Mega: 144,000+ Users Have Been Terminated For Repeat Copyright Infringement
Famously founded by Kim Dotcom a year after the 2012 shutdown of Megaupload, Mega has grown to become one of…
Famously founded by Kim Dotcom a year after the 2012 shutdown of Megaupload, Mega has grown to become one of…
During the 2020 US presidential election campaign, then-President Donald Trump took to Twitter to post an animated video of a…
Over the past decades, hundreds of popular ‘pirate’ sites have come and gone. This includes the likes of isoHunt, ExtraTorrent,…
As far back as 2012, Adobe was planning for the eventual demise of its iconic Flash Player. Gradually superceded by…
When torrent sites were gaining significant traction in the mid 2000s, discovering information about their infrastructure and even their operators…
Early 2021 a group of programmers and Grand Theft Auto enthusiasts released ‘re3’ and ‘reVC’, a pair of reverse engineered…
With the 2020 United States presidential election campaign in full swing, then-President Donald Trump seized every opportunity to paint Democratic…
Most pirate IPTV services online today operate by accessing official broadcasts and streams, capturing them with dedicated equipment, and then…
The purpose of search engines is to help people find what they are looking for. Today’s web would be pretty…
In 2020, the RIAA attempted to have YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl removed from Github and in the wake of that, YouTube-ripping…
Two years ago we reported on a wave of bogus DMCA notices that targeted various adult sites. Many of those…
Earlier this year a group of programmers and Grand Theft Auto enthusiasts released ‘re3’ and ‘reVC’, a pair of reverse…
Over the past few years, copyright holders have asked Google to remove billions of links to allegedly pirated content. Most…
Hosting providers are generally seen as neutral intermediaries, but some copyright holders believe that these companies should bear more responsibility….
The U.S. Copyright Office is seen as the authority on intellectual property issues in the United States. Just a few…
In April 2020, a coalition of entertainment companies headed up by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon filed a copyright…
At TorrentFreak, we have written hundreds of articles about dubious takedown notices. Today, we find ourselves at the center of…
Game developer Bungie is continuing its legal battle against businesses and individuals who develop and distribute cheats for its popular…
In 2017 the RIAA sued Grande Communications for failing to take meaningful action against customers who allegedly carried out more…
Follow the RIAA’s attempt to have youtube-dl removed from Github, ripping service Yout carried out a preemptive legal strike against…
While search engines are extremely helpful for the average Internet user, copyright holders also see a massive downside. The fact…
More than a year after Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider filed a class action lawsuit against YouTube, claiming massive infringement…
In the United States, broadcaster DISH Network has filed dozens of lawsuits targeting the operators of numerous streaming platforms, usually…
Rather than test their skills on a level playing field, some gamers prefer to deploy third-party cheating software to gain…
Last summer, chaos urupted on Twitch when users were suddenly bombarded with copyright infringement notices for content uploaded during 2017…
Earlier this week the popular Reddit downloading bot ‘SaveVideo’ unexpectedly threw in the towel. According to early reports from the…