Chile Blocks 1,954 Pirate TV URLs to Protect Citizens’ ‘Privacy and Personal Data’

Chile's telecoms regulator Subtel reports that local ISPs blocked 1,954 pirate streaming URLs between June and October. The blocks are part of a court order obtained by Warner Bros., but Subtel presents them as a data protection measure. Meanwhile, the piracy problem persists as several of the targeted brands remain just a search away.

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Accused Impostor in Private Tracker Lawsuit Faces Contempt for Withholding Passport

The alleged impostor behind a lawsuit against several private torrent trackers now faces a request to hold him in civil contempt. According to the defense,…

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Streamed, the Live Sports Engine Behind Many Pirate Sites, Shuts Down

Live sports piracy service Streamed, which offered streams to many pirate sites, has surprisingly shut down. Its operators posted a brief farewell message without further…

October 27, 2026, 12:34 by Ernesto Van der Sar

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Judge Allows Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Subpoenas to Identify Gay-Torrents Users

FlavaWorks can subpoena Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and three other companies to identify staff and members of the defunct BitTorrent site Gay-Torrents.org, an Illinois federal court…

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Meta Pitches AI Sports Piracy Detector in Notorious Markets Rebuttal

Meta informed the U.S. Trade Representative that it built an AI tool to predict whether a live stream is a pirated sports broadcast. The tool…

October 26, 2026, 09:06 by Ernesto Van der Sar

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 10/26/2026

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' tops the…

October 26, 2026, 00:09 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Framing the News: Anti-Piracy Press Release Turned a 2016 Raid Into a 2026 Story

In August, City of London Police and anti-piracy group FACT announced a six and a half year prison sentence for a 68-year-old pirate IPTV operator.…

October 25, 2026, 09:23 by Ernesto Van der Sar

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn’t Exist

A fresh academic paper on Z-Library cites a TorrentFreak article that doesn’t exist, and several other sources in the paper are also unfindable. The authors…

October 24, 2026, 08:55 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Lawsuits

DNS Resolver Quad9 Will Leave France After Court Orders Piracy Blocking Penalty

Quad9 is leaving France over pirate site blocking orders, which makes it the second DNS resolver to leave the country. Quad9 will stop serving French…

October 22, 2026, 17:51 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Chile Blocks 1,954 Pirate TV URLs to Protect Citizens’ ‘Privacy and Personal Data’

Accused Impostor in Private Tracker Lawsuit Faces Contempt for Withholding Passport

Streamed, the Live Sports Engine Behind Many Pirate Sites, Shuts Down

Judge Allows Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Subpoenas to Identify Gay-Torrents Users

Meta Pitches AI Sports Piracy Detector in Notorious Markets Rebuttal

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Framing the News: Anti-Piracy Press Release Turned a 2016 Raid Into a 2026 Story

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn’t Exist

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