Friday, May 22, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Thursday, May 21, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Wednesday, May 20, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Tuesday, May 19, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Monday, May 18, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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 Punisher: One Last Kill.' 'The Drama' completes the top three. From: TF , for...Sunday, May 17, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Friday, May 15, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Thursday, May 14, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Wednesday, May 13, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Tuesday, May 12, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Monday, May 11, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Sunday, May 10, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Friday, May 8, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Wednesday, May 6, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Tuesday, May 5, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Monday, May 4, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Sunday, May 3, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...Friday, May 1, 2026 from TorrentFreak
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...