10+ hour, 19+ min ago  (444+ words) Home > Piracy > Torrent Sites > The popular torrent site YTS has been unreachable for more than a day, leaving millions of its users in the dark. The site's domain names point to a Cloudflare error, suggesting its servers are offline, but…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (726+ words) Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > For more than two decades, pirates have used the Internet Movie Database, better known as IMDb, in ways its operators never intended. Back in 2005, for example, there was already a popular Greasemonkey browser script called "IMDb…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (780+ words) Home > Piracy > Bulgaria has proven that the right legislative update can go a long way in Washington. The USTR credits the country's removal from the Watch List to a 2023 amendment of the Criminal Code, which makes piracy enforcement easier. This…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (684+ words) Home > Lawsuits > Apps and Sites > A group of high-profile publishing companies is seeking a $19. 5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive. The proposed order comes with an injunction that would compel more than twenty named international domain registries, hosts,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (638+ words) Home > Anti-Piracy > DMCA > Reddit's latest transparency report shows a sharp jump in account bans for repeat copyright infringement, while the number of banned subreddits dropped significantly. The data, covering the latter half of 2025, also shows rightsholders reported 425, 471 pieces of allegedly…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (585+ words) Home > Piracy > The site did not store any movies, but it hosted links to approximately 11, 000 titles before it was shut down. El Feo told Torrent Freak that the site focused specifically on films that were out of circulation commercially, discontinued,…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (621+ words) Home > Lawsuits > Repeat Infringer > A group of independent film companies has dropped its long-running piracy liability lawsuit against U. S. Internet provider RCN. The joint stipulation, filed in a New Jersey federal court, follows the Cox Supreme Court ruling. In addition to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (922+ words) Home > Anti-Piracy > Site Blocking > Justices at India's Delhi High Court disagree on the future of India's world-leading site-blocking regime. The same court that pioneered "Dynamic+" injunctions to target pirate sites, issued a new ruling that sees these post-judgment expansions as…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (670+ words) Home > Piracy > Anna's Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, helping users find pirated books and other related resources. However, last December, the site announced that it had also backed up Spotify, which came as a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1278+ words) Home > Piracy > A new EU policy report published by the independent think tank CEPS points out that site-blocking efforts in several EU countries are seriously flawed. The report, which is funded by Nord VPN's parent company, issues various recommendations, including…...