Anti-Piracy ACE & MPA Quietly Seized Dozens of Pirate Domains in Q1 2025 Since it's launch in 2017, the Alliance for Entertainment and Creativity has established itself as the most powerful coalition of its type on the planet.… April 19, 2025, 14:38 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Reddit’s Copyright Removals Drop to Multi-Year Low Reddit's latest transparency report reveals a notable reversal in copyright takedown trends. After years of increases, the platform removed just over 550,000 items last year… April 18, 2025, 11:59 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy MPA & ACE Subpoenas Target Dozens of Potential ‘Burner’ Pirate Streaming Sites A new batch of DMCA subpoenas obtained by ACE and the MPA target dozens of pirate streaming sites, some with a few thousand visits per… April 17, 2025, 15:23 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Alleged Anna’s Archive Operator Dropped from U.S. ‘Scraping’ Lawsuit American nonprofit OCLC sued Anna's Archive last year for alleged hacking and unauthorized publishing of its WorldCat database. The sole named defendant in the case,… April 17, 2025, 09:00 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy OpenDNS Quits Belgium Under Threat of Piracy Blocks or Fines of €100K Per Day (Update) In a brief statement citing a court order in Belgium but providing no other details, Cisco says that its OpenDNS service is no longer available… April 16, 2025, 08:12 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Nhentai Operators Ordered to Expose Themselves in U.S. Copyright Lawsuit The operators of Nhentai.net, a popular adult site with dozens of millions of monthly visits, have been ordered to identify themselves in a California court.… April 15, 2025, 20:34 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Non-Transparency Resumed After Pirate Site Blacklist Publicly Exposed in Error Since shutting down most pirate sites is impossible, Germany's ISPs are given a secret list of pirate domains to block, which in theory hides the… April 15, 2025, 07:41 by Andy Maxwell
Meta AI ‘Piracy’ Lawsuit: Publishers and Professors Challenge Fair Use Defense As Meta defends its AI training practices in court, major publishers and copyright law experts are weighing in against the company. An amicus brief from… April 14, 2025, 12:50 by Ernesto Van der Sar