Anti-Piracy Groupon ‘Redeems’ Itself With Rapid Takedown of Pirate IPTV Deal Groupon, the global marketplace that aims to offer users some of the best online deals, recently featured an offer that was too good to be… January 14, 2026, 10:20 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Court Orders Porkbun and Other Registrars to Hand Over PornXP Domains to Aylo Pornhub parent company Aylo has won its copyright infringement lawsuit against PornXP, securing a $10.2 million damages award against its Kyrgyzstani operator. The court also… January 13, 2026, 16:00 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Disney, Netflix & Crunchyroll Try to Take Pirate Sites Down Globally Through Indian Court The High Court in New Delhi, India, has granted another pirate site blocking order in favor of American movie industry giants, including Apple, Warner., Netflix,… January 12, 2026, 08:41 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits X Sues Music Publishers Over “Weaponized” DMCA Takedown Conspiracy Elon Musk's X Corp. filed a landmark antitrust complaint against the NMPA, Sony, Universal, and other major music publishers, claiming that they used a coordinated… January 9, 2026, 20:11 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Block Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS (Update) Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM imposed a record-breaking €14.2 million fine on Cloudflare after the company failed to implement the required piracy blocking measures. Cloudflare argued… January 9, 2026, 10:10 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy French Court Orders Google DNS to Block Pirate Sites, Dismisses ‘Cloudflare-First’ Defense The Paris Judicial Court has ordered Google to block nineteen additional pirate site domains through its public DNS resolver. The blockade was requested by Canal+… January 8, 2026, 08:22 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy GitHub Restores Repo of GTA Mod ‘Multi Theft Auto’ After Take-Two Fails to Sue Multi Theft Auto (MTA), one of the longest-running and best known modding projects in gaming history, has officially returned to GitHub. The official repository disappeared… January 7, 2026, 11:20 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy Anna’s Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension (Update, .Se Too) Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has lost control over its main domain name. Annas-archive.org was suspended and put on serverHold status, which is an action… January 5, 2026, 10:14 by Ernesto Van der Sar