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News For the first time in almost a decade, not a single person was charged with a file-sharing or streaming related crime in Sweden during 2019. The news comes from the Prosecutor’s Office, which reveals that just 23 offenses were reported during the year, the lowest number since 2010. While there are many hundreds of […]
News The MPA, RIAA and other entertainment industry groups are unhappy with Indonesia’s progress on the anti-piracy front. The country is blocking over 1,500 pirate domains but should do more to prevent domain hopping, they argue. Without significant improvement on this and other copyright issues, the rightsholders advise the US Government to suspend or withdraw […]
News The operator of the popular torrent site YTS has resolved the piracy lawsuit that was filed by movie outfit Wicked Nevada last year. In a consent judgment, which is signed by both parties, the YTS admin agreed to pay $150,000 in damages. The site is no longer allowed to share torrents of the film […]
News The first pirated screener of the season has just made its way onto various pirate sites. This year the honor goes to Uncut Gems, which has yet to be released widely in US movie theaters. Interestingly, there are leaks available with a DVD Screener as well as a Web Screener tag, suggesting the source […]
News The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has released a new study which suggests that piracy is dropping in Europe. While the research is limited to site-based piracy, it has some interesting findings. Countries with a lower average income per person visit pirate sites more often, for example. In addition, the study shows that […]
News The US Trade Representative has launched a review of South Africa’s copyright protection policies, which could result in trade sanctions. The announcement follows a petition from the IIPA, which represents the MPA, RIAA, and other entertainment industry groups. The organizations are unhappy with how South Africa is handling the threat of online piracy and […]
News Following what began as a controversial political dispute in Denmark, publicly-funded talk radio station Radio24syv will shut down on October 31. Fearing that years of online archives could be lost forever, three IT experts created a project to download every show for posterity. As a result, they are now being accused of mass piracy. […]
Mixed Martial Arts fights, including the popular UFC events, are among the most pirated live-streams on the Internet. Responding to questions from US senators, the UFC’s General Counsel says that the company is working hard to address this issue, adding that Congress should help to incentivize online platforms to become more proactive. With millions of […]
1XBET, a gambling company known for its advertising appearing in ‘cam’ copies of movies, has become the third most active online advertiser in Russia. Only Google and PepsiCo ads are more prevalent, with movie giant Universal Pictures in a relatively humble seventh place. Since 2018, it’s likely that Internet users searching for the latest pirate […]
Just hours after Avengers: Endgame premiered in China, a cammed copy has appeared online. Data reviewed by TorrentFreak reveals the movie was initially shared by exclusively China-based torrent users with relatively slow connections. However, that limited situation isn’t likely to persist for long. Avengers: Endgame is being tentatively billed as the biggest box office hit […]