Apple Joins Hollywood & Netflix on a Pirate Site Blocking Trip to Oz
Unless they already have links to existing platforms or can somehow benefit from traffic previously destined for a popular preexisting…
Unless they already have links to existing platforms or can somehow benefit from traffic previously destined for a popular preexisting…
It took less than a week for Nintendo’s lawsuit against the company behind the Yuzu Switch emulator to have the…
The head of Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM has confirmed that long-promised fines targeting end users of illegal streaming services will…
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is the world’s most active anti-piracy coalition, initiating and assisting enforcement efforts around…
Early 2023, Brazil’s National Film Agency (Ancine) and local telecoms regulator Anatel (National Telecommunications Agency) announced a new anti-piracy partnership….
With over 420 million code repositories, GitHub takes pride in being the largest and most advanced development platform in the…
Late last month we reported on the latest copyright claim data made available by YouTube. In the first half of…
How can we be sure that site-blocking really works? Because if it didn’t work, I was informed recently, rightsholders wouldn’t…
Last week, we reported that an Indian dynamic+ court order had taken down movie-web’s demo site, along with several other…
There’s rarely a shortage of conflict and controversy in the perpetual online piracy wars. For some, the David versus Goliath…
To protect copyright holders, YouTube regularly removes, disables, or demonetizes videos that contain allegedly infringing content. For years, little was…
There was a time when visiting a pirate site was much like visiting any other. Keen to attract eyeballs wherever…
When attempting to block pirated content online, there is always a significant risk that legitimate content will be blocked too….
This weekend, we reported that the open source movie search app movie-web lost control over the domain name of its…
Following a statement that Italy’s all-new anti-piracy system had received top marks from telecoms regulator AGCOM for “working perfectly,” on…
Italy’s Piracy Shield blocking platform is the mechanism through which sports rightsholders exercise their right to use state-approved tools in…
In recent months, Movie-Web has quickly gained popularity among a particular group of movie aficionados. The open source software, which…
For many people, Google is the go-to starting point when they need to find something on the web. With just…
The InterPlanetary File System, more broadly known as IPFS, has been around for nearly a decade. While the name may…
Press releases announcing the shutdown of yet another pirate site, more arrests, and what that means for the entertainment industry,…
There’s no shortage of reasonable arguments that support the existence of a comprehensive anti-piracy system in Italy, capable of returning…
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment regularly announces site closures following enforcement action. Over the past seven years, hundreds of…
While anti-piracy enforcement actions are likely to be at the highest level ever seen, there’s no shortage of sites and…
In recent years, rightsholders have repeatedly teamed up with Egyptian law enforcement to tackle several large pirate sites and services….
In the early 2000s, powerful entertainment industry groups were demanding action to prevent “wholesale theft” of their content online, much…
When over 100 officers of Italy’s ‘Penitentiary Police’ carried out a massive anti-contraband operation inside the Velletri prison last week,…
If it was possible to recall and then count every anti-piracy campaign targeted at the UK public since the dawn…
Pirate sites were early adopters of cryptocurrency. The Pirate Bay, for example, started accepting bitcoin donations in 2013. At the…
Last Friday, we reported on two Freedom of Information Act requests directed at two regional police forces in the UK….
Legal video streaming platforms such as Amazon, Disney, and Netflix have gained massive userbases in recent years. Not everyone is…
Despite MPA/ACE having enough investigators to field both teams in a football match, while players argue with an in-house referee…
Russian media outlets are reporting that the volume of pirated content on the internet doubled between 2022 and 2023. That’s…
In the final days of 2023 as people were preparing to welcome in the new year, yet more pirate domains…
In recent years, Hollywood has played close attention to major pirate sites and services with connections to Vietnam. Representing rightsholders,…
Last summer, UK broadcaster Sky obtained a High Court injunction that requires local ISPs to block pirate IPTV services illegally…
With more than 14 million digital books in its archive, Z-Library is one of the largest shadow libraries on the…
Dubbed “Nollywood,” Nigeria has a flourishing film industry which generates billions of dollars in revenues while creating new stars in…
JW Player was born around 2005 as an open source project, taking its name from the initials of main developer,…
Two decades ago, it was not uncommon for pirates to wait several days for a film or TV show to…
At the height of the online file-sharing boom, the phrase ‘Sharing is Caring’ was a reminder that peer-to-peer file-sharing systems…
For those not fully engaged in the global manga/webtoon phenomenon, the scale and depth can be a little bewildering. Fans…
In 2012, Google expanded its transparency report with a new section dedicated to DMCA takedown requests. For the first time,…
Vietnam’s approach to the protection of intellectual property rights has long been criticized by the United States, earning the country…
Over the past several years and especially over the past several months, major rightsholders’ interest in India appears to have…
For people on a budget and even for those who are not, there’s a lot to like about free, ad-supported…
On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly…
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in…
While streaming piracy dominates in many parts of the world, quite a few Lithuanians prefer sharing content using BitTorrent instead….
Over the past decade, platforms including Sci-Hub, Libgen and Z-Library have broken through a sea of movie, TV show, music…
On December 1, 2023, an interesting piece of news began to gain traction in South Korea and beyond. First published…