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YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3m Restitution

By masquerading as legitimate music rightsholders, two men managed to extract over $23 million in revenue from YouTube's Content ID system. Both were arrested and…

November 16, 2023, 22:36 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Anti-Piracy

Won’t Download a Car? Let’s Try: “Piracy Turns Teenagers Into Gambling Addicts”

Even among those who accept piracy is illegal, there are some who still struggle to view casual streaming as a serious crime. By introducing credit…

November 16, 2023, 03:11 by Andy Maxwell

Piracy

Copyright & Piracy News Brief #1 | Extra News, Views & Updates From TF

Documenting copyright trends relevant to the global piracy and anti-piracy landscapes, and what happens when everything inevitably collides, is what TorrentFreak aims to do, week…

November 15, 2023, 01:29 by Andy Maxwell

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Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices to Crush Competition

Two men who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to bombard Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs, have been named in…

November 14, 2023, 11:44 by Andy Maxwell

Piracy

Disney Pulls TV Channels From Vietnam, Govt. “Concerned” Piracy Will Run Riot

A newspaper run by the Communist Party of Vietnam is reporting the “disappearance” of a number of popular channels from pay TV packages. Citing National…

November 13, 2023, 15:53 by Andy Maxwell

TorrentFreak Turns 18 Today (Hospital Edition)

TorrentFreak celebrates its eighteenth birthday today. When the site took the first steps of its online journey, self-publishing was still a relatively new phenomenon on…

November 12, 2023, 15:29 by Ernesto Van der Sar

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“Top 10 Beast TV Reseller” Faces Lawsuit For Selling Pirate IPTV Packages

Pirate IPTV service Beast TV shut down in 2020 in response to a lawsuit filed in Canada by several Hollywood studios, Netflix, Amazon, and Bell…

November 11, 2023, 18:15 by Andy Maxwell

Piracy

BitTorrent Pirates Won’t Receive ISP Warnings (It Will Be Something Worse)

As part of its overall strategy to reduce piracy in the Netherlands, local anti-piracy group BREIN announced a program to identify major or frequent uploaders…

November 10, 2023, 13:04 by Andy Maxwell

YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3m Restitution

Won’t Download a Car? Let’s Try: “Piracy Turns Teenagers Into Gambling Addicts”

Copyright & Piracy News Brief #1 | Extra News, Views & Updates From TF

Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices to Crush Competition

Disney Pulls TV Channels From Vietnam, Govt. “Concerned” Piracy Will Run Riot

TorrentFreak Turns 18 Today (Hospital Edition)

“Top 10 Beast TV Reseller” Faces Lawsuit For Selling Pirate IPTV Packages

BitTorrent Pirates Won’t Receive ISP Warnings (It Will Be Something Worse)

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