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YouGov Claims 4.9 Million UK Broadband Users Streaming Pirated TV Content
A new survey from YouGov has suggested that around 4.9 million of the United Kingdom’s broadband connected adults use pirated TV streaming services via platforms such as “illegal Kodi boxes, Amazon...
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Rights Holders Ask Google to Block UK ISP Piracy Site Blocking Notifications
Several enforcement groups for copyright holders have taken the unusual step of asking Google to remove links for the website blocking notification pages used by Virgin Media, BT and Sky Broadband,...
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Half of UK Premier League Footy Fans Have Streamed Matches “Illegally”
A BBC commissioned ComRes interview of 1,000 adults who are regular viewers of Premier League Football has revealed that 47% have used their broadband connections to stream live matches from pirated...
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New High Court Order Forces UK ISPs to Block More “illegal” Footy Streams
The English Premier League has won a new High Court Order in London this week that will require broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom to block servers that are hosting “illegal streams” of its football...
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Internet Piracy – 6.52 Million UK People Downloaded Illegal Content
The Government’s Intellectual Property Office has today published its 8th study into the extent of online copyright infringement by broadband ISP and mobile users, which estimates that 15% of UK...
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Court Refuses Copyright Trolls Access to Virgin Media’s Customer Data
The UK High Court of Justice has refused notorious copyright trolls – Golden Eye (GEIL) and Mircom International – access to obtain “tens of thousands” of customer records from cable broadband ISP...
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Court Forces Big UK ISPs to Block Nintendo Switch Piracy Sites
Nintendo has won an injunction in the UK High Court that forces all of the largest broadband ISPs – Sky Broadband, BT, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and EE – to block four websites that were found to have...
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Mass Piracy Website Blocks by UK ISPs Fuel Legal Alternatives
A new study, by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Chapman University, has examined the impact of forcing UK broadband ISPs to block individual piracy websites (via court order) and...
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High Court Orders Big UK ISPs to Block 19 More Piracy Websites
The High Court in London has, following a case raised by the Motion Picture Association of Europe (MPA), issued a new injunction that forces most of the major UK broadband ISPs (e.g. BT, Sky Broadband,...
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Customers of Virgin Media and Other UK ISPs Hit by Piracy Letters UPDATE
Customers of several UK broadband ISPs, including Virgin Media (VMO2), have just become the first in a long while to receive a new round of settlement letters (aka -“speculative invoicing“), which tend...
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High Court Orders Big UK ISPs to Block Cyberlocker Website
The High Court has ordered six of the UK’s largest broadband ISPs – Sky Broadband, BT, Plusnet, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and EE – to block customers from accessing a website called Mixdrop, which is...
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