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Piracy Stories for 2021

'Widevine Dump': Leaked Code Downloads HD Video From Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix 24 comments
Nintendo Wins High Court Injunction to Block Access to Pirated Switch ROMs 14 comments
Malaysia Passes Bill to Imprison Illegal Streaming Pirates For Up To 20 Years 62 comments
Guitarist Eric Clapton Successfully Sues Woman For Posting $11 Bootleg 183 comments
Microsoft Tempts Software Pirates With 50 Percent Discount On Office 76 comments
Google Removes Pirate Bay Domains from Search Results Citing Dutch Court Order 56 comments
Is 'The NFT Bay' Just a Giant Hoax? 74 comments
Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking 21 comments
'The NFT Bay' Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of 'Pirated' NFTs 88 comments
Film Studios Sue 'No Logs' VPN Provider For $10 Million 73 comments
Virgin Media Subscribers Told To Pay 'Thousands of Pounds' To Settle Piracy Laws 53 comments
Take-Two Sues Enthusiasts Behind GTA Fan Projects Re3, ReVC 26 comments
UK ISP Sky Broadband Feeds Realtime Customer Bandwidth Data To Litigious Anti-Piracy Firm 30 comments
Microsoft Envisions a Blockchain-Based Bounty System to Catch Pirates 59 comments
Fight Piracy With a Blockchain-Based Bounty System, Suggest Microsoft Researchers 53 comments
Pirated-Entertainment Sites Are Making Billions From Ads 63 comments
Netflix Intensifies 'VPN Ban' and Targets Residential IP-Addresses Too 119 comments
Reddit Orders 'SaveVideo' Bot To Shut Down Or Face Lawsuit 44 comments
Stream-Ripping Can Be Perfectly Legal, French Ministry of Culture Says 28 comments
Sony Wins Pirate Site Blocking Order Against DNS-Resolver Quad9 65 comments
ROM Site Owner Made $30,000 a Year -- Now Owes Nintendo $2.1 Million 65 comments
ROM Site Owner Made $30,000 a Year -- Now Owes Nintendo $2.1 Million 132 comments
Cox Appeals $1 Billion Piracy Liability Verdict To 'Save the Internet' 51 comments
Comcast Subscriber Receives DMCA Notice For Downloading Ubuntu 130 comments
Redditors Aim to 'Free Science' From For-Profit Publishers 63 comments
German 'Upload Filter' Law Sets Standards To Prevent Overblocking 31 comments
Activist Archivists Are Trying to Save the 'Pirate Bay of Science' 56 comments
FBI Has Gained Access To Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims 36 comments
Disney Patents Blockchain-Based Movie Distribution System To Stop Pirates 95 comments
A Podcast App is Exposing Subscribers-only Shows 15 comments
UK Broadcaster Wins Injunction To Stop Reddit Moderator Sharing Pirated TV Shows 45 comments
Google Asked to Hide TorrentFreak Article Reporting that 'The Mandalorian' Was Widely Pirated 72 comments
SEGA Lawyers Demand 'Immediate Suspension' of Steam Database Over Alleged Piracy 66 comments
Courts Sentence Men for Pirating Thousands of Movies and TV Shows, Including Via Plex 78 comments
Police Warn Students To Avoid Sci-Hub 150 comments
Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old 'Pirated' Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS 58 comments
Netflix Tests Cracking Down On Password Sharing 81 comments
ICANN Refuses To Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due To His 'Background' 134 comments
US Navy is Liable for Mass Software Piracy, Appeals Court Rules 72 comments
GitHub Reverses Takedown of Code for Anime Torrent Site Despite Film Group's DMCA 35 comments
Pirate Bay Founder Thinks Parler's Inability To Stay Online Is 'Embarrassing' 307 comments
The Most-Pirated TV Show of 2020 Was 'The Mandalorian' 99 comments
Japan's Brand New Anti-Piracy Law Goes Live 39 comments