Russia's culture ministry has prepared a proposal aimed at fighting online movie piracy, but it will only concern local movies, leaving out Hollywood fare. Under the proposal, pub... More
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Russia Eyes Improved Anti-Piracy Measures … But Not for Hollywood Movies (Hollywood Reporter)
Online TV, Movie Piracy Losses to Soar to $52 Billion (Ooyala Videomind)
A new report from Digital TV Research posits that revenue losses due to piracy are expected to double between 2016 and 2022 to the tune of $51.6 billion, a significant chest of gol... More
IPTV Piracy Generates More Internet Traffic Than Torrents (TorrentFreak)
Increasingly, people are trading in their expensive cable subscriptions, opting to use cheaper or free Internet TV instead. This is made easy and convenient with help from a varie... More
Court Holds U.S. Retailer Accountable for Promoting Piracy by Selling IPTV Streaming Devices with Unauthorized Channels (CDSA)
A bankruptcy court in Florida has ruled that Amit Bhalla, a retailer of IPTV streaming devices with unauthorized channels, cannot use a bankruptcy case to shield himself from monet... More
A Million Piracy-Enabled Kodi Boxes Sold in U.K. Show Pirates Not Yet Sunk (TechRadar)
Kodi is a fantastic piece of open-source software for streaming content that you own onto a TV, but its versatility has lead to a huge market for people to modify it to stream cont... More
Irdeto: Kodi, Facebook Live Used for Mayweather vs. McGregor Piracy
Everything from social media services to media player platforms were used to illegally stream the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match Aug. 26, according to digital pla... More
Piracy ‘Significantly’ Declining Due to Availability of Streaming Services (ZDNet)
The availability of streaming services, as predicted by industry, has brought down online copyright infringement of TV shows, movies, music, and games "significantly", new research... More
Chrome DRM Bug Makes it Easy to Download Streaming Video (ARS Technica)
Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser that could allow users to bypass itscopy protection system and download content from streaming vid... More