The Danish Rights Alliance and the Spanish football league LALIGA have won a years-long case. The case demonstrates that it’s possible to block websites that provide illegal links to football matches and more generally that live sports can be protected and enforced in...
Last year, the Rights Alliance reported a man for illegally sharing nude scenes with female actors in a group he managed on Reddit. Today, the National Unit for Special Crime (NSK) has arrested a 39-year-old man from Valby and charged him with copyright infringement...
A 30-year-old man has just been sentenced to prison for illegally accessing and subsequently reselling lists with a total of 500,000 username and password combinations belonging to unsuspecting people, and in 47 cases reselling some of these credentials, which the...
Content creators' rights are violated when users of AI services like ChatGPT customize chatbots by feeding them protected content. When users of AI services such as ChatGPT set out to customize their own chatbots, it is rarely with copyright in mind. Together with...
A 48-year-old man from East Jutland has been sentenced to 60 days' suspended imprisonment as the last person behind the illegal file-sharing network Asgaard The National Unit for Special Crime (NSK) has sentenced a 48-year-old man from East Jutland to a suspended...
On Thursday, March 21st, a verdict was handed down in Denmark's first case of streaming fraud, where a 53-year-old Danish man was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison after generating artificial streams of music worth not less than 2 million Danish kroner. Press Release A...
On Tuesday, February 20, the trial against a man accused of earning over DKK 4.5 million through manipulation of music streams will commence. In 2018, the Rights Alliance reported a case on behalf of Koda, IFPI, Dansk Musiker Forbund and Dansk Artist Forbund that...
After continuous attempts to get Apple to pay for using content from Danish publishers and journalists in its news widget, the Danish rights holders see no other way than to report Apple to the police. Today the Danish Rights Alliance - an interest group fighting for...
With a large collection of convicted ringleader behind Danish file-sharing services, Denmark has found an effective model to combat illegal file sharing with limited resources. However, it is crucial that we continue to protect the specialized forces in the NSK. On...
A 29-year-old man from Odense has just been charged with illegally reselling unsuspecting users' login credentials to various streaming services. In 2022, Rights Alliance reported a person to NSK - the Danish Section for Rights Protection - for illegally selling...
A 37-year-old man from Jylland receives a 60-day suspended prison sentence and an additional fine of DKK 10,000 for illegal sharing on several file-sharing services. As a result of NSK's persistent efforts against the Danish file-sharing environment, several backers,...
In spring, several media focused on the Rights Alliance's case, which involves potentially the world's largest music streaming fraud. Now, the case is set to go to court in February 2024. Back in 2018, Rights Alliance reported an individual from Jylland for allegedly...
In 2022, Rights Alliance reported an organized sale of unauthorized access credentials for streaming and news services, as well as an illegal IPTV service. Now NSK has arrested and charged the third alleged perpetrator in the case. The Section for Rights Protection...
It is important to intervene early before illegal file sharing becomes a criminal slippery slope. This is illustrated by the sentencing of a 41-year-old man who received a six-month suspended sentence for illegal file sharing, fraud, and for copying and sharing Ekstra...
Last Thursday, a 25-year-old man was fined 5.000 DKK for offering illegal copies of textbooks for sale. More than half of the illegal PDFs offered for sale originated from Nota, who makes digital textbooks available to people with reading disabilities. On Thursday,...
Today the Danish Rights Alliance won a blocking case involving the 9 most popular so-called 'stream ripping services' in Denmark. The services, which make it possible to illegally copy and store music from the internet, were ruled illegal and must be blocked by the...
A 35-year-old man has been convicted of selling seedboxes knowing that they were used for illegal file sharing. The case contributes to the focus on the infrastructure within file sharing on the illegal market. On February 28, the Court in Aalborg ruled against the...
A 26-year-old man from Horsens has offered 29 illegal pdfs of textbooks for sale at DBA. The case emphasizes the fact that illegal sharing of digital textbooks is a major challenge. On Thursday 5 January, a 26-year-old man was convicted at the court in Horsens for...
On 13 December 2022, a verdict was reached in a court case in Frederiksberg City Court regarding the illegal distribution of football matches. The verdict means that the blocking of Spanish Rojadirecta, which is a service that offers links to e.g., live football, is...
Another Danish user of an illegal file sharing service has received his sentence. The case shows that it is not only the ringleaders who stand to be convicted, but also users who systematically download and share illegal content. On Friday 25 November, another verdict...
A verdict has been reached in the case against the first ringleader behind the illegal file sharing service, DanishBytes. The case provides an insight into how legal services are ripped for content for use on the illegal services. On Monday 14 November, a new...
The verdict relates to the illegal file sharing service Asgaard, which closed in the winter of 2020. The fifth of the seven ringleaders have now been convicted. On Thursday 3 November, the Court in Aarhus sentenced a 47-year-old man from Midtjylland, who was one of...
The decision comes after a Danish user copied and shared no less than 800 films in Denmark and Sweden. The case shows that infringements of any size can be sanctioned – even when the infringements occur on foreign platforms. On Thursday 1 September, a 58 year old man...
The case against a female nursing student from VIA University College in Aarhus has ended with a fine for offering and selling illegal digital copies of 47 different textbooks via Facebook. A fine of DKK 5.000 and a confiscation of DKK 1.830. This is how the case...
The closed file-sharing service Asgaard was run by an organized network consisting of seven criminal ringleaders, each of whom had an important role in the operation and development of the illegal service. On Tuesday 15th of March, two ringleaders behind the...
The case against the perpetrators of the illegal service Asgaard continues. On the 4th of February, the second culprit was convicted of copyright infringement of a particularly serious nature. A 43-year-old man was, by the court in Kolding given a three months’...
A 28-year-old man has been convicted a 30 days suspended sentence, dividend confiscation and claims for damages, for systematic illegal sale of digital textbooks. 51 works from different fields of study were involved. 146 sales of illegally copied digital textbooks...
There are many risks associated with running illegal piracy services. A case where 50-year-old family father from Middelfart was convicted of being behind NordicBits and Asgaard underlines this. Tuesday June 15th, a man was sentenced to four months prison by the...
A 33-year-old ringleader behind Denmark's largest illegal file-sharing network DanishBits was sentenced by court in Copenhagen to one year in prison, of which three months were made unconditional, for copyright infringement of a particularly serious nature. In 2016,...
The court in Odense sentenced a 35-year-old man to 60 days probation for illegal file sharing of films and series. The verdict shows that the police's focus is now on the users of the illegal services. The Rights Alliance reported the user in question to SØIK on the...
After several actions by the IP Task Force under the State Prosecutor for Serious Economic and International Crime (SØIK), a total of seven people are now charged in the case of the closed illegal service Asgaard, after another six were charged yesterday. The actions...
Two hotbeds for illegal sharing of Danish films, articles, e-books, and music have been shut down. After several years of investigation in collaboration with the Danish Rights Alliance, the Danish State Prosecutor for Serious Economic and International Crime has put...
On Thursday, the court in Odense ruled against the owner of the website popcorn-time.dk, who has made money by guiding users to the illegal service Popcorn Time, and thus has also contributed to copyright infringement. 20 days on probation, dividend confiscation of...
A café at Frederiksberg in Copenhagen has received a fine of DKK 20.000 for illegal sale of 24 counterfeits of Hans J. Wegners Y-chair. The punishment once again reminds of the importance of choosing originals. Enjoy your coffee in the classic Y-chair. This is how...
Wednesday the Danish high court ratified that Rojadirecta, one of the world’s best known live-sports services, is illegal and must be blocked by Danish internet service providers. The ruling enables Denmark to take...
A major Danish transportation company has pleaded guilty to contributing to copyright infringement and has therefore received a fine of DKK 50,000 for delivery of counterfeited designer furniture. Enabling sales of counterfeited goods through deliveries has cost a...
Following a report from Rights Alliance, SØIK has arrested three Danish men in a comprehensive case concerning illegal sale of films and IPTV subscriptions. On June 3rd, authorities in the USA, Canada and Europe, including Denmark, carried out a coordinated action...
In September following a collaboration between RettighedsAlliancen and the publisher Elsevier, a Danish court ruled that the services Sci-Hub and Library Genesis are illegal. The suit was brought against a Danish Internet Service Provider for providing users access to...
In cooperation with LaLiga, RettighedsAlliancen has had one of the longest existing and best-known illegal services, Rojadirecta, convicted by a Danish court. Rojadirecta must therefore be blocked by the Danish Internet Service Providers. A total of nine illegal...
For the first time in Denmark, a court ruling has established that sites, that illegally offer streaming of live sport can and should be blocked. The case was brought by the Spanish football league LaLiga in cooperation with Rights Alliance and paves the way for...