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HBO Max Launches in Japan on Prime Video and Hulu on October 1

HBO Max Japan launch on Prime Video and Hulu

HBO Max lands in Japan on October 1 as a co-exclusive hub inside Prime Video and Hulu Japan. Warner Bros. Discovery announced the move on September 1, ending the service’s old exclusive tie-up with U-Next. For viewers it is the simplest legal route to HBO content in Japan yet. What Happened Warner Bros. Discovery said […]

Belgium Orders Registrars to Hand Over Pirate Site Operators’ Bank Details and Crypto Wallets

Belgium’s anti-piracy unit issued five new decisions this week ordering EU domain registrars and a registry to identify the people behind pirate streaming sites. The intermediaries must hand over names, bank accounts, crypto wallets and a year of connection logs, and they are barred from telling their customers. It’s a shift from blocking domains to […]

Cineby Shuts Down as Canada Expands Pirate Site Blocking to 13 Brands

Pirate streaming site Cineby is shutting down for good, and its sister sites are going with it. The closure lands right as a Canadian court order lets studios add IPTV services and free streaming brands to ISP blocklists without going back to a judge. Here’s what happened and what it means for cord-cutters. What Happened […]