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Andy Maxwell

Writer at TorrentFreak

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  • 1 week ago | torrentfreak.com | Andy Maxwell

    The most obvious downward piracy trends have arrived in response to rightsholders addressing market demands. But, when authorities feel something drastic needs to be done, legal crackdowns can also be the weapon of choice. The idea is that these actions will punish offenders while also sending a deterrent message to others who operate in the same business.

  • 1 week ago | torrentfreak.com | Andy Maxwell

    In countries where site-blocking has been established for years, relatively small but always expanding measures happen mostly unannounced. It’s often too late to complain when the public are the last to know. Enhanced blocking measures and tools, with an emphasis on speed and limited judicial oversight, already receive support under national law.

  • 1 week ago | torrentfreak.com | Andy Maxwell

    Incorporated in Georgia, YuppTV USA Inc. markets itself as one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and on-demand platforms for South Asian content. Most of the company’s subscribers are described as “non-resident individuals.”Filed at a federal court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, YuppTV’s copyright complaint begins by naming Canada-based Harpreet Singh Randhawa as the operator of one or more IPTV services, sold under multiple brand names.

  • 1 week ago | torrentfreak.com | Andy Maxwell

    In 2023, sports rightsholders and their broadcasting partners had their collective patience tested to the limit. Coordinated industry-wide action late 2022 placed rising IPTV piracy rates under the spotlight, aiming to put the European Commission under pressure to take immediate action. Rightsholders wanted new legislation, to compel intermediaries to cooperate with faster takedowns, or even cooperate at all.

  • 2 weeks ago | torrentfreak.com | Andy Maxwell

    The extraordinary online popularity of Japanese manga comics shows no sign of retreat, with pirate site-based consumption at unprecedented levels fueled by billions of visits. Japanese publishers are pursuing pirate site operators all around the world but no matter where they’re physically located, the majority have some kind of infrastructure directly behind a reverse proxy at Cloudflare.

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