Portugal expands its Voluntary Piracy Blocking to Live Sports StreamsPortugal’s copyright owners have secured yet another piracy-fighting deal. The blocking system was expanded to include websites that stream live sports. Pirates say that there is no in-depth analysis of the requests relating to blocking. Portugal has maintained a flexible piracy-fighting mechanism that allowed Isps (Internet Service Providers) to immediately block copyright infringing domains without a court order since the 2015rising front of Iptv servicesPortugal has expanded the jurisdiction of the aforementioned mechanism to allow it to block websites that illegally broadcast sport streams. In reality, Igac and Apritel decided on the coverage of this growing piracy market last December and it has now been officially confirmed that the latest blocking action will also include live sports. As Igac’s Inspector General stated: “Live events need faster action by the entities involved in the process of illegal transmissions by their very existence and under penalty of futility. “People who are used to access illegal sports streaming sites alleging an interruption of those services have already reported this. What local football match streaming website operators say is that the copyright holders tend to be filing more extensive blocking notices than ever before they also capture newly created domains that have never before broadcast a sporting event. This is reflective of the use of a new search tool which quickly locates and censors pirating sites. As they also point out, Igac can not possibly review these requests in depth and decide on the action as there are a large number of blocks running simultaneously so that the device most definitely operates on auto-pilot with Isps blocking whatever the copyright holders want them to. To see what else’s going on in today’s tech world.