Kodi: Brian Thompson given suspended prison sentence
A trader has been handed a suspended prison sentence after admitting two charges relating to selling TV boxes which allow free access to premium content such as sports channels and…
Two in five people in Singapore stream pirated content
Two in five people in Singapore are actively tuning in to pirated content, and many of them do so via media players that let them stream online content to their…
European court of justice rules against Pirate Bay
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that sites like The Pirate Bay still infringe copyright, despite not directly hosting pirated content. In a ruling made yesterday,…
70% Kodi installations configured to pirate content
Intelligent broadband network solutions provider Sandvine’s Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight report focusing on the ‘fully-loaded’ Kodi ecosystem in North America, suggests that 68.6 per cent of households with Kodi devices…
French Content Piracy – €1.35bn loss
TV content piracy and illicit downloads caused French rights-holders a €1.35 billion loss in 2016, with 13 million Internet users involved in the practice, stabilising at 27 per cent of…