TECH NEWS News: MPA's Chairman, Charles Rivkin, spearheads a site-blocking initiative at CinemaCon to combat digital piracy's economic impact on the US film industry,
Piracy is a big issue for digital publishers like Kakao Entertainment's subsidiary Tapas Entertainment, which focuses on publishing webcomics and web novels.
The activities are mostly associated with YouTube and its music content. In just a couple of years, many have finally left the life of piracy behind and decided to opt for streaming services for a small monthly fee.
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world's leading anti-piracy coalition, applauds the sentencing of the four operators of notorious GimyTV network of sites.
In its heyday, from 2008 to 2013, the site, movie2k.to, had tens of thousands of movies in a host of languages available for download. Users from around the world visited the site, making it among the 25 most-visited websites in Germany, according to news reports at the time