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Israel’s Most Popular Pirate Site Makes Headlines For Politics, Not Piracy
The most-visited pirate site in Israel usually makes headlines for its massive collection of TV shows but this week things changed. With large-scale copyright infringement almost a sideshow,...
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Warner Bros. Takes Down Leaked ‘Tenet’ Footage Ahead of Piracy Sensitive...
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller 'Tenet' will be one of the first blockbusters to debut on the big screen since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent takedown notices from Warner Bros. show...
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GitHub Takes Down Pirate Streaming App ‘King Club’ Following MPA Complaint
GitHub has removed the website and APK of the pirate streaming app King Club X. The action was taken in response to a takedown request sent by the MPA acting on behalf of Netflix and several major...
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Area 51 Mystery Solved: Pirate IPTV Service Was Shut Down By ACE & MPA
Pirate IPTV service Area 51 disappeared offline late June with a message that its operators had decided to move on to other things. We can now reveal that the service was shut down by the Hollywood...
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Publishers File European Commission Complaint Against Google For Hosting...
An anti-piracy group representing publishers in Russia has filed a complaint against Google with the European Commission. According to the letter, Google fails to remove piracy-enabling apps from...
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Torrent Site 1337x Bans ‘YTS’ For Handing User Data to Movie Companies (Updated)
1337x.to, one of the world's most-visited torrent sites, has banned uploads from the YTS group. The decision comes after YTS, a popular torrent site in its own right, shared user details with...
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Copyright Holders Intervene to Support Canadian Pirate Site Blocks in Court
Representatives from the music, publishing, and sports industries have submitted their arguments in favor of Canada's court-ordered pirate site blocks. The groups intervene in TekSavvy's appeal and...
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Anti-Piracy Outfit Hires VPN Expert to Help Track Down The Pirate Bay
Movie companies and their anti-piracy partners are pressing ahead with their legal action to track down The Pirate Bay. The site reportedly used VPN provider OVPN, which carries no logs, but a...
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Dutch ISPs Unblock Pirate Bay Proxies, Because They Can
Dutch ISPs Ziggo and XS4ALL have unblocked dozens of Pirate Bay proxies and mirrors. While the companies must block the torrent site itself, the latest court order supersedes the injunction which...
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Movie & TV Giants Tell Court That Nitro IPTV Operator Destroyed & Withheld...
In April, a coalition of entertainment companies headed up by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon sued 'pirate IPTV provider Nitro TV for massive copyright infringement. After...
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YTS Torrent Giant is Part of a Bizarre & Brand New Anti-Piracy Scheme
The operator of YTS, currently the world's second-largest torrent site, provided data to a law firm which launched a cash settlement campaign against the site's own users. TorrentFreak has seen a...
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Overbroad UEFA Takedown Notice Targets Virgin Media, Best Buy and DIRECTV
European football organization UEFA takes piracy very seriously. The company uses a wide variety of anti-piracy strategies, which include sending DMCA notices to Google. While most reported URLs are...
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Nintendo Copyright Infringement Threats Shut Down Switch Payload Injector
Nintendo has targeted the developer of an open-source Switch payload injector with a cease and desist notice. Faced with copyright infringement threats, the DragonInjector developer decided to shut...
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After Going After YTS, Law Firm Obtains Subpoena To Discover Registrant of...
The law firm obtaining user information from torrent site YTS has a new target. Via a DMCA subpoena, Culpepper IP hopes to compel a domain registry and Cloudflare to hand over information allowing...
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Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 08/24/20
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Project Power' tops the chart, followed by ‘Rogue'. 'Ava' completes the top three. The...
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USTVNow No Longer “Recommends” Kodi, Sends Legal Threat to TVAddons
Streaming service USTVNow has caused confusion among some users by recommending the use of a third-party Kodi add-on for years and then suddenly changing direction. In fact, the TVAddons repo recently...
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EU Commission Reports Drop in Pirate Site Ads Following Industry Deal
The European Commission reports that the number of ads placed on pirate sites is trending down. Following the introduction of a voluntary anti-piracy agreement, advertisements for major EU brands have...
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US Indictments and Raids of Piracy Group Members in ‘The Scene’ Throw...
The top-tier piracy world known as The Scene is in turmoil after the unsealing of US indictments targeting key members of release group SPARKS and several linked affiliate groups including GECKOS,...
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ISP Wants RIAA and Markmonitor Added to ‘False’ Piracy Notices Lawsuit
Internet provider Bright House Networks has countersued several major record labels, alleging that they sent false and deceptive piracy notices to its subscribers. This week, the company asked the...
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Google Promises to De-index 'Proxies' and 'Mirrors' of Pirate Sites in Australia
Google has reached a new voluntary agreement with copyright holders in Australia. The search engine promises to block proxies and mirrors of pirate sites without a court order. The new agreement aims...
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