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A recent UK High Court "omnibus" order reportedly grants Hollywood studios the power to block rotating networks of pirate sites, without the need to link them to known pirate brands.

The order is a response to rapid domain-hopping and other evasion tactics of pirate site operators.

However, aside from the Motion Picture Association's brief description in a WIPO submission, the order itself remains under wraps.

A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive.

A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers' requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, and service providers to immediately disable the site's remaining domains.

Sky Ireland has sent more than 200 cease-and-desist letters to IP-TV subscribers, who were uncovered as part of an earlier crackdown on a 'dodgy box' operator, where Revolut was ordered to cooperate.

The media company asks the suspected pirates to immediately cancel all IP-TV subscriptions, and to never again infringe Sky's copyrights.

If they fail to comply, Sky reserves the right to take further action.

A new DMCA subpoena, requested by ACE, directs Cloudflare to help identify the operators of a geographically diverse list of pirate sites.

In addition to the standard streaming portals, the legal paperwork mentions the French torrent tracker La Cale, the long-running Chinese BT Home forum, as well as several dedicated Vietnamese piracy APIs.

Lithuania’s media watchdog LRTK will present an overview of its strategic anti-piracy enforcement at an upcoming WIPO meeting in Geneva.

The organization notes that combining pirate site blocking measures with OSINT tools has been helpful in countering hybrid pirate site threats, including the distribution of Russian disinformation.

However, the Netherlands found out that blindly copying these blocklists isn't always the best idea.

A new ruling from the Delhi High Court targets various sites that exploit IMDb's website to make piracy more convenient.

This includes PlayIMDb, which redirects users to a pirated stream by adding the word "play" to an IMDb link.

The order, requested by Universal, requires registrars and ISPs to block PlayIMDb, along with sixteen other domains, including the well-known vidsrc and moviesapi embed services.

Real-Debrid, a popular streaming and download service, has started returning copyright-infringement errors on many cached torrents.

The renewed crackdown began days after a corporate restructuring.

A third-party source says that long-time subscribers have lost 50 to 70 percent of their libraries overnight, with the filter targeting popular keywords such as WEB-DL, AMZN, and [RARBG].

The textbook publishers that sued Google over pirated ebook ads have responded to the company's effort to dismiss their case.

The publishers argue that Google's specific ads for pirate books qualify as contributory copyright infringement under the Supreme Court's Cox ruling.

Google's ban on ebook ads fits this picture, they say, as it only worked against legitimate sellers.

A group of high-profile publishing companies is seeking a $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive.

The proposed order comes with an injunction that would compel more than twenty named international domain registries, hosts, and service providers, including Cloudflare and Njalla, to disable access to the pirate site's three remaining domains.

Aylo asked a Washington federal court for an $84 million default judgment against the operator of pirate site Pornhits, citing the same $15,000-per-work formula the court had previously approved in similar cases.

This time, Judge Benjamin Settle denied the request, awarding the statutory minimum instead, while warning that anything more would be a "windfall."

The porn company did secure a domain transfer order, however, which may be the most important of all.