Lawsuits 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
Lawsuits 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
Lawsuits “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