Last year Adobe reported progress in the piracy fight, claiming that its new cloud-based subscription model was chipping away at the phenomenon by "hard to measure" amounts. In an earnings call with investors Adobe has again reported progress, but despite the effort Photoshop and Illustrator are still massively popular with pirates.
It was heard that a comprehensive law enforcement action targeted scene release group “SPARKS” and its associates earlier this month.
Adobe has released an update to clean up the mess that was the profiling system in Lightroom. No longer hidden in the settings menus, the new Lightroom Classic CC and Adobe Camera Raw now show these settings up in the top edit panel.
A company that sold Kodi-based software which accessed infringing TV, movie and sports streams has lost an interesting case featuring Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN. MovieStreamer claimed that it only provided a referral service to third-party content through a series of links but the court found that despite the convoluted process, it still communicated copyrighted works to the public.
