Piracy Stories for 2022

US Copyright Office Finds 'Deep Disagreement' on Anti-Piracy Measures 63
UK Govt: Netflix Password Sharing Is Illegal and Potentially Criminal Fraud 70
Risky Online Behaviour Such as Piracy 'Almost Normalized' Among Young People, Says Study 156
Torrent Site User Who Transferred 120TB of Pirated Content Avoids Prison 45
US Navy Forced To Pay Software Company For Piracy 87
Z-Library Responds to US Crackdown, Asks Authors for Forgiveness 24
Police Tracked Traffic of All National ISPs To Catch Pirate IPTV Users 68
Police Dismantle Pirated TV Streaming Network With 500,000 Users 19
Italy's Biggest TV Piracy Network Dismantled 17
Court Upholds Piracy Blocking Order Against Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver 101
Domains for Z-Library eBook Site Apparently Seized By US Department of Justice 63
US Authorities Seize Z-Library Domain Names 83
RIAA Flags 'Artificial Intelligence' Music Mixer As Emerging Copyright Threat 45
Hollywood and Netflix Report Top Piracy Threats To US Government 103
Court Blocks 13,445 'Pirate' Sites Proactively To Protect One Movie 30
Rightsholders Asked Google To Remove Six Billion 'Pirate' Links 48
Danish Pirate Site Blocking Updated, Telecoms Group Publishes All Domains 30
Telecom Giants Sued for Failing To Stop Movie Piracy 63
Adobe Thinks It Can Solve Netflix's Password 'Piracy' Problem 81
Filmmakers Sue AT&T To Block Pirate Sites, Disconnect Repeat Infringers 74
Five Men Indicted For Uploading Movies, Then Extorting 'Pirate' Downloaders 24
Court Orders Telegram To Disclose Personal Details of Pirating Users 30
Microsoft Sues Activation Key and Token Sellers For Enabling Customers' Piracy 41
Record Labels' War On ISPs and Piracy Nets Multiple Settlements With Charter 29
Research Shows Why Many Anti-Piracy Messages Fail 257
Court Orders Cloudflare's DNS Resolver 1.1.1.1 To Block Pirate Sites In Italy 36
Broadest US Pirate Site Injunction Rewritten/Tamed By Cloudflare 10
Russians Are Searching For Pirated Microsoft Products and Switching To Linux 52
Kim Dotcom Not Happy, Says 'Mega Mass Piracy Report' Is On the Way 39
Nintendo Wanted Hacker's Prison Sentence To Turn Heads 66
YouTube and Uploaded Could Be Liable For Pirating Users, Court Rules 36
New Copyright Lawsuit Targets Uploaders of 10-Minute Movie Edits 74
Foreign Torrent Site Operator Can Be Sued in the US, Court Says 61
US Copyright Office Seeks Input On Mandatory DMCA 'Upload Filters' 83
Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way Into Free Trade Agreements 39
Every ISP In the US Has Been Ordered To Block Three Pirate Streaming Services 115
Russian Cinemas Are Showing Pirated Movies Downloaded From Torrents 112
Pirate Site Traffic Surges With Help From Manga Boom 16
DuckDuckGo Insists It Didn't 'Purge' Piracy Sites From Search Results 33
DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL From Its Search Results 77
ACE Shuts Down Massive Pirate Site After Locating Owner In Remote Peru 19
Russia's Site-Blocking System Isn't Performing and Could Even Collapse 27
Russian Game Dev Tells Players To 'Raise the Pirate Flag' To Get Around Sanctions 76
'Wordle' Creator Says Unauthorized Clones Drove Him to Selling His Game 60
Creative Commons Opposes Piracy-Combatting 'SMART' Copyright Act 54
YouTube Rippers Appeal $83 Million Piracy Verdict 29
US Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act To Combat Piracy 92
LimeWire Founder 'Not Thrilled' That 'Strangers' Are Exploiting the Brand for NFT Marketplace 12
Netflix Will Prompt Subscribers To Pay for Users Outside Their Households in New Test to Address Unauthorized Password Sharing 113
TorGuard Settles Piracy Lawsuit, Agrees To Block Torrent Traffic On US Servers 40
Russia Mulls Legalizing Software Piracy As It's Cut Off From Western Tech 131
FBI Gains Access To Sci-Hub Founder's Google Account Data 23
TVAddons' Adam Lackman Admits TV Show Piracy, Agrees To Pay $19.5 Million 14
Search Engines In Russia Will Deindex All Domains That Have 100+ Links To Pirated Content 49
Streaming TV Shows on Twitch Attracts DMCAs and the TV Industry's Eye of Sauron 15
VPN Provider Agrees To Block Torrent Traffic and The Pirate Bay On US Servers 55
Host of Youtube-dl Web Site Sued by Major Record Labels 104
Popcorn Time, the Piracy App That Spooked Netflix, Shuts Down 31