Piracy Stories for 2018

Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules 95
Australian Court Orders ISPs To Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites 95
Swedish ISP Bahnhof Fights Sci-Hub Blocking Order 53
Bing Recommends Piracy Tutorial When Searching For Office 2019 45
Hiding in Plain Sight: The YouTubers' Crowdfunding Piracy 79
Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay of Science' Blocked In Russia Over Medical Studies 65
Search Engine DuckDuckGo Removes 'Pirate' Site Bangs To Avoid Liability 56
Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking 203
Hollywood Wants Hosting Providers To Block Referral Traffic From Pirate Sites 149
Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million 160
Hitman 2's Denuvo DRM Cracked Days Before the Game's Release 111
Inside the Messy, Dark Side of Nintendo Switch Piracy 77
Switzerland Remains 'Extremely Attractive' For Pirate Sites, MPAA Says 135
AT&T To Cut Off Some Customers' Service in Piracy Crackdown 85
What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home For Piracy 124
More Than One Third of Music Consumers Still Pirate Music 167
London's Radio Pirates Changed Music. Then Came the Internet. 92
Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use 265
The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy 184
Man Who Uploaded Deadpool To Facebook May Get Six Months In Prison 215
Popular Illegal Streaming App Terrarium TV Is Shutting Down This Month 24
BitTorrent Embraces Streaming Torrents, Takes uTorrent Web Out of Beta 46
YouTube Download Sites Are the Biggest Piracy Threat To Music Industry, Industry Figures Say 149
US Court of Appeals: An IP Address Isn't Enough To Identify a Pirate 168
Texas ISP Slams Music Industry For Trying To Turn It Into a 'Copyright Cop' 99
Stolen Android Anti-Piracy Software Dumped On Github 33
Facebook Bans the Sale of All Kodi Boxes 121
The Pirate Bay Turns 15 48
Nintendo's Offensive, Tragic, and Totally Legal Erasure of ROM Sites 334
Lawsuit Threat Shuts Down ROM Downloads On Major Emulation Site 'EmuParadise' 79
P2P Piracy is Alive and Growing, Research Suggests 104
BBC Wants Microsoft To Expose 'Doctor Who' Leaker 219
Record Labels File 'Billion Dollar' Piracy Lawsuit Against ISP Cox 122
Easier Streaming Services Put Dent in Illegal Downloading 133
Google Categorically Refuses To Remove the Pirate Bay's Homepage 90
MPAA Seeks Stronger Actions To Fight Streaming Video Piracy 110
Nintendo To ROM Sites: Forget Cease-and-Desist, Now We're Suing 296
Amazon Responds After Third-Party Sellers Put Bootleg Games on Its Store 91
EFF To Japan: Reject Website Blocking 41
In World First, Danish Court Rules Stream-Ripping Site Illegal 88
Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited To US On Copyright Charges, New Zealand Court Rules 205
US Online Piracy Lawsuits Break Record Numbers 43
The BBC Is Heading To Court To Hunt Down a Doctor Who Leaker 158
Sony Blunders By Uploading Full Movie To YouTube Instead of Trailer 113
Despite FCC's Promise To Take Aggressive Action To Stamp Out Radio Pirates, Illegal Stations Are Flourishing 198
Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites In Search Results 80
'Pirates' Tend To Be the Biggest Buyers of Legal Content, Study Shows 108
PC Software Piracy Decreases Worldwide, But Remains Rampant 136
FCC Asks Amazon and eBay To Stop Selling Fake Pay TV Boxes 62
Google's Chrome Web Store Spammed With Dodgy 'Pirate' Movie Links 32
Singapore ISPs Block 53 Pirate Sites Following MPAA Legal Action 45
The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Network 63
Netflix, Amazon, and Major Studios Try To Shut Down $20-Per-Month TV Service 212
Telegram is Riddled With Tens of Thousands of Piracy Channels; Apple and Google Have Ignored Requests From Creators To Take Action 49
Three Execs Get Prison Time For Pirating Oracle Firmware & Solaris OS Update 119
Google Removes 'Kodi' From Search Autocomplete In Anti-Piracy Effort 117
Google Starts Blocking 'Uncertified' Android Devices From Logging In 179
Pirate Music Site's Owner Sentenced to Five Years in Prison 101
Online Piracy Is More Popular Than Ever, Research Suggests 73
US Navy Under Fire In Mass Software Piracy Lawsuit 121
Trump Promises Copyright Crackdown As DoJ Takes Aim At Streaming Pirates 107
Spotify Is Cracking Down On Users Pirating Premium-Like Service 83
Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware To Steal Pirates' Passwords 225
Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates 194
EFF Urges US Copyright Office To Reject Proactive 'Piracy' Filters 55
Tickbox Must Remove Pirate Streaming Add-ons From Sold Devices 70
Man Handed Conditional Prison Sentence for Spreading Information About Popcorn Time Service 120
Cloudflare Terminates Service To Sci-Hub Domain Names 91
Cloudflare Is Liable For Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says 172
China Is Quickly Switching From Pirating To Streaming 79
iTunes Snafu Made 'Thor: Ragnarok' Available Almost a Month Early 46
Hackers Seem Close To Publicly Unlocking the Nintendo Switch 91
'Science Fiction Writers of America' Accuse Internet Archive of Piracy 119
Studios Sue Dragon Box in Latest Crackdown on Streaming Devices 54
Don't Pirate Or We'll Mess With Your Connected Thermostats, Warns East Coast ISP 252
Google Blocks Pirate Search Results Prophylactically 38
People Are Using PornHub To Stream 'Hamilton' and 'Zootopia' 92