Pirate IPTV App LiveNetTV Shut Down After Turkish Police Raid, Operators Settle With ACE

ACE has announced the shutdown of LiveNetTV, a free IPTV app that survived for a decade despite legal pressure from multiple sides. Two Turkey-based operators settled with ACE. They handed over ten domain names and issued a public mea culpa. The app itself had been dead since Istanbul police raided its operators in February.

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U.S. Site Blocking Bill Adds VPNs to the List of Blocking Intermediaries

VPN providers with over 100,000 American users could be ordered to block pirate sites under the bill Rep. Darrell Issa introduced last week. The full…

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 09/21/2026

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…

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South African Minister Tells Film Summit It Has a Double Standard on Piracy

At a global film summit in France, regulators and rightsholders praised site-blocking successes, but they also faced unexpected pushback from one of the panelists. South…

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Court Upholds Belgian Pirate DNS Blocking Order, OpenDNS Exit Looms

Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco lost a key challenge against a Belgian DNS blocking order. The revised injunction, obtained by sports rightsholder DAZN, requires alternative resolvers…

September 17, 2026, 11:35 by Ernesto Van der Sar

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Denuvo Sues Game Cracker ‘voices38’ for Bypassing its Anti-Tamper DRM

Anti-piracy outfit Denuvo has filed a DMCA anti-circumvention lawsuit in a U.S. federal court, targeting the anonymous game cracker known as 'voices38.' The defendant stands…

September 16, 2026, 09:29 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Law and Politics

Rep. Issa Files Competing U.S. Pirate Site Blocking Bill

U.S. Representative Darrell Issa has officially introduced a new bill that aims to block foreign pirate sites in the United States. While the final text…

September 15, 2026, 20:43 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Piracy

Accused Impostor in Private Tracker Lawsuit Driven by Revenge, Defense Says

The person who sued PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, HDBits, and three other private trackers has voluntarily dropped the case, but it's not over yet. Through their attorneys,…

September 15, 2026, 15:31 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Rightsholders Can’t Use OpenAI and Anthropic to Dismantle Meta’s Seeding Defense

Meta previously argued that uploading pirated books to other BitTorrent users was an unavoidable side effect of downloading them, and therefore fair use. Rightsholders suing…

September 14, 2026, 12:17 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Pirate IPTV App LiveNetTV Shut Down After Turkish Police Raid, Operators Settle With ACE

U.S. Site Blocking Bill Adds VPNs to the List of Blocking Intermediaries

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 09/21/2026

South African Minister Tells Film Summit It Has a Double Standard on Piracy

Court Upholds Belgian Pirate DNS Blocking Order, OpenDNS Exit Looms

Denuvo Sues Game Cracker ‘voices38’ for Bypassing its Anti-Tamper DRM

Rep. Issa Files Competing U.S. Pirate Site Blocking Bill

Accused Impostor in Private Tracker Lawsuit Driven by Revenge, Defense Says

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