Braflix to Shut Down: Pirate Site Throws in the Towel Citing Legal Pressure
Last year, Braflix was added to the ever-growing list of flix-inspired pirate streaming sites. Reportedly operating from Brazil, the site offered a clean interface, relying on third-party sources to provide a gateway to pirated movies and TV shows. The site had no obvious connections to other large streaming cabals, such as the massive Fmovies operation. This worked to its advantage initially, as most anti-piracy resources typically...
Piracy Shield Crisis Erupts as AGCOM Board Member Slams Huge Toll on Resources
RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia, currently has over 10,000 members, typically Internet service providers and telecoms organizations. The organization’s latest meeting, RIPE89, ran for three days last week and was open to all. A presentation by Massimiliano “Max” Stucchi titled: Blocking and Censoring the Italian Internet for Football Reasons, told the story of how...
Amazon’s Indian Branch Targets Pirate Streaming Apps Hosted on GitHub
GitHub is no stranger when it comes to DMCA takedown requests. In the first half of this year, it processed over a thousand takedown notices, removing 18,472 projects. Put into context, however, these numbers are less spectacular. With more than 500 million open source projects, it’s no surprise that a tiny fraction break the rules. Allegations of infringement can take different forms. In some cases, it’s claimed that code from...
Meta Denied Regulator’s Request to Test Rights Manager’s Effectiveness
Due to the staggering volume of content uploaded to the internet every single second, any hope that content moderation can be tackled at scale by humans alone, is already dead. The threat of so-called ‘upload filters’ under Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive didn’t just cause citizens to be fearful of the future. Tech giants including Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon all warned of a chilling effect if the law was passed....
MPA Escalates Pirate Site Blocking in Philippines, Targeting Sflix and Myflixer
It’s no secret that the Motion Picture Association (MPA) has anti-piracy tentacles all over the world. The group, which is backed by Hollywood, Netflix, and Amazon, is actively involved in enforcement and policy efforts in dozens of countries. The MPA’s work mostly takes place behind the scenes, but the results are hard to miss. This includes the Philippine pirate site blocking program, which officially launched in January this year....
Men Arrested For Transcribing Godzilla Minus One, Posting Details to a Website
The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s. Sites were overwhelmingly free and if MP3 files were spotted by an alert surfer, it was almost considered rude not to download them, bandwidth permitting. Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies...
