A man who pocketed £300,000 through the operation of an illegal streaming service before he fled the country, has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Spanish LALIGA clubs are losing between €600 and €700 million a year as a result of online piracy, according to LALIGA president Javier Tebas.
Piracy has become normalised for four out of ten adult Italians who now consume unlicensed services.
Italian public broadcaster RAI has joined the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP).
MultiChoice has run a four-day anti-piracy training and enforcement operation in Malawi, the first stage of a long-term initiative to combat piracy and protect the creative economy in the South East Africa country.
Piracy remains a significant problem within the Nordic market with an increasing number of households taken in by the unauthorised distributors.
According to studies, piracy of audiovisual content has been significantly reduced, mainly thanks to streaming services that charge a fee for access to a rich video library. However, unauthorized access still persists.
The Paris Judicial Court has ruled in favour of Canal+ ordering the blocking of 203 domain names associated with illegal sports streaming sites by five VPN providers.
ACE has announced the shutdown of a live sports piracy ring based in Vietnam and viewed extensively throughout the world.
Following a recent settlement agreement with the operators of the Fastshare.cloud storage service, the Association of Commercial Television has managed to reach an agreement with the operators of eDisk and Sledujteto.
New Zealand is to extradite internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, to the United States for prosecution.
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has announced settlements with three US-based illegal IPTV operators.
