After Historic Win, MPA Battles Endless FMovies, Soap2Day & 123Movie Clones
Six years ago when attention was focused elsewhere, the MPA warned that lacking legislation and rising broadband penetration would eventually transform Vietnam into a major online headache for rightsholders. Yet perhaps not even the MPA expected sites like FMovies and Aniwatch to attract hundreds of millions of visitors every month. Coupled with a complex and politically sensitive environment in Vietnam, where established anti-piracy...
Rightsholders Seek U.S. Help to Collect $1.4 Million Piracy Judgment Against Cloudflare
Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of customers including multinationals, governments, but also some of the world’s leading pirate sites. These pirate sites have proven to be quite a headache for Cloudflare. For example, rightsholders continue to complain that the company helps pirates conceal their hosting...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 10/14/2024
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 two newcomers on the list. “Deadpool & Wolverine” is the most shared title. The...
Why a Pirate IPTV Seller’s 4-Year Prison Sentence Means Little Without Context
Prosecutions of those involved in the sale of pirate IPTV subscriptions appear to be on the rise, not just in the UK, but also in the EU and beyond. Resources made available for these cases are in limited supply but by carefully selecting those with the best chance of success, there appears to be a high rate of conviction, despite attitudes to infringement differing in various regions. A persistent difficulty when attempting to...
Piracy Shield May Reduce Illegal Sports Streaming, Traffic Analysis Suggests
Piracy Shield’s first birthday is still several months away so the appearance of a study into its effectiveness came as a surprise but not an unwelcome one. Commentary by Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM, mirrored by top-tier football league Serie A and streaming service DAZN, hasn’t been at all useful for those seeking answers to the two most important questions: 1) How effective is Piracy Shield at denying access to pirate live...
Cuevana Announces Voluntary Shutdown Following MPA Pressure
For well over a decade, Cuevana has been a dominant piracy streaming brand in Latin America. The original Cuevana site was founded by Argentine Tomas Escobar, who was an engineering student at the time. By offering a Netflix-type streaming experience, with a bigger catalog and without any subscription fees, the pirate service quickly took off. The Cuevana Whack-a-Mole It didn’t take long before rightsholders started to take notice of...
