French Court Orders ISPs to Block Torrent Sites and File-Hosters
Pirate site-blocking has become a prime measure for the entertainment industries to target pirate sites on the Internet. The practice has been around for over...
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Company That Acquired ‘Copyright Troll’ Warns ISPs & VPN Providers
While movie and music companies have regularly filed copyright lawsuits against alleged BitTorrent pirates over the past decade and beyond, the companies operating the machinery...
Sci-Hub & Libgen Blocked By Austrian ISPs Following Elsevier Complaint
For well over a decade, entertainment industry groups have been developing legal processes to have allegedly-infringing websites blocked at the ISP level. The majority of...
Netflix has Dwarfed BitTorrent Traffic, South African ISPs say
The effects that legal streaming services have on people’s motivation to pirate can be quite confusing. On the one hand, legal services have been known...
Anti-Piracy Outfit “Works With ISPs” to Monitor Pirate Consumption
For as long as peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as BitTorrent have existed, anti-piracy companies have been monitoring the activities of those who use them. This...
Major US ISPs Refuse to Discuss Repeat Infringer Policies
Every single week, Internet users in the United States take to Reddit and other discussion forums seeking advice about copyright infringement notices. Whether the claims...
ISPs: Pirate Site Blocking Threatens Freedom of Expression
Online piracy is an international problem for the content industries, one that’s particularly hard to curb. Pirate site blocking appears to be the preferred countermeasure,...
ISPs Block BitTorrent Traffic Despite EU Net Neutrality Regulation
When the European Parliament adopted Europe’s first net neutrality rules in 2015, some people believed that this would put an end to BitTorrent blocking The...
Indian High Court Orders ISPs to Block 1,129 Sites to Protect One Movie From Piracy
Blocking orders to prevent the distribution of copyright content are commonplace in several regions around the world. In India, however, blocking injunctions are regularly handed...
