MPA Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Pirate Sites’ Use of Internet Intermediaries
After more than a decade at the MPA, including his tenure as Chief of Global Content Protection while heading anti-piracy coalition ACE, Jan van Voorn recently left the Hollywood anti-piracy group to lead his own venture. That raised questions of who might be a good fit for his former position or whether the MPA would seize the opportunity to try something a little different. Late last week the MPA announced it had hired Jesse Martin,...
Viking IPTV Defendant Avoids Immediate Prison But Faces Millions in Damages
Last December, Swedish anti-piracy group Rattighetsalliansen (Rights Alliance) reported that a local prosecutor had filed an indictment against a man suspected of being behind Viking IPTV. In the Scandinavian pirate market, Viking IPTV is a well-known brand and according to Rights Alliance, business appears to have been brisk. A police cryptocurrency expert reported that clusters of bitcoin wallets that could be connected to the...
