- Copyright Troll Pleads Guilty To Fraud
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 7, 2017
John Steele, who helped mastermind a plan to sue Web users for infringing copyright by downloading pornography, pleaded guilty on Monday to mail fraud and wire fraud. In the pl ...
- Google, Microsoft Take On UK Piracy Sites
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, February 21, 2017
In the UK, Google and Microsoft’s Bing are stepping up their efforts to combat piracy sites. “The tech giants have inked a voluntary code of practice with the British Phonograph ...
- Search Engines To Demote Pirate Sites
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, February 20, 2017
Search engines are pledging to make it difficult for UK Internet users to find pirated films and music and illegally streamed sport. Google and Microsoft's Bing have signed up ...
- Search Engines To Ban Torrent Sites From Serving In Results
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 13, 2017
Torrent Freak reports that Google "and other search companies" will voluntarily stop indexing torrent sites in search engine results after continuous negative feedback from entertainment companies whose executives insist t ...
- Is The Email Piracy Campaign Dead On Arrival?
Around The Net In EU Email Marketing, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Just as UK ISPs begin sending piracy warning emails, the U.S. abandons its identical initiative. Rather than being threatening, these emails are intended to be educational, informing people of what ...
- Defendant In First Kodi Box Trial Pleads Not Guilty
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, January 30, 2017
Brian Thompson, a shopkeeper from Middlesbrough, has pleaded not guilty in a landmark case, challenging the legality of video-streaming set-top boxes that provide subscription content for free. Mr Thompson ...
- Most Users Object To Video Piracy, One-Third Watch Pirated Content
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 18, 2017
When consumers were told that pirated video content can result in studios losing money, 39% of consumers said this knowledge had no effect on the amount of illegal content th ...
- Emails From ISPs Will Warn Brits Over Illegal Downloads
Around The Net In EU Email Marketing, Sean Hargrave - Friday, January 13, 2017
UK ISPs are to start sending "educational letters" to customers identified as downloading copyright material without paying for it. It is part of the UK government's attempt to crack do ...
- BPA Worldwide Launches TAG Certification Toolkit
Real-Time Daily, Tobi Elkin - Tuesday, December 13, 2016
BPA Worldwide said it has launched a TAG Certification Toolkit to help media businesses and agencies better understand the compliance guidelines established by TAG (The Trustworthy Accountability Group), a cross-indust ...
- Study Finds Piracy Becoming More Sophisticated: Consumers Ignorant Or Indifferent
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 8, 2016
Video piracy is looking more legitimate to consumers -- and growing -- with sports content a big driver. ...
- Google Gets 909M URL Piracy Removal Requests In One Year
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Google's Transparency Report shows that the search engine removed 909 million URLs due to copyright infringement during the past year, from Nov. 29, 2015 through Nov. 9, 2016. Some 347,0 ...
- Appeals Court Sides Against MP3Tunes Over Key Question In Battle Over Pirated Music
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 26, 2016
A federal appellate court has largely sided against MP3Tunes in a 10-year-old lawsuit over online copyright infringement by users. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling th ...
- Hollywood Players Leak Movies To File-Sharing Sites
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Hollywood insiders are leaking movies to file-sharing sites, a new lawsuit brought by Warner Bros. suggests. Warner Bros. alleges that the talent agency Innovative Artists uploaded DVD screeners and oth ...
- 'The Revenant' Uploader Ordered To Pay $1.1 Million
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 30, 2016
A former studio employee who uploaded The Revenant six days before its release was ordered to pay $1.1 million for criminal copyright infringement. The defendant, William Kyle Morarity, uploaded bo ...
- ANA Raises Concerns About FCC Plan To Replace Set-Top Boxes With Apps
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 21, 2016
The Federal Communications Commission's newly revised plan to enable consumers to watch pay-TV without cable boxes could boost piracy, according to the Association of National Advertisers. ...
- Warner Bros. Sends Takedown Notices For Own Sites To Google
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 6, 2016
So far this year, Warner Bros. has demanded that Google remove more than four million URLs from its search results, on the grounds that the sites offer infringing content. B ...
- Megaupload Founder Wants Extradition Hearing Streamed
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 25, 2016
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, who resides in New Zealand but is under indictment in the U.S. for criminal copyright infringement, wants his extradition hearing live-streamed. A lower court in N ...
- Pirates Stay Current: They're Streaming,Too
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, August 16, 2016
A new report says nearly 75% of the 78.5 billion visits to film and TV piracy sites last year were streaming sites. Downloading is becoming old news, even for thie ...
- Judge Won't Upset Copyright Infringement Award Against ISP
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 10, 2016
In a blow to Cox, a federal judge has refused to set aside a $25 million judgment against the Internet service provider for contributing to copyright infringement. The music licensi ...
- TAG You're It: Big Agencies Among 100 Added To 'Trustworthy' Registry
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 26, 2016
The industry's Trustworthy Accountability Group said today it has accepted 100 companies -- including Google, Facebook, WPP and Omnicom Media Group -- into its registry of "legitimate participants in t ...
- Google Defends Anti-Piracy Efforts Amid Criticism From Music, Content Creators
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Google released its latest piracy policy report Wednesday, but the focus turns to the amount of cash the company divvies out to content creators and artists. It dispels a my ...
- Internet Piracy At Record Low As Spotify And Netflix Rise
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Internet streaming services such as Spotify and Netflix have resulted in online piracy falling to its lowest rate in years, an official report claims. Research commissioned by the Intellectual Proper ...
- Pirates Are Repenting, But Don't Expect Ad Blockers To Follow Suit
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Content piracy is at a record low, but that doesn't mean ad blockers will change their ways until they are barred from digital shoplifting. ...
- BPA Worldwide Approved As Validator For TAG Anti-Piracy Program
Real-Time Daily, Tobi Elkin - Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Not-for-profit assurance provider BPA Worldwide has announced that it was approved by the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) as a validator for TAG's "Certified Against Piracy" Program. ...
- What To Do About Piracy? How About Nothing?
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, June 16, 2016
An article on Streaming Media.com says it's hard to know how much online piracy there really is, or if any measures really stop it. One solution: Don't do anything. ...
- Interpublic And Omnicom Join TAG's Anti-Piracy Initiative
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 9, 2016
Interpublic and Omnicom have joined WPP's GroupM and Publicis in participating in an anti-piracy program developed by the Trustworthy Accountability Group. ...
- Lawmakers Parrot MPAA, Say Unlocked Set-Top Boxes Could Boost Piracy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 3, 2016
"Creators are legitimately worried about the prospect that future set top boxes, or their functional equivalents, could incorporate apps such as Popcorn Time or its functionality," two lawmakers say ...
- UK Minister Compares Ad Blocking To Piracy, Promises Action
Around the Net in Real-Time, Tobi Elkin - Thursday, March 3, 2016
Boing Boing reports that on Wednesday U.K. culture secretary John Whittingdale gave a speech at the Oxford Media Convention where he compared adblocking to piracy and vowed "to set ...
- The Face Of Disruption
Online Spin, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, February 23, 2016
If you ask publishing giant Elsevier, Alexandra Elbakyan is a criminal -- a pernicious pirate. If you ask the Lifeboat Foundation, or blogger PZ Myers, or millions of students arou ...
- Kanye West's New Album Popular With Pirates
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 16, 2016
More than 500,000 people downloaded a pirated copy of Kanye West's new album, "The Life of Pablo," in the day after its release on Tidal, according to TorrentFreak. "Many ...
