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Charter Doesn’t Have to Share VPN-Usage Details of All Subscribers in Piracy...
ISP Charter Communications doesn't have to share all information it has on how subscribers use VPNs to conceal pirating activities. This information was requested by several record labels that sued...
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SoccerStreams: UK’s Most Popular Pirate Site, Just in Time for Premier League...
A Premier League plan to charge fans a £14.95 pay-per-view fee for every game not shown as part of Sky Sports or BT Sports packages has enraged fans, with experts warning it will lead to more piracy....
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Nintendo’s Lawyers Nuke ‘The Missing Link’ Fangame With Copyright Complaint
During the summer, a modder and his team known for creating a steady flow of games based on Nintendo's Mario titles released The Missing Link, a fan-made Zelda game that aimed to bridge the gap...
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YouTube Rippers Petition U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn ‘Dangerous’ Precedent
YouTube-rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com have petitioned the US Supreme Court to take up their case. Several major music companies sued the sites over copyright infringement but thus far the legal...
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Massive Pirate Anime Site Uses Visitors’ Connections to DDoS Competitor
With around 40 million visitors per month, 9anime.to is a pretty formidable force in anime piracy. This week, however, a dispute with competitor Animixplay.to spiraled out of control when 9anime added...
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Italian Court Orders Cloudflare to Block a Pirate IPTV Service
An Italian court has ordered Cloudflare to block current and future domain names and IP-addresses of the pirate IPTV service "IPTV THE BEST." The order, which follows a complaint from the football...
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Games Piracy Scene Reinvigorated, Four Denuvo-Protected Titles Released in...
Late August the piracy Scene was thrown into turmoil when law enforcement raids took place all around Europe. With few hopes of a significant recovery any time soon, in the space of a few minutes...
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Pirate Streaming Hoster “Go Unlimited” Hacked on Behalf of Competitor
Go Unlimited, a very popular "DMCA-ignored" hosting solution frequently used by pirate sites, was hacked yesterday. It appears that the site's user database including plaintext passwords was...
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Cloudflare Ordered to Block Pirate Music Site Following Universal Music Lawsuit
A Higher Regional Court in Germany has confirmed an injunction handed down against Cloudflare that prevents the CDN provider from facilitating access to pirate music site DDL-Music. The music industry...
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Dutch ISPs Must Block Pirate Bay Proxies and Mirrors Again, Court Rules
Dutch ISPs Ziggo, KPN and XS4ALL must block access to Pirate Bay mirrors and proxy sites. This latest verdict is part of a prolonged legal battle that started over a decade ago. The ISPs already...
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Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Targets Operators of ‘Spotweb’ Decentralized...
Anti-piracy group BREIN says it is targeting people who run the open source software known as Spotweb, asking them to close down their platforms and pay settlement fees. So what is Spotweb and why is...
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19 ‘YTS Users’ Sued for Sharing Pirated Copies of “Ava”
In a new complaint filed at a Hawaii federal court, 19 'John Does' are accused of sharing pirated copies of the film Ava. The defendants, who are only known by their IP-addresses, are described as...
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Anti-Piracy Alliance Wants .To Registry to Expose Streaming Piracy Giant S.to
Anti-piracy coalition ACE has obtained a subpoena to compel the Tonic domain registry to hand over all information it has on the owner of S.to. With hundreds of thousands of registered users, S.to is...
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qBittorrent 4.3.0 is a major update with important changes
qBittorrent 4.3.0 is a major update with important changes The developers of the BitTorrent client qBittorrent have released a new stable version of the client for all supported operating systems....
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ISPs Are Monitoring IPTV Pirates’ Activities, Court Documents Reveal
Users of pirate IPTV services in the UK and Ireland are most likely being monitored by one or more major ISPs. Secret traffic analysis, provided to the High Court in a recent blocking case involving...
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Men Sued For Selling IPTV Subscriptions From Pirate Provider Previously...
DISH Network has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against individuals who reportedly sell access to a pirate IPTV supplier that was previously targeted by police in Sweden. In that matter,...
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Cloudflare Counters Mass Piracy Allegations in ‘Thothub’ Lawsuit
Cloudflare has denied that it's part of a RICO copyright infringement conspiracy. The CDN provider responded to the allegations from Texas-based model Deniece Waidhofer, who sued Cloudflare, Thothub...
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Hollywood Wins New ‘Pirate’ Blocking Order After Contentious Sites Removed
In the summer a group of major Hollywood studios, Netflix, and other movie companies filed a new pirate site blocking application in Australia. The list contained plenty of obviously infringing sites...
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There’s a Hidden ‘Proxy War’ Between YouTube and Stream Rippers
Every day millions of people use YouTube rippers, tools that are often used to download music for free. Music industry insiders are sounding the alarm about this piracy threat but YouTube itself is...
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Piracy website TamilRockers blocked - relief for film industry!
As per latest reports, the infamous piracy website TamilRockers has finally been blocked completely, giving a relief for the film industry. TamilRockers is a torrent website known for uploading...
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