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LaLiga's court-ordered authority to block Cloudflare IP addresses to disrupt pirate IPTV services continues to black out large numbers of entirely legal sites. Interestingly, LaLiga's opinion differs quite drastically; maybe just a...Wednesday, April 9, 2025 from TorrentFreak
The Internet Archive's 'Great 78 Project' digitizes historical recordings to preserve musical heritage, but in 2023 the initiative led to major record labels filing a copyright lawsuit. The financial stakes soared last month when the...Wednesday, April 9, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Tech and communications group CCIA has listed dozens of recommendations in its response to a public consultation on regulatory amendments concerning the Piracy Shield IPTV blocking system. Highlighting what it describes as several...Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Pay TV provider DISH Network has filed a complaint against the yet unidentified operators of the popular 'pirate' streaming services Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV. The lawsuit, filed in a Texas federal court, is coordinated by the International...Monday, April 7, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Mickey 17' tops the chart, followed by 'Black Bag'. 'The Monkey' completes the top three. From: TF , for the latest news on...Monday, April 7, 2025 from TorrentFreak
A report in Belgian media on Saturday evening claimed that in conjunction with local ISPs, broadcasters DAZN and 12th Player had just launched a major campaign against more than 100 illegal streaming services and IPTV providers....Sunday, April 6, 2025 from TorrentFreak
A Premier League DMCA subpoena requires Cloudflare to hand over the details of individuals behind 38 pirate streaming sites. Before that process could even begin, the Premier League needed to obtain certain information about the pirate...Saturday, April 5, 2025 from TorrentFreak
In the seemingly endless game of online piracy whack-a-mole, a French court has ordered Cloudflare to block several sites illegally streaming MotoGP. The ruling is an escalation of French blocking measures that began increasing their...Friday, April 4, 2025 from TorrentFreak
With assistance from Spain's leading ISPs, LaLiga continues to block pirate sites, Cloudflare, and thousands of innocents caught in the crossfire. Legal action by Cloudflare and hacking collective RootedCON tried to bring the chaos to an...Friday, April 4, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Ahead of its long-delayed American premiere, an unfinished 'workprint' copy of "A Minecraft Movie" is circulating on pirate sites. Warner Bros. is trying to contain this and other leaks, but that may prove difficult. The incident mirrors...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from TorrentFreak
After a long hiatus, site blocking proposals have resurfaced in the U.S. Congress. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) strongly opposes these plans, condemning site blocking as ineffective against piracy but still a censorship tool...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from TorrentFreak
A group of prominent intellectual property law professors has weighed in on the high-stakes AI copyright battle between several authors and Meta. In an amicus brief, the scholars argue that using copyrighted content as training data can...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from TorrentFreak
A bill that aims to further undermine operators of restricted platforms including Meta, Instagram, and X will have a much wider effect when it's expected to come into force in September. The amendments ban the placement of advertising on...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Piracy poses a major threat to the Premier League's broadcast rights, prompting it to take continued action against rogue streaming sites. Hoping to unmask the anonymous operators behind dozens of pirate sites, the league has obtained a...Monday, March 31, 2025 from TorrentFreak
In a rare legal move, Aylo subsidiary Licensing IP used a cybersquatting lawsuit to take out pirate websites infringing on its trademarks. The 'in rem' approach allowed the court to order the direct transfer of domains including...Monday, March 31, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Protecting movies during their relatively short theatrical window remains a priority for the industry. According to data released by the Film Content Protection Agency, UK cinema staff spotted and disrupted illegal recording activity 105...Sunday, March 30, 2025 from TorrentFreak
The legal battle between library database giant OCLC and shadow library search engine Anna's Archive has hit a snag. A federal judge in Ohio expressed uncertainty about the legality of large-scale data scraping under state law and...Saturday, March 29, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Months after Dramacool and several associated streaming sites shut down, many fans are still in mourning. The shutdown was initially shrouded in mystery, but legal paperwork reveals that a U.S. court order, obtained by the owner of legal...Friday, March 28, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Last December, a Spanish judge authorized LaLiga to block Cloudflare's shared IP addresses to combat piracy. Thousands of innocent internet users were affected, prompting Cloudflare and cybersecurity group RootedCon to ask the court to...