Copyright Trolls Invade Canada Again, Pirates Surprised Despite 6,000 Days’ Notice
On an ordinary weekend roughly 6,000 days ago, news that so-called ‘copyright trolls’ had arrived in Britain came as a big surprise to the country’s file-sharers. Aside from the well-publicized RIAA lawsuit campaign in the United States, in 2007 ‘trolling-as-a-business-model’ was considered a mostly German problem by the minority who’d even heard about it. Despite thousands of international headlines over the next several years, the...
BREIN Tracks Down and Settles with Usenet Uploaders
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has targeted pirates of all shapes and sizes for the last quarter-century. It’s also one of the few groups that systematically tracks copyright infringers on Usenet, one of the oldest file-sharing systems which still has millions of users. BREIN has a long track record of going after Usenet indexing sites. These portals don’t host any infringing material on their servers but, much like torrent sites, they...
Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company
Plex is a multifunctional media software and service that allows users to easily access all their entertainment in one place. Whether it’s movies, music, TV-shows, or photos, Plex can organize and index, making the content ready to stream on a wide variety of supported devices. The technology itself is content-neutral and can be used for good, such as curating home videos or enriching purchased media with metadata. The not so good can...
Publishers’ Lawsuit Accuses Libgen of “Staggering” Copyright Infringement
With two alleged operators of Z-Library currently defending a criminal lawsuit filed by the U.S. government, another of the world’s most recognized book piracy platforms has fresh legal problems of its own. Library Genesis was founded in Russia around 2008, mostly offering local language scientific textbooks. After reportedly adding around 500,000 predominantly English-language books courtesy of Library.nu, ‘Libgen’ archives received...
‘Home Confined’ Z-Library Defendants Deny They Are Fugitives
Last fall, the U.S. Government temporarily took down Z-Library, one of the largest book piracy operations in the world. The feds seized the site’s main domain names and arrested two alleged Russian operators of the site, who now find themselves at the center of a criminal investigation. This enforcement action came as a shock to millions of Z-Library users but the shadow library eventually recovered and remains online today. That...
Bungie’s Copyright Infringement Claim Against AimJunkies Fails to Convince Court
Over the past several years, a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. Game companies have emerged as relatively swift victors in most of these cases, but that’s not a given. The legal dispute between American video game developer Bungie and AimJunkies.com has turned into a drawn-out battle. Two years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies of...
