TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare serves millions of customers and provides a variety of connectivity and privacy features to the general public. People can freely use the company’s open DNS resolver 1.1.1.1 , for example, or use its IPFS and Ethereum gateways to access content on these decentralized web services.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2023

“This is a collaboration of like minded corporate Industry associations and individual right holders to help fight piracy,” the Copyright Board added. “This is a collaboration of like minded corporate Industry associations and individual right holders to help fight piracy,” the Copyright Board added.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

Anti-piracy organization CODA (Content Overseas Distribution Association) is a permanent fixture on the front lines of Japan’s war against online piracy. While these names represent just a sample of the individual companies represented by CODA, the anti-piracy group also has around ten ‘organizational’ members.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2022

These data include Internet and TV usage reports as well as billing records for a sixteen-month period spanning 2017-2018, when Kodi-powered streaming boxes were widely used. In recent years, legal video streaming services such as Netflix, HBO and Amazon have flourished. Do Pirate Boxes Hurt Rightsholders?

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 25, 2024

Twenty-five years ago, peer-to-peer file-sharing took the Internet by storm. We aim to remove power from companies, governments, and AI in order to shift all this power to self-sovereign citizens,” the Tribler team explains. The ability to search for and share content with complete strangers was nothing short of a revolution.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” Internet provider RCN is among the targeted providers. In 2021, the company was sued by several film companies, including the makers of The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, London Has Fallen, and Hellboy.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of customers including multinationals, governments, but also some of the world’s leading pirate sites. Cloudflare complied with the order but took the case to appeal.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That very little content was available to buy legally online not only helped to fuel the crisis, in this underdeveloped market many ISPs still had just one key product to sell; internet access and the bandwidth it consumed. Right now, only paperwork is holding that back. We don’t have the right to do that today.

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Nelligan Law

MARCH 20, 2024

Police require judicial approval before asking for an IP address from an internet provider. Initially, the police, lacking a warrant, requested the store’s payment processor to provide the IP addresses associated with the suspicious transactions. The company complied by supplying two IP addresses despite the absence of a warrant.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 6, 2024

Nevertheless, movie and TV show companies, broadcasters, and sports leagues insist that blocking remains valuable as part of a diverse anti-piracy toolkit. Nevertheless, movie and TV show companies, broadcasters, and sports leagues insist that blocking remains valuable as part of a diverse anti-piracy toolkit.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Trademarks are becoming even more significant assets for companies trying to stand out in a competitive market due to the growth of online platforms and e-commerce. The accessibility of Internet markets and the ease with which information may be shared have given rise to new opportunities for trademark infringement.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 15, 2022

A trademark search is the first step to determining if another company is already using the mark. Imagine if you print labels and brochures, develop a website, run ads and spend valuable time building the reputation associated with a trademark only to discover that the name, logo, or slogan already exists.

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The Illusion of More

DECEMBER 17, 2021

IA has made great progress on its mission to foster innovation, promote economic growth, and empower people through a free and open internet. As this chapter closes, member companies remain committed to advancing public policy in support of this mission and will continue to work with stakeholders in other capacities. It’s been weird.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The comments in question were picked up by Kerry Culpepper, a copyright attorney who leads several piracy lawsuits against Internet providers on behalf of independent film companies. In a second attempt a few weeks later, several film companies sent a similar subpoena to Reddit.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Foe example, a camera company called “Cameras” will get zero protection because it describes the category of things that are being made or sold. It tells you that it has something to do with movies and the internet, but because it’s a made up combination of syllables and portions of words, it’s suggestive.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 30, 2022

The downside is that the associated court processes are complex, expensive, and not particularly timely. The downside is that the associated court processes are complex, expensive, and not particularly timely. Spanish Companies Sign Protocol in 2021. 869 Domains and Subdomains Blocked. 869 Domains and Subdomains Blocked.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2022

Among the many movie companies that have attempted to turn piracy into profit, Voltage Pictures and parent Voltage Holdings stand out among the most persistent. Given the similarities between Canadian and UK law, the order and the reasoning behind it should prove interesting to Voltage letter recipients on both sides of the Atlantic.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 22, 2023

were denied access to the company’s reporting. 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

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Signed in 2018, a memorandum of cooperation signed by major rightsholders and internet companies including Yandex changed the way infringing content is handled. To deal with this type of ‘pirate’ countermeasure, the new memorandum requires search companies to take more stringent action.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 2, 2022

Knowing the potential traps associated with these licenses and how they can arise may help your company avoid being the next defendant. By: Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog Between February and April 2022, a professional photographer from Cologne, Germany, filed nine copyright infringement lawsuits in U.S.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Internet Association, a lobbying group that filed numerous amicus briefs on behalf of companies operating on the internet in patent and copyright cases, announced suddenly on Wednesday that it would be ceasing operations by the end of the year.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 2, 2021

Two years ago Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels. A Virginia jury held Cox liable for pirating subscribers because it failed to terminate accounts after repeated accusations, ordering the company to pay $1 billion in damages. Waging War on The Internet?

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 6, 2023

At the time, Rightscorp was a publicly listed company but was hemorrhaging money. In 2014, the company revealed a $2.2m in losses since the company launched in 2011. By attaching settlement demands to DMCA notices sent to ISPs, Rightscorp hoped these would be forwarded intact to subscribers. loss for the previous year, $6.5m

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In part due to intervention from the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic ( CIPPIC ), an independent expert was appointed to measure the effectiveness and proportionality of the blocking efforts. After reviewing the motion, last week Associate Chief Justice Jocelyne Gagné granted the new blocking order.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2023

These referrals were investigated by Arcom, which forwarded hundreds of blocking requests to Internet providers over subsequent months. Rightsholders are also pleased with the outcome, the sports protection association says. Sports Piracy Crackdown Along with this organizational change, Arcom received new anti-piracy powers.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2024

ASSOProvider’s Stand and Subsequent Reward ASSOProvider is an association representing the interests of more than 200 small to medium-sized companies and ISPs in the Italian internet and telecoms sector. All that remained to be seen was when, at what scale, and how any chaos would be managed.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat copyright infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” Internet provider RCN, which operates under the Astound brand, has been one of the most frequent targets. In the years that followed, it was sued by several record labels , and later by film companies too.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. Internet provider RCN is among the targeted providers. Last year, the company was sued by several film companies , including the makers of The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, London Has Fallen, and Hellboy.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In Germany, for example, the largest Internet providers agreed to voluntarily block pirate sites as part of a deal they struck with rightsholders. The Internet infrastructure company lost this legal battle in the first instance, before the case moved to the Higher Regional Court of Cologne. DNS resolver. DNS resolver.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 29, 2023

The decision, which the company says will be implemented before the law takes effect, will cover search, Google News, and Google Discover. The decision, which the company says will be implemented before the law takes effect, will cover search, Google News, and Google Discover. Yet it also valued news in a way that Meta does not.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 5, 2023

Over the past several years, adult entertainment company Strike 3 Holdings has filed thousands of cases in U.S. The company, known for its Blacked, Tushy, and Vixen brands, targets people whose Internet connections were allegedly used to download and share copyright-infringing content via BitTorrent. federal courts.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2024

The movie companies said they were not planning to go after these people in court but wanted to use their comments as evidence in an ongoing piracy lawsuit against Internet provider RCN. Instead, the company objected , arguing that handing over the requested information would violate their users’ right to anonymous speech.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The vast majority of today’s movie-related copyright infringement lawsuits can be linked back to companies working with piracy monetization company, GuardaLey. The 30 remaining internet account holders, all recipients of earlier infringement warnings via their ISPs, were sued by Voltage.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 1, 2023

If you think you might have received a trademark scam letter or solicitation, here are some tips: Search the internet for information about the material you received. Try contacting the company that sent the letter via email or phone or online. Unfortunately, I received a new scam in the mail this week. US per year! Do they respond?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) recognized this threat early on and pressured the original developers to throw in the towel. One of the most popular, Popcorntime.app, was targeted in a lawsuit filed by a group of independent movie companies, including the makers of “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” and “London Has Fallen.”.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2022

Seventeen years later, with billions of internet users now both consumers and creators of content, people are becoming more educated. Media companies in Japan believe that the use of overwhelming force to send a deterrent message may go some way to solving these problems. 13 Media Companies Want ‘Fast Movies’ Stamped Out.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Courts, having made a textual reading of the broad language of Section 230, have consistently interpreted the statute to bar claims seeking to hold internet service providers liable for the content produced by third parties. This case involves the murderous attack by Dylann Roof against the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C.,

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