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With considerable encouragement from Hollywood and affiliated anti-piracy groups, in 2021 the Malaysian government stepped up its site blocking measures. An official statement published this week reveals that between 2021 and November...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from TorrentFreak
In its annual report published last week, the U.S. Government listed MagisTV as one of the most notorious piracy services. The mention comes after the IPTV provider, which is mainly popular in Latin America, boldly applied for a U.S....Monday, January 13, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Gladiator II' tops the chart, followed by 'Venom: The Last Dance'. 'Mufasa: The Lion King' completes the top three. From: TF ,...Monday, January 13, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Making use of free Wi-Fi offered by pubs, bars, cafés, and other businesses, is now an everyday event for millions of people. For the owner of the 3 Little Piggies café in Cork, Ireland, providing free Wi-Fi led to an allegation of music...Monday, January 13, 2025 from TorrentFreak
With billions of annual visits, MissAV ranks among the 60 most-visited websites on the internet. The porn site mostly caters to an Asian audience where rightsholders see the 'pirate' site as a major threat to their business. Through a...Sunday, January 12, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Nhentai.net, a popular adult site with dozens of millions of monthly visits, has asked a California federal court to dismiss a piracy lawsuit filed last year by publisher PCR Distributing. Among other things, the site argues that PCR...Saturday, January 11, 2025 from TorrentFreak
In terms of popularity and daily usage, the mighty gTLD .com and the lesser-known ccTLD .to sit in stark contrast. DomainTools currently reports over 154 million registered .com domains, 129,000 of those registered in the last day alone....Friday, January 10, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Adult entertainment company Strike 3 Holdings is once again the most prolific copyright litigant in the United States. The company tracks down individual pirates and holds them responsible via copyright infringement lawsuits. The company...Thursday, January 9, 2025 from TorrentFreak
According to the MPA, in 2023 video hosting platform DoodStream received 2.69 billion visits, largely driven by pirated content. So when the High Court of Delhi gave the site's operators 24 hours to end infringement in March 2024, that...Thursday, January 9, 2025 from TorrentFreak
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has got involved in a lawsuit between several movie companies and ISP Cox, who disagree over the use of DMCA subpoenas to identify alleged pirates. The EFF argues this could be abused by...Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from TorrentFreak
The Office of the United States Trade Representative has published its annual list of problematic piracy websites and other "notorious markets." This year's overview includes the usual suspects operating in the torrent and streaming...Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from TorrentFreak
In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the EU banned a number of Russian news outlets from broadcasting to any member state, including via websites and IPTV. Following a recent move by Lithuania, Google has reportedly deindexed...Tuesday, January 7, 2025 from TorrentFreak
In the live sports broadcasting arena, dynamic blocking of pirate IPTV streams is seen as increasingly useful to tackle a prevalent and highly resilient form of illicit content delivery. Yet as the highly-publicized blunders of 2024...Monday, January 6, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Italy's 'Piracy Shield' blocking system was originally invented to protect time-sensitive live sports streams from pirates. A year later, rightsholders are pushing for an update to cover a wider range of content, including films. This...Sunday, January 5, 2025 from TorrentFreak
York Crown Court has sentenced a man from Halifax to two years in prison for selling 'pirate' IPTV subscriptions loaded on Fire Sticks. Rightsholders and authorities hope that the criminal prosecution of the 41-year-old (re)seller, who...Saturday, January 4, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Many sites have laid claim to the title of most popular pirate site but traffic data being reported by SimilarWeb for streaming site HiAnime.to is on a whole new level. After pulling in 302 million visits in September, the pirate...Friday, January 3, 2025 from TorrentFreak
In a continued effort to combat online piracy, Japanese publishing giant Shueisha has requested a DMCA subpoena to compel X to expose two 'pirate accounts'. This is the latest move to identify the operators of major manga pirate portals...Thursday, January 2, 2025 from TorrentFreak
In 2022, a group of Israel-based TV companies obtained a court order in the U.S. It compelled every ISP in the country to block three resilient pirate sites that blocking in Israel had failed to stop. Intervention by Cloudflare ended...Wednesday, January 1, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Italy launched its ambitious "Piracy Shield" platform in early 2024, hoping to finally curb the rampant piracy of live sports events. Throughout the year, the system has primarily targeted the domains and IP addresses used by pirate IPTV...