Piracy Stories

MPA Has Big Plans To Crack Down on Movie Piracy Again 88
Cox Plans To Take Piracy Liability Battle To the Supreme Court 70
Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository Over Piracy Fears 60
The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Now 20 Years Old 15
'Operation 404' Results In First Prison Sentence For Pirate IPTV Operator 14
Dutch Court Orders ISP To Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen' 26
BitTorrent Is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic 37
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men 36
Open Source Movie Streaming Project 'Movie-Web' Shut Down By Hollywood Complaint 21
Study Finds Anti-Piracy Messages Backfire, Especially For Men 106
Cox Communications Wins Order Overturning $1 Billion US Copyright Verdict 17
Apple Pulls Popular Movie Piracy App Kimi From the App Store 25
Reddit Doesn't Have To Share IP-Addresses of Piracy Commenters, Court Rules 22
Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood's New Villains 160
Reddit Must Share IP Addresses of Piracy-Discussing Users, Film Studios Say 36
Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past 259
Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA's Artemis Towards Black Hole 83
'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Streams on Disney+ and the BBC 65
Italy's 'Piracy Shield' Anti-Piracy System Launches, Applies To All DNS and VPN Providers 39
EU Mulls Expansion of Geo-Blocking 'Bans' To Video Streaming Platforms 44
Several Piracy-Related Arrests Spark Fears of High-Level Crackdown In Nordic Region 37
File-Sharing Giant Uloz Bans File-Sharing Citing EU's Digital Services Act 12
Disney Pulls TV Channels From Vietnam, Govt 'Concerned' Piracy Will Run Riot 61
Brazil Regulator Claims '80% of Pirate TV Boxes' Were Blocked Last Week 16
Record Labels Shut Down FileWarez, Brazil's Oldest Pirate Forum 12
Private Torrent Tracker FileList to Shut Down After 16 Years 9
YouTuber Jailed For Large-Scale Cable Piracy Scheme 20
Textbook Publishers Sue Shadow Library LibGen For Copyright Infringement 30
Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company 34
Google Removes 'Pirate' URLs From Users' Privately Saved Links 58
Sports Leagues Ask US For 'Instantaneous' DMCA Takedowns and Website Blocking 63
Amazon Sues Online Stores Selling Pirated DVDs 71
File-Hosting Icon AnonFiles Throws In the Towel, Domain For Sale 28
Court Orders SportsBay To Pay Almost Half a Billion Dollars For Violating DMCA 38
Google Search Asked To Remove One Billion 'Pirate' Links In 9 Months 22
Z-Library Rolls Out Browser Extensions In Anticipation of Domain Name Troubles 15
Reddit Beats Film Industry, Won't Have To Identify Users Who Admitted Torrenting 55
Italian Pirate IPTV Customers Risk a 5,000 Euro Fine Starting August 8, 2023 45
Sci-Hub's Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award For Providing Access To Scientific Knowledge 14
Is AI Training on Libraries of Pirated Books? 96
70% of Russian Gamers Are Pirates Following Western Publisher Exodus 93
Denuvo Wants To Convince You Its DRM Isn't 'Evil' 77
Film Companies Demand Names of Reddit Users Who Discussed Piracy in 2011 67
'Piracy Is Coming Back' 187
French Govt Wants To Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly Into Web Browsers 82
Z-Library Releases Tor-Enabled Desktop Launcher To Improve 'Accessibility' 19
Korea Will Deploy 'Anti-Piracy AI' After Major Piracy Site Reincarnation 10
2 Men Who Helped Run Popular Pirating Website Megaupload Sentenced To Prison in New Zealand 60
TV Torrent Group CAKES Quits the Scene and Shuts Down 18
Music Pirates Are Not Terrorists, Record Labels Argue In Court 46
Popular Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down 38
Men Behind UK's Largest Pirate Service Jailed For 30+ Years 52
European Commission Calls for Pirate Site Blocking Around the Globe 29
'More Than 600,000 Students and Teachers Use Z-Library' 21
Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens' Fundamental Rights In France 10
Anti-Piracy Outfit Wipes ACE's 'Watch Legally' Page From Google 13
DAZN Joins Anti-Piracy Coalition To Crack Down on Bootleg Sports Streams 40
US Seizes Z-Library Login Domain, But Secret URLs for Each User Remain Active 13
Film Studios Lose Bid To Unmask Reddit Users Who Wrote Comments on Piracy 39
Bulgaria Approves Draft Law That Turns Pirate Site Operators Into Criminals 24
Z-Library Plans To Let Users Share Physical Books Through 'Z-Points' 18
Music Labels Win Legal Battle Against Youtube-dl's Hosting Provider 45
China Shuts Down Major Manga Piracy Site Following Complaint From Japan 12
Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45 Million Visits Per Month Makes No Money 81
Online-Books Lawsuit Tests Limits of Libraries in Digital Age 63
Marvel Wants Reddit To Expose Mods Suspected of Ant-Man 3 Leak 35
YouTuber Sentenced To Over 5 Years and Ordered To Forfeit $30 Million in Large-Scale Cable Piracy Case 72
BitTorrent Seedbox Provider Handed Criminal Conviction Over Users' Piracy 25
You Can Watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA Considers This Piracy 67
Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear On Pirate Sites 74
Filmmakers Request Identities of Reddit Users To Aid Piracy Lawsuit 41
Z-Library Returns, Offering 'Unique' Domain Name To All Users 51
Police Complaint Removes Pirate Bay Proxy Portal From GitHub 32
Belarus Legalizes Piracy of Movies, Music and Software of 'Unfriendly' Nations 198
Major Private Torrent Sites Have a Security Disaster to Fix Right Now 30
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
'Widevine Dump': Leaked Code Downloads HD Video From Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix 24
Nintendo Wins High Court Injunction to Block Access to Pirated Switch ROMs 14
Malaysia Passes Bill to Imprison Illegal Streaming Pirates For Up To 20 Years 62
Guitarist Eric Clapton Successfully Sues Woman For Posting $11 Bootleg 183
Microsoft Tempts Software Pirates With 50 Percent Discount On Office 76
Google Removes Pirate Bay Domains from Search Results Citing Dutch Court Order 56
Is 'The NFT Bay' Just a Giant Hoax? 74
Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking 21
'The NFT Bay' Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of 'Pirated' NFTs 88
Film Studios Sue 'No Logs' VPN Provider For $10 Million 73
Virgin Media Subscribers Told To Pay 'Thousands of Pounds' To Settle Piracy Laws 53
Take-Two Sues Enthusiasts Behind GTA Fan Projects Re3, ReVC 26
UK ISP Sky Broadband Feeds Realtime Customer Bandwidth Data To Litigious Anti-Piracy Firm 30
Microsoft Envisions a Blockchain-Based Bounty System to Catch Pirates 59
Fight Piracy With a Blockchain-Based Bounty System, Suggest Microsoft Researchers 53
Pirated-Entertainment Sites Are Making Billions From Ads 63
Netflix Intensifies 'VPN Ban' and Targets Residential IP-Addresses Too 119
Reddit Orders 'SaveVideo' Bot To Shut Down Or Face Lawsuit 44
Stream-Ripping Can Be Perfectly Legal, French Ministry of Culture Says 28
Sony Wins Pirate Site Blocking Order Against DNS-Resolver Quad9 65
ROM Site Owner Made $30,000 a Year -- Now Owes Nintendo $2.1 Million 65
ROM Site Owner Made $30,000 a Year -- Now Owes Nintendo $2.1 Million 132
Cox Appeals $1 Billion Piracy Liability Verdict To 'Save the Internet' 51
Comcast Subscriber Receives DMCA Notice For Downloading Ubuntu 130
Redditors Aim to 'Free Science' From For-Profit Publishers 63
German 'Upload Filter' Law Sets Standards To Prevent Overblocking 31
Activist Archivists Are Trying to Save the 'Pirate Bay of Science' 56
FBI Has Gained Access To Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims 36
Disney Patents Blockchain-Based Movie Distribution System To Stop Pirates 95
A Podcast App is Exposing Subscribers-only Shows 15
UK Broadcaster Wins Injunction To Stop Reddit Moderator Sharing Pirated TV Shows 45
Google Asked to Hide TorrentFreak Article Reporting that 'The Mandalorian' Was Widely Pirated 72
SEGA Lawyers Demand 'Immediate Suspension' of Steam Database Over Alleged Piracy 66
Courts Sentence Men for Pirating Thousands of Movies and TV Shows, Including Via Plex 78
Police Warn Students To Avoid Sci-Hub 150
Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old 'Pirated' Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS 58
Netflix Tests Cracking Down On Password Sharing 81
ICANN Refuses To Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due To His 'Background' 134
US Navy is Liable for Mass Software Piracy, Appeals Court Rules 72
GitHub Reverses Takedown of Code for Anime Torrent Site Despite Film Group's DMCA 35
Pirate Bay Founder Thinks Parler's Inability To Stay Online Is 'Embarrassing' 307
The Most-Pirated TV Show of 2020 Was 'The Mandalorian' 99
Japan's Brand New Anti-Piracy Law Goes Live 39
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used To Upload 'Pirate' Movies and File DMCA Notices 53
Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby 32
RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub 62
Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms 90
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned 111
Two Leaders of Videogame Piracy Group Arrested 45
Piratebay.Org Sold For $50,000 At Auction, ThePiratebay.com Up Next 27
Scene Bust Triggered Historic Drop In 'Pirate' Releases 85
Thousands of Pirates Tricked Into Downloading Fake 'Tenet' Torrents 98
US Indictments and Raids of Piracy Group Members in 'The Scene' Throw Top-Tier Piracy World Into Chaos 70
Anti-Piracy Outfit Hires VPN Expert To Help Track Down The Pirate Bay 67
Most Dedicated VPN IP-Addresses Are Not Anonymous 27
Discord Removes Servers Dedicated To Pirating Porn 46
The Pirate Bay's IP Address Belongs To a VPN Provider, ISP Tells Court 88
Illegal Netflix, Amazon Streamers Cut Off After European Arrests 66
Chrome and Firefox Block Torrent Site YTS Over 'Phishing' 34
Court Fines YouTuber For Posting IPTV Piracy Tutorials 37
MPA and Amazon Ask GitHub To Suspend Kodi Add-On Developer's Account 48
Pirated 'DVD Screeners' Will be History After Next Year's Oscars 44
The Pirate Bay Blocked By MalwareBytes But Normal Service Will Be Resumed 16
Authors, Publishers Condemn the 'National Emergency Library' As 'Piracy' 147
Popcorn Time, the 'Netflix For Piracy,' Is Back Online 31
Copyright Lobby Calls Out Plex For Not Doing Enough To Stop Piracy 158
r/NoSleep, One of the Largest Subreddits On Reddit, Goes Dark In IP-Theft Protest 53
Don't Use the Word 'Did' Or a Dumb Anti-Piracy Company Will Delete You From Google 165
Twitch Has Become a Haven For Live Sports Piracy 36
Streaming Services Reckon With Password-Sharing 'Havoc' 150
Cox Owes $1 Billion To Record Labels for Harboring Music Pirates, Jury Decides 87
Twitch Sued For $2.8B Over Alleged Pirated Streaming of Premier League Games 28
FBI Busts Massive Pirate Streaming Service With More Content Than Netflix 124
The Pirate Bay Is Trialing High-Quality Video Streaming Links 35
EU Study Shows Online Piracy is Complex and Not Easy To Grasp 44
Federal Court Approves First 'Pirate' Site Blockade In Canada 24
Disney + and 'The Mandalorian' Are Driving People Back To Torrenting 277
US Court Shields Internet Subscribers From Futile Piracy Complaints 48
Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking, Swiss Copyright Law Says 48
Top MPAA Lawyer, Mastermind Behind Its Plan To Attack the Internet, Arrested On Blackmail and Sexual Assault Charges 67
Netflix-like Pirate Sites Offered More Video Than the Real Netflix, Feds Say 31
Disney Fights Streaming Account Sharing With Help From Cable Industry 46
As Streaming Offerings Become More Expensive and Convoluted, People Are Setting Up Their Own Smaller, More Intimate Platforms 159
Pirate Our Games, Don't Buy Them From Key Resellers, Say Indies 97
A Look at How Movies and Shows From Netflix and Amazon Prime Video Are Pirated 219
Texas Appeals Court Says Government Can't Be Sued For Copyright Piracy 107
Popular Soccer App Spied on Fans Through Phone Microphone To Catch Bars Pirating Game Streams 131
Kim Dotcom In Final Bid To Halt Extradition 100
Piracy is Ethically Acceptable For Many Harvard Lawyers, Research Finds 101
Hundreds of Thousands of 'Pirate' Sites Disappear Following Takedown Notices 43
Movie Companies Sue 'YTS' and 'YIFY' Site Operators in US Court 169
RIAA Obtains Subpoena To Expose 'Infringing' Cloudflare Users 84
Pornhub Expresses Interest In Acquiring Tumblr 62
'Avengers: Endgame' Footage Leaks on Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter 80
French ISPs Ordered To Block Sci-Hub, LibGen 77
US Requests 12-Year Prison Sentence For Prenda 'Copyright Troll' Lawyer 66
Music Labels Sue Charter, Complain That High Internet Speeds Fuel Piracy 197
Flood of 4K James Bond Leaks Further Point To iTunes Breach 114
Police Department Accused of Updating Their Radios With Pirated Software 143
Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims 252
Studies Keep Showing That the Best Way To Stop Piracy Is To Offer Cheaper, Better Alternatives 111
Oracle Claims a Fighter of Pirated Apps is a Front For Ad Fraud 28
Hollywood Tries To Cripple Several Alleged Pirate TV Services In One Lawsuit 30
How TV Pirates Accidentally Pushed a 25-Year-Old Indie Song to the Top of the Charts in Japan 43
Software Pirates Use Apple Tech To Put Hacked Apps on iPhones 38
Pirate Bay 'Promotion' Increases Post-Release Box Office Revenue, Study Shows 42
Netflix, Amazon, and Hollywood Studios Shut Down Dragon Box 54
Online Piracy Can Be Good For Business, Researchers Find 59
Russian YouTube-Ripping Site Wins In US Court 77
Sony Appears To Be Blocking Kodi On Its Recent Android TVs 115
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

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