Posted at 08:00PM on November 06, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Pirate IPTV Empire Goes Dark in Brazil, Marketing the Common Denominator * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Takedowns and Seizures > t Early September, a massive law enforcement operation in Argentina targeted a global IPTV piracy network's business in Latin America. The aim was to shut down dozens of branded services including My Family Cinema, TV Express and...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 05, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Google Removed 749 Million Anna's Archive URLs from its Search Results * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > t Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has become a top target for copyright holders. In just three years, publishers and authors have prompted Google to remove 749 million of the site's URLs from its search results. Despite this immense takedown campai...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 04, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Warner Bros. Discovery & TNT Sports Target UK Piracy Blocking Injunction * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > t Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and TNT Sports are the latest sports rightsholders to request a pirate site blocking injunction at the High Court in London. The specific content the companies aim to protect isn't clear but with football, ...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 03, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Some Pirates Use Religion as an Excuse, For Others It's a Moral Barrier * TorrentFreak
Home > Piracy Research > t Religion has two faces; that's also true when it comes to online piracy, albeit with a twist. A new academic study has found that those who use religion mostly for social benefits are more likely to pirate than those with strongly internalized reli...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 02, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
U.S. Pirate IPTV Operator Faces $9 Million in Damages After Ghosting Hollywood Lawsuit * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > Apps and Sites > t A Pennsylvania man, alleged to be the operator of several pirate IPTV services including 'Shrugs' and 'Zing', faces a potential $9 million default judgment. After major Hollywood studios sued him in March, the defendant was personally ser...
Posted at 08:00PM on November 01, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
IPTV Anti-Piracy Demands Are Bad For ISPs, Spell Disaster for User Privacy & Security * TorrentFreak
Home > Law and Politics > t A huge coalition of rightsholders with collective revenues running to hundreds of billions of euros, is demanding legislative action to tackle live event piracy in the EU. In a letter to the European Commission, major rightsholders and broadcaster...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 31, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against Defiant 'Pirate' Streamer 'EveryGameGuru' * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > Apps and Sites > t Nintendo has secured a final default judgment against Jesse Keighin, aka 'EveryGameGuru'. The gaming giant sued Keighin in 2024 after he streamed pirated copies of pre-release games. In correspondence with Nintendo's legal team, Keighin w...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 30, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Global Piracy Injunction Targets VidSrc Domains, Hydra Regenerates in Russia * TorrentFreak
Home > Piracy > t A powerful injunction obtained by members of the MPA, anti-piracy coalition ACE, and Korea-based anti-piracy group COA, has launched its first follow-up attack after targeting 248 domains in September. In this wave, the numbers are significantly smaller, wi...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 29, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Broad Coalition Backs Record Labels in Supreme Court ISP Piracy Liability Battle * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > t The Supreme Court battle over a $1 billion piracy judgment against internet provider Cox Communications is one of the decade's pivotal copyright lawsuits. After the ISP received broad support, including from the U.S. Government, a diverse group of amici h...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 29, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Meta: Pirated Adult Film Downloads Were For "Personal Use," Not AI Training * TorrentFreak
Home > AI > t Meta is using a classic BitTorrent defense in its legal battle with adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings. In its motion to dismiss, the tech company argues that IP-address evidence is insufficient to prove who the infringer is. Meta further counters that the "...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 28, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Pirate IPTV Man Settles Lawsuit For $44.5m Yet Couldn't Pay His Attorney * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > IPTV and Streaming > t A lawsuit filed last November by DISH and Sling TV targeted Richard Moy and CLVPN LLC. It was alleged that Moy illegally gained access to the companies' servers and redistributed their TV content to 450,000 users. To mitigate customer...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 27, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
The Streaming Piracy Crisis Suppressant That Nobody Wants To Discuss * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > t History has shown that if the source of pirated content isn't eliminated, one way or another it will simply reappear somewhere else. Targeting consumer-facing streaming sites does cause disruption, but not as much as targeting the supplier of their str...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 26, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Proposal to Prevent LaLiga Site-Blocking Hurting Innocent Sites Rejected in Spain * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > t A proposal calling for the Spanish government to protect innocent websites from pirate site overblocking has been rejected. The proposal before the Congressional Committee on Economy, Trade, and Digital Transformation, recognized that f...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 25, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
UEFA Joins Anti-Piracy Coalition ACE to Protect Growing Revenues from Piracy Surge * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > t European football's governing body, UEFA, has joined global anti-piracy coalition ACE. The move will help the Champions League organizer to more effectively tackle live streaming piracy. While sports piracy is a growing problem, UEFA has also seen a sp...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 24, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
MPA Targets 'Zombie' Pirate Brands Including Fmovies, Cuevana and Aniwave * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > DMCA > t In the modern piracy ecosystem, sites and domains have become disposable, but "brands" often survive. This phenomenon is highlighted by the MPA's latest DMCA subpoena request, which hunts the "ghosts" of already defeated operations. On behalf of...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 23, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Cloudflare 'Resists' Piracy Blocks, U.S. Govt. Opposes EU Co-Op Obligations * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > t A decision by Canal+ to target public DNS resolvers to reinforce pirate site blocking, ended with a French court ordering Cloudflare and Google to deny access to list of streaming sites. A lawyer who acted for Canal+ says that led to me...
Home > Law and Politics > t Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative uses input from copyright holders to update its list of notorious piracy markets. The process aims to help combat copyright infringement, but for the past several years, recurring ar...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 22, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
DISH Identifies Lemo/Kemo Pirate IPTV Operators & Sues U.S. Reseller for $27M * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > Apps and Sites > t DISH Network has filed a new $27 million copyright infringement lawsuit, this time identifying the alleged operators of the Lemo and Kemo IPTV services. The complaint, filed in a Florida federal court, targets a Malaysian company, Kemo E ...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 21, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
IPTV Pirates May Soon Be Named and Shamed, Italian Minister Says * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > t Having established itself as a moving and unpredictable target, it's widely accepted that piracy cannot be defeated using a single tool. Italy's toolbox is one of the most comprehensive available, having just added the ability to effectively fine IPTV ...
Posted at 08:00AM on October 20, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
ISP Blocking of No-IP's Dynamic DNS Enters Week 2 * TorrentFreak
Home > Opinion Articles > t Reports that No-IP's dynamic DNS service had stopped functioning date back more than a week. After blocking the service, Spanish ISPs displayed 'Error 451'andat least one sent requests to 127.0.0.1. For local internet users, artificial internet di...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 18, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Manga Pirate Site Operator Fails to Dodge DMCA Subpoena Over Cloudflare Cache * TorrentFreak
Home > Piracy > t Rightsholders can breathe a sigh of relief after a California federal court concluded that Cloudflare can be compelled to comply with DMCA subpoenas. The anonymous operator of now-defunct manga piracy site Mangajikan argued that Cloudflare is a 'mere condui...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 18, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Direct Sales & Direct Anti-Piracy Action Underpin Japan's Plan For Explosive Growth * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > t With a mission to dramatically increase overseas sales of anime, manga, video games, and other creative content by 2033, Japan's Entertainment and Creative Industry Strategy is ambitious and prepared for new risks. Relatively safe licensing models seem...
Posted at 08:00AM on October 17, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Y2Mate.com Among a Dozen YouTube Rippers Shut Down By IFPI * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Takedowns and Seizures > t The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is celebrating the shutdown of YouTube-ripping giant Y2Mate.com and 11 similar platforms. IFPI says that during the last 12 months alone, the twelve domains received ove...
Posted at 08:00AM on October 17, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Record Labels Fire Back at Cox in $1B Supreme Court Piracy Case, Cite Termination 'Hypocrisy' * TorrentFreak
Home > Piracy > t A group of major record labels has fired back at Cox Communications, asking the Supreme Court to uphold the $1 billion piracy liability verdict. The music companies describe Cox as a hypocritical bad actor, one that prioritized profit over combating piracy....
Posted at 08:00PM on October 16, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Reddit Banned 709 Subreddits for Repeat Copyright Violations in First Half of 2025 * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > t Reddit banned 709 subreddits for repeat copyright infringement in the first half of the year. While this is more than double compared to the same period last year, in the grander scheme of removals it's just a speck on the radar. The same holds true fo...
Posted at 08:00AM on October 15, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Grok's Lack of Piracy Prompt Panic Isn't Controversial, It's Reasonable and Rewarding * TorrentFreak
Home > Opinion Articles > t Many popular AI models are reluctant to discuss piracy, especially when prompts lack finesse and leave zero doubt over intent. Yet even with an entirely lawful context, some models simply refuse to play ball. Such artificial restrictions are not u...
Posted at 08:00AM on October 14, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
Anti-Piracy Firm Threatens ICANN with Lawsuit Over .to Domain Piracy * TorrentFreak
Home > Law and Politics > t Anti-piracy firm Warezio is threatening Internet governance body ICANN with an unfair competition lawsuit for failing to take action against alleged piracy-enabling domain registries. The Czech outfit specifically highlights the .to registry as pr...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 13, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
'Fear of Looking Cheap' Can Deter Sports Piracy, But Piracy Stats Can Backfire * TorrentFreak
Home > Piracy Research > t While many anti-piracy campaigns struggle to make an impact, a new study helps to understand what works and what doesn't. The research shows that highlighting the popularity of piracy can backfire by encouraging some men to pirate more. A potential...
Posted at 08:00AM on October 13, 2025 by Andy Maxwell @ TF Publishing
Suno & Udio Sound Fair Use Alarm in Yout vs. RIAA YouTube-Ripper Appeal * TorrentFreak
Home > Lawsuits > Apps and Sites > t After being sued by members of the RIAA, generative AI music platforms Suno and Udio are relying on a fair use defense. The labels' recent allegations that music was 'ripped' from YouTube to facilitate AI training thrust the DMCA's anti-c...
Posted at 08:00PM on October 12, 2025 by Ernesto Van der Sar @ TF Publishing
German Pirate Site Blockades Target Anna's Archive, FitGirl and RPG Only * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > t Germany's voluntary pirate site blocking scheme was overhauled this year, adding proper judicial oversight. In recent weeks, the first court orders were signed, resulting in blockades of shadow library Anna's Archive and gaming portal R...
