AVIA piracy news

Within six months of being released at the box office, hit Australian film Lion had been illegally downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.

The unit was set up to protect the entertainment industry from piracy. Within a month of its establishment, the unit had identified 900 such websites and begun initiating legal action after the end of a three-month pilot.

The Coalition Against Piracy, an initiative backed by companies including Disney, Fox, HBO Asia, NBCUniversal, BBC and the Premier League, has revealed the extent that piracy-enabled set-top boxes have penetrated homes in Hong Kong. Their YouGov survey reveals that one in four Hong Kong residents now use the devices with half saying that they'd canceled legal services as a result.

Customs officers tipped off, as senior inspector warns viewers could commit a criminal offence just by watching such circumventing broadcasts

In a recent article by Mr Alex Lo (“World Cup matches rigged in Hong Kong”, May 30), he takes umbrage, as a taxpayer, at the fact that law enforcement agencies have the audacity to enforce the law – in this particular case, intellectua

Michael Jarman and Natalie Louise Forber were sentenced for the 'relatively sophisticated' fraud

The Indonesian film industry reportedly lost Rp 1.5 trillion ($107 billion) to piracy in only four cities in 2017.

Village Roadshow and several major Hollywood studios have won a blocking injunction against a pirate IPTV service. HD Subs Plus delivers around 600 live premium channels plus hundreds of movies on demand, but the service will now be blocked by ISPs across Australia. More blocking requests were also filed today against torrent and streaming sites.

Japanese government had asked ISPs to block Mangamura & 2 other sites

Pirate sites are regularly painted as places where markets are turned on their heads, with premium content being made available for free to the sounds of birds tweeting and lambs skipping across meadows. But try telling that to the users of FreeTutorials and KissAnime, who are now expected to pay for content using either hard cash or enforced advertising.

Watchdog slaps city’s largest provider of free television with financial penalty after firm indirectly advertises app developed by one of its subsidiaries

Devices sold on Amazon and eBay fraudulently use FCC logo, FCC's O'Rielly said.

More than 150 law enforcement officers in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Spain have coordinated to dismantle a large pirate IPTV operation. TV channel sources, which were spread among companies, commercial premises and even private homes, were targeted in dozens of locations. The investigation focused on 49 suspects, five of whom were arrested and taken into custody.

A pirate of Premier League content to consumers pays £600,000 for breaching the League's copyright