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World Intellectual Property Day 2020 was April 26. While the world is grappling with COVID-19, homebound Americans are spending extra time enjoying movies, TV shows and music offered by commercial streaming services. Yet many Americans don’t stop to think that the almost unimaginable abundance of creative content they are consuming would not be available...

Torrenting and illegal streaming sites have seen a huge increase in traffic as people look for something to do while they're stuck inside.

European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton has been on the phone to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to officially request the streaming service slow down downloads.

A top European Union official called on Netflix and other streaming-video services to reduce video quality to standard-definition format — forgoing HD for now — so that internet networks don’t get overloaded during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Netflix will reduce streaming quality in Europe for at least the next month to prevent the internet collapsing under the strain of unprecedented usage due to the coronavirus pandemic.