Qatar-based TV partner calls on Premier League to block Saudi takeover of Newcastle United
Yousef Al-Obaidly, the chief executive of beIN Sports, has written to the chairmen of Premier League clubs.
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Yousef Al-Obaidly, the chief executive of beIN Sports, has written to the chairmen of Premier League clubs.
Irish internet providers will now have to block Movie4k.to, primewire.ag and onwatchseries.to
That is despite attacks essentially stopping in recent years.
Dotcom faces extradition from New Zealand.
Its CEO says “there’s probably so few of them” who will turn to piracy because of its decision to crackdown on VPNs.
Big budget blockbusters stayed true to form by topping the pile.
The Czech Republic courts said it won’t force the man to pay around €350,000 in damages if his anti-piracy video gets 200,000 views on YouTube.
Authorities say Megaupload netted more than $175 million in criminal proceeds.
They claim that Microsoft is sending back identifying information about their sites when Windows 10 users visit.
Internet Service Providers are to be made hand over the identities of almost 5,000 people who illegally shared one movie.
They were hosting a large number of copyrighted files.
The answer is pretty simple, it seems.
The number of requests increased by 75% compared to 2013.
Several of you stayed up until the wee hours to watch the show.
Kim Dotcom is being prosecuted by US authorities for piracy but is fighting extradition from New Zealand.
More than one million counterfeit apps were sold by US site appbucket.net, which were worth more than €500,000.
Access to Pirate Bay is still blocked to the majority of Irish internet users.
The man, who was detained for over an hour, was accused of recording a cinema screening of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.
15 incidents were attributed to Somali pirates last year — down from 237 in 2011.
New security measures take effect – but there are still “suspicious approaches” to ships.
The new charge – used against the members of Pussy Riot – carries a maximum sentence of seven years in a penal colony.
The 30 activists from 18 countries have been detained since they scaled an oil platform in the Arctic last week.
Land of torrents and files.
The enterprise minister says the rights of legal internet users are taken into account before any website can be blocked.
UPC, Imagine, Digiweb, Vodafone, Three and O2 have been given 30 days to block users’ access to the piracy website.
This could be the first suit using the country’s controversial ‘Irish SOPA’ legislation.
Those convicted of illegal downloading could face two years in jail, or fines of about €20,000.
The site was once among the top 500 websites visited globally.
“It’s just kind of ridiculous what they did to his life”: Apple co-founder supports Kim Dotcom.
Attack helicopters took part in the attacks early this morning along the coastline of Somalia.
Digital Agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes says we’re likely “to be in a world without SOPA and without ACTA”.
Commissioners yesterday agreed the terms of a legal submission asking the court to rule on whether the treaty is legal.
The EU’s trade commissioner Karel De Gucht wants to see whether the anti-counterfeiting rules are in breach of EU freedoms.
‘The February March’ against the controversial international anti-counterfeiting agreement will take place later today.
Bulgaria may join the growing list of EU countries delaying their ratification of the controversial ACTA legislation…
The VP of EMI’s Urban Promotions says that the best way to tackle piracy is not to introduce bills like ACTA or SOPA – but to simply provide better service.
Paul Quigley, founder of news story-tracking website Newswhip, analyses the arguments made by the junior minister yesterday in favour of a new online copyright law.
This is the text of a full briefing note distributed by Seán Sherlock to members of the Oireachtas this evening.