action. Over the past seven years, hundreds of sites have fallen, but the supply of new threats currently seems inexhaustible. The level of detail ACE makes available to the public varies, but it appears to be affected by several variables. Details of settlements are rare, as one might expect. Names of site operators even more so. In...
Apple’s App Store is Riddled With Popular Piracy Brands
Apple is known to have a rigorous app-review policy that aims to keep piracy at bay. In the past, several BitTorrent apps have been rejected from the App Store, for example. Despite these efforts, problematic apps slip through the cracks occasionally. We’ve seen piracy apps disguised as other tools getting approval and a recent report from The Verge shows that this trick still works today. Apple was swift to patch this recent leak...
PornHub Sister Company Wins $2.1m Piracy Damages, But No Blocking Order
The name ‘Aylo’ might not ring a bell with many people but it is one of the leading players in the adult entertainment industry. 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, Redtube and Tube. It also owns many adult brands, such as Brazzers and...
Court Dismisses Authors’ Copyright Infringement Claims Against OpenAI
In recent months, rightsholders of all ilks have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. The list includes record labels, individual authors, visual artists, and even the New York Times. These rightsholders all object to the presumed use of their work without proper compensation. Several of the lawsuits filed by book authors include a piracy component. The cases allege that tech companies, including Meta and OpenAI,...
Google: Piracy Shield Has Legal Limits, Anti-Piracy Chief: Think Ethics, Do More
While anti-piracy enforcement actions are likely to be at the highest level ever seen, there’s no shortage of sites and services surging to millions of monthly visits before appearing to attract negative attention. Piracy services slipping through the net may not have actually done so completely unnoticed, however. Finite anti-piracy resources or strategy may play a role in services staying online, and not every platform warrants...
