- Tumblr Cracking Down On Illicit Music Sharing
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, February 18, 2015
At the risk of alienating younger users, Tumblr is reportedly cracking down on the sharing of pirated music files. “A wave of [users] complaints suggest that increased anti-piracy activity ...
- The Unknowns About Google, YouTube Revenue
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, February 17, 2015
East Bay Ray, guitarist and co-founder of the band Dead Kennedys, wrote an opinion piece in TheHill.com asking how Google's unsavory advertising practices, lack of transparency, and apparent efforts to silen ...
- Ad Industry Unveils New Anti-Piracy Program
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 10, 2015
A coalition of major ad industry groups are rolling out a new program that aims to "validate" companies that offer anti-piracy services to ad agencies and marketers. The voluntary progr ...
- TAG Unveils Anti-Piracy Program At IAB Leadership Meeting
Real-Time Daily, Tyler Loechner - Tuesday, February 10, 2015
The Trustworthy Accountability Group -- launched last year by the IAB, ANA and the 4As -- on Tuesday unveiled an anti-piracy program, calling it the first part of a campai ...
- Anti-Piracy Program A Reminder That Ad Quality Concerns Run Deep
RTBlog, Tyler Loechner - Tuesday, February 10, 2015
The anti-piracy program unveiled Tuesday by the ad industry group known as the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) serves as a reminder that the digital ad industry's quality concerns run dee ...
- Digital Rights Groups Side With Google In Fight With Miss. AG
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 3, 2015
A high-profile court battle now underway between Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and Google could affect the free speech rights of all Web users, a coalition of digital rights grou ...
- Anti-Piracy Group Sides With Miss AG Against Google
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 23, 2015
The International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition this week asked a federal judge to deny Google's request for an injunction that would prohibit Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood from enforcing a subpoena f ...
- Like Sony, A News Org May Have Been Hacked Too, Leaked FBI Report Says
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, December 31, 2014
According to an FBI bulletin obtained by The Intercept, the same hackers who broke into Sony Pictures and stole a devastating amount of data made threats against a domestic news organization, t ...
- 'The Interview' Online Illegally Downloaded 900,000 Times In First Day
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, December 26, 2014
Shortly after
Sony Pictures Entertainment released “
The Interview” on digital services Dec. 24, high-quality copies of the movie turned up on multiple
piracy sites — and in less than 24 hour ...
- Miss. AG Seeks Temporary Truce With Google
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Sunday, December 21, 2014
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said last Friday that he wants to pause an escalating dispute with Google regarding the company's search results. Hood's statement came several hours after Goog ...
- Google Accuses MPAA Of Reviving Internet Censorship Through State Attorney General
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, December 19, 2014
Google has accused the Motion Picture Association of America of reviving a campaign to censor the Internet. On Friday, the company asked a federal court to dismiss Mississippi State Attorn ...
- Let's Lower The Pirate Flag
Video Insider, Ted May - Tuesday, November 18, 2014
The New York Times recently ran "The Unrepentant Bootlegger," an article profiling a video pirate. (OK, so between bootlegging and piracy, we are already mixing metaphors.) The article seemed ...
- Pirate Site Hit Hard By Google Search Ranking Penalties, Per Reports
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 24, 2014
Popular pirate sites are noticing a dramatic drop in search traffic as a results of anti-piracy measures Google recently updated. The search algorithm, which was in the works for year ...
- Google Outlines New Anti-Piracy Plan
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 20, 2014
Last year, copyright holders sent Google more than 224 million requests to remove search results that linked to allegedly pirated content. The company granted 99% of those requests, with ...
- Pirates Cost Sports Leagues Millions With Illegal Online Telecasts
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, October 13, 2014
Every major sport is being picked off by online pirates around the world who put games online, for free. They make their money selling banner ads. ...
- Ad Trade Groups To Form New Anti-Fraud Unit
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, October 1, 2014
This new collective organization will build upon the initial work laid out by the IAB Trustworthy Digital Supply Chain Initiative. The new body will have its own board and leadershi ...
- Private Network Users Told: Cut It Out Or We'll Cut You Out
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, September 19, 2014
As users worry about digital spying. some have turned to using client-side encrypted virtual private networks that tend to obfuscate some internet activity. But media firms are warning VPN "pirate ...
- News Corp. Tells European Commission Google Is A 'Platform For Piracy'
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, September 18, 2014
The chief executive of News Corp. has written to the European Commission, calling Google a "platform for piracy" and demanding action. In the strongly worded letter to competition commissioner Joaq ...
- Google Uses Hamster Story Responding To News Corp Accusation
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 18, 2014
Google responded to a News Corp with a statement "joking about eating hamsters as a response to a strongly worded letter from the chief executive of News Corp in whi ...
- Google, The 'Platform For Piracy,' Per News Corp
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 18, 2014
Robert Thomson, CEO at News Corp -- the publishing company that owns The Times, The Sun, and The Wall Street Journal -- wrote a letter to the European Commission urgi ...
- "Orange Is The New" . . .Video To Rip Off
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, August 27, 2014
As of last week, Netflix's “Orange Is the New Black,” was the second-most-pirated TV show in the world on a daily basis after HBO’s "Game of Thrones." according to C ...
- U.S. Marketers Feel A Chill In China
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, August 27, 2014
China's wealth continues to increase state-funded projects like electric-vehicle charging stations and computer and smartphone operating systems, as part of the country's strategic government initiatives to become more independent. N ...
- Britain Gives More Leeway To Online Piracy Sentencing
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Tanya Gazdik - Thursday, July 24, 2014
The UK government and creative organizations has launched Creative Contents UK which will point those engaging in online piracy to alternative legal sources. It includes a two-step policy change th ...
- Search Engine Indexeus Reveals Malicious Hackers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Indexeus, a new search engine, turns the tables on hackers by exposing their exploits. The search engine crawls and indexes mostly Web sites that list data breach information posted ...
- What!? China Fines An Online Video Pirate
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, June 17, 2014
China fined a major online provider of pirated videos with a fine equivalent to $42 million. The regulatory authority in Shenzhen fined Shenzhen QVOD Technology, which authorities said distributed ...
- The Burgeoning Business In Pirating Premium Content
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, May 15, 2014
The Wall Street Journal recently reported some publishers have been selling online advertising alongside pirated video content. That swindles brands that have to pay for ads alongside bogus premium conte ...
- Digital Ad Fraud, Ad-Supported Piracy, Non-Viewability: When Will Enough Be Enough?
Online Spin, Dave Morgan - Thursday, May 8, 2014
You can't read digital advertising news these days without running into stories about yet another problem with robotic traffic, ad fraud, non-viewable ads or ad-supported piracy. Unfortunately, it's no long ...
- MPAA Sues Megaupload For Copyright Infringement
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 8, 2014
The defunct cyberlocker Megaupload and its embattled founder, Kim Dotcom, were hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit this week by the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPAA's lawsuit com ...
- Content Pirates Rolling In Ad Dollars
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, February 20, 2014
Last year, Web sites that specialize in pirated content took home about a quarter of a billion dollars in advertising, according to a new report from the Digital Citizens Allianc ...
- Definitely TMI: PewDiePie Says He Steals HIs Internet from Neighbors
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, January 29, 2014
PewDiePie, whose YouTube channel recently shot past the 21 million subscriber marker, and averages 200 million views a month, told his fans on a video that, well, he doesn't ha ...
