Cineby Starts Staged Shutdown of Its Piracy Empire
Cineby has published a step-by-step schedule for shutting itself down in stages. The site started by redirecting its mirror sites Cineplay and Fmovies+, to then…
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A German Court Drew the Piracy Line at 81.5%, KinoGO Was Blocked with (at least) 82.4%
Germany doesn’t have a hard benchmark for when a site is structurally infringing. However, the site-blocking clearinghouse CUII stated that illegal content clearly outweighs legal…
Paris Court Kicks Off New Football Season with Multi-Intermediary Piracy Blocking Orders
Europe’s football seasons kick off again this month, with the Champions League to follow in September. In preparation, Canal+ has secured fourteen site-blocking orders spanning…
EU Study: Block Live Sports Piracy in 30 Minutes, Across DNS Resolvers, VPNs and CDNs
Three years ago the European Commission rejected calls for binding anti-piracy legislation, issuing a ‘recommendation’ instead. A new study commissioned by the European Parliament concludes…
Record Labels Offer to Abandon $46.8 Million Piracy Case Against Grande
After the Supreme Court’s Cox ruling reshaped ISPs piracy liability, the record labels behind a $46.8 million verdict against Grande Communications are ready to walk…
World Cup Piracy Crackdown Shows Limits of Domain Seizures, MPA Pushes Site Blocking
Operation Offsides seized more than 1,000 pirate streaming domains during the FIFA World Cup. While the enforcement efforts were broadly praised, domain seizures are no…
Meta Confirms ‘Data Engineer’ is Behind Key IP Address in Adult Film Piracy Lawsuit
Meta has responded to the amended multi-million copyright lawsuit filed by adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings. While flatly denying that it pirated adult films…
DNS Bypass Tweets Keep Uptobox Employee’s €197K Frozen in Disney Piracy Case
Sharing instructions on how to bypass court-ordered ISP blocks can be enough to freeze someone’s personal savings in a piracy case, a French appeals court…
Hollywood Wants Vietnam to Slay the Piracy Hydra
Shutting down major piracy operations such as Fmovies and HiAnime means little if successors pop up within weeks. In their submissions to the USTR’s Section…
Anime Piracy Giant Animeflv Mysteriously Stopped Serving Video
AnimeFLV, the largest Spanish-language anime piracy site on the internet, has stopped serving video to its tens of millions of monthly visitors. The site, which…