- Premier League Planning Illegal Streams Clampdown
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, February 8, 2016
Officials from the Premier League are in talks with cyber-security companies in an effort to stop fans from watching top-flight football on illegal online streams. The discussions are believed ...
- DoubleVerify Gains Certification For Anti-Piracy Services
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 19, 2016
DoubleVerify said Tuesday that it has been certified by the industry organization TAG as a validated provider of anti-piracy services for online ad companies. ...
- Warner Bros And Rightscorp To Pay $450,000 To Alleged File-Sharers
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, copyright enforcement outfit Rightscorp and BMG Rights Management will pay $450,000 to more than 2,000 alleged file-sharers in order to settle robocalling allegations. The companies we ...
- Study: One In Three 'Piracy' Sites Contains Malware
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 10, 2015
One out of three sites that host pirated movies and television shows also host malware that can be used to perpetuate ad fraud or identity theft, according to a n ...
- Marketers And Agencies Pledge To Avoid Piracy Sites
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 8, 2015
More than 30 marketers and ad agencies have signed a voluntary pledge to take "commercially reasonable steps" to reduce the risk of placing ads on sites with pirated content, t ...
- Digital Ad Industry Loses $8.2B Via Fraud And Flaws In Supply Chain
Real-Time Daily, Tobi Elkin - Wednesday, December 2, 2015
The bad news is that the U.S. digital advertising industry is losing $8.2 billion a year due to fraudulent impressions, infringed content, and costs associated with malvertising, according to ...
- Google Search Takedown Requests Rise To An Estimated 1,500 Links Per Minute
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Copyright holders continue to flood Google with DMCA takedown notices, asking the company to delete links to pirated content. TorrentFreak estimates the number of reported takedown requests translates into 1,5 ...
- MPAA Shuts Down Popcorn Time
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 4, 2015
The Motion Picture Association of America says it has shut down torrent site YTS and PopcornTime.io, the main Popcorn Time fork. The closures are the result of lawsuits brought ...
- TAG, AAM Join Forces Against Internet Piracy
Publishers Daily, Erik Sass - Monday, November 2, 2015
To help combat Internet piracy and counterfeiting and bolster marketer confidence, the Trustworthy Accountability Group is joining forces with the Alliance for Audited Media to provide certification to legitimate publishe ...
- Civil Suits Against Megaupload Delayed
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 1, 2015
Lawsuits filed by the entertainment industry against the cyberlocker service Megaupload have been delayed until at least next April, TorrentFreak reports. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, under indictment in the U. ...
- Taylor Swift Demands Periscope Take Down Live Concert Streams
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 25, 2015
Musician Taylor Swift has sent dozens of notices to Twitter, asking the company to take down live streams of her concerts. Most of the streams, posted by fans using Periscop ...
- Cox Seeks Dismissal Of Piracy Lawsuit
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 25, 2015
Cox is asking a federal judge for summary judgment in a lawsuit accusing it of contributing to copyright infringement by failing to terminate the accounts of subscribers accused of shari ...
- TAG Taps Rachel Thomas To Oversee Compliance
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 24, 2015
The ad industry's Trustworthy Accountability Group has tapped Rachel Nyswander Thomas to serve as its new head of operations and policy. ...
- Popcorn Time Users Sued For Streaming 'Dallas Buyers Club'
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 22, 2015
The makers of Dallas Buyers Club have sued 10 anonymous Comcast subscribers for allegedly infringing copyright by using Popcorn Time to stream the movie. The filmmakers are asking for ...
- In Cuba, Content Comes From 'The Package'
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, September 22, 2015
A fascinating video about how Cuba -- where essentially nobody has the Internet -- collects video, from the U.S. and other places onto thumb drives and efficiently and illegally circulat ...
- Google, Facebook And Others Fight Request For 'Broad-Based Blocking Orders'
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and Tumblr are asking a judge to reject the MPAA's request for a "breathtakingly broad" order in a piracy lawsuit. ...
- 'Minority Report,' 'Lucifer,' And 'Blindspot' Pilots Leak Online
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 10, 2015
Pilot episodes of three upcoming TV shows -- "Lucifer," "Blindspot" and "Minority Report" -- have leaked online, TorrentFreak reports. "Despite the brewing controversy, 'Lucifer' character co-creator Neil Gaiman is unlike ...
- Shades Of Grey In Platforms' Content Accountability
Online Spin, Kaila Colbin - Friday, August 7, 2015
Here's a quick thought experiment: if you are driving a car with four underage drinkers in it, are you responsible for them breaking the law? What if one of t ...
- Authors Guild Wants Web Companies To 'Cooperate' In Fight Against Piracy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 15, 2015
The Authors Guild wants Congress to revise the copyright law in a way that encourages Web companies like Google to join with writers in the fight against ebook piracy. ...
- Piracy And Premium Content -- Fighting an Upstream Battle?
MediaDailyNews, David Mowrey - Wednesday, July 8, 2015
While technology companies are making it easier to quickly identify and remove unlicensed content, and content owners will undoubtedly continue to use DMCA to keep the premium in premium conten ...
- In Zaneis Madison Ave Trusts, Will Head Accountability Group
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 1, 2015
The ad industry's Trustworthy Accountability Group has tapped Interactive Advertising Bureau executive Mike Zaneis to serve as the organization's new president and CEO. Zaneis, who has been interim CEO sin ...
- Attorneys General Close Ranks Against Google
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Dozens of state law enforcement officials are backing Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's request to resume an investigation into Google's role in online piracy. "Upholding the District Court's preliminary injuncti ...
- Facebook Posts And Accounts Deleted In Counterfeiting Crackdown
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, June 25, 2015
Officers have taken down thousands of Facebook listings and seized dangerous goods in a crackdown on social media counterfeiting and piracy. National Trading Standards said Operation Jasper was the large ...
- Some Global Viewers Still Speeding Illegally In Fast Lane
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 25, 2015
While marketers increasingly take a measured approach in making season-long ad deals -- the slow-moving upfront market, of course -- TV viewers still want access to be all about spee ...
- Mississippi A.G. Wants To Resume 'Hijacked' Google Investigation
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood wants a federal appellate court to pave the way for him to resume investigating Google for its role in allegedly facilitating online piracy. The t ...
- How Madison Avenue Can Stop Funding Piracy
MediaDailyNews, Mike Weatherley - Thursday, June 11, 2015
Ad revenue generated for content that appears on pirate sites, or sites that illegally stream movies and TV shows, was $209 million in 2014. We also need to consider legislati ...
- Warner Bros. Targets 'Friends' Downloader
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 8, 2015
Warner Bros. recently demanded that a Web user who allegedly downloaded a 1995 episode of “Friends” pay $20 to settle infringement accusations, according to TorrentFreak. “This is the first ti ...
- Fullscreen In Full Scream Over Facebook 'Piracy'
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, June 5, 2015
In a series of tweets, George Strompolos, Fullscreen's CEO, is complaining that Facebook users, including other media companies, are stealing content and posting it on FB, and says the soci ...
- Google Takes Hollywood Studios To Court, Seeks Correspondence With Mississippi AG
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Google is seeking court orders requiring the Motion Picture Association of America, 21st Century Fox, NBC Universal and Viacom to turn over emails, drafts of legal papers and other corresponden ...
- Cox Ordered To Identify 250 Suspected Music Downloaders
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 26, 2015
A federal judge has ordered Cox Communications to reveal the identifies of 250 broadband subscribers whose accounts allegedly were used to download copyrighted music, Torrent Freak reports. The order requir ...
