TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2022

What some don’t know is that through the actions of others, they may be paying to access unlicensed software that is no more legal than a download from The Pirate Bay. Microsoft Files Copyright Lawsuit. Microsoft says that it develops software and distributes digital downloads using its own site and those of other vendors.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 10, 2023

A few years ago, Epic Games filed copyright infringement lawsuits against several Fortnite players who allegedly used cheats to gain an unfair advantage. Aside from the obvious copyright issues, these services rarely offer what they promise. Download This.ZIP File… The scams aren’t limited to movies either.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Not everyone agrees that YouTube downloaders and domain registrars are piracy havens, and adding advertising companies is seen as a controversial step as well. Copyright holders clearly believe that these services deserve to be called out. PopAds generates advertising revenue for copyright infringing sites including gomovies123.org,

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

University of Chicago Flies Too High With Aerial Photograph Joshua Potter February 21, 08:37 AM February 21, 08:37 AM On November 15 th , 2023, John Fielding (Fielding) filed a complaint against The University of Chicago (UChicago) for copyright infringement, alleging the unlicensed use of one of his photographs (the Work).

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TorrentFreak

MAY 20, 2024

At this stage, the infringement notices sent to IP-addresses of pirating subscribers are sufficient to show that the provider had knowledge of copyright-infringing activities. “It The movie companies continue to accuse the Internet provider of contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, as well as DMCA violations.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2023

argued that an IP address is not sufficient to prove that subscribers downloaded or shared any infringing material. ” Court Refuses to Dismiss Copyright Claims A few days ago, Colorado District Court Judge Daniel D. can be held liable for the copyright infringements of its subscribers. Something More?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The sites’ Russian owner Tofig Kurbanov was taken to court in the United States in 2018, accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. In a follow-up filing, the music companies demanded more than $82 million in damages for copyright infringement and DMCA violations.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2021

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts after rightsholders filed lawsuits against several ISPs. These Internet providers are accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In 2012, Japan passed legislation that made it illegal to download unlicensed movies and music from the Internet. Eight years later, Japan’s parliament passed new copyright amendments that banned the unlicensed downloading of manga, magazines and academic texts from the Internet, in line with the previously outlawed media categories.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 19, 2023

App piracy includes legitimate apps that are copied but we reserve our reporting to those that are advertised as a gateway to pirated content or live streams. Some apps may monetize user data, for example, but for the vast majority advertising is the income stream of choice. The ultimate goal of the developers is the same though.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2022

The major record labels don’t want people to download music from YouTube, which is common practice for millions of people. Their complaint, which cites an earlier case from 2017 , alleges that youtube-dl aids copyright infringement by circumventing YouTube’s technical protection measures. Youtube-dl Takedown Battle.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The platform was described as the most popular download site for copyrighted content in China, providing links in various formats, including for the popular Xunlei and BitTorrent clients. year prison sentence for copyright infringement and a fine of 1.5 In an announcement made by Shanghai No. million members.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 17, 2023

Nonetheless, Vubiquity allegedly uploaded the series to iTunes for sale and download. This allegedly involved false copyright and release date information, as well as “drastically low bargain-rate prices” and failure to distinguish between HD and SD versions. False advertising: Sybersound Recs., 3d 1137 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2022

“All stakeholders in the internet ecosystem – including hosting providers, DNS providers, cloud services, advertising networks, payment processors, social networks, and search engines – should actively seek to reduce support for notoriously infringing sites,” MPA writes. Ad Networks and Online Advertisers.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

If the music that is streamed is not licensed out, then does it amount to Copyright Infringement ? had claimed to be the owner of the copyright in over 25,000 sound recordings. Giving on commercial rental/sale Tips’ Repertoire of songs by way of providing download services/features. Background. Court’s Decision.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The company has sued individual downloaders , pirate sites , apps , VPN companies , advertisers, hosting providers and ISPs, even an Internet backbone access company. As far as Voltage is concerned, a case can be built to show that anyone involved in an infringement is potentially liable. Voltage-Led Coalition Sues Major U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2024

They’re also adept at pumping user data, including viewing habits and associated behavior, back to providers to ensure that free ad-supported TV makes up for lost currency through a firehose of advertising intelligence. Designed to be used as live links rather than downloaded, these.m3u8 files are not only convenient and easy to use.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 16, 2023

By now, various courts around the world have concluded that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing website. Interestingly, we did spot the site on an advertising blacklist maintained by City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU). The Proxy Bay doesn’t link to infringing content directly.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

On the flip side, today’s interconnected world has the ability to transform leaks into powerful advertising and hype, keeping message boards and social media alive with discussion of exciting new products, at zero cost to official marketing teams.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 20, 2022

The plaintiffs’ complaint argues that VeePN ‘promotes’ the use of pirate sites and Popcorn Time, while advertising its services on popular torrent site YTS.mx. This activity amounts to both copyright and trademark infringement, the film companies claim. It means that you may be punished by law.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2023

“Until now, companies have been responding individually to copyright infringement, but illegal distribution of videos using torrent downloads as well as Noonoo TV has become serious, so we have decided to join forces.” trillion won when simply calculated considering the number of views and VOD,” he said.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2022

The notice, sent by anti-piracy company Irdeto on behalf of Blizzard Entertainment, is verifiably legitimate and addresses a genuine case of copyright infringement. Internal documentation also revealed that the aim of the defendants was to have as many copyrighted files on their networks as possible.

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

On 24 June 2022, BAYC sued Ryder Ripps, a conceptual artist and NFT creator for trade mark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, cybersquatting and other cause of actions before the Central District of California. These digital files are freely downloadable by everyone (there is no DRM protection in NFTs).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The anti-piracy body pioneered the so-called “graduated response” system back in 2010, with Hadopi tracking down copyright infringers using mainly BitTorrent networks and then warning, fining, or even disconnecting them.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

A talented graphic designer, Bencko was responsible for Megaupload’s logo and ensuring that other sites in the group looked good and accommodated advertising properly. ” The full video can be downloaded here (.mp4) mp4) From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It’s alleged that around August 2022, Taiga and the defendants made the Akebi GC code available for public download, including via Taiga’s GitHub and UnknownCheats repos. 1)(a)-(c) of the Copyright Act; – infringed the copyright in the HoYoverse Works contrary to s.

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43(B)log

APRIL 29, 2024

It advertised “This device was one of the most popular items on a popular 3D printing website with over 20,000 unique downloads” on its website, at a time when Leszczynski’s Thingiverse page displayed that his Cube had been downloaded 20,000 times. False advertising: Only ok against Kitchen Cube.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

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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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Meanwhile, the two arrested suspects, continue to fight the criminal copyright infringement allegations and their requested extradition. This resulted in hours of primetime pirate advertising. According to the MPA , the application has been downloaded 10 million times across various app stores and Telegram.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The NRR allows copyright holders to register and view/download copyright certificates digitally. Also in July, Ghanian music producer, Kwabena Ofei – Kwadey Nkrumah (“Spiky”) sued the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for copyright infringement of his sound recording, Okomfo Anokye.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The BGH ruled that the right of distribution is not only exhausted with regard to the individually downloaded copy but also with regard to copies of the computer program yet to be made. The defendant also analysed, using the downloaded client software, the software of the online game itself, in order to develop its bots.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

Just before the weekend, dozens of record labels including UMG, Warner, and Sony, filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon at a New York federal court. and Cellco Partnership (dba Verizon Wireless), stand accused of assisting subscribers to download and share pirated music, by not doing enough to stop them.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The BGH ruled that the exclusive right of distribution of the author also included the right to offer the original or copies of the work to the public to purchase and to advertise to the public, in a targeted manner, the purchase of either the original or copies of the work.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 7, 2023

At every point, from live performances to downloading it, people come up with innovative ways for others to experience music. These methods range from live performances to downloading it. People have always had a strong emotional connection to music, even before the beginning of existence.

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IP Whiteboard

AUGUST 30, 2020

From some general Google searching, it seems common for people to download pictures of works they like and bring them to their tattooist to copy. Clients often request direct reproductions of imagery they have downloaded. This leads to a number of questions: Is it copyright infringement to copy a work and use it as a tattoo?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2022

With nearly 12 million books, Z-Library advertised itself as the largest repositories of pirated books on the Internet. On Telegram, “ultrascientist” and freedom fighter ‘Nexus’ stepped up with an advanced book download bot. These types of download bots are nothing new on Telegram.

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