Tag: Piracy
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Content Owners Now Plan To Go After Kodi Users Who Pirate Their Content
For months now content owners have been going after third-party Kodi add-on makers and box sellers who promote piracy. Now a major content and anti-piracy group has announced plans to go after the users of illegal add-ons for Kodi in “the very near future.” Kieron Sharp, the chief executive of the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), says…
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HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney, CBS, & Others Today Teamed Up to Fight Online Piracy
In a shocking moment of team work over 30 entertainment companies, including power players like Netflix, HBO, and NBCUniversal, have joined forces today in an effort to fight online piracy. The new group is called the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), and the partnership, while somewhat thin on specifics, will allow the content creators involved…
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Amazon Cracks Down on The Sale of ‘Fully-Loaded’ ‘Kodi Boxes’
Well it looks like Amazon is crackdown on the sale of ‘Kodi boxes’. These typically Android powered media-streaming devices that can be used to access pirated content are coming under fire as online retail giant Amazon has banned listings and threatened third-party sellers with financial penalties and account terminations for posting these boxes. “Products offered for…
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Charter & TWC Threaten to Disconnect Users Who Pirate Content
2016 has marked a renewed effort to go after Americans who are pirating copyrighted content. We have seen everything from ISPs working on ways to identify pirate live streams to cut them off to Amazon working to cut off sellers or fully loaded Fire TV devices. Now ISPs are threatening to cut off pirates. Recently…
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Your Internet Service Provider May Soon Block Kodi Piracy Add-ons
Piracy has been a big issue for cable operators with third-party Kodi add-ons being the fastest growing source of piracy in the US right now. Now Cisco claims to have developed a system that will automatically block live pirate streams as they occur. The new system will allow Cisco and Internet service providers to block piracy…
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Editorial: Why Kodi is Likely to Lose Their Piracy Fight
Kodi, the popular media center that allows third-party add-ons, recently announced they are declaring war on those who promote piracy using Kodi. Yet piracy groups seem unwilling to go without a fight. In what may have been the first shot in this new war between Kodi and people who promote piracy with Kodi was a…