U.S. President Signs Executive Order to Prevent Sales of Imported Counterfeit Goods
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at preventing counterfeit products from abroad from being sold online in the U.S.
With the...
Piracy
Two Computer Programmers Plead Guilty to Operating Large Movie and Television Show Streaming Services
Two men behind two of the biggest pirate streaming sites in the US have pleaded guilty to copyright infringement.
Darryl Julius Polo, aka djppimp,...
Ubisoft is Trying to Prevent Illegal Sales of Game Activation Codes
Ubisoft wants end game activation keys and stop that market that is illegaly reselling game key-codes.
Key resellers hurt gaming sales directly and many of...
German Authorities Shut Down File-sharing Site
German authorities have blocked access to usenetrevolution.info - a file-sharing site with around 27,000 members that is believed to have caused millions of euros...
Youtube-mp3.org Site Shut Down
The Recording Industry Association of America, the British Recorded Music Industry, and other industry lobbyists have shut down piracy site Youtube-mp3.org.
The site...
European Union's Top Court Rules That PirateBay's Operations Risks Breaking The Law
Making available and managing an online platform for sharing copyright- protected works, such as 'The Pirate Bay', may constitute an infringement of copyright law,...
Microsoft Patent Describes Windows Ability To Detect and Block Pirated Content
Microsoft has been granted a patent that could de applied to the Windows OS to detect and block illegally-obtained and shared content,...
Google, Bing Agree to Help U.K. Fight Pirate Sites
Google and Microsoft's Bing have voluntarily signed on to an initiative in Britain aimed at "reducing the availability of infringing content accessed through online...
U.S. Trade Representative Calls Out Stream Ripping In Latest 'Notorious markets' Report
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) today released its annual 'notorious markets' report that lists various illicit online websites and...
World's Largest Music Strem Ripping Site Faces Legal Action
Organisations representing record companies in the US and UK took legal action today against Youtube-mp3.org, the world’s largest site dedicated to offering "stream ripped" music...
