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Illegal TV streaming sites cost European economies over 3 billion Euros a year

A new study by Bournemouth University estimates that TV companies in Europe lost €3.21 billion in 2021 because of people using illegal streaming sites to watch TV. The researchers also estimate that the illegal providers made €1.06 billion from Europe in the same year – almost a fifth of which came from the UK. The…

16 December 202216 December 2022 Chris Price Movies, News

Can the film industry learn from the music industry to stop piracy?

Over the weekend we heard the news that Sony Pictures has been hacked by a group known as "GOP" (who aren't the same people as the US Republican "Grand Old Party", presumably). GOP claims to have stolen many of Sony's "secrets", including copies of films that haven't been released, or at least released outside of…

1 December 20148 December 2014 James O'Malley Movies, Online TV, Skeptech

Google says its anti-piracy algorithm will now visibly affect file-sharing sites’ rankings

Google is tweaking its search engine to make sure that the most "notorious" piracy sites are less likely to appear when people search for music, films and other copyrighted content. The changes were revealed in a blogpost by Katherine Oyama, the company's senior copyright policy counsel, and they include new ad formats that are designed…

20 October 2014 Stuart Google, Intellectual Property, Internet, Piracy

Police arrest man for running proxy servers

City of London anti-piracy police have arrested a man in Nottingham for running a proxy server. The 20-year-old from Nottingham is believed to have been running a proxy server that connected to addresses banned by service providers in the UK. Acccording to reports, the man was questioned and then released on bail. The arrest was…

8 August 2014 Stuart Computers, Intellectual Property, Internet, Piracy

Anti-piracy campaign set to kick off in UK

In an effort to fight digital piracy, the movie and music industries have announced a deal with the UK’s leading ISPs to send warning emails to alleged copyright infringers. Called the Voluntary Copyright Alert Programme, the campaign will focus on alerting people to the fact that their activities infringe copyright. Starting next year, up to…

21 July 2014 Stuart Intellectual Property, Internet, Movies, music, Piracy

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Tag: Piracy

Illegal TV streaming sites cost European economies over 3 billion Euros a year

Can the film industry learn from the music industry to stop piracy?

Google says its anti-piracy algorithm will now visibly affect file-sharing sites’ rankings

Police arrest man for running proxy servers

Anti-piracy campaign set to kick off in UK

Pirate Bay co-founder arrested after two years on the run

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BitTorrent porn video filesharer hit with $1.5 million fine