A federal jury in Austin, Texas, has found communications service provider Grande Communications liable for wilful infringement of 1,403 copyrighted sound recordings and ordered it to pay $46,766,200 (€47.8m) in damages to a group of record label plaintiffs. US federal law does not allow internet providers to be wilfully blind to online piracy on their […]

An academic study, The Impact of Video Piracy on Content Producers and Distributors, from researchers at the Department of Business Administration, University of Delaware and the Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has found that adoption of piracy software, such as Kodi, does not harm paid OTT video providers and may […]

Despite a clear and unambiguous call from 112 organisations from across the full breadth of the EU’s cultural, creative and sports sectors, and from 107 Members of the European Parliament, the Commission has not included a legislative initiative to tackle live content piracy in its Work Programme for 2023. A Statement from the Live Content […]

Findings from digital piracy data specialist MUSO, which measure visits to the entire piracy eco-system, indicate that the largest media sector was TV content, which accounted for 46.6 per cent of all traffic to piracy websites. MUSO’s Piracy by Industry data set across the first eight months of 2022 (January to August measures industry-wide traffic […]

Video game piracy is predicted to rise, after a nationwide survey has revealed that nearly 10 per cent of gamers have illegally accessed content in the last three months. The findings show that more people are looking to cut their leisure costs now than ever before in order to save money – meaning video gamers […]

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal ecosystem and reducing digital piracy, has shut down two additional piracy operations based in Latin America. The first operation, YMovies, ranked among the top 25 US rogue streaming services and averaged about 2.5 million visits per month. A coordinated investigation […]

A federal court in New York has issued a judgment of $26,550,000 (€26.6m) against Sanjeev Kumar and Tsvetomir Dobrilov, operators of the My Indian TV service and the MyIndian.tv and NewMyIndian.tv websites. The judgment is against the operators personally. The case was filed by DISH Network, a member of the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy […]

Over 100 organisations from the world of media, sports, music and culture are urging the European Commission to take decisive legislative action to tackle piracy of live content. As the Commission finalises its work programme for 2023, 108 organisations and companies representing media, sports and culture in Europe stress that piracy remains a major issue […]

The Madras High Court has ordered the blocking of over 13,000 websites to prevent piracy of highly-anticipated movie Vikram Vedha, released September 30th. The interim injunction was passed in a suit filed by Reliance Entertainment Studio Pvt Ltd. The Bench restrained the respondents from infringing Copyright in the movie to prevent transmission, communication, display and […]

Ahead of a conference panel session on ‘Digital Piracy and Distribution’, research firm Parks Associates has released data on video habits which show that almost one-quarter of US Internet households agree that pirating content is acceptable, up from 14 per cent in 2019. “Almost half of pirates believe stealing content is acceptable because there are […]