Cox Asks Supreme Court to Reject Record Labels’ Petition over ISPs ‘Piracy Profits’
In August, Cox Communications filed a petition at the U.S. Supreme Court, requesting a review of the Fourth Circuit ruling that held the company contributorily liable for pirating subscribers. The Internet provider ultimately challenged the $1 billion jury verdict from 2019, which went in favor of the major record labels. Labels Petition Supreme Court over Piracy Profits As Cox petitioned the Supreme Court, the music companies filed...
NFL Player Uses Pirate Streaming Site to Watch His Own Team
Last year, the NFL asked the U.S. Government’s Patent and Trademark Office to help tackle live-streaming piracy. Together with the NBA and UFC, the football league asked the government to make DMCA takedown requests more effective. NFL argued that when it comes to live sports streaming, long delays render takedown requests practically useless, as most of the value of live sports content lies in its real-time nature. NFL vs. Pirates...
Google Victim Blamed For Piracy Shield Blunder, Warning Over Infiltration Risk
After blocking Cloudflare in February, the reputation of Italy’s Piracy Shield IPTV blocking system found itself on life support; it wasn’t actually dead, though, at least not yet. Acceptance by those responsible that things needed to improve, with an olive branch extended to the experts previously ignored, would’ve been viewed as a positive step. Instead, initial denial led to reluctant acceptance that something had indeed happened,...
MPA’s Piracy Claims are ‘False’ and ‘Misleading’, Streaming Platform Says
Every year, the US Trade Representative (USTR) asks interested stakeholders to identify ‘notorious’ foreign piracy markets. Responses typically list the Pirate Bays of this world, but they also mention websites and services that don’t see themselves as pirate markets. Polish video-on-demand (VOD) platform CDA.pl falls in the latter category. The video platform has been flagged as a notorious pirate service by the MPA since 2018. While...
Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder
Italy has an administrative blocking mechanism and a technical blocking platform, Piracy Shield, operated by rightsholders in the private sector. Up until now, AGCOM, Italy’s independent telecoms regulator, has been Piracy Shield’s greatest supporter, at least of those not already benefiting financially from the activities of football league Serie A, currently the only beneficiary of Piracy Shield blocking. To the extent there’s much...
Game Companies List ‘FitGirl-Repacks’ as a Key Piracy Threat
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has submitted its latest overview of “Notorious Markets” to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). These submissions serve as input for the USTR’s yearly overview of piracy ‘markets’ which helps to shape the U.S. Government’s global copyright enforcement agenda going forward. The ESA, which represents video game companies including Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Microsoft,...
