A federal district court in the Central District of California found that Altered Carbon’s operator, Jason Tusa, repeatedly violated copyright law by operating several unauthorized streaming services and profiting from the thousands of illegal streams of copyrighted works.

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world’s leading coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market for creative content, has obtained a preliminary injunction against the operator of the popular piracy site, Altered Carbon.

A federal district court in the Central District of California found that Altered Carbon’s operator, Jason Tusa, repeatedly violated copyright law by operating several unauthorized streaming services and profiting from the thousands of illegal streams of copyrighted works being accessed through the services.

Prior to Altered Carbon, Tusa previously operated at least three illegal IPTV services, including Area 51, Singularity Media, and Digital Unicorn Media. These services were shut down after ACE outreach. ACE filed the lawsuit against Tusa and Altered Carbon in July 2021 after Tusa violated his commitments under an earlier settlement with ACE.

“Altered Carbon’s operator, Jason Tusa has repeatedly engaged in the mass infringement of copyrighted content and has consistently exploited and undermined the legitimate streaming market that consumers are counting on to reliably and safely deliver programming,” said Karyn Temple, Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel of the Motion Picture Association.

“ACE’s approach to monitoring the illegal streaming ecosystem and bringing actions against illicit operations like Altered Carbon protects the legitimate market for creative content around the world and demonstrates that ACE will act swiftly against recidivist pirate operators that violate their commitment to cease infringing conduct.”

The Court’s order is the latest in a series of successful ACE actions against piracy device sellers and illegal streaming applications and services. ACE’s legal victories and favorable settlements in previous cases over the last several years in North America include Crystal Clear Media, TickBox, Dragon Box, SetTV Now, Vader Streams, and Omniverse.

The theft of digital content is the single greatest threat to the global audiovisual community. It harms both local and foreign films and businesses, threatens jobs, undermines investment, reduces tax contributions to governments, and stifles creativity.

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A new report by Synamedia, based on a study by Ampere Analysis, indicates over half of sports fans consume ilegal content on a regular basis.

A new report by Synamedia, based on a study by Ampere Analysis, sheds light on the problem of content piracy in the world of sports, claiming over half of sports fans regularly access illegal content.

The report, which promises to be part of a series of reports on audiovisual content piracy, is titled “Charting Global Sports Piracy”, and draws its results from a study conducted in ten countries with the participation of more than 6,000 sports fans.

The figures reveal that, while 89% of people who define themselves as sports fans have a legal subscription to an OTT service, more than half (51%) admit to consuming illegally transmitted sports events, to a rate of at least one event per month.

Of those users of pirated content, 42% consume sports every day, which is more than 60% higher than what sports fans average.

One possible conclusion is that there is much more appetite for sports content than what these “super” fans have legal access to, one of the reasons that turns them to pirated content.

The report divides fans according to their consumption of sports content and, within this, pirated content, finding that the countries with the greatest passion for soccer are where the main consumers of sporting events are and, therefore, the largest consumers of pirated sports content (35% of these fans watch illegal content).

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A report by the IPSOS Mori institute reveals that in the last quarter of 2018, more than 470 movies and 538 million series episodes were illegally accessed online in the country, generating multimillion-dollar losses for the industry.

In an unprecedented study in Brazil, the IPSOS Mori institute revealed the real magnitude of the impact that piracy has on the audiovisual industry in the country.

The report entitled “Television and Movie Online Piracy in Brazil,” commissioned by the Motion Picture Association and based on a survey of more than 2,400 internet users in the country, indicates that in the last quarter of 2018, 470 movies and 538 Millions of series episodes were accessed illegally.

Taking into account the average price per subscription to pay TV in Brazil and the number of “lost” viewers based on pirated content, the study concludes that the losses for the industry reach almost US$ 200 million (4 billion reais).

With these numbers, in addition, the report indicates that the volume of consumption of pirated audiovisual content is getting closer to the level of consumption of legal content.

The survey also revealed that 28% of unauthorized accesses were made through platforms where users generate content, a device widely used for the pirated transmission of live programming, such as news and football games.

This modality is used largely due to how easy it is to access pirated content in Brazil, with almost 80% of those surveyed saying that it is “very easy” to find this type of content on the internet, while only 4% said that it is “very difficult” to do so.

The study estimates that industry revenues could be 17% higher if there were no piracy.

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