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[Link] Telegram Copyright Takedowns Breed a Hydra of Z-Library Bots
Read: 4/12/2022 torrentfreak.com
The U.S. Government's crackdown against Z-Library continues to make waves online. After the main domain names were seized, many book pirates switched to using alternatives such as Telegram bots. Several of these have since been removed by rightsholders.
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[Link] New Music Industry Takedown Service Targets NFT and ‘Metaverse’ Piracy
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Italian anti-piracy group Digital Content Protection has launched a new service that helps rightsholders to police NFT platforms, Web 3.0 projects, and metaverse precursors.
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[Link] VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Russia's determination to control the minds of its citizens is proceeding full force. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor has forced Google to delist tens of thousands of new URLs that link to VPN resources providing access to 'banned' content.
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[Link] Record Labels Face Sanctions Over ‘Destroyed’ Piracy Evidence
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Internet provider Bright House has asked a Florida federal court to sanction several record labels for 'destroying' evidence that it says is crucial to the ongoing piracy liability lawsuit.
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[Link] Subpoenas Targeted Over 35,000 Cloudflare Customer Domain Names in Six Months
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Cloudflare doesn't remove anything in response to DMCA takedown notices unless it stores the content permanently on its network. However, the company will hand over the personal details of customers to copyright holders who obtain a DMCA subpoena.
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[Link] “Popcorn Time” Shuts Down Due to a Lack of Use
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
During its heyday, Popcorn-Time.to had millions of active users but these and other forks have lost their shine. The piracy tool that once had Netflix CEO Reed Hastings worried has decided to shut down.
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[Link] DMCA-Circumventing Cheat Maker Uses DMCA to Take Down Cracked Copy
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Copyright law exists so that creators of all kinds can enjoy the fruits of their labor.
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[Link] Record Labels Still Want to Know if Piracy Trial Jurors Read TorrentFreak
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
The piracy liability trial between several major record labels and Internet provider Grande is about to begin. To rule out conflicts, both sides submitted an updated series of questions for the jury selection.
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[Link] Do Pirate IPTV Customers “Support Human Trafficking & Arms Trading”?
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Over the years there have been frequent claims by entertainment companies that by using pirate services, users are helping to finance other crimes.
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[Link] India Expands Piracy Blocklist to Tackle ‘Hydra Headed Rogue Websites’
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Pirate site blocking is a common practice in many countries and India is no exception. The language used in Indian courts tends to be more colorful though. This is exemplified by a blocking extension several major Hollywood studios requested recently.
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[Link] Court Orders WhatsApp To Block Groups Sharing Pirated Newspapers
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
India's largest newspaper publishing group has filed a complaint at the Delhi High Court against dozens of defendants said to have illegally offered its copyrighted publications via WhatsApp.
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[Link] Nintendo Wins High Court Injunction to Block Access to Pirated Switch ROMs
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
In an effort to restrict access to pirated ROMs illegally made available for its Switch console, Nintendo has obtained a UK High Court injunction against six internet service providers.
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[Link] Kim Dotcom Suffers Setback in His U.S. Extradition Battle
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Kim Dotcom and former colleagues Mattias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk have encountered a setback in their attempt to avoid extradition to the United States.
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[Link] Lawmakers: Fix Copyright Law to Stop Gamblers “Beating the Bookies”
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
The UK Parliament's House of Lords has heard calls for a significant tightening of copyright law to tackle a most unusual threat. According to several Lords, the law should be updated to prevent live sporting events from being filmed by the public.
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[Link] Google Features YTS and 123movies as “Best Movie Websites”
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Google's algorithms have made life a lot more convenient for many people, but they sometimes lead to peculiar results. When searching for the best movie websites, the search engine features pirate sites including YTS and 123movies in related searches.
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[Link] Reddit Bans ‘No Way Home Leaks’ For Excessive Copyright Complaints
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Reddit's patience with a subreddit dedicated to leaks and spoilers relating to the expected blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home has been stretched to breaking point.
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[Link] Youtube Ripper Strikes Back at the RIAA in DMCA ‘Circumvention’ Lawsuit
Read: 6/12/2021 torrentfreak.com
YouTube-ripping service Yout.com sued the RIAA last year in an attempt to have its platform declared legal in the US. The music industry group asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing that Yout clearly circumvents technological protection measures.
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[Link] Founder of Piracy & Subtitling Site YYeTs Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison
Read: 6/12/2021 torrentfreak.com
Following pressure from Hollywood, more than a dozen people behind famous Chinese piracy and subtitling site YYeTs.com were arrested in February. After a legal process in China, the founder of the platform - also known as Renren Yingshi - has been sentenced to 3.
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[Link] Disney Seeks Analyst to Spot the Latest Online Piracy Trends
Read: 25/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Disney plans to add fresh blood to its anti-piracy team. The movie giant wants to hire an analyst who will be tasked with investigating the latest piracy trends, helping out with enforcement efforts, and evaluating new anti-piracy tools and services.
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[Link] RIAA Takes Down Popular Music Piracy Discord Over Adele ’30’ Leak
Read: 24/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
A popular Discord server specializing in music piracy has been taken down by the RIAA. Sources inside the RipRequests community suggest the problem stemmed from a pre-release leak of Adele's new '30' album.
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[Link] Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking
Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen for copyright infringement.
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[Link] Research Center: Limiting Anonymity Helps to Expose Terrorists (and Pirates)
Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
The International Center for Law and Economics believes that cloud hosting providers and related services should do more to deter illegal activity. Responding to an inquiry from the U.S.
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[Link] Mr. Robot ‘Plugs’ uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups
Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
The latest episode of award-winning TV show Mr. Robot includes a nod to online pirates. The main character Elliot is shown pirating a movie using uTorrent, while his movie folder lists movies from various pirate groups including YIFY.
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[Link] Piracy Release Group EVO ‘Blames’ Movie Industry For Its Popularity
Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
P2P release group EVO has built quite a reputation in recent years by being the first to release pirated copies of screeners and popular movies.
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[Link] ISP Verizon Fails to Lift MangaDex Blockade, Manga Site Codes Own Solution
Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
In the summer subscribers to ISP Verizon found they were being prevented from accessing giant manga scanlation site MangaDex. The US ISP hasn't provided any reason for taking this action so in response, MangaDex has been working on a solution.
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[Link] The Pirate Bay Story Will Be Turned Into a TV Series
Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Pirate Bay's turbulent history will be turned into a six-part TV drama. The Swedish production is scheduled to start filming next year and will be aired by public broadcaster SVT. The makers will base their story on input from various insiders but the site's founders are not part of the crew.
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[Link] Someone Made a Pirate Bay for NFTs
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
It’s the duty of those with right-clicker mentality to save every NFT they see. But right-click saving the thousands of JPEGs of Bored Apes and Lazy Lions out there tiring work.
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[Link] Soccer is The Number One Gateway Sport to Online Streaming Piracy
Read: 14/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
A new report published by Synamedia shows that soccer is the number one gateway sport to other forms of sports piracy. This is also true for the US where soccer has a relatively smaller audience. India is the only exception in the researched countries, with cricket as the main piracy gateway.
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[Link] After Being Sued By ACE, Nitro IPTV Now Faces a New DISH Network Lawsuit
Read: 7/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
In 2020, pirate IPTV service Nitro TV was sued by members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment for millions in copyright infringement damages.
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[Link] Akamai: Online Pirates Are Clever But Not Unbeatable
Read: 7/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
There's a growing number of technology companies trying to help copyright holders fight online piracy. Akamai Technologies, one of the big players, takes a multi-faceted approach to tackle the problem.
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[Link] RIAA Criticizes ICANN for ‘Hindering’ Its Anti-Piracy Efforts
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
The RIAA is helping U.S. music companies to fight piracy, which isn't always an easy task. One of the major frustrations is that, due to hidden or shielded Whois information, it's often hard to identify the people who run sites and services.
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[Link] GitHub Pulls Site and Repo of Pirate Proxy Service ‘Unblockit’ Offline
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
GitHub has removed the repository and the mirror website of Unblockit, a proxy service that allows people to access blocked sites. The developer platform says that the content in question was removed for violating its terms of service, which was confirmed by a follow-up investigation.
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[Link] Anti-Piracy Outfits Still Target Pirate Sites That Shut Down Years Ago
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Pirate sites such as ExtraTorrent, KickassTorrents, and isoHunt disappeared from the web more than half a decade ago. Intriguingly, that hasn't stopped some anti-piracy groups from going after them, as they're still asking Google to remove 'infringing' URLs of these sites.
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[Link] Former UFC Star Paige VanZant is Hunting Down Photo Pirates on Discord
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Former UFC star and Dancing With The Stars runner-up Paige VanZant is reportedly making more money from selling pictures and videos of herself online than she ever did with the MMA organization.
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[Link] Hollywood and Netflix Signal “Piracy as a Service” (PaaS) as New Threat Vector
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has submitted its latest overview of 'notorious' foreign piracy markets to the US Trade Representative. Aside from The Pirate Bay's and Fmovies of this world, Telegram, Baidu, and various domain registries are called out.
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[Link] Recycled Cobalt Strike key pairs show many crooks are using same cloned installation
Read: 25/10/2021 www.theregister.com
Around 1,500 Cobalt Strike beacons uploaded to VirusTotal were reusing the same RSA keys from a cracked version of the software, according to a security researcher who pored through the malware repository.
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[Link] In Defence Of ROMs, A Solution To Dying Games And Broken Copyright Laws
Read: 17/10/2021 www.kotaku.com.au
Various game emulation sites are pulling down their software libraries, or ceasing to exist entirely, following a lawsuit filed by Nintendo against one of the largest of their kind.
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[Link] Google Opposes ‘Sweeping’ Popcorn Time Piracy Blocking Request
Read: 14/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
Google has asked a Virginia federal court for permission to formally oppose the request for a far-reaching anti-piracy injunction. The contested anti-piracy measures, aimed at shutting down a popular Popcorn Time app, are proposed by a group of filmmakers.
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[Link] High Traffic Pirate Sites Worldwide Under Investigation, DMCA Subpoenas Reveal
Read: 11/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
The operators of around two dozen torrent sites and pirate streaming services are at risk of having their identities obtained by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment.
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[Link] VPN Hosting Company Settles Copyright Lawsuit by Blocking Pirate Sites
Read: 11/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
Hosting provider Sharktech has settled a copyright lawsuit filed by several movie companies. The service stood accused of failing to take action against VPN providers, some of whose subscribers were pirating films.
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[Link] EU Parliament Committee Adopts Digital Services Act
Read: 10/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
The EU's plans to modernize copyright law in Europe are moving ahead. The Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) has just adopted a draft of the new Digital Services Act.
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[Link] Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules
Read: 9/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Cloudflare is not liable for the copyright infringement of websites that use its content-delivery and security services, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
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[Link] Cloudflare Books Partial Victory in ‘Thothub’ Piracy Lawsuit
Read: 30/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Cloudflare has booked a partial victory in a piracy lawsuit filed by several models whose photos leaked online. The CDN provider previously offered its proxying service to the now-defunct website 'Thothub'.
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[Link] CEO of Major Anti-Piracy Company Arrested in Russia For High Treason
Read: 29/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Cybersecurity company Group-IB, which for several years has investigated hundreds of pirate sites and their connections to organized crime, is currently in the midst of a huge scandal in Russia.
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[Link] U.S. Copyright Holders Want Russia to Criminally Prosecute Pirate sites
Read: 28/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Russia has implemented a wide variety of anti-piracy laws and procedures in recent years. Thousands of copyright-infringing sites have been blocked and even app stores and search engines have to take action.
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[Link] Prominent DDL Piracy Site Snahp.it Shuts Down Citing Security Concerns
Read: 23/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
For the past five years, piracy release site Snahp.it has provided information and links to all kinds of pirated content including movies and TV shows. The site operated in the so-called DDL niche, relying on content hosted elsewhere to service its users.
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[Link] U.S. Copyright Holders Want Tougher Anti-Piracy Measures in China
Read: 20/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
The IIPA, which represents the MPA, RIAA, and other entertainment industry groups, would like China to take a stand against online piracy. This includes targeting pirate sites and apps.
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[Link] DMCA Takedown Errors Can Make it Harder to Find Movies Legally
Read: 19/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Copyright holders have sent billions of takedown requests to Google. Their goal is to make it harder for people to find pirated content through the search engine. However, in some cases, takedown requests make it harder to find legal content too.
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[Link] UK Police Shut Down Pirate IPTV Network With “Hundreds of Thousands” of Customers
Read: 16/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
West Midlands Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft say they have dismantled a major illegal streaming operation in the UK. Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of copyright infringement, fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.
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[Link] The Publishers Association Ramps Up Site Blocking to Reduce Piracy
Read: 8/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Publishers Association, a UK organization supporting members producing digital and print books, research journals, and educational resources, obtained its first pirate site blocking injunction in 2015.
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[Link] Pirate IPTV: Omi in a Hellcat Rejects Feds’ Suggestion of 210 Months in Prison
Read: 1/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Bill Omar Carrasquillo, aka Omi in a Hellcat, has revealed that the US Government wants to put him behind bars for alleged crimes related to his Gears IPTV service.
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[Link] FitGirl Pirate Repacker Warns Domain Name Could Be Lost, Perhaps Forever
Read: 30/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
FitGirl Repacks is currently one of the most popular torrent sites on the Internet but its operator is warning of turbulent times ahead. Site operator FitGirl says that due to a serious domain issue, the site's main domain could go offline temporarily or even forever.
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[Link] Movie Companies Want VPNs to Log User Data and Disconnect Pirates
Read: 30/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A group of movie companies continues its legal efforts to hold VPN services liable for pirating subscribers. A new lawsuit lists Surfshark, VPN Unlimited, Zenmate, and ExpressVPN as defendants. Besides damages, the filmmakers want the VPNs to block pirate sites and start logging user data.
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[Link] Sky Subscribers’ Piracy Habits Directly Help Premier League Block Illegal Streams
Read: 29/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
UK ISP Sky Broadband is monitoring the IP addresses of servers suspected of streaming pirated content to subscribers and supplying that data to an anti-piracy company working with the Premier League.
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[Link] TekSavvy Takes Pirate Site Blocking Battle to Canada’s Supreme Court
Read: 26/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Internet provider TekSavvy is taking the legal battle over Canada's first pirate site blocking order to the Supreme Court. The company has no sympathy for pirate sites but feels that it's obligated to defend the neutral role of ISPs and prevent freedom of speech from being violated.
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[Link] Usenet Indexer NZBXS.com Shares User Details With Anti-Piracy Group and Shuts Down
Read: 25/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has claimed another victory on the piracy front. Usenet indexing site NZBXS.
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[Link] Filelinked Was Shut Down By ACE – Can Replacements Avoid The Same Fate?
Read: 25/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Back in June, the hugely popular Filelinked service, which enabled Amazon Fire TV users to easily install piracy-related apps, disappeared in mysterious circumstances. It's now confirmed that the powerful Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment took Filelinked down.
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[Link] The Pirate Bay Earned Millions in Bitcoin Donations (If it HODLed)
Read: 23/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Pirate Bay continues to receive a steady stream of Bitcoin donations. Over the past year, these added up to roughly $10 per day, which isn't a life-changing amount.
[Link] TorrentFreak News Article Targeted by Dubious ‘DRM Circumvention Complaint
Read: 22/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
The American Society of Composers has asked Google to remove hundreds of URLs from its search results. The flagged pages are accused of 'circumventing DRM' but the anti-piracy outfit casts its net too wide.
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[Link] Hollywood Wins Injunction To Shut Down Pirate IPTV Operations, Disable Domain Names
Read: 22/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A coalition of Hollywood studios, with the addition of Amazon and Netflix, has obtained an injunction to restrain Jason Tusa, the alleged operator of Altered Carbon, Area 51, and several other pirate IPTV services.
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[Link] Promoting Popcorn Time Piracy Costs Phone Store Employee Her Job and $6,250
Read: 21/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A federal court in Texas has ordered a former employee of a local phone store to pay $6,250 in piracy damages. The woman, who was fired, promoted the piracy app Popcorn Time to customers and also downloaded pirated content herself.
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[Link] Amazon, Facebook and Google Paid Millions to Pirates, Study Finds
Read: 17/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A new report published by the Digital Citizens Alliance suggests that pirates sites earn more than a billion dollars in revenue per year, while pirate apps are good for another quarter. Part of the money comes from big brands such as Amazon, Facebook and Google.
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[Link] Federal Court Orders Pirate Box Sellers To Pay US$23.6m in Copyright Damages
Read: 17/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Bell Canada, Videotron, Group TVA and Rogers Communications have been awarded in excess of US$23.6m in copyright damages by a judge at Canada's Federal Court.
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[Link] Police Visit Pirate IPTV Suppliers’ Homes to Serve Cease-and-Desist Notices
Read: 15/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Police officers across the UK have visited the homes of people reportedly involved in the supply of pirate IPTV services. The operation, which involved the organized crime-focused Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, was carried out in conjunction with the Federation Against Copyright Theft.
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[Link] Court Orders RomUniverse to Destroy Pirated Nintendo Games and Stay Offline
Read: 14/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A California federal court has ordered the operator of the now-defunct pirate site RomUniverse to destroy all copyright-infringing games within two weeks.
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[Link] ThePirateBay.com Goes Up For Sale, But Renting is an Option Too
Read: 13/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
ThePirateBay.com has been listed for sale this week. The domain was bought at an auction last year after The Pirate Bay team accidentally let it expire. The buyer initially planned to turn it into a legal download portal but that never got off the ground.
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[Link] Jake Paul Fight Piracy: Judge Dismisses Triller’s Main Lawsuit, Others On The Brink
Read: 13/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A court in the United States has dismissed Triller's original lawsuit that targeted a site alleged to have pirated the Jake Paul vs Ben Askren fight. In another lawsuit, Triller failed to inform a court that an investigation was underway and faces a case dismissal.
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[Link] Netflix Intensifies ‘VPN’ Ban and Targets Residential IP-addresses Too
Read: 11/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Netflix has stepped up its efforts to ban VPN and proxy users from bypassing geographical restrictions. The streaming service is now blocking residential IP addresses too, since some unblocking tools use these to bypass restrictions.
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[Link] Sci-Hub Pledges Open Source & AI Alongside Crypto Donation Drive
Read: 9/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has launched a donation drive to ensure the operations and development of the popular academic research platform.
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[Link] ‘Pub Testers’ Being Recruited To Clamp Down on Football Piracy
Read: 8/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
With the new Premier League season due to kick off in less than a week's time, pubs across the country will be showing matches to their customers.
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[Link] Lawyer Who ‘Shut Down’ 4Anime Has Giant Pirate Sites in His Crosshairs
Read: 5/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last month, 4anime - one of the world's largest streaming sites - shut down after Legacy Rights Group obtained a DMCA subpoena to identify its operators. With attorney Corey D. Silverstein now taking credit for that shutdown, trouble could lie ahead for more anime-focused sites.
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[Link] US Lawmakers Suggest That Piracy is Part of Twitter’s Business Model
Read: 4/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A group of bipartisan U.S. House Representatives has sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, urging the company to take copyright infringement seriously.
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[Link] Toomics Reports Its Own Website for Copyright Infringements
Read: 3/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Popular webtoon subscription service Toomics is quite active on the anti-piracy front. Unfortunately, the Korean company is not very accurate as its takedown notices target perfectly legal content on Facebook, Amazon, Pinterest and Netflix.
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[Link] Copyright Holders: Automatically Deleting Pirated Content From Search Isn’t Enough
Read: 3/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A draft bill before Russia's State Duma will allow all copyright holders to have links to pirated content automatically removed from search engines within six hours.
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[Link] Stream-Ripping Can be Perfectly Legal, French Ministry of Culture Says
Read: 3/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Downloading music via stream-ripping tools can be perfectly legal, the French Ministry of Culture has confirmed. The resulting copies fall under the private copying exemption.
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[Link] Meet FitGirl, The Repack ‘Queen’ Of Pirated Games
Read: 1/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Repacked games are in high demand on pirate sites as they save considerable bandwidth. One of the leading names in this niche is FitGirl. In recent years, the Russian-born repacker transformed from a home archivist into the best-known releaser on the Internet.
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[Link] Greece Adds OpenSubtitles to Its Pirate Site Blocklist
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
Following a request from a local anti-piracy group, Greek ISPs are required to block access to dozens of new domain names. The targeted domains include Fmovies.to, zooqle.com, and several RARBG proxies. The subtitle-sharing community OpenSubtitles is also on the list.
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[Link] Tokyo Olympics: Sony Obtains High Court Order to Prevent Piracy
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, is being held mostly without spectators but the reach of global TV will ensure it is seen around the world.
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[Link] US Copyright Groups Want ‘Adequate’ Anti-Piracy Penalties in South Africa
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
The IIPA, which represents the MPA, RIAA, and other entertainment industry groups, is calling for stricter anti-piracy enforcement in South Africa and a thorough redraft of the country's Copyright Act.
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[Link] ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Seeks to Reduce 14-Year Prison Sentence Due to COVID Pandemic
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
Paul Hansmeier, one of the lead attorneys behind the controversial Prenda Law firm, has asked the court for a reduction of his 14-year prison sentence. The disbarred lawyer says that he faced extraordinarily difficult living conditions in prison due to the COVID pandemic.
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[Link] DMCA Notice Targets TorrentFreak, Netflix, and Reddit’s Wikipedia Pages
Read: 2/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
Adult entertainment company The Score Group has asked Google to remove dozens of Wikipedia entries from its search results. Some of these pages document the history of popular pirate sites.
[Link] OpSec Says DMCA Notice System Was “Spoofed” To Target Ubuntu Download
Read: 2/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
An anti-piracy company cited as the sender of a DMCA notice targeting an entirely legal copy of Ubuntu says that its notice sending system was spoofed.