Aylo Sues ‘Pirate’ Site PornXP, Wants Domains Transferred or Blocked
Adult entertainment is big business on the internet and several of the largest brands in this niche are owned by the Aylo conglomerate. Formerly known as Mindgeek, Aylo is the driving force behind free ‘tube’ sites such as Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube. It also owns many adult brands, including Brazzers and Reality Kings, that charge for subscriptions. Over the years, the company has built an impressive library of more than 40,000...
Google Says SCOTUS Decision in Cox vs. Sony Will Impact Publishers’ Lawsuit
In a lawsuit filed at a New York court in June 2024, publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, Elsevier, and McGraw Hill, bemoaned Google’s ‘systemic and pervasive advertising’ of infringing copies of their copyrighted textbooks. The complaint alleged that Google Shopping ads placed by third parties used unauthorized images of the publishers’ genuine textbooks to promote sales of pirated copies; a ‘bait-and-switch’ by...
Australia’s Pirate Site Blocking Regime is Methodical – But is it Fast Enough?
Unlike the speed of light in a vacuum or the infinite journey into Pi, measures to enforce copyright are subject to constant change and perpetual expansion. As the site-blocking debate revs up in anticipation of a green light in the United States, fifteen years of global site blocking experience is poised to hit the ground running. After that, calls for further improvement and expansion are only a question of time. Australia: A Decade...
FBI Seizes Gaming Piracy Domains Including ‘Pre-Release’ Target NSW2U
Nintendo and other gaming companies are doing everything in their power to stop the public from playing pirated games. This includes sending a steady stream of cease-and-desist notices, as well as filing lawsuits. And in some rare cases, law enforcement agencies are stepping up to help. Feds Seize Gaming Piracy Domains Today, the FBI seized several domain names linked to well-known game piracy websites, including NSW2U.com,...
Sci-Hub’s Crypto Coin Aims to Power a New Era of ‘Open’ Science
By offering free access to millions of ‘paywalled’ research papers, Sci-Hub is an unauthorized bastion of knowledge. The site is used by researchers from all over the world to access papers they otherwise have a hard time accessing. For some, the site is essential to their work. Major academic publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society, view the site quite differently. They have taken it to court on several...
After SOPA’s Painful Death, Safe Site Blocking Claim Disputed By Cloudflare
Unveiled earlier this year by Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Rep. Darrell Issa respectively, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA) and the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA) have underlying differences but much in common. Both bills would enable copyright holders to request site blocking orders against foreign pirate sites, with ISPs and DNS resolvers required to prevent U.S. internet users from accessing them. Different Bills, Same...
