Premier League’s Priority IPTV Piracy Threats Reported to U.S. Government
For the UK’s Premier League, the United States is still a relatively untapped market but given the potential, growth is being taken very seriously indeed. As highlighted in its submission to the United States Trade Representative for its 2024 Review of Notorious Markets, in 2023 the Premier League opened an office in Manhattan, New York. This is the second international office for the UK’s top football league after opening in...
‘Modded Hardware’ Defendant Denies Nintendo’s Copyright Claims in Court
Nintendo is doing everything in its power to stop the public from playing pirated games on the Switch console. The Japanese gaming company has won several lawsuits in recent history, including shutting down websites that distributed pirated ROMs. Most notably, perhaps, was the criminal referral that resulted in the demise of the infamous hacking group Team-Xecuter. The group had previously released several ‘jailbreak’ hacks for gaming...
ISPs ‘Betrayed’ Over Pirate Site-Blocking Threats, The Reckoning Will Be Invisible
Fresh amendments to Italian law were passed by Senators this week and their effects will soon be felt on the IPTV piracy battlefield. Covered in detail in our earlier report, this advanced legal weaponry is incapable of dealing with distant pirate IPTV services. Instead, it mainly targets communications infrastructure, much of it operated by rightsholders’ supposed allies – ISPs – who were given no say in the matter. Clever...
MPA Reports ‘Notorious’ Piracy Threats to U.S. Government
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has been a key player in the anti-piracy fight for decades and this position has only strengthened in recent years. As the driving force behind the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the MPA finds itself at the center of an international enforcement apparatus. A few weeks ago, ACE helped to shut down Fmovies, the largest pirate streaming conglomerate. While this was a hard fought and...
Telegram’s Response to Piracy Has Improved Since CEO’s Arrest
When news broke in August that Telegram founder Pavel Durov had been arrested after his private plane touched down in France, speculation on the reasons behind that were in plentiful supply. After letting the rumor mill boil for a few days, French authorities said they had charged Durov with criminal offenses related to his role at Telegram and the platform’s “near-total absence” of cooperation with French authorities. After initially...
AAPA Seeks to Expand EU Pirate Site Blocking to Browsers and VPNs
In recent years, the European Commission has proposed and adopted various legislative changes to help combat online piracy. They include the Copyright Directive which passed in 2019 and the Digital Services Act (DSA), which followed not long after. These measures have been spurred on by major copyright holders, who have long called for stricter enforcement of pirated content online. At the same time, there are continued calls for...
