The court's decision may affect the fight against piracy in the gaming industry.
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which acts on behalf of major game publishers including EA, Nintendo, Take-Two Interactive and Ubisoft, filed a motion in court to force disclosure of data about the owner of one of the largest pirated resources.
ESA applied to the court with a request to issue a court order to Cloudflare, which provides cloud infrastructure services. The order requires disclosure of personal information about the individual or entity behind the Brazilian pirate site tpb-games.org which specializes in the illegal distribution of computer games.
In particular, Cloudflare was required to provide names, email addresses, phone numbers, registration data, payment history, and any other contact information related to the resource owner. The request was initiated as part of an investigation under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
ESA actively fights for the rights of the world's largest gaming companies and includes such well-known companies as EA, Disney Interactive, Epic Games, Nintendo, Take-Two, Ubisoft and others. The Association regularly sends millions of requests for content removal and directly targets the fight against pirated sites.
Last year, ESA provided the U.S. Trade Representative with a detailed review of key threats in the field of game piracy. The report identified the most problematic resources, including: nsw2u.com, Game3rb.com, 1fichier.com, megaup.net, 1337x.to and solidtorrents.to.
These sites have become infamous for ESA as the largest repositories of illegal content and torrent trackers that specialize in distributing pirated copies of computer games. They provide direct links for downloading licensed game projects from well-known publishers, bypassing copyright protection systems.
Tpd-games.org aimed mainly at the Brazilian audience and receiving about 90% of its traffic from this region, it offers pirated copies of popular games such as Assassin's Creed III, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, God of War, Grand Theft Auto V, Hogwarts Legacy, The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption II and Resident Evil 4.
Despite numerous attempts, the ESA has so far failed to identify the identity or company behind the illegal game tracker. tpd-games.org, actively using the secure cloud infrastructure of Cloudflare. In this regard, the association applied to the US federal court with a request to issue a compulsory court order to the provider company.
As part of the DMCA act, ESA has requested an order that will oblige Cloudflare to disclose any available information about its customer, including personal data, payment details and accounts. The association plans to use this information to protect the interests of its members - leading game publishers and software developers.
According to Chapter II of the DMCA, after identifying the owner tpd-games.org The association will be able to initiate a lawsuit to bring the operator of a pirated resource to civil and criminal liability for massive copyright infringement. Additional sanctions against Cloudflare as a company that indirectly contributed to the distribution of pirated content are also possible.
At the time of publication of the material, the website tpd-games.org continued to work stably, nothing foreshadowed problems for the owners of the resource. Cloud service provider Cloudflare still provided infrastructure services to the pirate tracker.
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which acts on behalf of major game publishers including EA, Nintendo, Take-Two Interactive and Ubisoft, filed a motion in court to force disclosure of data about the owner of one of the largest pirated resources.
ESA applied to the court with a request to issue a court order to Cloudflare, which provides cloud infrastructure services. The order requires disclosure of personal information about the individual or entity behind the Brazilian pirate site tpb-games.org which specializes in the illegal distribution of computer games.
In particular, Cloudflare was required to provide names, email addresses, phone numbers, registration data, payment history, and any other contact information related to the resource owner. The request was initiated as part of an investigation under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
ESA actively fights for the rights of the world's largest gaming companies and includes such well-known companies as EA, Disney Interactive, Epic Games, Nintendo, Take-Two, Ubisoft and others. The Association regularly sends millions of requests for content removal and directly targets the fight against pirated sites.
Last year, ESA provided the U.S. Trade Representative with a detailed review of key threats in the field of game piracy. The report identified the most problematic resources, including: nsw2u.com, Game3rb.com, 1fichier.com, megaup.net, 1337x.to and solidtorrents.to.
These sites have become infamous for ESA as the largest repositories of illegal content and torrent trackers that specialize in distributing pirated copies of computer games. They provide direct links for downloading licensed game projects from well-known publishers, bypassing copyright protection systems.
Tpd-games.org aimed mainly at the Brazilian audience and receiving about 90% of its traffic from this region, it offers pirated copies of popular games such as Assassin's Creed III, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, God of War, Grand Theft Auto V, Hogwarts Legacy, The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption II and Resident Evil 4.
Despite numerous attempts, the ESA has so far failed to identify the identity or company behind the illegal game tracker. tpd-games.org, actively using the secure cloud infrastructure of Cloudflare. In this regard, the association applied to the US federal court with a request to issue a compulsory court order to the provider company.
As part of the DMCA act, ESA has requested an order that will oblige Cloudflare to disclose any available information about its customer, including personal data, payment details and accounts. The association plans to use this information to protect the interests of its members - leading game publishers and software developers.
According to Chapter II of the DMCA, after identifying the owner tpd-games.org The association will be able to initiate a lawsuit to bring the operator of a pirated resource to civil and criminal liability for massive copyright infringement. Additional sanctions against Cloudflare as a company that indirectly contributed to the distribution of pirated content are also possible.
At the time of publication of the material, the website tpd-games.org continued to work stably, nothing foreshadowed problems for the owners of the resource. Cloud service provider Cloudflare still provided infrastructure services to the pirate tracker.
