On March 16th, 2026 with 43 comments
A German court ruled that TCL misled consumers by marketing certain TVs as "QLED" when they "do not deliver the color reproduction expected from QLED TVs." It...
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On January 8th, 2026 with 59 comments
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a temporary restraining order against Samsung, blocking the company from continuing to collect data through its...
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On December 16th, 2025 with 80 comments
mprindle writes: The Texas Attorney General sued five major television manufacturers, accusing them of illegally collecting their users' data by secretly...
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On May 30th, 2025 with 132 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A lack of action by big tech firms is enabling the "industrial scale theft" of premium video services,...
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On November 8th, 2024 with 25 comments
With the debut of the Pirate Bay TV series in Sweden, international viewers are finding it surprisingly difficult to pirate. TorrentFreak reports: The series...
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On October 7th, 2024 with 113 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: The companies behind the streaming industry, including smart TV and streaming stick manufacturers and streaming service...
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On April 26th, 2024 with 29 comments
Some Android-powered TVs can expose the contents of users' email inboxes if an attacker has physical access to the TV. Google initially told the office of...
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On April 5th, 2024 with 119 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Kotaku: A new patent recently filed by TV and streaming device manufacturer Roku hints toward a possible future where...
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On March 5th, 2024 with 36 comments
Piracy was traditionally seen as something that predominantly young males were interested in. This is a largely outdated representation of reality, as girls...
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On January 25th, 2024 with 160 comments
Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees (non-paywalled link). From a report: Ever...
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On January 12th, 2024 with 110 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The trailer for "Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food" promised a sunny if melodramatic story of...
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On October 30th, 2023 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Brazil's telecoms regulator Anatel claims that during an operation last week, it successfully blocked...
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On August 29th, 2023 with 63 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Sports leagues are urging the US to require "instantaneous" takedowns of pirated livestreams and new...
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On August 23rd, 2023 with 71 comments
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against a group of online stores that sell pirated DVDs of key titles such as "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" and "The...
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On May 17th, 2023 with 46 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: This week, we looked at a new hardware startup called Telly that's giving away half a million of its new smart televisions...
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On April 18th, 2023 with 111 comments
Netflix is planning a "broad rollout" of the password sharing crackdown that it began implementing in 2022, the company said today in its Q1 2023 earnings...
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On January 8th, 2023 with 74 comments
"We are seeing, across the gamut, products that impact our privacy, products that create cybersecurity risks, that have overarchingly long-term environmental...
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On August 2nd, 2022 with 257 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: You wouldn't steal a car, right? So why are you pirating? With this 2004 message, the movie industry...
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On January 22nd, 2022 with 15 comments
The Washington Post reports that three of the world's most prominent live-streaming stars "received notifications of copyright infringement after broadcasting...
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On May 11th, 2021 with 34 comments
Chinese television maker Skyworth has issued an apology after a consumer found that his set was quietly collecting a wide range of private data and sending it...
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On April 8th, 2021 with 45 comments
Sky TV, one of the largest broadcasters in the UK, has won a court injunction to prevent links to its TV shows from being illegally shared online. The interim...
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On March 11th, 2021 with 81 comments
Netflix is testing a new feature that could signal the start of an effort to crack down on password sharing. Hollywood Reporter reports: Spotted by GammaWire,...
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On January 4th, 2021 with 99 comments
CNET reveals 2020's most popular show among video pirates:
It probably won't come as a surprise that Disney Plus smash hit series The Mandalorian has won the...
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On December 22nd, 2020 with 85 comments
chicksdaddy shares a report from The Security Ledger: The acting head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the agency was assessing the cyber risk...
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On September 4th, 2020 with 85 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Every day, millions of people download or stream pirated content including movies, TV-shows, games,...
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On June 10th, 2020 with 66 comments
European police busted an illegal streaming ring that provided service to 2 million people and was so sophisticated that it had its own customer-service team....
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On April 27th, 2020 with 20 comments
U.S. chipmaker Broadcom has offered to scrap its exclusivity deals with TV and modem makers to end an EU antitrust investigation and stave off a possible hefty...
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On March 24th, 2020 with 52 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Comcast has won a US Supreme Court case against Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Networks (ESN),...
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On March 17th, 2020 with 31 comments
Popcorn Time, the highly popular and extremely-easy-to-use "Netflix for piracy" service, came back Tuesday after a years-long hiatus. The move comes as people...
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On March 6th, 2020 with 158 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: For those who don't want to dive fully into torrents, Plex is a great alternative for streaming television shows and...
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