Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform WordPress.com, receives thousands of takedown requests from copyright holders. For a number of years, the volume of notices...
Legal actions against file-sharers come in all shapes and sizes but perhaps the most common are the mass lawsuits that target alleged BitTorrent users. Hundreds of...
Over the past several weeks, The Pirate Bay has suffered prolonged downtime. For many people, the popular torrent site was completely unreachable through its main ThePirateBay.org...
The Pirate Bay’s original and main domain has been unreachable for more than a month. While the site operates as usual on the Tor network, visitors...
All around the world, content creators, distributors and associated anti-piracy groups are grappling with the thorny issue of piracy-configured set-top boxes. These cheap devices were initially...
Three years ago, a group of RIAA labels sued the Texas ISP Grande Communications. The music companies accused the provider of not doing enough to stop...
While English language ‘pirate’ sites grab most mainstream headlines, anti-piracy groups have international platforms firmly on their radars. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of such sites...
The coronavirus pandemic has drastically changed the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. In every continent, local governments have imposed restrictive measures,...
Given Russia’s historically weak response to the availability of pirated content online, the past seven years have seen a dramatic turnaround. While the laws of the...
Copyright holders can take a wide variety of measures to address piracy, with some being more effective than others. Hawaiian attorney Kerry Culpepper has tried different...
