Monday, August 18, 2025 from TorrentFreak
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has confirmed that copyright holders can't use a "DMCA subpoena shortcut" to identify internet subscribers suspected of copyright infringement. The Court sides with ISP Cox Communications,...Sunday, August 17, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Since September 2023, a national campaign run by Sky and entertainment partners has attempted to convince illegal stream consumers to dump them in favor of platforms operating on the right side of the law. To encourage that important...Saturday, August 16, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Site-blocking orders are usually binary; a court issues an order for a domain to be blocked, or it does not. In Belgium, things work differently. After we reported on a court order that compelled ISPs to block access to the Internet...Friday, August 15, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Last month Cloudflare began blocking pirate site domains already subject to blocking orders obtained years ago by Hollywood studios at the High Court in London. With no public announcement from any of the parties and no official...Friday, August 15, 2025 from TorrentFreak
LaLiga has issued a stark warning to users of pirate sports streaming services. The organization behind Spain’s top football league released a new anti-piracy campaign warning that if "you get pirated football," cybercriminals "get you"....Thursday, August 14, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Launched in July 2023, Yubin Archive's popularity stemmed from its mission to "eliminate educational inequality" by providing copies of educational material to less well-off students in South Korea. Operating via Telegram, Yubin Archive...Wednesday, August 13, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Sky Sports chief Jonathan Licht has added momentum to what some believe is the beginning of the end for football's 3pm 'blackout'. Speaking at Sky's Premier League launch, Licht said "it's a conversation that's coming" while effectively...Tuesday, August 12, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Just weeks before its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Julian Schnabel's star-studded film 'In the Hand of Dante' has suffered a major setback after a high-quality screener copy leaked online. The leak is not an isolated...Monday, August 11, 2025 from TorrentFreak
A California man has been ordered to pay $15 million in damages for operating the pirate IPTV service 'Outer Limits'. After the defendant failed to respond to a lawsuit brought by a coalition of Hollywood studios, Netflix, and Amazon, a...Monday, August 11, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' tops the chart, followed by '28 Years Later'. 'The Pickup' completes the top three. From: TF , for the...Sunday, August 10, 2025 from TorrentFreak
The details of a new procedure for imposing and collecting administrative fines for intellectual property offenses has been published in Greece. At the bottom end of the scale, fines for accessing pirated content such as pirate IPTV...Saturday, August 9, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Major academic publishers, including Elsevier and Springer Nature, are trying to unmask the operators of several shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library and Libgen. They're also targeting SLUM, a third-party uptime monitor...Friday, August 8, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Reports that the Nigerian Copyright Commission had recently shut down a pirate site didn't sound especially interesting. Operating under MovieBox branding, currently seen on endless domains, the local site reportedly received over 130...Thursday, August 7, 2025 from TorrentFreak
The Paris Judicial Court has ordered top VPN providers to block yet more pirate sports streaming domains. Two rulings dated July 18th side with broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal+, rejecting the VPN providers' arguments that these...Wednesday, August 6, 2025 from TorrentFreak
Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency has reported a significant operation targeting a group who smuggled pirate IPTV devices from neighboring Paraguay, for distribution and nationwide sale in Brazil. Thirty-eight police officers...Tuesday, August 5, 2025 from TorrentFreak
After focusing on IPTV services offering pirated live football matches from Italy's Serie A, legal amendments adopted by telecoms regulator AGCOM last week will widen the scope of the Piracy Shield blocking platform. The now-infamous...Monday, August 4, 2025 from TorrentFreak
After years of legal skirmishes, an ambitious strategy by film studio Voltage Pictures, to sue alleged BitTorrent pirates through a reverse class action in Canada, has been permanently shut down. The Federal Court of Appeal ruled that...Sunday, August 3, 2025 from TorrentFreak
With two pirate site blocking bills under discussion in the U.S., and a third expected in the weeks ahead, a key statistic seems to be shrinking. During 2024 it was claimed that site blocking is a common tool in ~60 countries, a figure...Saturday, August 2, 2025 from TorrentFreak
A man described by Sky as a "top level" pirate has agreed to pay the broadcaster €480,000 in damages. Sky's investigation of David Dunbar reportedly began on social media last November, but soon benefited from a timely anonymous tip from...