Vietnam Forms Specialist Unit to Tackle Pirate Sites Linked to “Organized Crime”
Accurately predicting how, when and where the next wave of pirate sites will emerge to become the next big threat…
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…
Pirated content exists in many shapes and forms. In the early 90s cassettes and floppies were popular, but they were…
When a sports business journalist says he’s producing a podcast series on piracy, there’s always a risk that the end…
For quite some time, Fmovies has sat among a newer-breed of pirate streaming sites pulling in astonishing levels of traffic….
Today’s youth is growing up in an era where all knowledge and information is literally at their fingertips. The internet…
Founded in 2011, AnonFiles.com became known as a popular hosting service that allowed users to share files up to 20GB…
This is a bit of an unusual post, but we believe that it’s important to let people know that our…
Piracy is a complicated phenomenon but most consumer research surveys on the topic are relatively straightforward. Since most pirates don’t…
Z-Library has become the go-to site for many readers in recent years by providing access to nearly 14 million books,…
Two decades ago, most piracy activity was centered around music. When broadband capacity grew, movies and TV series eventually took…
The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down. It is…
French football club Paris Saint-Germain holds the record for purchasing the two most expensive players in the world; Neymar for…
Given the scale of the problem and the underlying feeling that anti-piracy campaigns rarely have much of a long term…
Operating a pirate site is not without risk. Those who get caught risk millions of dollars in damages, multi-year prison…
Many events have contributed to the rise and fall of online piracy rates over the past 20 years but few…
Over the past several years, adult entertainment company Strike 3 Holdings has filed thousands of copyright cases in U.S. federal…
The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization that aims to save the history of the Internet for generations to…
Over the past couple of decades, thousands of people have leveraged the masses of pirated content available online to make…
Traditionally, when copyright holders go after pirate sites, their main mission is to shut them down permanently. This strategy has…
For a country that regularly claims to be at war with the United States, Russian lawmakers appear to have plenty…
Here’s a curious conundrum: given its extraordinary traffic and likely position as the world’s largest pirate site, why does Zoro.to…
When The Pirate Bay launched nearly 20 years ago, its main goal was to become a bastion of free and…
Under U.S. copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” Many ISPs have been…
Straight answers in response to straight questions is far from the default position in Hollywood where piracy is concerned. The…
Rightsholders consider piracy of live TV channels as one of the most serious threats to their business. Subscription channels often…
Soap2Day, one of the most popular movie and TV show pirate streaming sites on the Internet, says it has closed…
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has published the findings of its 2023 study on ‘European Citizens and Intellectual…
For several decades, The Scene has been the main source of all pirated content made available on the Internet. Technically,…
Following an in-depth investigation and a five-year Premier League private prosecution, five men behind the UK’s largest-ever piracy service were…
Last week the popular torrent site RARBG closed its doors. The operators cited personal and financial reasons for the surprise…
In a world where streaming services have become an integral part of our entertainment experience, finding reliable and legal sources…
The shock closure yesterdau of one of the world’s oldest and most reliable torrent sites ranks as one of the…
For many years, U.S. lawmakers have considered amending legislation so that today’s online copyright issues can be addressed more effectively….
Z-Library has become the go-to site for many readers in recent years by providing access to millions of books, without…
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium and Brazil; just two letters of the alphabet and that’s already five countries that have implemented…
As one of the most notorious torrent sites, The Pirate Bay has been blocked by ISPs around the world. In…
With over half a billion active users around the globe, Telegram is one of the most used messaging services. The…
Multi-point, ongoing collisions between rightsholders, pirate sites, pirates and copyright law, are what fuel our daily reporting. The pumps rarely…