Major VPN Providers Ordered to Block Pirate Sports Streaming Sites
Article L. 333-10 of the French Sport Code enables rightsholders to request blocking measures against named pirate sites if they can demonstrate “serious and repeated infringement” of their exploitation rights. To prevent pirate sites from being accessed on French soil, rightsholders may request that “all proportionate measures” are implemented by any online entity in a position to help. The scope of Article L. 333-10 was always meant...
Italy Fines Over 2,200 Pirate IPTV Subscribers in New Crackdown
A few months ago, Italy paved the way to issue fines against subscribers of pirate IPTV services. A memorandum of understanding between the Prosecutor’s Office, Guardia di Finanza, and AGCOM, established a “collaboration protocol” where information on IPTV users would be shared between agencies. The source of this information wasn’t made immediately clear, but it’s likely that it applies to subscriber details obtained in IPTV raids...
