AVIA piracy news

Three years ago, four Game of Thrones episodes leaked online before the season had started. As a result, millions of people turned to unauthorized sources to watch them. New research shows that this had a long-lasting negative impact on the official viewership of both Game of Thrones and related shows.

When Vietnam-based popular pirate movie streaming site 123Movies, aka GoMovies, suddenly announced last month that they were shutting down—and advised its users to start paying for content-- there was both relief and some head-scratching on the part of the content industry. The piracy site has long been a thorn in the side of content owners.…

Motion Picture Association Canada has revealed the scale of pirate site-blocking around the world. In a submission to the CRTC, the Hollywood group states that at least 42 countries are now obligated to block infringing sites. In Europe alone, 1,800 sites and 5,300 domains have been rendered inaccessible, with Portugal, Italy, the UK, and Denmark leading the way.

David Kaye's Fancy stationery. David Kaye is a professor of law at University of California Irvine. He is also some sort of low grade UN Human rights official. He has fancy stationery with an address in Switzerland that says so. Isn't that precious. This UN title and fancy stationery apparently allows him to treat our…

The Motion Picture Association of America wants to call it a wrap on illegal content. - VnExpress International

My Box says it is not responsible if its customers use its decoder to watch pirated content online.

TVAddons, the most renowned Kodi add-on is also the most vocal and vociferous in its belief the service it provides is lawful. Now it faces a ban in Canada.

Village Roadshow co-chief executive Graham Burke has slammed Google for "facilitating crime" by allowing piracy.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect next month, evolving the current system for protecting personal data of individuals in the EU. As a result, data presented in the WHOIS database will be limited, something of great concern to anti-piracy groups who say tackling pirates will become much more difficult.

Piracy costs South Korea's cultural industry huge amounts of money every year. Yet much of it takes place via "webhards," online platforms that hide in plain view, even charging money for other people's pirated content.

Two men who ran an illegal sports broadcasting service that conned companies across the world out of millions of pounds have been put behind bars.

Google has now added "Kodi" to its autocomplete piracy filter of the search engine, as it is viewed as being “closely associated with copyright infringement”

DRM, or digital rights management poses problems for artists and musicians, with the tech lagging behind its use in the actual creative process.