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In a joint press release on Monday, the Premier League and Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment revealed the first-ever online piracy conviction in Vietnam. The news came as a surprise, as d...

https://torrentfreak.com/vietnam-admits-manga-piracy-problem-as-new-bestbuyiptv-details-emerge-240424/

A new survey confirms that the high cost of online streaming services keeps piracy relevant. The findings suggest that one in three Americans have pirated a movie or TV series over the past year....

https://torrentfreak.com/expensive-streaming-services-are-a-key-reason-for-americans-to-pirate-240424/

The Internet Archive is doubling down on its position that its digital lending library service operates under the bounds of fair use. Major publishers assert that digitizing books without appropr...

https://torrentfreak.com/there-is-more-to-copyright-than-financial-incentives-internet-archive-argues-in-court-240423/

Long before the launch of Italy's Piracy Shield blocking system, ISP association ASSOProvider warned that trouble lay ahead and innocent parties were likely to get caught up in the crossfire. Aft...

https://torrentfreak.com/new-piracy-shield-legal-challenge-filed-at-italys-council-of-state-240423/

An operator of the widely popular piracy service 'BestBuyIPTV' has received a 30-month suspended prison sentence in Vietnam. The prosecution followed criminal referrals from the Premier League an...

https://torrentfreak.com/bestbuyiptv-operator-sentenced-in-vietnams-first-ever-piracy-conviction-240422/

Spanish football league LaLiga has asked a local court to charge the directors of Google, Apple, and Huawei in a row over an IPTV player app. The companies removed the Newplay app from their stor...

https://torrentfreak.com/laliga-targets-apple-google-bosses-for-failing-to-remote-delete-iptv-app-240422/

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Dune: Part Two' tops the chart, followed by 'Immaculate'. ‘'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empi...

https://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-torrented-pirated-movies/

The Premier League wants domain registrar GoDaddy to identify people connected to dozen of pirate sports streaming domains that broadcast live football matches. The information, including IP-addr...

https://torrentfreak.com/premier-league-wants-godaddy-to-identify-live-streaming-pirates-240421/

Media player app Smart IPTV is available on Google Play from where over 500,000 users have downloaded it. As its name suggests, it can be directly installed on smart TVs, thanks to listings on th...

https://torrentfreak.com/smart-iptv-app-blocked-by-isps-despite-it-carrying-zero-illegal-streams-240420/

Independent movie companies have filed an updated complaint in their joint piracy liability lawsuit against Internet provider WOW!. With the addition of hundreds of new works, the potential damag...

https://torrentfreak.com/filmmakers-expand-piracy-liability-lawsuit-add-dozens-of-millions-in-potential-damages-240419/

More than a decade ago, Movie2K was one of the largest pirate sites on the Internet. Serving a German audience, the streaming portal shut down in 2013, but that wasn't the end of the story. This ...

https://torrentfreak.com/operator-of-bitcoin-invested-pirate-site-movie2k-charged-after-more-than-a-decade-240419/

A court in Japan has ordered the former operator of pirate site Mangamura to pay 1.7 billion yen ($11m) in damages to manga publishers Shogakukan, Kadokawa, and Shueisha. In 2021, Romi Hoshino re...

https://torrentfreak.com/ex-mangamura-owner-must-pay-11m-to-publishers-he-says-he-wont-240418/

Downtime at file-hosting platform Uptobox last September was initially described as a serious technical problem. It soon became apparent that several major Hollywood studios, StudioCanal, Apple a...

https://torrentfreak.com/uptobox-was-shut-down-in-2023-a-court-will-decide-whether-to-resurrect-it-240418/

With shorter theatrical windows, access to legal streaming services, and a preference for consuming movies in higher quality, copies of films recorded in theaters are less attractive to Western c...

https://torrentfreak.com/despite-155-piracy-incidents-in-cinemas-pirates-suffer-worst-year-since-2012-240417/

Reddit's latest transparency report reveals that user bans for repeat copyright infringement skyrocketed in the last half of 2023. The company attributes the 258% increase to improved detection m...

https://torrentfreak.com/reddit-reports-surge-in-copyright-related-user-bans-240417/

During a recent copyright meeting at Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, representatives from Google (YouTube) and ByteDance (TikTok) were asked to give presen...

https://torrentfreak.com/manga-publishers-grill-youtube-tiktok-on-piracy-and-content-id-restrictions-240416/

American nonprofit OCLC sued Anna's Archive in February for allegedly hacking its WorldCat database and posting the records online. The only named defendant, a software developer from Washington,...

https://torrentfreak.com/key-defendant-in-annas-archive-lawsuit-denies-any-involvement-with-the-site-240416/

Every month, many millions of Americans visit pirate streaming site FMovies to bypass paid subscription services and watch movies and TV series for free. The platform is a thorn in the side of th...

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-fmovies-rivals-major-streaming-platforms-in-u-s-web-traffic-240415/

In coordination with Europol, the General Directorate Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP), a specialist unit within Bulgaria's Ministry of Interior, says it has shut down a dozen music piracy sites...

https://torrentfreak.com/music-piracy-sites-targeted-by-europol-bulgarian-organized-crime-unit-240415/