POLICE SHUT DOWN UK ILLEGAL STREAMING DATA CENTRE
2. 6. 2026

City of London Police have seized more than £1.2 million worth of equipment after shutting down a major illegal streaming data centre in Farnborough.

ACE WINS FRENCH RULING AGAINST SPLIIIT PASSWORD-SELLING SERVICE
2. 6. 2026

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment has welcomed a ruling by the Paris Judicial Court against subscription-sharing platform Spliiit.

TV PIRACY IN GERMANY RISES SHARPLY, HITTING €2.4BN IN ANNUAL LOSSES
28. 5. 2026

Illegal access to free-TV or pay-TV livestreams caused an estimated €2.4bn in economic damage in Germany last year,.

UK HIGH COURT INTRODUCES BROADER “OMNIBUS” PIRACY BLOCKING ORDER
27. 5. 2026

The fight against TV pirates in the online environment should become significantly easier in the UK.

ITALY DISMANTLES €300 MILLION STREAMING PIRACY NETWORK
22. 5. 2026

Italian authorities have dismantled a major streaming piracy operation centred on an application known as CINEMAGOAL.

ARCOM STEPS UP ACTION AGAINST SPORTS PIRACY
22. 5. 2026

French regulator Arcom has published new guidance and model agreements designed to strengthen the fight against online piracy.

OTO KLEMPÍŘ VS. MARTIN BAXA: THE DIGIMEDIA 2026 CONFERENCE WILL FEATURE A ‘MINISTERIAL’ DEBATE ON PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA
19. 5. 2026

The 21st edition of the DIGIMEDIA 2026 conference, taking place on Wednesday 3 June 2026 in the Congress Hall of Czech Television in Prague’s Kavčí Hory district.

COMMENTS OF COMMERCIAL MEDIA ON THE DRAFT ACT ON PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA
15. 5. 2026

Associations representing the entire media market jointly prepared comments on the submitted draft Act on Public Service Media, drawing attention to major shortcomings in the proposed amendment.

ACE CONTINUES GLOBAL EXPANSION, WELCOMES CME AS NEWEST MEMBER
14. 5. 2026

ACE, the world’s leading anti-piracy coalition, today announced that Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has joined the coalition, strengthening ACE’s global network.

DFL AND DAZN TAKE DOWN MAJOR PIRACY HUB LIVETV.SX
6. 5. 2026

German football association DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga and sports streaming service DAZN have obtained a court injunction ordering the blocking of illegal streaming site livetv.sx in Germany.

SPANISH POLICE DISMANTLE KODISPAIN PIRACY NETWORK
30. 4. 2026

Spain’s Guardia Civil has dismantled Kodispain, one of the main platforms accused of providing unauthorised access to live LaLiga football matches.

THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCIAL TELEVISIONS HAS ENTERED ITS TENTH YEAR OF EXISTENCE; MAREK SINGER REMAINS AS PRESIDENT
28. 4. 2026

This spring marked the ninth anniversary of the Association of Commercial Television, which, during its existence, has become a respected voice for commercial broadcasters.

SPANISH COURT STRIKES RECORD BLOW TO MAJOR ILLEGAL IPTV NETWORK
22. 4. 2026

One of Europe’s largest illegal IPTV operations has been dealt a major blow after Spain’s National Court convicted the operators of an international piracy network.

THE NUMBER OF CYBERCRIME CASES HAS RISEN BY A RECORD 37 PER CENT YEAR-ON-YEAR
14. 4. 2026

The number of cybercrime cases rose by 37 per cent year-on-year in March.

IT WILL SOON BE MANDATORY IN THE EU TO LABEL CONTENT GENERATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
13. 4. 2026

New rules on the transparency of so-called artificial intelligence will come into force in the European Union on 2 August this year. The aim is to reduce the risk of misuse of this technology, manipulation, misleading content, fraud and so on.

FASTLY AND LALIGA PARTNER ON AI ANTI-PIRACY SOLUTION
10. 4. 2026

Fastly and LaLiga have teamed up to develop new technology aimed at tackling illegal streaming of live sports.

ON THE MEDIA IN TURBULENT TIMES. THE 21ST ANNUAL DIGIMEDIA CONFERENCE WILL TAKE PLACE IN PRAGUE IN JUNE
30. 3. 2026

The 21st edition of the DIGIMEDIA 2026 conference on media, advertising and digitalisation will take place on Wednesday 3 June 2026.

LFP SAYS 2 MILLION IN FRANCE PIRATE LIGUE 1 BROADCASTS
24. 3. 2026

The Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) says 2 million people in France are watching Ligue 1 through illegal streams, as new figures highlight the growing scale of sports piracy in the market.

EUROPEAN BROADCASTING ASSOCIATIONS’ STATEMENT ON CONNECTED TVs & VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS
23. 3. 2026

Undersigned organisations wish to reiterate their request to designate relevant connected TV operating  systems and virtual assistant platform operators as gatekeepers to better reflect their increasingly  significant role as well as evolving market realities.

ILLEGAL LIVE SPORTS STREAMING FLOURISHING DESPITE INDUSTRY CRACKDOWNS
6. 3. 2026

A 2025 study found that 69% of sports fans in the United States and Europe have turned to illegal streams as the subscription cost of their platforms rise.

THE ILLEGAL STREAMING SERVICE BITPLAY HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN
27. 2. 2026

The pirate service Bitplay, which, among other things, illegally provided access to premium sports television channels, live broadcasts of sports matches and selected series content, has been shut down.

PRIMA WANTS THREE BIG REALITY SHOWS A YEAR, ALSO LOOKING FOR A RELATIONSHIP SERIES TO REPLACE POLABÍ
23. 2. 2026

Jan Maxa, Director of the Content and Production Division at the Prima Group, describes how he plans to integrate the development of programs for linear broadcasting with the prima+ platform.

SPANISH COURT ORDERS NORDVPN AND PROTONVPN TO BLOCK LALIGA PIRATE STREAMS
17. 2. 2026

NordVPN and ProtonVPN are required to prevent access from Spain to IP addresses where illegal transmissions of LaLiga matches have been verified. 

CLOUDFLARE AND ONLINE PIRACY: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF DIGITAL INTERMEDIARIES UNDER SCRUTINY
4. 2. 2026

The Tokyo District Court ruled that technology intermediaries can be held directly liable if they fail to respond to clear and timely requests to remove illegal content.