YouGov survey: 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, up from 8.7% in 2023, or ~200K people more
Adam Leventhal / The Athletic : Forums: r/PremierLeague and r/soccer Forums: r/PremierLeague : Illegal streaming: Research reveals rise in piracy and desire for scrapping of 3pm blackout r/soccer : [...
Cloudflare warns the US government that site-blocking efforts in Europe and Asia to combat online piracy are creating digital trade barriers for US providers
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How “porno-troll” Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos
A company called Strike 3, owner of Vixen and Tushy, has clogged US courts with lawsuits, mostly against porn watchers who feel shamed into settling privately Bluesky: @davelee.me . Forums: r/Piracy a...
UEFA joins the MPA-led anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the first sports governing body to join the group, which has 50+ members
UEFA has become the first sports governing body to join the world's largest anti-piracy coalition, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE).
Anti-piracy organization ACE says a joint operation with Egyptian law enforcement shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform
Streameast — the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform — has been shut down after a year long investigation …
Google plans to begin verifying the identities of developers who distribute Android apps, even outside the Play Store, rolling out in phases from September 2026
Stop this shit Google. If I want to sideload an app, I should be able to sideload an app. — www.androidauthority.com/android- deve... @natanael : This is what Apple got sued for and lost over in EU...
The News/Media Alliance says the webhost of 12ft.io, which helped users bypass paywalls, took down the site on July 14 following the trade association's efforts
www.theverge.com/news/709209/ ... X: @newsalliance : The News/Media Alliance has successfully secured the takedown of notorious paywall bypass website 12ft. io https://www.newsmediaalliance.org/ ... F...
Netflix says it's on track to double its advertising revenue this year and that it will roll out interactive ads in the second half of 2025
Q3 Set To Repeat Todd Spangler / Variety : H1 2025 Engagement Report: viewers watched 95B hours globally, with Adolescence and Back in Action as the most-watched TV show and movie James Hyerczyk / FX ...
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not
but it's still in trouble for stealing books Blake Brittain / Reuters : Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Judge Rules Training AI on...
ISP Frontier Communications settles a lawsuit from record labels that demanded dropping broadband users accused of piracy; SCOTUS may hear a similar Cox case
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :