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Piracy Shield 2: Just When IPTV Pirates Thought it Was SafeAndy Maxwell, 11 Jun 09:33 AM New law passed in Italy last year gave powerful football ri

Piracy Shield 2: Just When IPTV Pirates Thought it Was Safe Andy Maxwell, 11 Jun 09:33 AM New law passed in Italy last year gave powerful football rightsholders and broadcasters a blank slate to implement a blocking system seen nowhere else in Europe. No laborious court processes, no judicial oversight, and unlike the ISPs compelled by law to implement their blocking instructions, no financial penalties for getting things wrong either. Whether these freedoms contributed towards the laundry list of errors, PR blunders, source code leaks, and resentment among some ISPs, is hard to quantify, but there appears to be no turning back. Piracy Shield Hype Less than four months since its February launch, it's now clear that Piracy Shield isn't the bleeding edge anti-piracy technology previously billed, and it hasn't achieved the impossible as the public were led to believe. As conscripted partners, ISPs were effectively told to come up with their own software to interact with the system. That was on top of having to shoulder the responsibility of blocking the domains and IP addre...Read More Redfox Disappearance Puts a Spotlight on Defiant StreamFab Ernesto Van der Sar, 10 Jun 06:25 PM More than a decade ago, decryption licensing outfit AACS began to crack down on DVD and Blu-Ray ripping software. Founded by Disney, Warner Bros, Intel, and Microsoft, among others, the licensing outfit put legal pressure on the makers of AnyDVD and DVDFab, which were the key players at the time. AACS eventually booked a legal victory against DVDFab in a US court, but that did little to stop the operation. Pressure on AnyDVD's parent company Slysoft, meanwhile, did yield results as the software was taken down. That was only temporary, however, as some of AnyDVD developers restarted the business under a new name, RedFox. For the next eight years, the DVDFab and AnyDVD products managed to survive. With online streaming taking over, both outfits also launched new software to rip streaming content, in addition to old-fashioned discs. RedFox, for example, offered the AnyStream tool, which proved to be quite popular. Streaming platforms, including Netflix, worked hard to make these tools...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