digital piracy

Proposed Anti-Piracy Bill Would Block Foreign Pirate Sites

Copyright Infringement, TV & Film Piracy, Video Piracy /

Representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), a new bill aimed at blocking foreign pirate websites in the United States. The bill would amend copyright law to allow rightsholders to obtain court orders requiring large ISPs and DNS resolvers to block access to foreign websites primarily designed for copyright infringement. Proposed […]

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Textbook Publishers Sue Shopify for Copyright Violations

Book Piracy /

On Wednesday, five major textbook publishers sued Shopify, accusing the Canadian e-commerce company of letting its vendors repeatedly commit digital piracy. This trademark and copyright infringement case was filed jointly by McGraw Hill, Pearson, Macmillan, Elsevier and Cengage. Shopify, based in Ottawa, was first launched in 2006 as a platform to sell snowboarding equipment. It

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