Piracy Stories for 2017

Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One 57
Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns 242
AnyDVD Supports UHD Blu-Ray Ripping, While Devices Patch Security Holes 68
Facebook and YouTube Are Full of Pirated Video Streams of Live NFL Games 231
ISPs and Movie Industry Prepare Canadian Pirate Site Blocking Deal 86
Gamer Streams Pay-Per-View UFC Fight By Pretending To Play It 75
Not Even Free TV Can Get People To Stop Pirating Movies and TV Shows 221
Netflix Is Not Going to Kill Piracy, Research Suggests 158
Google and Apple Order Telegram To Nuke Channel Over Taylor Swift Piracy 37
Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent 553
Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results 83
Hollywood Strikes Back Against Illegal Streaming Kodi Add-ons 77
US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub 165
Pirate TV Services Are Taking a Bite Out of Cable Company Revenue 132
How Kodi Took Over Piracy 143
Google Denies Demoting the Pirate Bay In Some Countries 24
Denuvo's DRM Now Being Cracked Within Hours of Release 113
Netflix, Amazon, Movie Studios Sue Over TickBox Streaming Device 135
Pirate Bay is Mining Cryptocurrency Again, No Opt Out 184
It's Illegal to Pirate Films in Iran, Unless You're the Government 35
Judge Recommends ISP and Search Engine Blocking of Sci-Hub in the US 196
Supreme Court Won't Hear Kim Dotcom's Civil Forfeiture Case 165
Hollywood's International War on Kodi Plugins And Video-Streaming Boxes 57
Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians 136
Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours 390
EU Paid For Report That Said Piracy Isn't Harmful -- And Tried To Hide Findings 169
Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? 123
Warning: 'MetalKettle' Repository For Kodi Becomes Vulnerable After GitHub Takeover 28
Kodi Is Fighting Trademark Trolls 92
Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking 142
Amid Crackdown On Torrent Websites, Some Users Move To Google Drive To Distribute Movies and Shows 84
The Mayweather-McGregor Fight Shows It's Impossible to Stop Social Media Streaming of Big Events 88
New Zealand High Court Rules Operation Against Kim Dotcom Was Illegal 72
The Windows App Store is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps 98
Roku Gets Tough On Pirate Channels, Warns Users 79
Disney Ditching Netflix Keeps Piracy Relevant 263
Font Maker Sues Universal Music Over 'Pirated' The Vamps Logo 142
Cloudflare Wants to Eliminate 'Moot' Pirate Site Blocking Threat 23
Kodi Magazine 'Directs Readers To Pirate Content' 48
Game of Thrones Pirates Being Monitored By HBO, Warnings On The Way 282
Net Neutrality is Not a Pirates' Fight Anymore 89
Stream-ripping Is 'Fastest Growing' Music Piracy 254
Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay For Scientists' Sued by American Chemical Society Over Cloned Site 132
Indie Game Developer Shares Free Keys on The Pirate Bay 130
Sci-Hub Ordered To Pay $15 Million In Piracy Damages 167
Alleged KickassTorrents Owner Considers 'Voluntary Surrender' To the US 59
Movie Piracy Cost Australian Network 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' 119
Pirate Bay Is Infringing Copyright, European Court of Justice Rules 108
HBO, Netflix, Other Hollywood Companies Join Forces To Fight Piracy 195
Pirate Bay Founder: We've Lost the Internet, It's All About Damage Control Now 189
Hackers Leak Eight Episodes of An Unreleased ABC Show 87
Hollywood Sees Illegal Streaming Devices as 'Piracy 3.0' 178
The Lawyer Who Founded Prenda Law Just Got Disbarred 62
Facebook Bans Sale of Piracy-Enabling Set-Top Boxes 61
Sean Parker Is Going To Great Lengths To Ensure 'Screening Room' Is Piracy Free, Patents Reveal 141
Disney Chief Bob Iger Doesn't Believe Movie Hack Threat Was Real 27
Movie Piracy Blackmail Plot Fails In India, Six Arrested 47
Elsevier Wants $15 Million In 'Piracy' Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen 158
Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down 169
Google Releases Study Defending YouTube's Value To Music Biz; Trade Bodies Hit Back 80
Spotify Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files In Its Early Days: Report 44
Microsoft Patents Flagging Technology For 'Repeat Offenders' Of Pirated Content 53
Digital Economy Act: Illegal Kodi Streams Could Now Land Users In Prison For 10 Years 213
'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online 260
Hacker Leaks 'Orange Is the New Black' Episodes After Failing To Extort Netflix 144
Pirate Site Blockades Violate Free Speech, Mexico's Supreme Court Rules 35
Five Years Later, Legal Megaupload Data Is Still Trapped On Dead Servers 82
Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal 137
Pirate Bay Founder Launches Anonymous Domain Registration Service 60
Cloudflare Doesn't Want To Become the 'Piracy Police' 63
Pirate Bay Founder: 'I Have Given Up' 423
The Kodi Development Team Wants To Be Legitimate and Bring DRM To the Platform. 156
Amazon Bans Sales of Media Player Boxes That Promote Piracy 102
BitTorrent To Refocus On What Made It Rich - uTorrent 54
'Pirate' Movie Streaming Sites Declared Legal By Italian Court 48
W3C Erects DRM As Web Standard 260
Ebook Pirates Are Relatively Old and Wealthy, Study Finds 153
Court Orders ISP To Hand Identities Behind 5,300 IP Addresses To Copyright Trolls 41
How Seven Movie Studios Forced A Pirated Movie Site Offline 136
A Prenda Copyright Troll Finally Pleaded Guilty 46
Filmmakers Take Dutch State To Court Over Lost Piracy Revenue 97
Despite Netflix and Amazon Prime, Most of the World Watches Pirated Content 244
Streaming Pirate Content Isn't Illegal, UK Trading Standards Says 70
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Handle A Bogus Copyright Infringement Notice? 206
Seven Film Studios Want 41 Web Sites Blocked By Australian ISPs 43
Google Says Almost Every Recent 'Trusted' DMCA Notices Were Bogus 83
Online Piracy Can Boost Comic Book Sales, Research Finds 36
Google and Microsoft To Crackdown On Piracy Sites In Search Results 104
Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court 188
70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says 207
Swedish Court Rules: 'Block the Pirate Bay For Next 3 Years' 60
CloudFlare Puts Pirate Sites on New IP Addresses, Avoids Cogent Blockade 88
Canada Remains a 'Safe Haven' For Online Piracy, Rightsholders Claim 134
Ransomware Insurance Is Coming 86
Internet Backbone Provider Cogent Blocks Pirate Bay and Other 'Pirate' Sites 186
Police Arrest Five Men For Selling Kodi Boxes 'Fully Loaded' With Illegal Streaming Apps 105
Movie Industry Wants Irish ISPs To Block Pirate Movie Streaming Portals 55
DRM Company Denuvo Forgets To Secure Its Server, Leaks Two Years Of Emails 77
Windows DRM-Protected Files Used To Decloak Tor Browser Users 150
Film Industry's Latest Search Engine Draws Traffic With 'Pirate' Keywords' 73
2.5 Million Xbox and PlayStation Gamers' Details Have Been Leaked From Piracy Forums 36
Swedish Govt Mulls Tougher Punishments To Tackle Pirate Sites 70
ISPs Finally Abandon The Copyright Alert System 113
UK 'Pirates' Get 20-Day Grace Period After Each Warning 35
32% of All US Adults Watch Pirated Content 257
Piracy 'Warnings' Fail To Boost Box Office Revenues, Research Says 189
Despite Piracy Claims, North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion In 2016 142