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THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 17, 2023

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 17 11:49 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Stakeholders battle content piracy

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 17 07:25 PM

Multiple stakeholders convene to cooperate against content piracy in a media conference in Manila on Tuesday. Read more »

US charges two Russians behind Z-Library website

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 17 07:03 AM

Two Russians have been charged with copyright piracy and fraud for running the globally popular Z-Library website, which offered free downloads of millions of books Read more »

PH, US coast guards nagsagawa ng exercises sa WPS

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 05 08:49 PM

Dalawang araw nagsagawa ng drills ang mga coast guard ng Pilipinas at Estados Unidos sa West Philippine Sea. Read more »

Ex-OMB chair Ronnie Ricketts cleared of graft raps

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 01 08:51 PM

The Supreme Court has cleared former Optical Media Board chair and CEO Ronnie Ricketts of graft in connection with the unauthorized release of pirated DVDs and VCDs in a 2010 operation. Read more »

Coast Guard trains cops vs vessel attack

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 23 04:51 PM

The PCG and PNP-SAF have conducted a maritime training on sea vessel assault onboard BRP Teresa Magbanua in the waters off Port Area, Manila. Read more »

How YouTube deals with copyright claims

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 22 06:28 PM

With over 500 hours of video content uploaded every minute, it is understandable that YouTube faces a ton of copyright claims on a daily basis. Read more »

San Juan mall tagged as market for fake goods: IPOPHL

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 04 09:34 PM

IPOPHL said Greenhills Shopping Center had landed in the US Trade Representatives’ 2021 Review of Notorious Ma Read more »

Apparel, beauty products among most-faked items in PH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 25 06:38 PM

Counterfeiting and piracy are among the most reported intellectual property violations in 2021 in the Philippines. Read more »

ABS-CBN awarded $21 million in lawsuit vs 21 websites

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 16 09:15 AM

A US court ruled in favor of ABS-CBN in its lawsuit against 21 websites illegally streaming ABS-CBN content. Read more »

Universal Music valued at $39 billion ahead of stock market debut

Jules Bonnard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 21 09:06 AM

Universal Music Group, the world's biggest label whose lineup features The Beatles and Taylor Swift, was valued at more than $39 billion on Monday, a day before its huge stock market debut. Read more »

The more video streaming services we get, the more we'll turn to piracy

The Conversation, Reuters
Posted at Aug 17 04:14 PM

New original content has become more exclusive to other streaming services, consumers are turning to file sharing to get access to those exclusives since they can’t or won’t pay money just for a few shows. Read more »

Ex-illegal manga site operator sentenced by Japan court to 3 yrs in jail

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 02 04:00 PM

FUKUOKA - A 29-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for operating an illegal manga website that allowed people to read pirated copies of popular comics such as "One Piece." Read more »

Friends: The Reunion ignites copyright battle among Chinese video streaming sites

Coco Feng in Beijing, South China Morning Post
Posted at May 30 08:49 AM

Much beloved by Chinese urban youth, the special reunion episode of Friends was highly sought after by China’s video streaming sites. Users uploaded clips and full episodes to popular video-sharing site Bilibili, bringing accusations of piracy. Read more »

Blocking offshore pirate content sites: PH joining a growing international consensus

Hugh Stephens*
Updated as of May 21 03:27 PM

The piracy situation in the Philippines needs urgent action, a situation recognized by all the stakeholders. The first site blocking orders should be issued soon and then the Philippines will join the more than 50 countries world-wide that have adopted site-blocking mechanisms in one form or another. Philippine creators, cultural industries content distributors and consumers will all benefit from this long-overdue step.  Read more »

ABS-CBN files $40M lawsuit against 40 pirate domains

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 21 10:27 PM

ABS-CBN Corp. on Wednesday said it filed a $40-million lawsuit in a US Federal District Court in Florida for copyright and trademark infringement. Read more »

Here’s how SHAREit is doing its part to fight piracy

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 21 03:15 PM

Introducing better practices could play a crucial role in reducing, if not totally eliminating, video piracy, an official of file sharing platform SHAREit said Wednesday, as fraudsters try take advantage of technology for wrongdoings. Read more »

Alfred Vargas asks Congress to look into MMFF piracy

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 16 11:57 AM

Quezon City Rep. Alfred Vargas is asking Congress to look into the piracy that happened during the 2020 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), noting the situation has gone “from bad to worse.” Read more »

Pirate attacks remain high in Singapore Strait amid pandemic

Kyodo News
Posted at Jan 15 09:47 PM

Sea piracy and armed robbery in Asian waters jumped 17 percent last year compared with a year earlier, with a particularly high occurrence in the Singapore Strait, a Japan-led international center to combat the scourge said on Friday.   Read more »

15 dawit sa pamimirata sa MMFF films inireklamo

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 05 07:51 PM

Sinampahan ng reklamo ang ilang ilegal na nagpapakalat ng kopya ng mga pelikula sa 2020 Metro Manila Film Festival. Read more »