Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify
Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.
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Redbox’s next product may be piracy lawsuits
There’s a new twist in the long and winding saga of Redbox’s demise: Assets originally belonging to the company’s corporate parent, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, may have finally found a buyer. But don’t expect a resurrection of Redbox’s red kiosks, or Chicken Soup’s Crackle streaming service, any time soon. According to a late […]
Sports streaming hub Streameast ‘shut down’ in sting
Streameast, one of the largest sports piracy platforms in the world, has been shut down according to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), an antipiracy group that counts NBC Universal, Netflix, and Disney among its members. ACE announced in a statement that it worked alongside Egyptian authorities to shut down the “notorious” platform, and […]
Senators are trying to force ISPs to block all foreign pirate sites
Lawmakers have introduced a new bill aimed at countering “foreign piracy sites,” as reported earlier by TorrentFreak. The bill, called the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act, would allow copyright holders to ask a federal court to block piracy websites. The bipartisan legislation, led by Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons […]