Oppenheimer Sees New Online Piracy Surge After Oscar Wins
The Oscars is the most prestigious movie awards show of the year, one that’s closely followed by hundreds of millions…
The Oscars is the most prestigious movie awards show of the year, one that’s closely followed by hundreds of millions…
ALPA, the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle) has been active in France since the…
At the start of the last decade, The Pirate Bay teamed up with Sweden’s Lund University to conduct the largest…
Anime is growing globally as an entertainment category and this popularity surge isn’t limited to legal platforms. Today, several of…
Over the years, plenty of TV show episodes have leaked online in advance of their official release. Game of Thrones…
The last time over 200 pirate sites went offline at the same time was…..well, probably never. Certainly, so many sites…
The action in Canada this week is being described as the second phase of an operation that began last year….
A few hours ago a TorrentFreak reader linked us to a list of almost 200 domains with several things in…
The name ‘Aylo’ might not ring a bell with many people but it is one of the leading players in…
Despite the growing availability of legal options, online piracy remains rampant. Every day pirate sites and services are used by…
From the very beginning and from every possible angle, this story makes almost no sense. But it will, eventually. By…
From the launch of its online streaming service fifteen years ago, Netflix positioned itself as a piracy competitor. The idea…
For the past few years, regional police forces in the UK have shown a growing interest in cracking down on…
The Oscars are the most anticipated movie awards show of the year, as the elusive statue is widely regarded as…
Perhaps more than any other broadcaster, beIN Sports understands the potential for piracy to spin out of control. When a…
In 1988, then 29-year-old movie director Tim Burton was widely praised for the iconic comedy horror “Beetlejuice”. The movie went…
Russian media outlets are reporting that the volume of pirated content on the internet doubled between 2022 and 2023. That’s…
Dubbed “Nollywood,” Nigeria has a flourishing film industry which generates billions of dollars in revenues while creating new stars in…
Despite the widespread availability of legal options, online piracy remains rampant. Every day pirate sites are visited hundreds of millions…
Two weeks ago we published our overview of the most pirated TV-shows of 2023, with HBO’s “The Last of Us”…
Piracy of top-tier football matches is an extremely hot topic in countries playing host to Europe’s most significant leagues. From…
At the end of every year, we take a look at the most-downloaded TV shows among torrenting pirates. For several…
The exact nature of ‘Partners Against Piracy’ (PAP) can be a little disorientating at times. In March 2020, the Kenya…
There’s little doubt that many entertainment industry insiders see online piracy as an existential threat. The film business has been…
People who pirate movies may be more likely to show psychopath traits; they are not immune to seasonal traditions. As…
Website blocking is the entertainment industry’s preferred anti-piracy strategy in dozens of countries. Targeting domain names of pirate sites can…
Over the past year, artificial intelligence enjoyed its mainstream breakthrough. The instant success of ChatGPT and follow-up releases of other…
A few years ago, Epic Games filed copyright infringement lawsuits against several Fortnite players who allegedly used cheats to gain…
Over the past four years, anti-piracy campaign Operation 404 has become a permanent fixture in the enforcement calendar with the…
Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company…
Ulož.to is one of the most popular sites in the Czech Republic, built on a reputation of allowing users to…
During the summer the UK government announced a new inquiry to investigate what needs to be done to “maintain and…
⦿ Guy Owes $117m After pornEZ Suddenly Got Hard ⦿ “No Fees Ever” Tanggula TV Trafficking Targeted ⦿ Z-Library’s Domains…
Given the sheer scale and reach of pirate sites either operated from Vietnam, or with direct connections to Vietnam, describing…
Many copyright holders believe that if they’re able to communicate with pirates, a proportion will change their behavior. The tone…
The ‘Korean Wave’ cultural phenomenon, boosted by movies and TV shows such as Parasite and Squid Game, and once in…
The DMCA takedown process gives copyright holders the option to remove infringing content from the web. It’s a powerful, widely-used…
Accurately predicting how, when and where the next wave of pirate sites will emerge to become the next big threat…
The InterPlanetary File System, more broadly known as IPFS, has been around for the past eight years. While the name…
Back in August, users of Reddit and similar platforms lamented the sudden disappearance of two music piracy platforms. Somewhat predictably,…
Website blocking has become the go-to anti-piracy measure for the entertainment industries when tackling pirate sites on the internet. The…
In a press release published on Thursday, global anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment celebrated action by Taiwanese Police…
A few years ago, book piracy was considered a fringe activity that rarely made the news, but times have changed….
Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” hasn’t had the easiest path to the silver screen. The film’s…
Despite widespread publicity and overt campaigns warning of the criminal consequences, there’s still no shortage of people prepared to openly…
While some pirate sites will obviously slip through the cracks, the overwhelming majority of piracy platforms that exist today are…
An event organized by Spanish football league LaLiga took place at the Museum of Arts and Sciences of Valencia yesterday….
During the summer of 2003, Swedish pro-culture organization Piratbyrån was making a name for itself; sharing news and educating people…
The sudden closure of torrent site RARBG three months ago will be remembered as one of the most significant since…
If piracy had its own Olympics, Russian competitors would be among the favorites to bring home the gold, or so…