Italy's Guardia di Finanza dismantled a piracy system it says it had never seen until now, carrying out more than 100 searches and seizures. The system relied on an app called CinemaGoal that constantly passed on the access codes of legitimate Sky, DAZN, Netflix, Spotify and Disney+ accounts to its …
Real-Debrid, a popular streaming and download service, has started returning copyright-infringement errors on many cached torrents. The renewed crackdown began days after a corporate restructuring. A third-party source says that long-time subscribers have lost 50 to 70 percent of their libraries ove…
The Premier League has requested a DMCA subpoena in an attempt to unmask the operators of 25 pirate sports streaming sites. The domain names were registered through Tucows, which is asked to hand over all personal details of the operators. Interestingly, the football league's own evidence shows the …
The textbook publishers that sued Google over pirated ebook ads have responded to the company's effort to dismiss their case. The publishers argue that Google's specific ads for pirate books qualify as contributory copyright infringement under the Supreme Court's Cox ruling. Google's ban on ebook ad…
Three months after a Spanish court ordered NordVPN and ProtonVPN to block pirate football streams, NordVPN says the same court has refused to punish the provider for non-compliance. The VPN company says the Commercial Court of Córdoba rejected LaLiga's request for coercive fines, accepting that ther…
After more than two decades broadcasting the FIFA World Cup in Malaysia, pay-TV operator Astro has lost the rights to the tournament. The company says that "rampant piracy" reduced the value of the rights, noting that the 2018 and 2022 tournaments were "extensively pirated" in the country. The admis…
A recent UK High Court "omnibus" order reportedly grants Hollywood studios the power to block rotating networks of pirate sites, without the need to link them to known pirate brands. The order is a response to rapid domain-hopping and other evasion tactics of pirate site operators. However, aside fr…
Aylo asked a Washington federal court for an $84 million default judgment against the operator of pirate site Pornhits, citing the same $15,000-per-work formula the court had previously approved in similar cases. This time, Judge Benjamin Settle denied the request, awarding the statutory minimum ins…
A group of high-profile publishing companies is seeking a $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive. The proposed order comes with an injunction that would compel more than twenty named international domain registries, hosts, and service providers, including Cloudflare and…
A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers' requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, and …
Reddit's latest transparency report shows a sharp jump in account bans for repeat copyright infringement, while the number of banned subreddits dropped significantly. The data, covering the latter half of 2025, also shows rightsholders reported 425,471 pieces of allegedly infringing content, of whic…
An AI contributory infringement lawsuit against NVIDIA can proceed, even under the Supreme Court's recent Cox v. Sony framework, a federal judge ruled this week. The court denied NVIDIA's motion to dismiss in large part, concluding that some of the company's scripts had no purpose other than to enab…
Bulgaria has proven that the right legislative update can go a long way in Washington. The USTR credits the country's removal from the Watch List to a 2023 amendment of the Criminal Code, which makes piracy enforcement easier. This new legislation resulted in the shutdown of three long-running torre…
A new DMCA subpoena, requested by ACE, directs Cloudflare to help identify the operators of a geographically diverse list of pirate sites. In addition to the standard streaming portals, the legal paperwork mentions the French torrent tracker La Cale, the long-running Chinese BT Home forum, as well a…
Sky Ireland has sent more than 200 cease-and-desist letters to IPTV subscribers, who were uncovered as part of an earlier crackdown on a 'dodgy box' operator, where Revolut was ordered to cooperate. The media company asks the suspected pirates to immediately cancel all IPTV subscriptions, and to nev…
Adult entertainment company FlavaWorks has launched one of its largest legal campaigns this week. The company filed a detailed complaint centered around the long-running private torrent tracker Gay-torrents.org. The lawsuit targeted hundreds of users, the site's alleged operator, a French uploader, …
For the first time in thirteen years, the U.S. government has placed a trading partner in its most serious category for intellectual property concerns. The USTR's latest Special 301 Report classifies Vietnam as a "Priority Foreign Country," opening the door to potential trade sanctions. The country'…
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Project Hail Mary' tops the chart, followed by 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.' 'Apex' completes the top three.
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Lithuania’s media watchdog LRTK will present an overview of its strategic anti-piracy enforcement at an upcoming WIPO meeting in Geneva. The organization notes that combining pirate site blocking measures with OSINT tools has been helpful in countering hybrid pirate site threats, including the distr…
A new report by the Digital Citizens Alliance and IP House argues that piracy has become more organized and sophisticated over the years. In some cases, it has been linked to other criminal elements, including drugs, weapons, and the mafia. The report calls for site-blocking legislation and urges Co…
Google is trying to put an end to the copyright liability claim in its textbook piracy battle with several academic publishers. In a motion for partial judgment filed in a New York federal court, Google argues that the recent Supreme Court ruling in Cox v. Sony has effectively killed the copyright l…
A group of independent film companies has dropped its long-running piracy liability lawsuit against U.S. Internet provider RCN. The joint stipulation, filed in a New Jersey federal court, follows the Cox Supreme Court ruling. In addition to dropping a multi-million-dollar damages claim, the requeste…
DNS4EU, an EU-funded initiative that aims to offer a secure and privacy-focused DNS resolver for Europeans, is the latest intermediary to get caught up in the French anti-piracy crackdown. In a series of orders in favor of Canal+, the Paris court ordered search engines, ISPs, DNS providers, VPNs, an…
As lawmakers in U.S. Congress advance their pirate site blocking plans, the Motion Picture Association is publicly reiterating the need for such legislation. In a World IP Day post, MPA Global General Counsel Karyn Temple frames live sports piracy as an urgent threat. She argues that a U.S. site blo…
A new ruling from the Delhi High Court targets various sites that exploit IMDb's website to streamline access to pirated content. This includes PlayIMDb, which redirects users to a pirated stream by adding the word "play" to an IMDb link. The order, requested by Universal, requires registrars and IS…