Lawsuits Record Labels Defeat False DMCA Takedown Claims in Court A federal court in Florida has dismissed a complaint from ISP Bright House Networks, which accused several major record labels of targeting subscribers with false… January 2, 2021, 23:31 by Ernesto Van der Sar 6
Anti-Piracy Pirate IPTV Won’t Be Stopped in 2021 But User Fatigue Could Be Crucial As authorities around the world struggle contain one of the largest piracy threats of the last decade, it's unlikely that pirate IPTV services will die… January 2, 2021, 12:16 by Andy Maxwell 0
Piracy Pirate Site Search Traffic Tanked Following Google Updates Pirate sites lost quite a bit of traffic in 2020. A detailed analysis of the yearly trend shows that visitors from search engines dropped by… January 1, 2021, 23:46 by Ernesto Van der Sar 11
Anti-Piracy Japan’s Brand New Anti-Piracy Law Goes Live: Here’s How it Will Work A few hours ago and after years of preparation, amendments to Japan's copyright law came into effect, aiming to criminalize those who download unlicensed manga,… January 1, 2021, 11:24 by Andy Maxwell 10
Anti-Piracy Could Trump’s Twitter Account Be ‘DMCA-Banned’? Not Long To Find Out President Trump has received many copyright complaints on Twitter, a tally that has just increased due to yet another DMCA takedown notice. However, a policy… December 31, 2020, 19:16 by Andy Maxwell 3
TorrentFreak’s 20 Most Read Articles of 2020 With 2020 nearing its end, we take a look at the most-read news articles published by TorrentFreak this year. There was a lot of interest… December 31, 2020, 12:00 by Ernesto Van der Sar 0
Anti-Piracy BREIN’s Upcoming Anti-Piracy Campaign Is Unusually Honest and Focused Anti-piracy campaigns come in all shapes and sizes and completely understandably, none are popular with pirates. However, if we pragmatically accept that they're never going… December 30, 2020, 20:41 by Andy Maxwell 7
Piracy ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is a Massive Hit on Pirate Sites After Early HBO Premiere 'Wonder Woman 1984' premiered both on HBO Max and in movie theaters this weekend, which proved to be a massive success. The same can be… December 30, 2020, 11:57 by Ernesto Van der Sar 22