Pirate IPTV Seller Domain Names Taken Over in Bulk By ACE/MPAAndy Maxwell, 21 May 12:37 PM A shrug of the shoulders, accompanied by "a couple of hun
 | A shrug of the shoulders, accompanied by "a couple of hundred", used to be considered a reasonable ballpark estimate of the number of meaningful pirate sites operating at any one time. It could've been treble that, of course, nobody is omnipresent. Best estimates today range from "thousands" to "tens of thousands" but that's to a background of massive site blocking measures with perhaps 60/80,000 domains blocked to date and no end in sight. Whatever the true figure, even those with the resources to monitor at such scale find a shifting, disappearing, morphing, reappearing, constantly rebranding body of sites, that simply won't stay counted for long, at least with any accuracy. ACE Domain Seizures Since 2017, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment has taken hundreds of sites offline and seized even more domains, easily in excess of a thousand, most likely over 1,500, give or take. Since ACE doesn't maintain a public list, WHOIS and DNS records, redirects, and other methods pro...Read More | In 2021, Colorado-based Internet provider WOW was sued by a group of movie companies, including Millennium Media and Voltage Pictures. The filmmakers accused the ISP of failing to terminate the accounts of subscribers who were repeatedly flagged for sharing copyrighted material. These type of lawsuits have resulted in multi-million dollar judgments against Cox and Grande; a fate WOW hopes to avoid. The ISP challenged the claims and filed a motion to dismiss the case early on, arguing that the allegations fall short. WOW vs. 'Trolls' The ISP described the film companies and their anti-piracy partner MaverickEye as "copyright trolls". WOW mentioned that the companies previously tried to get quick settlements from John Doe subscribers based on little more than an IP-address. This lawsuit isn't progressing quickly by any means, however. Last year, a federal court in Colorado denied the ISP's motion to dismiss the piracy liability allegations. At this stage, the infringement notices se...Read More |
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