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OpenDNS Suspends Service in France Due to Canal+ Piracy Blocking OrderAndy Maxwell, 29 Jun 01:21 PM In 2023, broadcaster Canal+ went to court in Fra

OpenDNS Suspends Service in France Due to Canal+ Piracy Blocking Order Andy Maxwell, 29 Jun 01:21 PM In 2023, broadcaster Canal+ went to court in France with the goal of obtaining an order requiring local ISPs to block over 100 pirate sports streaming sites. The French court complied with the request; ISPs including Orange, SFR, OutreMer Télécom, Free, and Bouygues Télécom, were ordered to implement technical measures to prevent access to Footybite.co, Streamcheck.link, SportBay.sx, TVFutbol.info, and Catchystream.com, among dozens of others. Since the ISPs have their own DNS resolvers for use by their own customers, these were configured to provide non-authentic responses to deny access to the sites in question. Somewhat inevitably, some of the ISPs' users reconfigured their machines to use third-party DNS servers, included those provided by Cloudflare, Google, and Cisco. Canal+ Targets DNS Providers To prevent these workarounds, last year Canal+ took legal action against three popular public DNS providers – Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), Google (8.8.8.8), and Cisco (208.69.38.205) – dema...Read More Are you looking for a VPN service? TorrentFreak sponsor NordVPN has some excellent offers. ©2024 TorrentFreak | Office 21338 PO Box 4336 Manchester, North West M61 0BW United Kingdom Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company

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Top FBI Official Now Heads the World's Leading Anti-Piracy CoalitionErnesto Van der Sar, 28 Jun 05:05 PM In the summer of 2017, several of the world

Top FBI Official Now Heads the World's Leading Anti-Piracy Coalition Ernesto Van der Sar, 28 Jun 05:05 PM In the summer of 2017, several of the world's largest entertainment industry companies teamed up to create a brand new anti-piracy coalition. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) aimed to foster collaboration, share knowledge, and leverage the group's combined anti-piracy resources to tackle the global online piracy problem. With dozens of members around the world, including Disney, Netflix, the BBC, beIN, Sony, and others, it lived up to expectations. While piracy has yet to be eradicated, the MPA-led group has claimed several major achievements around the globe. This success is partly the result of planned resource sharing. As the coalition grew, collaborations expanded from the private to the public sector, forging bonds with governments and law enforcement agencies. Much of this progress was made under former ACE head Jan Van Voorn, who recently left ACE for a new opportunity. With van Voorn's departure, valuable experience walked out of the door, but his replace...Read More Are you looking for a VPN service? TorrentFreak sponsor NordVPN has some excellent offers. ©2024 TorrentFreak | Office 21338 PO Box 4336 Manchester, North West M61 0BW United Kingdom Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company

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Kim Dotcom Can't Prevent NZ Govt. Sending Hard Drives & Passwords to FBIAndy Maxwell, 28 Jun 12:42 PM Defying even the broadest definition of 'justi

Kim Dotcom Can't Prevent NZ Govt. Sending Hard Drives & Passwords to FBI Andy Maxwell, 28 Jun 12:42 PM Defying even the broadest definition of 'justice' or even basic common sense, more than 12 years after his initial arrest, Kim Dotcom is still fighting the New Zealand government on every detail of his case. Given that the booby prize for not doing so is an all-expenses-paid trip to the United States, few could blame him. But why this has been allowed to drag on for so long can only be answered by New Zealand's government. Whether Dotcom is eventually found innocent or guilty, justice needs to be seen to be done. There's no denying Dotcom's significant contribution to undermining the case against him but, as the defendant, it's his job to find errors and blunders to exploit. And there has been no shortage of those and from the outside, the optics are not great. Seized Hard Drives During the 2012 operation to shut down Megaupload, around 135 devices were seized by law enforcement in New Zealand. Yet it was a full decade before the High Court ruled that devices belonging to Dotcom, s...Read More $8.1m Damages Agreed By YouTuber & Bungie For 96 Bogus DMCA Notices Andy Maxwell, 27 Jun 05:42 PM In March 2022, YouTube began receiving DMCA takedown notices which claimed that content referenced in the notices infringed the rights of videogame developer Bungie. YouTube responded by removing the videos listed in the notices, some of which had been uploaded by high-profile Destiny content creators. Some notices targeted Bungie's own channels on YouTube, but that didn't prevent some in the Destiny 2 community concluding that Bungie itself was to blame. That compelled Bungie to clean up the mess, defend its reputation, and track down the culprits. Lawsuit Demands $7.65m in Damages Bungie filed a lawsuit at a Washington court in March 2022, a clear indication that it intended to hold those who sent the fake takedown notices to account. At this point, the identities of those responsible were yet to be confirmed. In June 2022, Bungie filed an amended complaint that named YouTuber/gamer 'Lord Nazo', real name Nicholas Minor, as the person responsible. Bungie's investigation that le...Read More Are you looking for a VPN service? TorrentFreak sponsor NordVPN has some excellent offers. ©2024 TorrentFreak | Office 21338 PO Box 4336 Manchester, North West M61 0BW United Kingdom Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company

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LaLiga and UAE Launch 'Anti-Piracy Laboratory' to Block Pirate SitesErnesto Van der Sar, 27 Jun 12:36 PM The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is rapidly e

LaLiga and UAE Launch 'Anti-Piracy Laboratory' to Block Pirate Sites Ernesto Van der Sar, 27 Jun 12:36 PM The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is rapidly expanding its population, mostly through migrant workers. The country, where Dubai is the most populous city, presents itself as a region where people from all over the world can do business and find entertainment. UAE Pirates The region appears to be a magnet for the rich and famous, but it's not all fun and games. As it turns out, some people in the UAE are enjoying entertainment without paying for it; through pirate streaming sites or IPTV devices. Earlier this year, the IIPA, a coalition of major rightsholder groups, stressed that the UAE Government should help to deter IPTV piracy. For example, by promoting website blocking and anti-piracy interventions by domain registrars and other intermediaries. "The government has an important role to play in promoting piracy prevention efforts and needs to encourage ISPs to restrict access to illegal Internet protocol TV (IPTV) services and intermediaries that facilitate the operation of such se...Read More Filmmakers Legal Battle Over Reddit Users' IP Addresses Heads to Appeal Ernesto Van der Sar, 26 Jun 11:23 PM Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena that required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. The movie companies, including Voltage Holdings and Screen Media Ventures, said they were not planning to go after these people in court but wanted to use their comments as evidence in an ongoing piracy lawsuit against Internet provider RCN. Reddit wasn't pleased with the intrusion. The company objected, arguing that handing over the requested information would violate its users' right to anonymous speech. Reddit later responded similarly to a second subpoena request. The movie companies took these cases to a federal court, asking it to compel Reddit to comply. The court refused to do so in the two mentioned cases, and this year followed a third rejection, related to the case against Internet provider Frontier Communications. Movie Companies Persist The courts concluded on several occasions that the movie companies have other opt...Read More Are you looking for a VPN service? TorrentFreak sponsor NordVPN has some excellent offers. ©2024 TorrentFreak | Office 21338 PO Box 4336 Manchester, North West M61 0BW United Kingdom Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company