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Illegal Streaming Networks Busted in Italy and the UK

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Italy ‘Switches Off’ Illegal Streaming Servers Just days before the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Italy launched “Operation Switch Off,” a sweeping multinational crackdown on illegal IPTV networks. It was coordinated by Italian prosecutors and cybercrime police alongside Eurojust, Europol, and Interpol. The operation spanned 29 raids across 11 Italian cities and 14 countries. Authorities dismantled […]

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Pirate Video Costs Streaming Platforms $30 Billion Annually

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Piracy and illegal streaming continue to siphon billions from the entertainment industry according to a recent report from the US Chamber of Commerce. The losses attributed to digital piracy total an estimated $30 billion annually in the US alone with the global impact topping $71 billion per year. These staggering figures highlight the challenges streaming

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U.S. Law Enforcement Shuts Down Popular Sports Piracy Sites

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While the FIFA World Cup continues, U.S. authorities have seized more than two dozen domain names belonging to popular sports streaming platforms. These targeted websites include weakstreams.com, freestreams-live1.com, crichd.pro, toplivematch.com, guduballs.com and score808.com. Each site has millions of monthly users. Sports piracy is rampant worldwide—more than half of sports fans are frequent users of unauthorized

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Universal Music and Twitch Reach Streaming Peace Accord

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Variety reports that Amazon and Universal Music Group (UMG) have revised their agreements and will now let Amazon Music users stream more of the label’s songs, while reducing punishments for those who use unauthorized UMG music on the video gaming live-streaming platform Twitch. Twitch has had a long-standing fight with the music industry. UMG and

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Locast Loses Defense Against Copyright Claims by Networks

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Nonprofit over-the-air streaming service Locast has lost its key defense in a copyright infringement suit. A Manhattan federal court has ruled that the company cannot use a Copyright Act defense against the infringement claims brought by U.S. television networks ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton ruled that despite its standing as

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