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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.

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.

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

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.