Tag: Copyright Infringement
Cloudflare Confronts on Being Called as a Guardian of Pirate Sites
Cloudflare has refuted the beliefs of various copyright holders on helping pirate sites to flourish, as they complained against Cloudflare's ability to hide IP...
Hollywood Studios Obtained Injunction Against an IPTV Operator
The Hollywood studios, along with Netflix and Amazon, have obtained an injunction against Jason Tusa, alleged of infringing the copyrighted works.
Tusa was regarded by...
Nintendo Obtained a Permanent Injunction Against RomUniverse
Nintendo has successfully obtained a permanent injunction against the RomUniverse operator after winning a $2.1 million damage penalty earlier.
RomUniverse, a site hosting Nintendo games...
Akamai Explained How it Can Reduce Piracy Distribution Significantly
In an interview with TorrentFreak, Akamai's Director of Industry Strategy has revealed how the piracy system works in the wild and ways that Akamai...
Twitch Streamers Can Now Avoid DMCA Notices For Playing Copyrighted Music
Twitch streamers playing copyrighted music in the background while gaming has faced a lot of issues lately. To mitigate this, a developer came up...
Toomics Mistakenly Requests Google to Takedown Its Own URLs
Toomics, one of the popular webtoon services online is pursuing a bad track of taking down copyright infringements.
As seen by TorrentFreak, Toomics is wrongly...
WhatsApp Accounts of Movie Pirates Should be Suspended: Indian Court Orders
WhatsApp users sharing copyrighted content without permission are considered pirates and should have their accounts suspended, ordered Delhi High Court recently. This judgment came...
Facebook and Instagram Proactively Removed Millions of Copyright Infringing Content in H2 2020
In a move to let the community know how much they fight against copyright Infringement, companies often release a periodic transparency report that sheds...
A Fake Copyright Warning Campaign is in Wild For Stealing Credentials and Spreading Malware
A new campaign following an old method in the wild, where scammers are luring vulnerable Twitter users and blog/news site owners into sharing their...
YouTube’s Content ID System is a Lucrative and Secretive Revenue Stream
While we know that Google processes millions of DMCA takedown notices in Search every year, we haven't got out hands on the official number...