Highly Anticipated Movie Piracy Lawsuit Settled On The Eve of Trial
Over the past several years, adult entertainment company Strike 3 Holdings has filed thousands of copyright cases in U.S. federal courts. These lawsuits target people whose Internet connections were allegedly used to download and share copyright-infringing content via BitTorrent. Rare File-Sharing Trial Many of these cases result in private settlements and are never heard of again. On occasion, however, a defendant decides to push...
Telefónica & Nagra Team Up to Identify & Disrupt Pirate IPTV Networks
Three-ish plus decades ago, telecoms companies were best known for installing analog telephones in people’s homes and sending paper bills through the mail to be paid by check. Many later branched out into the lucrative mobile phone market, but as operators of wired telephone networks, major phone companies all over the world would soon become the gatekeepers of a brave new world – the internet. While that was exciting for a while,...
