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Over the past two decades, online piracy has proven to be a massive challenge for the entertainment industries.<\/p>\nOver the past two decades, online piracy has proven to be a massive challenge for the entertainment industries.<\/p>\n
Governments around the world have recognized this challenge and, where possible, lend a helping hand to identify and address these threats. <\/p>\n
The European Commission, for example, compiles a bi-annual \u2018Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List\u2019 following the example set by the United States. Like its U.S. equivalent, the EU watchlist relies on input from stakeholder groups, which nominate problematic sites and services for inclusion.<\/p>\n
The most recent version of the report was published in 2022<\/a> and the EU is currently working on an updated edition. This will rely in part on comments from the Motion Picture Association (MPA<\/a>), which represents several major Hollywood studios and Netflix. <\/p>\n As the driving force behind the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE<\/a>), the largest and most active anti-piracy group, MPA is well aware of the global piracy threats. And indeed, its submission lists dozens of problematic sites and services. <\/p>\n MPA\u2019s overview includes many of the usual targets, including torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay and 1337x, streaming portals including Solarmovie, and various piracy apps and IPTV services. <\/p>\n The full list, available at the bottom of this article, also includes less obvious targets, such as the messaging app Telegram, Russian social media network VK, and various domain name registries. Those have been called out previously, though, so that\u2019s no surprise either. <\/p>\n The MPA says that it does not intend to provide an exhaustive overview of the most severe threats. The mentioned sites and services mostly serve to illustrate the scope and nature of the anti-piracy challenges. <\/p>\n \u201cThe MPA\u2019s contribution is not intended to be comprehensive but instead reflects an attempt to identify sites and services particularly illustrative of the nature and scope of online content theft,\u201d it writes. <\/p>\n Needless to say, the MPA won\u2019t expect the European Commission to magically make these piracy threats disappear overnight. The MPA itself is much better equipped to deal with these threats than the EU. However, the EU can help to shape legislative conditions that can make enforcement efforts more effective. <\/p>\n With this in mind, it\u2019s no surprise that the \u2018key enforcement points\u2019 highlighted by the MPA don\u2019t involve pirate sites directly. Instead, they are solely focused on \u2018intermediaries\u2019, which include hosting companies, CDN providers, advertisers, and domain registrars, among others. <\/p>\n These companies do business with pirate sites, willingly or not. Yet, the same organizations are not particularly proactive when it comes to enforcement or helping third-party enforcement efforts, MPA says. <\/p>\n In fact, all the \u201ckey enforcement points\u201d in MPA\u2019s submission are related to intermediaries. These companies should be more proactive to prevent infringement, terminate accounts when needed, and verify the identities of business customers. <\/p>\n \u201cIntermediaries should take proactive measures to prevent the availability of infringing content\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIntermediaries should have a clear obligation to verify the identity of all their business customers and to ensure that the contact details listed are up to date and accurate\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIntermediaries should take adequate steps to ensure their services are not used to facilitate infringement by ceasing the provision of their services\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Throughout the submission, MPA mentions that it asked European intermediaries to release information on the operators of piracy services. This information could help to expose anonymous operators, so they can be brought to justice.<\/p>\n These notes emphasize that European intermediaries could potentially<\/em> have usable information. If that\u2019s not the case, the EU might want to consider legislative action to make sure that this changes going forward. <\/p>\n While describing the problem, MPA also offers a solution: make Know Your Business Customer<\/em> (KYBC) requirements mandatory for companies operating under EU law.<\/p>\n \u201cOnline enforcement efforts are frustrated when intermediaries fail to take adequate steps to ensure that their services are not being used to facilitate copyright infringement, a problem compounded by the fact that many website operators and intermediaries operate anonymously. <\/p>\n \u201cThis is an issue that needs to be addressed by the EU legislator urgently and we therefore strongly encourage the inclusion of due diligence \u2018Know Your Business Customer\u2019 verification obligations for these services within the Digital Services Act,\u201d MPA adds.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time these suggestions have been made. In recent years, the MPA and related organizations have lobbied for stricter verification checks for online intermediaries. Making these checks mandatory would be a game-changer, they repeatedly argued.<\/p>\n While the Digital Services Act already includes some KYBC requirements, the rules don\u2019t apply to intermediaries and hosting platforms. <\/p>\n The MPA\u2019s extensive overview of pirate sites and services serves as a backdrop to a call to reconsider the scope of KYBC requirements. The EU Commission can\u2019t do much to target the pirate sites and platforms directly, but they can shape the conditions to boost enforcement, MPA indirectly suggests.<\/p>\n \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n The Motion Picture Association\u2019s full submission to the European Commission is available here (pdf)<\/a>. Below is a list of all the sites and services highlighted in the report. Some of these were shut down in recent weeks. <\/p>\n Linking and streaming websites<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 Fmovies Illegal IPTV and streaming services<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 MagisTV.net Cyberlockers and video hosting services<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 Doodstream (doods[.]pro) Piracy Apps<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 EVPAD P2p and BitTorrent portals<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 1337x[.]to Hosting providers<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 Virtual Systems, V-Sys Registries<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 .CH Registry Advertisers<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 1XBET<\/p>\n Piracy as a Service<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 2embed[.]cc TV Operators<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 SatCon Africa From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\nMPA Reports Piracy Threats<\/h2>\n
Intermediaries are KEY to enforcement<\/h2>\n
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<\/center><\/p>\nHow the EU Can Help<\/h2>\n
\n\u2013 Vegamovies
\n\u2013 rezka[.]ag
\n\u2013 Seasonvar[.]ru
\n\u2013 Dizigom
\n\u2013 Gimy[.]ai
\n\u2013 Goojara[.]to\/levidia.ch\/Supernova[.]to
\n\u2013 KatMovieHD[.]boo
\n\u2013 Tamilblasters[.]link
\n\u2013 Gnula.nu\/[.]se
\n\u2013 Dytt8[.]net, Dytt89.com, Dy2018.net, Dy2018[.]com, Dydytt[.]net, and Ygdy8[.]com
\n\u2013 Rlsbb[.]ru
\n\u2013 Solarmovie[.]to
\n\u2013 Sockshare1[.]com
\n\u2013 Hianime (formerly Aniwatch[.]to and zoro[.]to)
\n\u2013 Cuevana[.]biz and Cuevana3[.]eu
\n\u2013 Braflix[.]video
\n\u2013 Cuevana3[.]ch
\n\u2013 Veronline[.]in (formerly veronline[.]sh and veronline[.]cc)<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Tele-latino.com
\n\u2013 TVExpress.pro
\n\u2013 Theking365tv.site
\n\u2013 GenIPTV
\n\u2013 King-IPTV.net
\n\u2013 Globe IPTV
\n\u2013 Crystal OTT
\n\u2013 Gogo IPTV
\n\u2013 SVI Cloud
\n\u2013 Unblock Tech
\n\u2013 WHMCS Smarters<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Baidu Wangpan
\n\u2013 VK[.]com
\n\u2013 Uploaded.net
\n\u2013 Mixdrop[.]co
\n\u2013 Streamtape[.]com
\n\u2013 Netu[.]ac
\n\u2013 Hqq[.]to
\n\u2013 Waaw[.]to<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 EVPAD
\n\u2013 MagisTV.video
\n\u2013 Telegram<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 ThePirateBay[.]org
\n\u2013 Rutracker[.]org
\n\u2013 Rutor[.]info
\n\u2013 YggTorrent<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Squitter, ABC Consultancy, Peenq, ESTOXY, BestDC, SERDECH
\n\u2013 Private Layer, Swiss Global, and affiliated companies
\n\u2013 DDoS-Guard.net<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 .CC Registry
\n\u2013 .IO Registry
\n\u2013 .ME Registry
\n\u2013 .RU Registry
\n\u2013 .TO Registry<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Vidsrc[.]to
\n\u2013 Njal[.]la
\n\u2013 Collaps.org
\n\u2013 GDrivePlayer
\n\u2013 XFileSharing\/XvideoSharing<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Excaf Telecom
\n\u2013 Cross Connect<\/p>\n<\/p>\n