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RIAA: Twitter Does Nothing to Stop the Industrial Scale Piracy on Its Service
Facebook and YouTube detailed their anti-piracy measures during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property hearing yesterday. To the frustration of lawmakers, Twitter was noticeably...
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“Freedom to Share” Launches EU Citizens’ Initiative to Legalize File-Sharing
A new European Citizen Initiative titled "Freedom to Share" aims to legalize file-sharing. The group, which is backed by Wikimedia Italy as well as Pirate parties in several countries, plans to gather...
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YouTube-DL Dispute Helps Yout.com Enhance Lawsuit Against RIAA
The RIAA recently caused outrage by filing a copyright complaint that took down YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl from Github. In a pre-emptive move, YouTube-ripping platform Yout.com filed a lawsuit...
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Pirate Bay Proxy Provider Agrees to Pay BREIN $343,000 & Give Up Domain
A 'large-scale' provider of proxies and mirrors that allow users to access The Pirate Bay despite ISP blocking measures has shut down following action by BREIN. With the platform's domain now under...
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Pirate Bay Suffers Downtime, Tor Domain is Up
The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for almost a day, something which causes concern among some BitTorrent users. The outage is probably caused by technical issues, so the site is expected to...
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YouTube Ordered to Unmask Cheaters TV Show Pirates & How Much Money Was Made
The creator of popular TV show Cheaters is now engaged in legal action to prevent the series from being viewed on YouTube illegally. Targeting more than two dozen channels that uploaded episodes,...
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Cosplay Models Want Cloudflare to Stop 'Indulging' Pirate Sites
Niece Waidhofer and cosplay models Ryuu Lavitz and OMGcosplay are accusing Cloudflare of protecting and supporting pirate sites that host their leaked photos. Responding to the lawsuit, Cloudflare...
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Court: Mass “Copyright Troll” Lawsuits Targeting Danes May Be Illegal
A mass copyright-trolling scheme in Denmark is at risk of boiling over into criminal action against the companies involved. After hundreds of cases against alleged pirates were kicked out over recent...
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Former Phone Store Employee Sued for Promoting Popcorn Time
The company behind the film Hunter Killer has sued a former phone store employee who allegedly promoted the piracy app Popcorn Time to customers. The woman in question, who already lost her job due to...
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UK Police Threaten YouTube Ripper With Potential Criminal Action
City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has sent a cease and desist notice to a popular YouTube ripper. The letter accuses the site operator of being involved in criminal...
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US Passes Spending Bill With CASE Act and Felony Streaming Proposal
US Congress passed the spending bill a few hours ago. The legislation package includes the CASE Act, which establishes a tribunal for small copyright claims. A proposal to criminalize streaming piracy...
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'DMCA 2.0' Draft Hints at Filters With Notice-and-Staydown Scheme
Senator Thom Tillis has released a discussion draft of the “Digital Copyright Act of 2021," a potential successor to the current DMCA. The draft proposes a takedown-and-stay down requirement for...
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Nintendo Conducted Invasive Surveillance Operation Against Homebrew Hacker
Leaked Nintendo documents have revealed a frightening surveillance operation carried out against a hacker who was researching exploits for the 3DS handheld. In addition to monitoring his private life,...
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EU Opinion: Abusive BitTorrent Copyright Trolls Should Be Denied Access to...
Should copyright trolls, whose only purpose is to extract settlements from alleged BitTorrent pirates, be allowed to obtain their identities from ISPs? According to a legal opinion from Advocate...
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Police “Seize” Pirate IPTV Platform, Prepare to Identify 50,000 Users
Italy's Guardia di Finanza says it has carried out a "preventative seizure" of a pirate IPTV platform serving in excess of 50,000 users. The action follows an investigation by Sky and football league...
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FBI and Europol Shut Down 'Bulletproof' VPN Service That Helped Criminals
In a rather unprecedented enforcement action, the FBI and Europol have shut down a 'bulletproof' VPN provider that helped cybercriminals to conceal their operations. The service didn't keep logs and...
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Convicted Copyright Troll Lawyer Reboots Pirate Honeypot Scheme From Prison
Convicted copyright troll lawyer Paul Hansmeier is currently serving a 14-year prison sentence. However, that hasn't stopped him from going after pirates. With help from an investigator, he recently...
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Jehovah’s Witnesses File Copyright Lawsuit in Response to Blundering...
Publisher BMG has plunged itself into a copyright lawsuit with elements that are so bizarre it's hard to fathom what the company was thinking of. According to the complaint, BMG illegally used a song...
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'The Mandalorian' Is The Most Pirated TV-Show of 2020
'The Mandalorian' is the most-pirated TV show released in 2020. The popular Disney+ series decrowned Game of Thrones which dominated the chart for years. Prime Video's 'The Boys' is listed in second...
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EU Study Proposes New ‘Anti-Piracy Act’ to Effectively Tackle Online Piracy
A recent study published through the European Parliamentary Research Service suggests that a new 'EU Anti-Piracy Act' is the most effective way to tackle online piracy of sports events and other...
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