‘World’s largest’ piracy ring Fmovies shut down by police in Vietnam

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Admin

Major film studio group Ace spearheaded takedown of piracy operation that garnered billions of site visits yearly

An international anti-piracy coalition including major Hollywood studios has claimed victory over Fmovies, a large illegal streaming operation based in Vietnam.

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (Ace), whose governing members include Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon and the Walt Disney Studios, announced on Thursday that it worked with Hanoi police to shut down Fmovies and affiliated sites. The illegal consortium, with sites including Bflixz, Flixtorz, Movies7 and Myflixer in addition to Fmovies, constituted “the largest pirate streaming operation in the world”, according to Ace, with more than 6.7bn visits between January 2023 and June 2024.

Demand for Japanese manga bucks Australia’s downward piracy trend

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Admin

With songs and movies readily available on streaming services, illegal downloads have moved to less-available media

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A growing demand for pirated Japanese manga in Australia has coincided with a decline in the piracy of TV shows, movies and music over the last five years.

Last month, the attorney general’s department released a review of Australia’s copyright enforcement, which included an analysis of trends in online copyright infringement.

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Risky online behaviour ‘almost normalised’ among young people, says study

Posted on December 5, 2022 by Admin

EU-funded survey of people aged 16-19 finds one in four have trolled someone – while UK least ‘cyberdeviant’ of nine countries

Risky and criminal online behaviour is in danger of becoming normalised among a generation of young people across Europe, according to EU-funded research that found one in four 16- to 19-year-olds have trolled someone online and one in three have engaged in digital piracy.

An EU-funded study found evidence of widespread criminal, risky and delinquent behaviour among the 16-19 age group in nine European countries including the UK.

World’s football bodies urge Saudi Arabia to stop pirate TV service

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Admin

Fifa, Uefa and Premier League ask Saudi government to clamp down on beoutQ

The world’s biggest football authorities, including those who run the Premier League, World Cup and Champions League, have called on Saudi Arabia to take action to stop a sophisticated, homegrown pirate TV and streaming service that is illegally broadcasting matches internationally.

The strongly worded letter from the exasperated sports bodies – including Fifa, Uefa, Germany’s Bundesliga, Spain’s La Liga and Italy’s Serie A as well as the Asian Football Confederation – comes after almost 18 months fruitlessly attempting to mount a legal challenge in Saudi Arabia to block the service, called beoutQ.