Anti-Piracy Police Shut Down Pirate Streaming Network That Cost Broadcaster ‘Millions’ Following a complaint filed two years ago by a national pay-TV broadcaster, police in Germany say they now have three main suspects in custody following… March 11, 2025, 10:04 by Andy Maxwell
Piracy Oscar Winner ‘Anora’ Sees Massive Surge in Pirate Downloads Anora was the big winner at the Oscars a week ago, securing awards for best picture, actress, and director, among others. This major achievement puts… March 10, 2025, 19:03 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy Pirate Streaming Site Malware Campaign Infected One Million Devices In December 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a malware campaign stemming from pirate streaming sites. Using iframe malvertising redirector URLs to generate revenue, and redirects… March 10, 2025, 09:52 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Employee Charged in ‘Spider-Man’ Pre-Release Blu-ray Theft Linked to Mass Piracy A former employee of a disc manufacturing company in Memphis has been indicted on charges of stealing and selling pre-release DVDs and Blu-rays of popular… March 9, 2025, 13:28 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy Ad-Funded Piracy’s ‘Biggest Open Secret’ Revealed By Researcher New research on ad-funded piracy centers on manga site Tu Manga Online (TMO). After switching to a new domain 'zonatmo.com' around September last year, it… March 8, 2025, 12:40 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Nintendo Defeats Filehoster ‘1Fichier’ at French Supreme Court Nintendo celebrated victory over French file-hosting service 1fichier.com this week. The French Supreme Court denied the filehoster's appeal and upheld a piracy liability ruling in… March 7, 2025, 15:01 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy RootedCON: Pirate IPTV Blocking Appeal Accepted as Crisis Continues As Spain's pirate site-blocking crisis persists for the fourth consecutive week, LaLiga's decision to block Cloudflare continues to affect innocent internet users and websites. Cloudflare… March 6, 2025, 10:21 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Nintendo Easily Kills 4,238 Switch Emu Repos on Yuzu Lawsuit Anniversary A single DMCA anti-circumvention notice, sent by Nintendo on the one-year anniversary of its 2024 lawsuit against Yuzu, showed just how much things can change… March 5, 2025, 21:45 by Andy Maxwell