Court Orders Torrent Site Operators to Pay €489 Million in Piracy Damages
During the summer of 2017, French law enforcement booked a massive success with the shutdown of T411, a popular semi-private torrent tracker with over five million registered members. The site, which catered to a French-speaking audience, had been on the radar of rightsholders for some time. After avoiding the long arm of justice on several occasions, the curtain eventually fell. Following news of the site’s downfall, it appeared that...
Sky Targets *47* Pirate IPTV Providers, Specifics Prevail After Police ‘Gagging’
In the absence of sudden momentous events, shaping entrenched public opinion requires astute calculations and considerable patience, built on a foundation of financial power. Right now and most likely for the foreseeable future, the corporations behind the BeStreamWise anti-piracy campaign believe that given enough time, attitudes towards pirate IPTV devices can be shaped in favor of legal alternatives. The main strategy observed to...
Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control
New research shows the number of deepfake videos is skyrocketing—and the world’s biggest search engines are funneling clicks to dozens of sites dedicated to the nonconsensual fakes. Powered by WPeMatico
Police Raid Pirate IPTV Provider Offering Sky TV, Seized Material “Identifies Users”
The Italian government, lawmakers, telecoms regulator AGCOM, broadcasters, and football leagues invested considerable resources to get new law over the finishing line in July. While one aspect of the law focuses on blocking access to pirate services, another ramps up punishments for those caught supplying illegal streams and customers who buy subscriptions to watch them. Financial Police Raid Pirate IPTV Provider In what may be the...
Private Torrent Tracker FileList to Shut Down After 16 Years
Private torrent sites, or private trackers as they are commonly known, have a special place in the piracy ecosystem. These sites tend to be more community-oriented than public torrent and streaming sites, which most people simply visit with a hit-and-run mentality. Troubles Many private trackers have come and gone over the years. The Romanian-based tracker FileList.io is one of the bigger ones to survive, although it came close to...
