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Despite setbacks in similar cases, movie companies keep returning to Canada's Federal Court hoping to unmask alleged BitTorrent pirates before pursuing cash settlements. A claim filed in March 2025 aimed to identify over 2,400 customers of ISPs Bell, Cogeco and Telus, after they allegedly pirated the movie Hellboy: The Crooked Man. Citing a series of critical failures, a Federal Court judge has declined to issue an unmasking order. At least for now, anonymity prevails. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-11-07 19:35:09 READMORE

In a submission for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report, Cloudflare warns the U.S. government that site blocking efforts cause widespread disruption to legitimate services. The complaint points to Italy's automated Piracy Shield system, which reportedly blocked "tens of thousands" of legitimate sites. Meanwhile, overbroad IP address blocks in Spain and new automated blocking proposals in France are serious concerns that harm U.S. business interests, Cloudflare reports. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-11-06 19:59:24 READMORE

Early September, a massive law enforcement operation in Argentina targeted a global IPTV piracy network's business in Latin America. The aim was to shut down dozens of branded services including My Family Cinema, TV Express and Eppi Cinema, that were being targeted at the Brazilian market. With surprisingly few concerns that reliability of IPTV services could nosedive, last weekend that's exactly what happened in Brazil. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-11-05 16:30:06 READMORE

Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has become a top target for copyright holders. In just three years, publishers and authors have prompted Google to remove 749 million of the site's URLs from its search results. Despite this immense takedown campaign, which accounts for 5% of all URLs reported to Google on copyright grounds, the site itself remains easily discoverable through the search engine. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-11-04 16:54:37 READMORE

Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and TNT Sports are the latest sports rightsholders to request a pirate site blocking injunction at the High Court in London. The specific content the companies aim to protect isn't clear but with football, rugby, MotoGP, UFC, boxing and more to choose from, there's no shortage of options. For UK consumers looking for choice, the opposite seems to be true. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-11-03 22:46:57 READMORE

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'The Long Walk' tops the chart, followed by 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps'. 'Tron: Ares' completes the top three. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-11-03 07:09:40 READMORE

Religion has two faces; that's also true when it comes to online piracy, albeit with a twist. A new academic study has found that those who use religion mostly for social benefits are more likely to pirate than those with strongly internalized religious beliefs. It also pinpoints the mental gymnastics pirates have to use to justify their actions. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-11-03 02:01:03 READMORE

A Pennsylvania man, alleged to be the operator of several pirate IPTV services including 'Shrugs' and 'Zing', faces a potential $9 million default judgment. After major Hollywood studios sued him in March, the defendant was personally served but failed to respond or appear in court. The studios also seek a permanent injunction to take over the associated domain names and cut off its hosting services. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-11-01 23:26:29 READMORE

A huge coalition of rightsholders with collective revenues running to hundreds of billions of euros, is demanding legislative action to tackle live event piracy in the EU. In a letter to the European Commission, major rightsholders and broadcasters demand three legislative measures. They represent new burdens and liabilities for intermediaries, a potential disaster for privacy-first VPN providers, and risk undermining privacy and security for everyone in EU member states. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-31 16:40:43 READMORE

Nintendo has secured a final default judgment against Jesse Keighin, aka 'EveryGameGuru'. The gaming giant sued Keighin in 2024 after he streamed pirated copies of pre-release games. In correspondence with Nintendo's legal team, Keighin was initially defiant, but failed to defend the case against him. A Colorado federal court has now ordered the streamer to pay $17,500 in damages but refused to issue an injunction against unnamed "third parties" or order the "destruction" of circumvention devices. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-30 19:30:39 READMORE

A powerful injunction obtained by members of the MPA, anti-piracy coalition ACE, and Korea-based anti-piracy group COA, has launched its first follow-up attack after targeting 248 domains in September. In this wave, the numbers are significantly smaller, with around a dozen domains listed for blocking and suspension. However, by aggressively targeting VidSrc, a site upon which many other sites have come to rely, the domino effect could've been significant. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-30 03:13:26 READMORE

Meta is using a classic BitTorrent defense in its legal battle with adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings. In its motion to dismiss, the tech company argues that IP-address evidence is insufficient to prove who the infringer is. Meta further counters that the "sporadic" downloads on its corporate network began years before its relevant AI research started. Instead of AI training, Meta argues the activity was likely just for "private personal use" From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-29 21:23:31 READMORE

The Supreme Court battle over a $1 billion piracy judgment against internet provider Cox Communications is one of the decade's pivotal copyright lawsuits. After the ISP received broad support, including from the U.S. Government, a diverse group of amici have now weighed in to support the music labels. This includes the MPA, former members of Congress, the U.S. Copyright Office, as well as the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-28 17:10:40 READMORE

A lawsuit filed last November by DISH and Sling TV targeted Richard Moy and CLVPN LLC. It was alleged that Moy illegally gained access to the companies' servers and redistributed their TV content to 450,000 users. To mitigate customer concerns that his pirate IPTV service might be unlawful, Moy allegedly claimed law enforcement affiliation. Unable to pay his attorney in August, Moy has just agreed to settle the lawsuit for a "conservative" $44.5 million. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-27 17:59:38 READMORE

History has shown that if the source of pirated content isn't eliminated, one way or another it will simply reappear somewhere else. Targeting consumer-facing streaming sites does cause disruption, but not as much as targeting the supplier of their streams. Or targeting that supplier's supplier and then hitting the supplier above them. Effective in theory, perhaps, but in the world of 'CDN leeching', pirate streams and legal streams share the same supplier. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-26 22:51:15 READMORE

A proposal calling for the Spanish government to protect innocent websites from pirate site overblocking has been rejected. The proposal before the Congressional Committee on Economy, Trade, and Digital Transformation, recognized that football league LaLiga needs to protect its rights, but said safeguards are necessary after the wrongful blocking of thousands of third-party websites. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-25 20:03:10 READMORE

European football's governing body, UEFA, has joined global anti-piracy coalition ACE. The move will help the Champions League organizer to more effectively tackle live streaming piracy. While sports piracy is a growing problem, UEFA has also seen a spectacular increase in revenues. This has resulted in costly, fragmented subscriptions for fans, which some see as a primary driver for the very piracy UEFA is trying to defeat. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-25 00:22:14 READMORE

In the modern piracy ecosystem, sites and domains have become disposable, but "brands" often survive. This phenomenon is highlighted by the MPA's latest DMCA subpoena request, which hunts the "ghosts" of already defeated operations. On behalf of ACE, the MPA requests Cloudflare and the .to registry hand over identifying data for 46 domains. The list includes domains linked to notorious "zombie" brands, including FMovies, Aniwave, and 123movies, as well as new "hydra" sites like Nunflix.org. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-24 04:18:19 READMORE

A decision by Canal+ to target public DNS resolvers to reinforce pirate site blocking, ended with a French court ordering Cloudflare and Google to deny access to list of streaming sites. A lawyer who acted for Canal+ says that led to measurable progress, despite Cloudflare reportedly making "independent decisions" on which sites to block or not. In the political arena, the U.S. govt. has ordered diplomats to oppose EU law that obliges intermediaries to cooperate with rightsholders. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-10-23 16:31:00 READMORE