Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown
Over the past few years, increased enforcement by players in both the private and public sectors has made Denmark one of the riskiest places in Europe for pirate site operators and prolific file-sharers. Relentless pushback from local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance and its partnership with Denmark’s Special Crime Unit (National enhed for Særlig Kriminalitet (NSK)) has led to many site closures, arrests, and subsequent prosecutions....
Rightsholders Reported Five Million Unique ‘Pirate’ Domain Names to Google
Over the past few years, copyright holders have reported more than seven billion copyright-infringing URLs to Google. At one point, the search engine processed close to three million links per day. A dazzling number to say the least. In recent years the daily volume has slowly declined. This is in part due to Google’s active policy of making pirate sites less visible in search results. After years of complaints, these efforts were...
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Sky’s Recent IPTV Blocking Injunction Isn’t Unusual, It’s Extraordinary
News that Sky had won a new High Court injunction to tackle pirate IPTV services first appeared in the Financial Times on July 30, 2023. The article outlined an injunction similar to those previously obtained by the Premier League, noting that ISPs would be compelled to block Sky’s “best selling football games and blockbuster TV shows.” Why Sky would go to the trouble of obtaining an injunction to block access to matches, already...
