Inside a Live Pirate IPTV Blocking Order Protecting UEFA’s Champions League
Over the past few weeks, football organizations and broadcasters around Europe have been obtaining and/or renewing permission to block access to unlicensed online streams. The Premier League obtained an injunction extension late July, and was closely followed by pay-TV broadcaster Sky which had specific IPTV providers in mind for its blocking measures. The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) also obtained a High Court...
HHS Launches ‘Digiheals’ Project to Better Protect US Hospitals From Ransomware
An innovation agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services will fund research into better defenses for the US health care system’s digital infrastructure. Powered by WPeMatico
Pirate IPTV Datacenter Defendant is a Flight Risk, Remains in Custody
In recent years, many people have canceled their expensive cable subscriptions, opting to use cheaper Internet TV instead. Those who choose the cheapest plans often end up at pirate services. These may work flawlessly for years, until they suddenly don’t. Fiscal Police Raid IPTV Service Last May, Dutch fiscal police (FIOD) landed a major success in the battle against this type of piracy by shutting down one of Europe’s largest IPTV...
File-Hosting Icon AnonFiles Throws in the Towel, Domain For Sale
Founded in 2011, AnonFiles.com became known as a popular hosting service that allowed users to share files up to 20GB without download restrictions. As the name suggests, registering an account wasn’t required either; both up and downloading files was totally anonymous. The same also applies to BayFiles.com, an affiliated file-hosting service that was launched by The Pirate Bay. Both sites launched around the same time and shared a...
Manga Piracy Apps Stay Up on Google & Apple, Publisher Moves to Unmask Devs
Japanese manga comics remain massively popular online but with that comes high levels of piracy that publishers are struggling to contain. On top of dedicated websites pulling in tens of millions of visits each every month, there’s a thriving market of Android and iOS apps offering premium manga content for free but without appropriate licenses. Many of these apps, especially those Android-based, are made available outside official...
