TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As the threat grew, rightsholders deployed the pejorative term ‘cyberlocker’ to describe ‘rogue’ file-hosting services, while BitTorrent-focused anti-piracy outfits found their peer-to-peer monitoring tools somewhat less relevant. At the same time, the way internet users consume content has been transformed.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Targeting domain names of pirate sites can be an effective way to deter casual pirates. When a site can no longer be easily located, some users may give up, especially since Google now deindexes blocked domains as well. Following complaints from rightsholders, the torrent site is blocked by Spanish Internet providers.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It can swiftly order online services to take down unlicensed streams of live sporting events, for example. Thus far, more than 700 domain names have been reported to Arcom and subsequently blocked by local internet providers. Other services can be asked to take action as well, with Google a prime example.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With millions of regular visitors, Z-Library is one of the largest repositories of pirated books on the Internet. While many people appreciate the service, authors and publishers are not happy. law enforcement, resulting in a wave of seizures last Friday, which took the main Z-Library domain names offline.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 10, 2021

In the internet era, domain names are increasingly becoming a crucial conveyance of brand messages and brand image. Domain names are granted on a ‘first come, first served’ basis, and the registration is inexpensive and convenient. Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Mechanism.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Introduction In the current era, especially the period post COVID-19, there has been a tremendous growth in the internet traffic and this advancement has helped merchants to drastically expand their businesses online through utilisation of domain names. They correspond with IP addresses and are easier to remember and type.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 19, 2022

There are new domain extensions in Web3, including.crypto,eth, and.nft. What happens when someone registers your trademark or personal name on these web3 extensions? There are two videos in this web3 domain squatting educational series. Let’s talk about trademark protection and domain names. That was 1998.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2023

With millions of monthly users, USTVGO was one of the most visited live TV streaming portals on the Internet. As its name suggests, the portal focused on US channels, making it a popular site for cord-cutting Americans or those living abroad. domain name became completely unreachable. tv and watchnewslive.tv.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2023

It can order online services to rapidly take down unlicensed streams of live sporting events, for example. These referrals were investigated by Arcom, which forwarded hundreds of blocking requests to Internet providers over subsequent months. After six months, it reported that sports-related piracy was already cut in half.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 12, 2024

“Law enforcement agencies will have extended powers to suspend domain names and IP addresses used for fraudulent purposes or other serious crimes,” Cleverly said. The Bill sees domain and IP suspensions as a mechanism to fight fraud and other crime that has an online component. Are Pirate Sites Among the Targets?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The filmmakers sued the anonymous PopcornTime.app operator together with the VPN service VPN.ht. The VPN service formally settled the case a few days ago but the same can’t be said for the Popcorn Time fork. Domain Blocking and More. Those measures include the removal of all search engine results. Google Objects.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Last Friday we reported that a new round of piracy-related domain name seizures was likely being carried out by U.S. The authorities don’t mention specific domain names, but we can confirm that several popular streaming sites with millions of visitors are affected, including hesgoal.com, 9goaltv.to, freestreams-live1.com,

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TorrentFreak

JULY 12, 2023

YggTorrent , for example, is one of the largest French-language torrent sites on the Internet, serving millions of users per month. The site is blocked by French Internet providers following a court order and rightsholders are doing all they can to expose the identities of its operators. domain was rendered inaccessible.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

As a result, Internet providers in dozens of countries are required to block access to the site. Some people may resort to VPN services, for example, or replace the default DNS resolver provided by their ISP with independent alternatives. Aside from its main domain name, it also uses a proxybay.github.io

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The popular torrent site had millions of daily users spread across several domain names. domain, where the usual torrent index was replaced by a farewell message. Operating from 2016 until 2018, the Flawless IPTV service served over 50,000 UK households while generating millions in revenue by selling cheap subscriptions.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 23, 2023

Introduction The internet has come a long way since its inception as a communication network for the US Defence Department in the 1960s. However, to ensure successful communication in a network as vast as the internet, every device connected to it requires a unique address.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) provides immunity to “interactive computer services” providers against certain types of legal claims, such as when harmful material is posted on their site by third parties. In 2007, he registered the domain name “scottrigsbyfoundation.org” with GoDaddy.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

Library Genesis ( LibGen ) is one of the oldest shadow libraries on the Internet, offering free access to millions of books and academic papers people otherwise have to pay for. For this reason, the publishers are also asking the court to issue an injunction that will compel others to stop providing services to LibGen. LibGen Troubles?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

While the name may sound alien to the general public, the peer-to-peer file storage network has a growing user base among the tech-savvy. These advantages allow archivists, content creators, researchers, and others to reliably distribute large volumes of data over the Internet. “That suggestion is baseless. ” Walsh adds.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The name of the targeted site initially remained a mystery, but we deduced that Canna.to These services are neutral intermediaries and don’t play a “central role” in the copyright-infringing activities of pirate sites. DNS resolvers simply translate a domain name request to an IP-address.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

DNS means ‘domain name system’. Every domain has a unique Internet Protocol (‘IP’) address, consisting of four numbers. Every domain has a unique Internet Protocol (‘IP’) address, consisting of four numbers. Since it is not very practical to remember such numbers, domain names such as [link] were introduced.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Investigation Technical analysis of Ubox devices was guided by Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) with help from local internet service providers. Copied content was reportedly relayed by servers located in New Taipei City and Changhua, apparently with support from unnamed internet service providers.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2023

One of the ads warned that VPNs somehow obtain users’ passport details, plus their names, addresses, and dates of birth. During the summer, President Putin signed off on legal amendments that will require some internet platforms, including social networks, to verify new users’ identities, in some cases using their passports.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2023

However, this was only a preliminary proceeding and Quad9 promised to continue the legal battle, warning of a broad impact on the Internet ecosystem. “The defendant is liable as a perpetrator because it makes its DNS resolver available to Internet users and, through this, it refers to the canna.to Quad9’s expert, Prof.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2023

At the same time, the researchers observed an increase in traffic to legal services such as Netflix. There have also been several reports suggesting that traffic to domains decreased after blockades were implemented. For starters, it appears that traffic data on most blocked domains is absent. Specifically, 15.7%

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2022

The Domain Name System has been an essential component of the Internet since the mid-eighties. DNS resolvers make it possible to map a human-readable domain name to an IP-address, so a website or service can be easily located. Older people also call it the Internet’s phone book.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

serves as a reminder of the importance of protecting trademarks and intellectual property rights on the internet. Cyber-squatting is the practice of registering well-known companies or brand names as internet domains with the intention of reselling them for a profit. Namase Patel and Ors.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

First off today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Watch Tower, is pushing ahead with a copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTuber “Kevin McFree” (not his real name) in hopes of revealing the YouTuber’s real name. However, they asked the defendant to waive service of the case, which he refused to do.

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Kashishipr

MARCH 23, 2022

A trademark refers to a legally registered word or symbol representing a specific product or service of a company. It helps the public at large to identify the products and services of one and distinguish them from those of others. Tony La Russa had filed a complaint against Twitter alleging cybersquatting.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 22, 2023

The message usually confronts internet users who attempt to access a specific set of sites previously identified as facilitators of mass online copyright infringement. All of the readers reporting problems were using the same internet service provider – 1&1 AG , a €3.9 billion telecoms group servicing 15.6

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2022

In a lawsuit filed in a Kentucky court this month, US broadcaster DISH Network and streaming platform Sling TV accuse PrimeStreams of infringing their rights on a grand scale via their internet ‘rebroadcasting’ operation. The service was marketed and sold to users via these domains and through social media platforms.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By offering free localization and distribution services in what was once a chronically underserved overseas market, hobbyist translators and pirate sites made manga more accessible in every way. Even at this early stage, some of the pirate sites had moved to new domains. Those domains – gokumanga.com and doki1001.com

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The complaint, filed in December, targets 34 sites and a total of 54 domain names. The movie companies also added ETTVCentral.com, a domain that was used by the popular torrent distribution group ETTV. These ISPs have 15 days to disable access to the listed domains and IP addresses. Fresh Blocking Order. Whack a Mole.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

bill that would’ve allowed courts to take problematic domain names offline. When that SOPA law failed to pass, many internet users celebrated a victory for free speech. A decade later, Internet curation is still a hot topic. Even the Internet Archive has purged its archives of the controversial site.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 4, 2023

Music fans love to share mixtapes and have done so for decades but sharing these ‘tapes’ over the Internet is not without risk. The mixtape service commits to paying $50 million in damages plus other fees to the music companies. 50 Million + Shutdown Spinrilla doesn’t go light on itself in the judgment offer.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2021

There are lots of pieces of information that can help anti-piracy groups form a strategy to deal with an infringing site or service. Things like IP addresses, domain details, hosting companies and payment processor accounts all play important roles but of them all, real-life names and physical addresses are considered investigation gold.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The omnipresence of the internet in today’s world has opened the doors for several businesses and sectors to flourish at an expedited speed. It paves the path to previously inaccessible services in an efficient manner and as a result, the internet has been one of the most important tools for the e-commerce sector.

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