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Filmmakers Sue VPN for Promoting Piracy & Advertising on YTS

TorrentFreak

These VPN providers emphasize in advertisements that they delete their end users’ log access records so their identities will never be disclosed to copyright owners or law enforcement. “Downloading and sharing files via torrent is a violation of copyright law. It means that you may be punished by law.

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MPA: Pluto TV.m3u Playlists Facilitate Piracy on a Massive Scale

TorrentFreak

These apps play a key role in the advertising mechanisms that generate revenue for the Pluto TV service and support the free-to-watch model. Users may also prefer less advertising or find the amount of user data scooped up by official apps a privacy risk. at [former repo location],” the notice reads (minor edits for clarity).

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Takedown Services Under Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

It was recently uncovered that numerous internet platforms are posting infringing content on their websites without the approval of the copyright owners. Copyright infringement cases on the internet have increased because the internet has become more widely available. Legal Framework governing take down notice.

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The Choice Of Law Debate In Copyright Infringement

IP and Legal Filings

SHOULD LEX LOCI PROTECTIONIS BE APPLIED BLANKETLY TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT? It has been established that lex loci protectionis is the rule that is applied to all the IPR infringement cases, barring a few exceptions. Today, most of the copyright infringement happen through the Internet. Garimella and S. Jolly (eds.)2017)

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Another Rough Copyright Ruling for Internet Access Providers–Bodyguard v. RCN

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

As I wrote previously : lawsuits against IAPs are problematic for many reasons, including the failure of 512(a), the danger of assuming that notices of claimed infringements (NOCIs) actually reflect infringing behavior, and the mismatch between the wrongdoing of alleged copyright infringement and the remedy of terminating Internet access.

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Anti-Piracy Outfits Target TorrentFreak in PikaShow Crackdown

TorrentFreak

Day in and day out, millions of people use pirate sites and services to download or stream movies and TV shows. Word-of-mouth advertising helped the app to break through, and after becoming the official sponsor of the Afghan cricket team during Asia Cup 2022, its profile went mainstream. Trade Representative.

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Blizzard: No Piracy Filters? That’s Evidence of Intentional Infringement

TorrentFreak

The notice, sent by anti-piracy company Irdeto on behalf of Blizzard Entertainment, is verifiably legitimate and addresses a genuine case of copyright infringement. In addition to the takedown request, the notice also contains an unsolicited lecture on Github’s supposed liabilities under copyright law.