It’s no secret that the music industry sees stream-ripping as today’s single biggest piracy threat. While there are sites and services covering many platforms, those that allow the public to download music tracks from YouTube are particularly problematic. Over the past several years, major music labels have taken legal action against several key players. YouTube-MP3 […]

For the past several years, entertainment industry companies have been utilizing legislation in Australia that allows for the blocking of ‘pirate’ sites. Movie studios, TV companies and record labels have all taking advantage of the process, filing applications with the Federal Court to have obviously infringing sites blocked by ISPs, to reduce the number of […]

Cloudflare is a CDN provider that doesn’t host any copyright infringing material, but several of the company’s customers do. This has resulted in various copyright infringement allegations, including lawsuits in the US, Europe, and elsewhere. While Cloudflare positions itself as a neutral intermediary that can’t do anything to stop pirate sites, not all courts agree. […]

Founded way back in 2008, ATN (Advanced TV Network) was an IPTV business in Sweden supplying more than a thousand TV channels to customers via the Internet. The company was incorporated, paid its taxes, and in 2013 generated around $7m in sales with a decent profit margin. In 2016, however, ATN was raided by the […]

With hundreds of thousands of registered users and millions of regular visitors, the pirate TV-streaming community S.to is a force to be reckoned with. The site targets a German-language audience and currently lists more than 750,000 streaming links to well over 5,000 TV-series. This public display of piracy is a thorn in the side of […]

Blocking of regular piracy websites has been a feature of anti-piracy enforcement in Europe for almost 15 years. The way these blocks are achieved is broadly similar, with entertainment industry companies filing “no-fault” injunctions against Internet service providers who stand before the courts accused of facilitating the copyright-infringing activities of their subscribers. Once this infringement […]

In recent months we have reported in detail how users of the popular torrent site YTS were sued in US courts. In several of these cases, information shared by the site’s operator was brought in as evidence. The user info was obtained by anti-piracy lawyer Kerry Culpepper, as part of an undisclosed settlement agreement. This […]

While most pirates in 2020 use torrent, streaming and download portals for their general piracy needs, many are still obtaining the latest content from Usenet, one of the oldest file-sharing systems around. With masses of storage space and blisteringly quick download speeds available (not to mention archives dating back years), Usenet is still a significant […]

CDN company Cloudflare has grown to become one of the most useful and important companies on the Internet, serving millions of websites that in turn serve countless millions of users of their own. One of Cloudflare’s key aims is to be viewed as a neutral intermediary but that status is being chipped away by elements […]

With millions of views per month, Go Unlimited is one of the most popular hosting services for pirate streaming sites. Most video hosting services try to avoid a pirate stigma whenever they can, but that’s not the case for this one. DMCA Ignored Hosting The hosting service, which was founded by a Kuwaiti entrepreneur named […]