Movie Studios Win Australian Piracy Blocking Injunction in Record Time
Few countries welcomed pirate site blocking measures as they spread across the world over the past 15 years. Australian citizens were as vocal in opposition as expected but in common with their overseas counterparts, eventually accepted that blocking is here to stay. The Australian government recently released the 2022 edition of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement. According to the study, 17% of Aussie consumers...
The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers
Cities across the US have established RTCCs that police say protect the rights of innocent people, but critics warn of creeping surveillance. Powered by WPeMatico
ACE Shuts Down Another ‘Cuevana’ But the Whac-a-Mole Persists
If we didn’t know better, we might conclude that ‘Cuevana’ is Spanish for ‘mole’. The popular streaming piracy brand first appeared on the radar in 2009 and anti-piracy forces have been trying to ‘whack’ it ever since. The original Cuevana site was founded by Tomas Escobar, at the time an engineering student in Cordoba, Argentina. By offering a Netflix-type streaming experience, with a bigger catalog and without any subscription fees,...
Global Anti-Piracy Coalition Eyes Polish, Hungarian & Bulgarian Targets
The Signal Association (Stowarzyszenie Sygnał) is Poland’s leading audiovisual sector anti-piracy group. Among the group’s stated objectives are protecting film and musical works from piracy and promoting intellectual property standards found in Europe and the United States. Many Signal members are well known outside Poland, with the majority also members of other anti-piracy groups, including the Alliance for Creativity and...
YouTube Copyright ID Claims Reach a New High
To protect copyright holders, YouTube regularly removes, disables, or demonetizes videos that allegedly contain infringing content. While anyone can send a DMCA notice to the platform, most copyright actions come from the Content ID system that can only be used by a select group of copyright holders. For many years the number of claims rightsholders made on YouTube was unknown. That changed two years ago when the video platform...
