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( Opinion ) Funding a Pirate Business’s Lawsuit is Mostly Unpopular With Pirates
Pirate sites of all kinds are trouble magnets. The chances of getting threatened, sued, or arrested are pretty high. That's why plenty of sites have handed round the begging bowl when the proverbial...
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Nintendo Counters RomUniverse Operator’s Defense in Piracy Case
Nintendo has responded to a motion to dismiss previously filed at court by the operator of the popular site RomUniverse. The game company accuses the site of brazen and mass-scale copyright...
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Piracy Streaming Giant ‘IndoXXI’ Quits to Support the Local Creative Industry
Pirate streaming giant 'IndoXXI,' has announced that it will stop offering pirated movies starting January 1st. The site, which has millions of daily users, took the decision after it was targeted...
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Baidu Cloud Storage Site Ordered to Pay Damages For TV Show Piracy
A cloud storage platform operated by technology giant Baidu has become the first service of its type to be found liable for copyright infringement in China. A Beijing court found that the rights to...
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Take-Two Files Copyright Suit to Kill Red Dead Redemption: Damned Enhancement...
The first installment of Red Dead Redemption was never officially launched on PC but a developer known as 'DamnedDev' hoped to change all that with his 'Red Dead Redemption: Damned Enhancement...
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( Opinion ) Game of Thrones is the Most Torrented TV-Show of 2019
For the seventh year Game of Thrones has taken the crown for the most pirated TV-show on the Internet. This will also be the last time, as the series has ended, but there's a newcomer eager to take...
View ArticleBad news about games with Denuvo protect
Yesterday ShivShubh (CorePack team, currently almost non-active, so don’t blame the whole group) released a P2P crack for Need for Speed: Heat. In the attachment he has added that this crack was sent...
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The Top 19 Most Significant Piracy Shutdowns of 2019
The online piracy wars have claimed many victims over the years, from regular file-sharers to anti-piracy companies that collapsed under their own controversies. But perhaps the most obvious are the...
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Australian Piracy Rates Drop, But So Does Spending
This week Australia's Department of Communications and the Arts published its latest consumer survey on copyright infringement. The data reveal that while there are apparently fewer Aussie pirates,...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 12/30/19
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Joker' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Zombieland Double Tap'. 'Ad Astra' completes the top three. This week we have three...
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( Opinion ) Piracy Highlights of The Decade: From Limewire to IPTV
With the decade nearing its end, we review some of the most pivotal events that took place in the piracy landscape. What's clear is that people's preferred ways to access infringing content switched...
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Domain Seizures Give ACE Anti-Piracy Portal a Massive Traffic Boost
Just over two years ago, relatively few people had heard of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. Today, it is widely recognized as the most formidable anti-piracy association on the...
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( Opinion ) TorrentFreak’s 19 Most Read Articles of 2019
With 2019 nearing its end, we take a look at the most-read news articles posted on TorrentFreak this year. There was a lot of interest in enforcement actions, including the raid against Xtream...
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All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2019 Were Bogus
During 2019, TorrentFreak has regularly reported on the controversial DMCA-related takedown efforts of entertainment companies and their anti-piracy partners. This year several were targeted at our...
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( Opinion ) FACT Partner Up With UK Copyright Troll Outfit
FACT, an anti-piracy outfit known for taking action on behalf of clients including Sky and the Premier League, has teamed up with copyright troll outfit Hatton and Berkeley. The surprise pairing is...
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European Commission Calls Out Canada’s Lacking Copyright Policy
The European Commission has published an updated list of foreign countries with problematic copyright policies. One of the highlighted countries is Canada which, according to the EU, has too broad...
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Torrent Site YTS ‘Settles’ Piracy Lawsuit with Movie Company but Stays Online
The operator of the popular torrent site YTS has resolved the piracy lawsuit that was filed by movie outfit Wicked Nevada last year. In a consent judgment, which is signed by both parties, the YTS...
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Nintendo Wins Injunction Against Switch Mod & Pirate Game Seller
In 2018, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against a California man it accused of selling pirated Nintendo games, modding devices and modding services. As part of a stipulated judgment, a California court...
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Infamous Pirate Group Starts Year by Leaking Frozen 2 Screener
Infamous release group Hive-CM8 has leaked a screener copy of the Disney hit movie Frozen 2. While the group is careful not to release any movies which have yet to break even, it sees Frozen 2 as...
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MangaDex Targeted by DMCA Subpoena, Now Migrating Servers
MangaDex, a scanlation platform with tens of millions of monthly visitors, is experiencing extended downtime with a host migration and maintenance cited as the official reasons. However,...
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