Piracy Monitor E-Newsletter: Vol. 2 - Issue 11 - June 4, 2020
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Synamedia releases sports piracy research. Australian court mandates pirate site takedowns. BBC reports on why consumers resort to piracy during the COVID lockdown, and what the impact has been. A Brazilian judge corrects a prior piracy judgement in São Paulo. An upcoming WTO report is expected to tie beoutQ piracy case to Saudis. First direct-to-digital movie released post-COVID in India was pirated on day of release.
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Synamedia: Nearly half of paying TV sports subscribers still watch illegal sources at least weekly
An online study of 6,000 sports consumers between the ages of 18 and 64 across ten markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia found that more than a third of the most engaged segment watch pirated programming at least weekly, even though they believe it’s wrong. (More...)
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Australian ISPs ordered to block 86 infringing Web sites
Fifty Australian Internet service providers have been ordered by the Federal Court of Australia to add 86 pirate Web sites to the sites already being blocked in that country. Eleven media companies participated in the case. (More...)
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India: Piracy hits first post-COVID direct-to-digital movie on day of release
The latest movie released by Amazon Prime (India) appeared on the Indian piracy site Tamilrockers on May 29th, the day of the movie's official release. It's the first South Indian film to have released on a digital platform amid the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, and the first Tamil-produced direct-to-digital release. (More...)
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BBC video report tells why piracy is up during lockdown
The report includes an interview with a young man who explains the motivations behind illegal downloading, and with Jonathan Yunger, the co-founder Millennium Films who says that while the pandemic has created extenuating circumstances, in the end "stealing is stealing." (More...)
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US IPEC releases Annual Intellectual Property Report To Congress
The 2020 Annual Intellectual Property Report to Congress was released by the office of the US Intellectual Property Coordinator (IPEC). The report contains an inventory of hundreds of anti-piracy enforcement activities and individual piracy awareness initiatives. This article contains a link to the report. (More...)
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beoutQ: Upcoming WTO report further clouds acquisition of Newcastle football club
In May, the acquisition of the UK's Newcastle United Premier League football club by a Saudi-backed fund seemed imminent. But the WTO has confirmed that it will release a report in June that directly implicates Saudi Arabia in beoutQ, a notorious piracy operation that distributed that very club's programming. This news has again made the acquisition uncertain. (More...)
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Brazil: Second hearing corrects a pay TV piracy judgement against a YouTube channel
The operator of a YouTube channel was found to be acting illegally by posting videos that showed its visitors how to steal pay TV services. A 2018 judgement was revisited and both fine and penalties have been levied against the channel's operator (More...)
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