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The new, $2.3 trillion spending bill just passed by Congress that includes $900 billion of coronavirus relief also contains a new law that’ll punish piracy services that illegally stream large amounts of copyrighted content. This new law, along with two others dealing with copyright and trademark, are awaiting President Donald Trump’s signature.  The piracy law …

Cox Communications has been ordered to pay $1 billion in damages to Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI after being found liable for the piracy of more than 10,000 songs. The lawsuit, filed in June 2018, accused the cable and internet service provider of deliberately ignoring pirates on its network. A federal jury in Virginia agreed …

Piracy doesn’t just affect the US entertainment industry, says a new government study. It’s capping the industry’s earning potential while also hurting the economy. Global digital piracy costs the US film and TV industry at least an estimated $29.2 billion and as much as $71 billion annually, according to a new study from the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy …

Cable television network Starz has reportedly issued a mea culpa for going after several tweets related to news articles about TV show piracy. Starz told Variety that a third-party company it uses to handle copyright enforcement had overstepped when it asked Twitter to remove several tweets that contained links to a story about pirated TV shows. The story, by TorrentFreak, …

Since the days of dial-up modems, the internet has been a never-ending source of movies, music, electronic books and television programs. The problem is that most of that content is actually owned by someone, and downloading it without paying for it makes you a pirate.  Besides being illegal — consequences can range from being cut off by your internet service …

If Telstra has its way, you’ll never have to go anywhere else for entertainment ever again. The telco announced Monday the launch of Telstra TV2, also dubbed “the new Telstra TV,” building on the first generation, Roku-powered set-top box it first released in 2015. The second-gen device has a lot of the same features as the original Telstra TV — …

Google Lens is here, and it promises to do no less than change the way you find information about the world around you. Announced in May by the company behind the world’s biggest search engine, Lens lets you find details on different things in the real world by pointing your phone’s camera at them. Take a picture of a book, …

Now playing: Watch this: Kim Dotcom runs into a legal dead end 1:19 Kim Dotcom lost his legal battle to keep the US government from seizing his overseas assets. CBS The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom‘s challenge to the US government’s seizure of overseas assets. The court left in place a federal appeals court ruling …

Australia, we’ve long thought we’re getting ripped off when it comes to what media we can legally access online. Now we have the stats to prove it. When it comes to what we can watch on streaming services, new research conducted by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and ACCAN, shows Australians are massively losing out compared to Americans. Only …

Accessing pirate sites on the internet just got that little bit harder in Australia. In two concurrent cases brought by Foxtel and Roadshow Films against Australia’s biggest internet service providers, the Federal Court of Australia has ordered ISPs to block access to more than 50 pirate sites within three weeks.  The total block list from both rights holders includes 66 separately-listed websites, …