December 2020

After two years of work, Russia’s State Duma adopted new legislation aimed at cracking down on the spread of apps that breach copyright law. After being...

It is a busy week for copyright proposals in the United States, one that will resound far into the year ahead. A few hours after the...

Earlier today Congress approved the 5,593-page spending bill. In addition to the necessary paperwork to keep the Government running, the bill also included COVID-19 relief measures...

While rightsholders and authorities all around the world are working to disrupt pirate IPTV platforms, in 2020 Italian law enforcement entities have been more involved than...

Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider and Virgin Islands-based Pirate Monitor Ltd teamed up in the summer to file a class-action lawsuit against YouTube. In an effort...

For most police departments, online piracy has no priority, but the City of London Police have made copyright infringement one of their main targets. In September...

Every year, thousands of “Doe” defendants are sued for allegedly sharing pirated videos via BitTorrent. Most of these lawsuits follow a common pattern. The copyright holders...

So-called ‘copyright trolling’ campaigns against alleged file-sharers is huge business in both the United States and Europe. The goal is to have courts order ISPs to...

Earlier this year Texas-based model Deniece Waidhofer sued Thothub for copyright infringement after the site’s users posted many of her ‘exclusive’ photos. Soon after the complaint...

With millions of users uploading huge quantities of content every day, YouTube is the largest video platform on the planet. Of course, not all of this...