Tag: Piracy
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Internet Service Providers May Soon Have to Be More Aggressive to Stop Piracy or Pay Up
RIAA is no stranger to lawsuits with a long history of suing pirates for infringing on their music. Now it has targeted internet service providers for not responding fast enough to DMCA takedown requests. Recently, RIAA won a $1 billion jury verdict against Cox Communications for failing to do enough to respond to copyright claims—a…
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5 Men Are Facing Up to 48 Years in Prison For Running an Illegal Pirate Streaming Service That Made Millions
Back in August of 2019, the Department of Justice announced a Grand Jury has indicted eight people for allegedly running a pirate streaming service. The indictments say they ran Jetflix and iStreamItAll out of Las Vegas. These services claimed to offer over 100,000 movies and TV episodes to customers and according to the DOJ claimed…
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DISH and Sling Are Suing an Illegal IPTV Service That Included 10,000 Pirated Channels
The stars didn’t align for astrology company Astro Vatsu Solutions (AVS) which is now being sued by DISH Network and Sling TV for peddling pirated channel subscriptions. California resident Vaneet Sharma, owner of AVS, allegedly sold subscriptions to his 10,000-channel pirated service, Sharma IPTV. The illegal service offered live channels, sports programs, movies, and more,…
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Film Studios Strike Out a Third Time to Obtain Reddit User Information
Reddit once again protected the anonymity of the platform’s users after movie studios suing lost their third attempt to strong-arm the company into turning over user information. Voltage Holdings and Screen Media Ventures have made several attempts to obtain seven years of IP address logs from the accounts of six Redditors who discussed piracy on…
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This City Council Unintentionally Approved an Illegal IPTV Service on Live Streamed Meeting
Mapleton, Utah’s city council unknowingly approved an illegal IPTV scheme for its residents and business owners to use during a regular meeting. This all went down a year ago, but TorrentFreak just uncovered the agenda from a council meeting on January 4, 2023 listing “Consideration of a Resolution for Xtreme High-Definition IPTV streaming subscription for…
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Internet Service Providers Want To Block Illegal IPTV Services Before They Get to Your House
Two European internet service providers want more authority to fight illegal IPTV providers. ISPs Proximus and Belgian Orange have taken a firm stance against piracy services and want to take a more active role in keeping illegal content from their respective customers, according to Torrent Freak, but legal obstacles are hampering the process. Both providers…
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DISH Awarded $3 Million Settlement in Illegal IPTV Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
DISH was awarded a $3 million settlement from its lawsuit against content delivery network company DataCamp. The settlement now requires DataCamp to comply with stricter notice-and-takedown practices or they’ll be fined. Illegal IPTV services and content pirates continue to be a massive thorn in the side for government agencies, law enforcement, and companies around the…
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Police Website Reportedly Used To Host Illegal IPTV Sports Live Streams
A police website in the United Kingdom may have been hijacked by pirates. While tracking down some Freedom of Information Act requests filed with other police forces in the area, Torrent Freak noticed a strange font on the department’s “opcc-maintenance” subdomain. In addition, the publication spotted “hundreds” of police URLs containing the “opcc-maintenance” domain while…
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The War on IPTV Spills Into Live Soccer With Massive Piracy Ring Shut Down
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, or ACE, took down dozens of domains linked to pirated live football streaming sites, according to Torrent Freak. ACE redirected more than 150 domains and subdomains linked to three dozen illegal football streaming sites back to its anti-piracy portal, effectively shutting down their streams. According to the report, many…
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Illegal IPTV Services Could Be Shut Down Even Faster Under Proposed Legislation in the UK
Illegal IPTV services might struggle to operate if a proposed criminal justice bill becomes law in the U.K. The Criminal Justice Bill covers a number of issues including plans to tackle fraud in multiple ways, including domain and IP suspensions. This could spell trouble for illegal IPTV services and piracy websites, even though the bill…