Over the past two years, Belgium's anti-piracy blocklist has grown past 1,500 domains. This week the government's anti-piracy department expanded its effort, ordering domain registrars and a registry to hand over names, bank accounts, crypto wallets and connection logs linked to pirate site operatorā¦
Cineby has published a step-by-step schedule for shutting itself down in stages. The site started by redirecting its mirror sites Cineplay and Fmovies+, to then cut off its live streams a day later. The shutdown is expected to be completed by the end of next week. Why the operation is shutting down ā¦
Adult entertainment company FlavaWorks has elevated its legal campaign against the private torrent tracker Gay-Torrents. After the site already closed its doors, it filed a second complaint arguing civil RICO claims against 75 members of the site. The complaint lists a Virginia man as the first nameā¦
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Mutiny' tops the chart, followed by 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day.' 'The Odyssey' completes the top three.
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When Anna's Archive suffered widespread downtime earlier this month, many users feared a legal crackdown. Instead, the site was reportedly targeted by a coordinated assault on its network infrastructure. Just as it did after facing $340 million in damages and losing several domains earlier this yearā¦
In response to a high-profile GTA 6 leak, Take-Two has requested broad DMCA subpoenas, targeting thousands of Discord users, as well as Microsoft data. The crackdown doesn't stop there. With two additional DMCA subpoenas, the gaming company expanded its information search to X and YouTube. Some of tā¦
A new academic study offers a detailed look inside Telegram's video piracy ecosystem, spotting more than 19,000 pirated titles linked in posts that were viewed more than 4 billion times. The researchers built an AI-powered tool that can spot pirate channels and bots, which were reported to Telegram ā¦
Cineby, one of the biggest pirate streaming sites on the web, says it will shut its doors on August 26. The site was previously flagged as a notorious piracy operation by Hollywood and has been blocked by court order in several countries. If history is any guide, successors and copycats will line upā¦
Germany doesn't have a hard benchmark for when a site is structurally infringing. However, the site-blocking clearinghouse CUII stated that illegal content clearly outweighs legal content when at least 81.5 percent of a site is infringing. After KinoGO was recently blocked with a floor of 82.4 perceā¦
A federal copyright lawsuit targeting six of the most prominent private BitTorrent trackers, including PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits, may be the work of an impostor. Attorneys representing two of the alleged operators told a federal judge they tracked down the real person behind the filā¦
Nintendo has filed seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub in a single day, wiping out more than 400 Switch emulator repositories in one coordinated campaign. The targets include copies of the Suyu emulator, several Yuzu forks, and Skyline, an emulator that shut itself down years ago. The taā¦
Sharing instructions on how to bypass court-ordered ISP blocks can be enough to freeze someone's personal savings in a piracy case, a French appeals court has ruled. The order is a mixed victory for Disney, which failed to prove the defendant was the de facto operator of the now-defunct Uptobox siteā¦
For the first time, a Canadian site-blocking order can target pirate sites that don't exist yet. The Federal Court has ordered ISPs to block thirteen piracy brands including 123Movies and FMovies, and its catch-all "Expanded Scope" allows Hollywood studios and broadcasters to add unrelated sites latā¦
Three years of litigation that triggered explosive allegations of DMCA "weaponization" and "maximum pain" pressure tactics quietly ended in coordinated settlements. X Corp and several music companies settled the copyright infringement lawsuit and X's antitrust counterstrike, with prejudice. The dismā¦
Meta has responded to the amended multi-million copyright lawsuit filed by adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings. While flatly denying that it pirated adult films for AI training, Meta confirmed that a key IP address is traced to the home of one of its former data engineers. At the same time, Meta pā¦
Scammers are allegedly exploiting a flaw in Facebook's 'Edit Post' feature to backdate stolen videos and hijack copyright claims through Meta's Rights Manager. This allows them to monetize content of other creators, while also hitting them with strikes. The problem is at the center of several Indianā¦
French lawmakers have officially adopted a new sports law that replaces manual domain checks with support for automated, real-time piracy blocking. The system allows for instant blockades during live sports broadcasts, with oversight checks from regulator ARCOM being applied afterward rather than bā¦
Facing potential U.S. trade sanctions over online piracy, Vietnam is using the recent shutdown and its criminal prosecution of the HiAnime piracy ring as a key line of defense. Notably, Vietnam's response was submitted on the same day that the HiAnime prosecution was made public. While the enforcemeā¦
Popular pirate streaming sites, including Streamzy and Lordflix, are key targets in a new Indian site-blocking order obtained by HBO and other major studios. The order, which lists over 120 domain names, refines how India deals with new mirror domains that surface after the initial block. The order ā¦
Operation Offsides seized more than 1,000 pirate streaming domains during the FIFA World Cup. While the enforcement efforts were broadly praised, domain seizures are no silver bullet. In an op-ed, leaders of the MPA and the IPR Center suggest that more is needed to tackle piracy effectively, supportā¦
After the Supreme Court's Cox ruling reshaped ISPs piracy liability, the record labels behind a $46.8 million verdict against Grande Communications are ready to walk away from the case entirely. Grande won't let them, however. The Internet provider is holding out for a formal win and the millions inā¦
The European Space Agency's Cosmos portal is dedicated to space exploration. While the organization scans stars and galaxies far away, its own infrastructure is quietly hosting hundreds of PDFs promoting shady IPTV services, ranking them in Google right beside official Gaia mission updates. The SEO ā¦
Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision has obtained one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions ever issued by a U.S. federal court. After initially targeting five pirate IPTV streaming operations, the case expanded to cover well over 500 domain names, requiring intermediaries including Cloudflare, Gā¦
YggTorrent was France's largest torrent site until a hacker gutted it in March. In July, the police arrested twelve suspected operators. That was not the end of it, however. Following a purported takeover, YggTorrent's domains are back online and counting down to a "grand return" on September 1 undeā¦
Japanese police have arrested an alleged seeder who's connected to the widely popular anime torrent site NYAA. Anti-piracy group CODA tells TorrentFreak that the tool which helped find the suspect didn't monitor the torrent swarms, but analyzed traffic at the index and tracker level. How that identiā¦
Three years ago the European Commission rejected calls for binding anti-piracy legislation, issuing a 'recommendation' instead. A new study commissioned by the European Parliament concludes that this soft approach has fallen short. It calls for a binding EU Regulation built around the 30-minute blocā¦
Europe's football seasons kick off again this month, with the Champions League to follow in September. In preparation, Canal+ has secured fourteen site-blocking orders spanning ISPs, DNS resolvers, VPNs, and search engines. It's a broad, coordinated effort ā and one of the last that France will run ā¦
In May, the UK High Court granted several Hollywood studios a broad "omnibus" site blocking order, allowing them to block rotating networks of pirate sites, without the need to link them to known pirate brands. This breakthrough order was recently cited in a Canadian court order, but remained unavaiā¦
A California federal court has ordered YouTube to unmask three popular South Korean creators of anime recap channels. The creators filed a motion to quash the DMCA subpoena, requested by Japanese publisher KADOKAWA, but the court rejected the fair use claim, which is now under appeal.
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Pearson's anti-piracy vendor inadvertently used a DMCA notice to take down the official GitHub code repository of Pearson's own best-selling author, Paul Deitel. The prominent computer science educator pushed back, noting that the sender has "no idea of the damage they're doing" by taking down critiā¦
Google has told the European Commission that pirate site blocking causes "significant harm" and should not target DNS resolvers, VPNs or shared IPs. The submission was filed days before a U.S. congressional hearing signaled that American site blocking legislation is closer than ever to introduction.ā¦
For years, Tonga's .to domain names have been a popular choice for pirate sites, but that may very well change. Following a restructuring of the domain name operation, the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga appears to have suspended several domains, including the popular German streaming portals S.tā¦
Bulgaria's highest court has ruled that civil site blocking is legally impossible under current national law. Bulgaria failed to properly transpose the EU directives that authorize blocking injunctions. The decision is a major setback for rightsholders, including the association of music producers, ā¦
Supported by U.S. intelligence, Vietnamese authorities have dismantled a massive network of over 100 pirate sites. Seven suspects have been charged with running a mass copyright infringement operation that included the now-defunct piracy giant HiAnime.to, allegedly earning $12.8 million in advertisiā¦
Researchers from Delft University of Technology have spent more than two decades building their decentralized BitTorrent client Tribler. The software is designed to be impossible to shut down and the project itself is also going strong, as it recently secured funding up until 2032. New research focuā¦