Italy's Guardia di Finanza says it has carried out a "preventative seizure" of a pirate IPTV platform serving in excess of 50,000 users. The action follows an investigation by Sky and football league Serie A. According to reports, the authorities are now working to identify the platform's subscribers. While rightsholders and authorities all around the world are working to disrupt pirate IPTV platforms, in 2020 Italian law enforcement entities have been more involved than most. Every few weeks agencies including the Guardia di Finanza have announced fresh action to try and reduce the use of piracy-enabled set-top devices, often referred to by the term ‘pezzotto’. New Legal Action Against 50,000-User IPTV Platform According to an announcement by the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Milan, an operation coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of Milan has resulted in the “preventative seizure” of an IPTV platform through which more than 50,000 users were accessing TV content without permission. The name of the platform hasn’t been directly released by the authorities but a video claiming to show aspects of ‘Operation: The Net’ shows the URL Webnet.cam (currently down) apparently involved in IPTV. Considering sports broadcasters are some of the entertainment companies hardest hit by the proliferation of piracy-enabled devices, it is no surprise that the action follows preliminary investigations carried out by Sky Italia and football league Serie A. These entities filed complaints with the authorities, triggering an investigation by the Milan Economic-Financial Police Unit and the Computer Crimes Team of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office. Large Pirate IPTV Operation Uncovered “Subsequent investigations revealed the existence of an interconnected organization, operating in different regions of the national territory, dedicated to the sale and distribution of decoding devices suitable for allowing access to the IPTV encrypted service to enjoy television content, without payment of the applicable fees,” GdF’s statement reads. GdF IPTV Seizure Notice According to the law enforcement entity, the investigation against the platform was made more complex due to the suspects’ use of VPNs to “anonymize communications”. Nevertheless, three individuals have now been reported to the prosecutor’s office for breaches of Art. 171 of Italy’s Copyright Law, which for criminal infringements can mean fines and/or imprisonment. Serie A Welcomes Action, Warns Subscribers “We are extremely satisfied with the results we are achieving in synergy with the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the field of combating audiovisual piracy. The work carried out has completed an operation of great importance,” says Serie A CEO Luigi De Siervo. According to Siervo, after identifying those at the top of the “criminal organization” with the assistance of anti-piracy company Digital Content Protection, attention is now being turned to the people who subscribed to the illegal service. “It is a further step forward in our daily battle because thanks to the seizure of the database of these criminals, the final users are being identified who will, in turn, be reported and prosecuted with penalties ranging from 2,500 to 25,000 euros,” the Serie A chief warned. Whether this threat will be carried out at scale will remain to be seen but Italy has already shown a willingness this year to go after pirate IPTV subscribers. In February, the Guardia di Finanza said it had reported 223 subscribers of pirate IPTV services to the judicial authorities. This latest operation against the 50,000-subscriber platform follows on the heels of two others involving Italian authorities in recent months. In September, the Guardia di Finanza said that 58 sites and 18 Telegram channels had been blocked for their involvement in pirate IPTV. Then last month, a massive law enforcement operation (“The Perfect Storm”) carried out across Europe reportedly shut down 5,500 servers used to stream pirated TV broadcasts, live sports, and movies to the public.

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YouTube says it has found a "smoking gun" to prove that a class-action lawsuit filed by Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider and Pirate Monitor Ltd was filed in bad faith. According to the Google-owned platform, the same IP address used to upload 'pirate' movies to the platform also sent DMCA notices targeting the same batch of content. Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider and Virgin Islands-based Pirate Monitor Ltd teamed up in the summer to file a class-action lawsuit against YouTube. In an effort to gain access to YouTube’s Content ID system, the complaint stated that YouTube has an allegedly lax attitude to takedown notices and repeat infringers, and discriminates against smaller creators. Schneider told the court that a number of her songs had been posted to YouTube without her permission. Pirate Monitor Ltd argued similarly, stating that pirated copies of its works had been uploaded to the site. Both further said they had been denied access to Content ID. In its response, YouTube focused on Pirate Monitor, alleging that the company or its agents uploaded the ‘pirate’ movies and then claimed mass infringement, something which disqualified them from accessing Content ID. “YouTube Failed to Provide Evidence” In a motion to dismiss filed in November, Pirate Monitor said YouTube had provided no “hard evidence” to back up these damaging claims, demanding that the court disregard the allegations and reject calls for the right to an injunction to prevent Pirate Monitor from submitting wrongful DMCA notices in the future. At the time we noted that it was unlikely that YouTube had simply pulled its claims out of thin air and in an opposition to dismiss Pirate Monitor’s counterclaims, YouTube now provides a taster of some of the supporting evidence it has on file. Motion to Dismiss Counterclaims “Pirate Monitor devised an elaborate scheme to prove itself sufficiently trustworthy to use YouTube’s advanced copyright management tools,” YouTube begins. “Through agents using pseudonyms to hide their identities, Pirate Monitor uploaded some two thousand videos to YouTube, each time representing that the content did not infringe anyone’s copyright. Shortly thereafter, Pirate Monitor invoked the notice-and-takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to demand that YouTube remove the same videos its agents had just uploaded.” YouTube notes that Pirate Monitor has still not disputed these claims but has nevertheless moved to dismiss, arguing that YouTube should provide detailed evidence to support its allegations. According to YouTube, it does not have to do that at this early stage but nevertheless highlights some key evidence to show foul play. Suspicious Uploads In all, YouTube processed nearly 2,000 DMCA notices it received by Pirate Monitor in the fall of 2019. All of the targeted videos had a uniform length, around 30 seconds each, generated from “obscure Hungarian movies”. They had been uploaded in bulk from users with IP addresses allocated to Pakistan. “That alone was suspicious, there is no obvious reason why short clips from relatively unknown Hungarian-language movies should be uploaded to YouTube from accounts and devices in Pakistan,” YouTube writes. Furthermore, YouTube notes that the videos were uploaded by users with similar names, such as RansomNova11 and RansomNova12, who gave the clips nondescript titles. Perhaps even more telling, the takedown notices were sent soon after the videos were uploaded, sometimes before the videos had been seen by anyone. While the nature of the uploads is indeed suspicious, YouTube says that it also found what it describes as a “smoking gun”, i.e evidence that the uploads and DMCA notices were being sent by the same entity. The Smoking Gun “After considerable digging, YouTube found a smoking gun. In November 2019, amidst a raft of takedown notices from Pirate Monitor, one of the ‘RansomNova’ users that had been uploading clips via IP addresses in Pakistan logged into their YouTube account from a computer connected to the Internet via an IP address in Hungary,” YouTube explains. “Pirate Monitor had been sending YouTube its takedown notices from a computer assigned that very same unique numeric address in Hungary. Simply put, whoever RansomNova is, he or she was sharing Pirate Monitor’s computer and/or Internet connection, and doing so at the same time Pirate Monitor was using the same computer and/or connection to send YouTube takedown notices.” To counter Pirate Monitor’s claims that not enough evidence has been provided, YouTube says that a party is not required to prove its entire case in its complaint and the relevant rules do not allow Pirate Monitor to escape any accounting for fraudulent and illegal conduct by “concealing the identity of its agents and obscuring its connection to them.” Specifically, however, YouTube says it has already answered the “who, what, where and when?” questions Pirate Monitor claims YouTube has not answered. The “who” is Pirate Monitor, the “what” is Pirate Monitor’s allegedly fraudulent representations, the “where” is YouTube’s website, and the “when” is from August 2019 to November 2019. “For these reasons, Pirate Monitor’s motion to dismiss should be denied,” YouTube’s legal team writes.

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Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Tenet' tops the chart, followed by ‘The Croods'. 'Honest Thief' completes the top three. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have four new entries in the list. Christopher Nolan’s Sci-Fi movie “Tenet” is the most downloaded title this week. The most torrented movies for the week ending on December 21 are: Movie Rank Rank last week Movie name IMDb Rating / Trailer Most downloaded movies via torrent sites 1 (1) Tenet 7.7/ trailer 2 (…) The Croods: A New Age 7.1 / trailer 3 (2) Honest Thief 6.0 / trailer 4 (…) Skylines 4.5 / trailer 5 (6) Monsters of Man 5.1 / trailer 6 (3) Freaky 6.5 / trailer 7 (…) Breach 2.8 / trailer 8 (5) Greenland 6.4 / trailer 9 (…) Another Round 8.0 / trailer 10 (4) Songbird 4.4 / trailer

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It appears that the makers of the 2018 film ‘Hunter Killer’ care to spend more time chasing internet users who illegally share their works online than in making new movies, as we now have a case that takes their pirate-targeting action to the highest end of the spectrum. After targeting a VICTRA store employee for promoting the use of pirate apps like Popcorn Time and Showbox to customers, they are now back with an additional lawsuit, claiming that the same person downloaded and shared copies of the particular movie. Defendant Sabrina Boylan was fired from the VICTRA store where she worked following the first legal case, even after the court dismissed it, possibly because the two firms reached an extra-judicial settlement agreement. Losing her job wasn’t the end of her struggle, though, as she is now facing a brand new lawsuit. ‘Hunter Killer Productions’ is asking the court to permanently enjoin the cease of similar infringements, order the deletion of the copyrighted work, the torrent, and the BitTorrent client from all her computers, and award the plaintiff actual and statutory damages. Also, reasonable attorney fees and litigation costs are to be covered by Boylan. In total, the compensatory amount could reach up to $150,000. The evidence of her copyright infringement comes from an IP address that’s registered under her name, linked to a Verizon cellular phone internet service. As smartphones are more personal devices than desktop PCs or laptops, they are less likely to be shared among various users. That said, the IP address has a higher incriminatory value than what it typically holds in courts, but this will depend on the judge’s view on the matter. The first action against the defendant was justified in the sense that due to her job position, she was promoting pirate software and illegal activities to a large number of people, incurring great damages to filmmakers. The second lawsuit, though, is somewhat vengeful, although still 100% valid and legitimate. ‘Hunter Killer’ has been used for hunting all levels of pirates, from casual to prolific infringers, and considering the film itself, it makes people’s troubles even more vexatious. It’s a movie that finished fifth at the box office during its first week in theaters and was bashed by film critics for being a “cliche-loaded” unoriginal and uninteresting mash of things we’ve seen multiple times before. Does this sound like something you’d want to risk your peace of mind for? Is watching a movie of this kind worth even your time, let alone tens of thousands of USD? Of course, legal trouble is always plausible when downloading pirate movies, so we’d advise you against it no matter the title or the studio that funded its production. Piracy is illegal, and if you don’t have the money to access the content, you want legally, just skip it and enjoy life instead.

City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has sent a cease and desist notice to a popular YouTube ripper. The letter accuses the site operator of being involved in criminal activity and demands action. These statements are quite broad, especially since stream-ripper sites are not by definition breaking the law in the UK. For most police departments, online piracy has no priority, but the City of London Police have made copyright infringement one of their main targets. In September 2013, the department founded the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), which marked the start of a broad enforcement campaign to decrease traffic to pirate sites. To achieve this goal PIPCU has targeted hosting services, advertisers and payment processors, asking them to cut ties with allegedly infringing sites. In addition, police also sent out warning letters to pirate site owners directly, asking them to go legit or shut down. PIPCU Threatens YouTube Ripper In recent years, hundreds of sites have been approached and this effort continues. A few days ago one such a ‘cease and desist’ order was sent to one of the largest YouTube rippers, who shared it with us on condition of anonymity. The letter in question hasn’t changed much compared to the earlier versions we’ve seen. It accuses the site operator of possibly violating multiple laws, including the Fraud Act, the Copyright, Design & Patents Act, as well as the Serious Crime Act. “[W]e have reasonable grounds to believe that through your ownership and/or operation of the website known as [https://redacted.yt-ripper], you are involved in online copyright infringement either directly or indirectly and may be liable to prosecution under UK law,” PIPCU writes. Stream-Rippers Have Legal Uses These are grave accusations of criminal conduct from the police, especially since stream-ripper sites are not typical pirate sites. For example, they don’t host copyrighted content or link to pirated files. They simply help users to make copies of YouTube videos or audio. It is undeniable that these sites, including the one that was targeted by PIPCU, are used by people to copy copyrighted content. However, they are also used for legitimate purposes. Put simply, stream-rippers help to make a copy of video or audio that is already freely accessible online. This is something every browser can do by default, but these dedicated sites make it a bit easier. That’s a far cry from the operations of a typical pirate site. Linking? PIPCU, however, doesn’t appear to make this distinction. According to the police, the YouTube ripper provides “links to media” which are used to access “unlicensed copyrighted content.” “[https://redacted.yt-ripper] is a website that actively provides UK internet users with links to media which gives access to unlicensed copyrighted content without the permission of the copyright holders,” PIPCU writes. Not by Definition Illegal This statement might be a bit too broad, especially since there’s no jurisprudence on the legality of stream-rippers in the UK. These sites are not blocked by ISPs either, unlike regular pirate sites. The site that was targeted by PIPCU sees itself as a time-shifting tool that allows users to make personal backups. Time-shifting is, under some conditions, allowed under UK law. The site in question doesn’t host any copyrighted content, nor does it link to any. The site likely feels strengthened by recent developments surrounding youtube-dl. The open-source software, used by many streamrippers, was removed from the developer platform GitHub following an RIAA takedown request a few weeks ago. This decision was eventually reversed after youtube-dl received broad support from the public, legal experts, and digital rights groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Potential Prison Sentence The cease and desist letter nonetheless mentions that the police unit has the lawful right to pursue action against the operator. It warns that this may eventually lead to prison sentences and fines. “Should a conviction be brought for the above offenses, UK courts may impose sentences of imprisonment and/or fines,” PIPCU writes, adding that it has “criminal and civil powers in UK law to seize money, belongings and any property in connection with these offenses.” This doomsday scenario can be avoided of course, if the site shuts down. PIPCU asks the operator to get in touch within 14 days or face further police action “This may include steps to disrupt revenue made from advertisements and/or payment services; alongside internet infrastructure disruption,” PIPCU warns. The operator of the site in question prefers not to comment on the matter at this time. However, despite the threats, there is no indication that YouTube ripper will shut down anytime soon. A copy of the full PIPCU letter, from which we redacted the domain of the recipient, can be found below. It is possible that the same letter has also gone out to other stream-rippers as well. —- To: The owners and/or operators of the website known as “[https://redacted.yt-ripper]” The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit is hosted by the City of London Police and is a dedicated police unit set up to help prevent, deter and disrupt criminal activity relating to Intellectual Property. One particular area of concern for PIPCU relates to websites involved in online copyright infringement. Such infringement causes significant harm to the UK’s creative economy – including the music, film, TV, gaming and publishing industries – and can be a criminal offence. We are therefore currently working on an initiative with Government and industry bodies to help prevent, deter and disrupt the criminal activity linked to websites involved in online copyright infringement. In that regard, we have reasonable grounds to believe that through your ownership and/or operation of the website known as [https://redacted.yt-ripper], you are involved in online copyright infringement either directly or indirectly and may be liable to prosecution under UK law for the following offences: – Conspiracy to Defraud – Offences under the Fraud Act 2006 – Copyright, Design & Patents Act 1988 – Serious Crime Act 2007 Should a conviction be brought for the above offences, UK courts may impose sentences of imprisonment and/or fines. PIPCU has criminal and civil powers in UK law to seize money, belongings and any property in connection with these offences. All the domains are associated to IP addresses hosting content or are involved in the directing or distributing of traffic to content stored elsewhere. Please see the below ruling relating to Link Aggregator Sites which confirms illegality where it can be shown they are created for the purpose of generating revenue; http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/d...cp160092en.pdf https://redacted.yt-ripper is a website that actively provides UK internet users with links to media which gives access to unlicensed copyrighted content without the permission of the copyright holders. By reference to the advertising on https://redacted.yt-ripper, the copyrighted content is being made available in the course of a business model funded by revenue generated through the placing of advertisements on the site. PIPCU monitors ad traffic using a third party vendors to evidence the revenue generated by websites through advertisements. We have grounds to believe that as owners and/or operators of the website, you are committing offences under s.107 (2A) of the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988 (“CDPA”), which provides that: “A person who infringes copyright in a work by communicating the work to the public— (a) in the course of a business, or (b) otherwise than in the course of a business to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright, commits an offence if he knows or has reason to believe that, by doing so, he is infringing copyright in that work.” “Communication to the public” is defined by s.20 of the CDPA to include: “the making available to the public of the work by electronic transmission in such a way that members of the public may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.” Section 107(2A) is an indictable offence punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment. Further, we have grounds to believe that as owners and/or operators of the website, you are committing offences under the Serious Crime Act 2007 by doing acts capable of encouraging and/or assisting such communication to the public (under s.107(2A) of the CPDA); and/or encouraging and/or assisting the distribution to the public (under s.107(1)(d)(iv) of the CDPA) of copyright content stored on and/or uploaded to cyber lockers – intending or believing that those offences will be encouraged or assisted. Such activity is an indictable offence under the Serious Crime Act 2007 and is punishable by up to ten years’ imprisonment (two years for encouraging/assisting communication to the public; and ten years for encouraging/assisting distribution to the public). PIPCU has the lawful right to pursue action against you and against the website https://redacted.yt-ripper in order to prevent, detect and disrupt criminal activity. To prevent the further commission of offences currently being caused by you and [https://redacted.yt-ripper], you should immediately make contact by emailing: [email protected] If no contact is made within 14 days of this email, then you and/or the https://redacted.yt-ripper website may face further police action. This may include steps to disrupt revenue made from advertisements and/or payment services; alongside internet infrastructure disruption. If you believe that you have taken steps to legitimise your activities and that your website should no longer be subject to action, please use the aforementioned contact details to supply evidence. This should include the positive steps you have taken to remove infringing content or links to infringing content from your site. We would like to assist you in legitimising your website and will be happy to provide advice in how you may be able to do this. All of our rights are reserved. Yours faithfully The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit

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On December 10, Republican Senator Thom Tillis has submitted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA proposal into the latest omnibus bill that is expected to be reviewed and passed by Congress. If the proposal passed, all DMCA violators will be charged with felony and may face possible jail time. Because of this, the proposal received heat online and #stopDMCA has trended on Twitter, calling out Sen. Thom Tillis and the massive corporations that backed the bill such as Sony Pictures, Motion Picture Association, Universal Music Group, ASCAP, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Television Association, The Internet, Warner Music, Salem Media Group and others. DMCA petition Twitch streamers, YouTube content creators and other figures online may lose their livelihood and may also lose their freedom as they may get charged for copyright infringement, whether the used a material deliberately or not. Also, being banned from the platform means that there will be a loss of revenue and a stricter transgression in the future. The thousands of dollars in donations that Sen. Thom Tillis received from numerous entertainment companies has caused people to point out that he may have a bias. The petition in Change.org is seeking 5,000 signatures to help content creators and make their voices heard. What is DMCA? In the 1990s, file sharing and other digital technologies had facilitated widespread illegal access to copyrighted materials such as music, movies, TV shows, games and more. In response to this, the Recording Industry Association of America or RIAA and other industry organizations lobbied for the creation of a formal process by which copyright holds could fight for their rights over contents posted to third-party platforms and have copyrighted materials removed. The is where DMCA comes in, it is a collaboration between media companies, legislators and consumer advocates. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act or the DMCA is a law in the United States that was enacted by the Congress in 1998 and was passed and signed by President Bill Clinton. Journalist Claire Broadley from Who is Hosting This wrote that the DMCA implemented two 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization or WIPO treaties that criminalize the unauthorize the distribution of copyrighted works and the act of circumventing access control, it does not matter if there was any copyright infringement or not. The DMCA exempts internet service providers or ISP and all of its intermediaries of any liability for any violations that may happen on their networks, whether it is direct or not. According to dmca.com, it has been 22 years since the DMCA copyright law was created. Much has changed about the internet since then and there are now numerous platforms in which users can share their contents and post videos. Additionally, they are also ways to improve the system by making it easier for stakeholders to defend their fair use of content without turning it to an expensive Federal court case and without leaving thousands of content creators without profit. For now, if you receive a DMCA notice all you need to do is to comply with the instructions listed. It is also best that you remove the content that got the copyright strike in order to prevent the suspension of your account on Twitch, YouTube, Twitter or other social media platforms.