Posted at 08:00PM on December 14, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Online Piracy Can Boost Box Office Revenue, Study Suggests * TorrentFreak
Home > Piracy > t A new academic study counterintuitively concludes that online piracy can boost revenue for some films. By analyzing years of box office data, as well as upload details from The Pirate Bay, researchers found that high-quality leaks of "spectacle" movies, suc...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 13, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > t Google has removed dozens of new Sci-Hub domain names from its search results in the United States. Unlike typical DMCA takedowns, the removals were triggered by a dated court order that was not enforced for several years. This appears ...
Home > Anti-Piracy > Takedowns and Seizures > t The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment says it was behind the sudden closure of MKVCinemas, a popular India-based streaming site that disappeared unexpectedly last month. As part of the same operation, ACE says it also s...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 12, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Scammers Mimic Cloudflare's 'Error 451' Site Blocking Notice to Infect Pirates * TorrentFreak
Home > Piracy > t Earlier today we saw fairly compelling evidence that blocking pirate sites can lead to internet users being infected with malware. Apparently inspired by Cloudflare's use of HTTP Error 451, which greets pirates when attempting to visit sites blocked in the ...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 10, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Rampant U.S. Piracy is a Multibillion-Dollar Concern for Japanese Manga Publishers * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > t A recent report, published by the Japanese anti-piracy group Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ), shows that manga piracy is rampant. American pirates, in particular, are a key roadblock in Japan's mission to expand the export of manga and anime. At the sa...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 10, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
IPTV Pirate's Bitcoin Booty Sold at Auction For Just Over $1 Million * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > IPTV and Streaming > t In 2024, a man convicted for his involvement in pirate IPTV service Viking IPTV received a relatively modest suspended sentence, despite serving several thousand customers. However, a cryptocurrency analysis revealed transactions dati...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 09, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
EU Report Distills AI-Training Lessons from Napster Piracy Era: Don't Sue, License * TorrentFreak
Home > Law and Politics > t An in-depth analysis on AI training and copyright, commissioned by the European Parliament, cautions against repeating the mistakes of the early 2000s when online piracy boomed. Instead of suing AI companies into oblivion or relying on "opt-out" m...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 08, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Bypass Amazon Fire TV Stick Piracy Ban and See What Happens Next * TorrentFreak
Home > Opinion Articles > t After enjoying years of relative freedom to do whatever they liked with their Amazon Fire TV Sticks, last month users were informed that apps linked to piracy would be blocked, banned, or even deleted moving forward. With alerts now appearing on u...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 07, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Lithuanian Watchdog Fines Torrent Tracker Users for Pirating Local Blockbuster * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > t Lithuanias media watchdog continues its crusade against individual file-sharers. New data reveals that dozens of users on private trackers Linkomanija and Torrent.lt have been fined 140 this year for sharing the local hit movie "The Southern Chronicles...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 06, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Belgium's Latest Pirate Site-Blocking Order Spares DNS Providers * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > t The Brussels Business Court has issued a new site-blocking order, targeting popular pirate sites including 1337x and Soap2day. Surprisingly, this latest order only requires major ISPs to take action. This is a notable change, as the ini...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 05, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Court Empowers Hollywood in Race to Block \xe2\x80\x9cWicked: For Good\xe2\x80\x9d Piracy * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > t Australia's Federal Court has responded to an urgent request by the major Hollywood studios, Netflix and Apple, to protect the movie Wicked: For Good from some of the world's most notorious pirate streaming sites. After issuing an initi...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 04, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
DDoS Guard: LaLiga's Piracy Blocks Test Whether Anyone Will Protect the Internet * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > t Internet infrastructure company DDoS-Guard is concerned by the power granted to Spain's LaLiga in its fight against piracy. Describing the scale of over-blocking as "astonishing", Dmitry Nikonov, Head of Web Application Protection, beli...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 03, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Supreme Court: Can ISPs Be Liable For Piracy By Doing Nothing? * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > Repeat Infringer > t Can an ISP be held liable for piracy simply by "doing nothing"? Yesterday, the Supreme Court addressed this billion-dollar question. While record labels argued that Cox turned a blind eye to "habitual abusers," the ISP warned that expan...
Posted at 08:00PM on December 02, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Operation 404: 3,000+ Pirate Domains Blocked, USDOJ & USDOC Get to Watch * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > t With 535 pirate domains to add to Brazil's secretive blocklist, the latest phase of Operation 404 has just broken the 3,000 domain barrier. Despite playing a leading role since the beginning of this now famous anti-piracy initiative, in...
Posted at 08:00AM on December 02, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Pirate IPTV Box Evades Blocking But is Also Critically Vulnerable to Attack * TorrentFreak
Home > Piracy Research > t Following Amazon's announcement that it won't allow the new Firestick to become a piracy free-for-all, some people are seeking out new devices to bridge the gap. Offering lifetime access to movies, TV shows and live sports, an already popular devic...
Posted at 08:00AM on December 02, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Nhentai Rejects Piracy Claims, Hits Back with $500k Damages Claim for Fraud * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > t Nhentai.net, a popular adult site with tens of millions of monthly visits, turns the tables on publisher PCR Distributing. The popular 'pirate' site, operated by a Delaware company, was sued for alleged copyright infringement last year. In its formal answ...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 30, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Yout and RIAA Clash in Court Over YouTube's Alleged Copyright Barriers * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > t Is downloading a YouTube video a violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision? That is the key question in the legal battle between stream-ripper Yout and the RIAA. Yout argues that because YouTube videos are freely accessible to anyone with a web...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 29, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Pirate Site Operator's Appeal Goes Bad, Court Extends Prison Term By 50% * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > IPTV and Streaming > t The saga surrounding the former operator of NunuTV, once South Koreas largest pirate streaming site, has taken another wrong turn for the defendant. After receiving a three-year prison sentence earlier this year, an appeal only made t...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 28, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
MPA Shut Down OnionPlay's Discord & Tries to Unmask Pirate Site Operator * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > t The Motion Picture Association has its eyes set on the streaming portal OnionPlay. After successfully petitioning Discord to shut down the site's community server, the Hollywood group has secured a DMCA subpoena requiring Discord to unmask the suspecte...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 27, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Share-Online Operator Gets Two Years Probation in Landmark 'Cyberlocker' Verdict * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > Apps and Sites > t Six years after massive raids shut down the German cyberlocker Share-Online.biz, this week the site's operator was sentenced to a two-year suspended prison term. The case is seen as a landmark victory in Germany, as it indicates that oper...
Posted at 08:00AM on November 27, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Greek Cybercrime Unit Shuts Down IPTV Pirates, 68 End Users Face Fines * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Takedowns and Seizures > t A targeted action by Greek authorities has shut down an IPTV reselling operation, leading to the arrest of one individual and the referral of 68 end users for prosecution. The action marks a shift in Greek law enforcements appr...
Posted at 08:00AM on November 26, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
\xe2\x80\x98Destroyed\xe2\x80\x99 Usenet Provider NSE and BREIN End 16-Year Battle With Secret Settlement * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > Apps and Sites > t Usenet provider News-Service Europe (NSE) and anti-piracy group BREIN have settled their long-running legal dispute. The 16-year battle, during which the Dutch Usenet provider was forced to shut down, only to be later vindicated by the Su...
Posted at 08:00AM on November 25, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Cloudflare Says Piracy Liability Ruling Has Global Implications; Publishers Disagree * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > t A ruling by a Tokyo court which holds Cloudflare liable for manga piracy is serious and could have global implications, the company says. Filed by manga publishers in 2022, the lawsuit criticized Cloudflare for providing services to the sites, despite the...
Posted at 08:00AM on November 25, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Live Sports Piracy: EU Commission Admits that Anti-Piracy Advice Had Limited Impact * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > t The European Commission has published its assessment of the May 2023 Recommendation aimed at combating live sports piracy. While even the modest progress reported is positive by definition, for rightsholders urging immediate action, the promise of furt...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 23, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Piracy Liability Dispute Between Universal Music and Cloudflare Reaches EU\xe2\x80\x99s Highest Court * TorrentFreak
Home > Law and Politics > t A legal battle that began over a Sarah Connor album posted on a German pirate site has escalated into a landmark case that will shape EU copyright law. The lawsuit between Universal Music and Cloudflare has reached the highest German court, which ...
Home > Lawsuits > Apps and Sites > t OCLC is no longer looking for millions in damages from Anna's Archive, but has adopted a tactical "takedown" strategy instead. In a renewed motion for default judgment, the organization requests a permanent injunction, to restrain the sha...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 20, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
EUIPO Study: Major Brand Ads on Pirate Sites Surged 567% * TorrentFreak
Home > Piracy Research > t A new report published by the EU Intellectual Property Office reveals an alarming 567% surge in major brand advertising on pirate sites, which is linked to the termination of industry outreach programs. However, a closer look at the data reveals an...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 20, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Tokyo Court Finds Cloudflare Liable For Manga Piracy in Long-Running Lawsuit * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > t Japanese manga publishers have declared victory over Cloudflare in a long-running copyright infringement liability dispute. Kadokawa, Kodansha, Shueisha and Shogakukan say that Cloudflare's refusal to stop manga piracy sites, meant they were left with no ...
Posted at 08:00AM on November 20, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Torrent Giant YTS Returns to .LT Domain After .MX \xe2\x80\x98Vanishes\xe2\x80\x99 * TorrentFreak
Home > Piracy > Torrent Sites > t After five years of operating in relatively stable waters, popular torrent site YTS is on the move again. The sites Mexican domain name, YTS.mx, suddenly stopped resolving yesterday and has effectively vanished. While the official reason rem...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 19, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
LaLiga: ISPs Must Join Anti-Piracy War to Secure Broadcasting Rights * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > t Companies acting as both TV broadcasters and ISPs, will face the most extreme anti-piracy obligations ever seen if they want to air LaLiga football matches from 2027. Mandatory support for LaLiga's anti-piracy strategy will include part...
