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Facebook has expanded its ban on the sale of piracy-enabling streaming devices. According to the company's latest commerce policies, all streaming devices that use Kodi software are now outlawed, which logically also applies to the many legal streaming boxes that are available.

Irdeto has accused payment platforms of “enabling” pirates, and has called on firms like Visa and MasterCard to cut support for sites that break the law.

But Sky TV says it has no plans to go after the 'little people' after legal victory.

Husband and wife illegally made £750,000 by selling more than 8,000 illicit streaming devices and setting up streaming service for football

A Texas District Court has sanctioned TVAddons operator Adam Lackman for failing to disclose evidence requested by Dish. Within five days, he must share how much money was earned through TVAddons.ag and Offshoregit.com. At the same time, the court reprimanded Lackman's lawyer for an "egregious disruption" of the court proceedings.

In a plenary vote, the European Parliament said no to the Copyright Directive mandate. This means that the controversial copyright reform proposal will be opened for debate and possible amendments. Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda describes the outcome as a "great success," noting that the protests have worked.

TWO Brits have been jailed for distributing illegal "full-loaded" Kodi set-top boxes that give access to pirated TV shows and movies. Glenn Burrows and Darren Wicks were sentenced at Norwich Crown Court today as part of an ongoing crackdown on online piracy in the UK.

A man found guilty of selling illicit streaming devices pre-loaded with premium content has been sentenced to 16 months in prison.

It's hard to spot consistent trends in the mass influx of DMCA takedown notices Google receives. One thing is pretty clear though, the search engine consistently refuses to remove The Pirate Bay's homepage from its index. This, despite dozens of attempts from a wide variety of copyright holders over the years.

Scammers, masquerading as legitimate copyright holders such as Netflix and Disney, are using Google DMCA takedown tools to manipulate search results. Some webmasters complain that hundreds of links are being pulled offline by the notices. Anti-piracy outfits MUSO and Blue Efficience, which are among the impersonated companies, confirm that not all requests in their name are legitimate.

A federal court in Florida has granted a temporary restraining order against 33 relatively small pirate sites. The order, requested by media conglomerate ABS-CBN, targets the sites' domain names, advertising revenue, as well as any associated PayPal and other bank accounts.

Cyber crime unit sends notices to top banks, MNCs, e-commerce portals and start-ups, asking them to withdraw their ads from such sites or face prosecution

Several Facebook groups are sharing pirated Hollywood movies to hundreds of thousands of users and the social media giant's automated software are unable to stop copyright infringementsGet latest Smart Living online at cnbctv18.com