MPA Backs Automated Pirate Site-Blocking, Sees Role for VPN and CDN Companies
In recent years, the European Commission has proposed and adopted various legislative changes to help combat online piracy. The Copyright Directive and the Digital Services Act both envisioned tighter copyright takedown rules for online service providers. Many rightsholder groups felt that the new rules were insufficient to target live streaming piracy, sports content in particular. They wanted more incentives for online service...
Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Ramps Up IPTV Actions Under New Leadership
BREIN has just published its latest annual report, providing insights into the priorities of the organization and the progress being made. This was BREIN’s first year under new leadership. After Tim Kuik retired in 2024, Bastiaan van Ramshorst became the new director flanked by Birre Büller, the new head of legal affairs. BREIN’s 2024 Annual Report Last week, the group published its 2024 annual report which shows that anti-piracy...
Enders’ Piracy Report Blames Big Tech; That’s What Anti-Piracy Lobbyists Do
If Hollywood studios, major record labels, broadcasters, and sports organizations stopped publishing their own piracy research, the scale of the phenomenon and potential solutions would likely be less clearly defined than they are today. What we have instead is a largely unified response across multiple industries, featuring broadly similar claims on the scale of the problem, what needs to be done, and by whom. Everyone pushing in the...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 06/02/2025
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 no newcomers on the list. “Sinners” is the most shared title. The most torrented movies...
Record Labels and ISP Frontier Settle Piracy Liability Lawsuit
In recent years, music and movie companies have filed several lawsuits against U.S. Internet providers, for failing to take action against pirating subscribers. One of the main allegations is that the ISPs failed to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in ‘appropriate circumstances’, as the DMCA requires. These lawsuits resulted in multi-million-dollar judgments against Cox and Grande. Meanwhile, other companies remained at...
IPTV Pirate Fights 25-30 Years Prison, “Facially Absurd” U.S. Govt Calculations
A complex case that had dragged on for years, in part due to the global pandemic, concluded last summer with the conviction of five men behind pirate streaming service Jetflicks. The court heard that Kristopher Dallmann, Douglas Courson, Felipe Garcia, Jared Jaurequi and Peter Huber, generated millions of dollars in revenue through what was described as one of the largest pirate sites in the United States. The Case That Refuses to End...
