Telefónica & LaLiga’s Anti-Piracy Collaboration Runs in Both Directions
Telefonica's cooperation with LaLiga on piracy matters made headlines, but it appears their work goes further and in the opposite direction.| TorrentFreak
Telefonica's cooperation with LaLiga on piracy matters made headlines, but it appears their work goes further and in the opposite direction.| TorrentFreak
French rightsholders are expanding their site blocking efforts to VPN providers, including NordVPN, ExpressVPN and ProtonVPN.| TorrentFreak
Internet providers in Europe can be ordered to block access to The Pirate Bay, even though the site itself doesn't store any infringing material. This is the conclusion of the EU Court of Justice in what has proven to be a landmark case. According to the Court, The Pirate Bay and similar sites commit an "act of communication" by helping their users to share infringing content.| TorrentFreak
In the legal battle over the legality of the Dutch Pirate Bay blockade, Advocate General Van Peursem has advised the Supreme Court to throw out the previous order and do the case all over again. Citing recent EU jurisprudence, the Attorney General suggests that the previous freedom of entrepreneurship and information defenses are less likely to survive a do-over.| TorrentFreak
Dutch ISPs Ziggo, KPN and XS4ALL must once again block access to Pirate Bay mirrors and proxy sites.| TorrentFreak
Last year The Pirate Bay lost its case in The Netherlands with a court ruling that the site must cease its activities in the country. Despite this decision the site is still accessible in The Netherlands, but anti-piracy group BREIN isn't sitting still. According to information received by TorrentFreak, they are now taking action to force an ISP to start blocking the site.| TorrentFreak
Just a few days ago we broke the news that the first BitTorrent app had been allowed into Apple's App Store. The developer managed to get it approved despite Apple's hatred towards BitTorrent. Unfortunately, the fun was soon over as Apple has already kicked the App from the store. The developer is not giving up that easily and hopes to convince Apple they're wrong.| TorrentFreak
An iPhone application designed to remotely-control the Transmission BitTorrent client has been rejected by the Apple App Store. Apple told the developer that this type of application is often used to infringe copyrights, so therefore the company has decided not to allow such software on the App store.| TorrentFreak
Apple has inexplicably revoked the EU distribution rights for the iTorrent app, and left its developer in the dark without answers.| TorrentFreak
The alleged operator of sports streaming service 'Al Ángulo TV' has been arrested in Argentina following a criminal investigation.| TorrentFreak
Cloudflare has enabled Encrypted Client Hello for customers on free plans. When sites and visitors enable ECH, site-blocking is circumvented.| TorrentFreak
Republican House Representative Darrell Issa is working on the introduction of the 'American Copyright Protection Act' (ACPA), a new bill that would enable copyright holders to request site blocking orders against foreign pirate sites. A discussion draft shows that the proposed framework has key differences compared to the FADPA bill introduced by Rep. Lofgren earlier this year. Both bills target DNS resolvers, however, which has several tech companies worried.| TorrentFreak
The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act aims to bring site-blocking to the U.S. It will face competition from a second bill with similar goals.| TorrentFreak
The UK may need a Pirate Bay-style poster child to gain public support for national blocking of non-pirate sites under the Online Safety Act.| TorrentFreak
A few hours ago a cryptocurrency miner appeared on The Pirate Bay website, using the computer resources of visitors to mine Monero coins. The operators of The Pirate Bay are testing it as a new way to generate revenue, but many users aren't happy.| TorrentFreak
Responding directly to a takedown notice from Spotify, GitHub removed the popular EeveeSpotify tool that provided access to premium features.| TorrentFreak
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A California man has been ordered to pay $15 million in damages for operating the pirate IPTV service 'Outer Limits'.| TorrentFreak
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that IA's practice of scanning and lending copyrighted books without permission is not fair use.| TorrentFreak
A Belgian court ordered intermediaries to block access to major shadow libraries, including the Internet Archive's Open Library.| TorrentFreak
Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate.| TorrentFreak
Google's decision to completely deindex pirate sites is spreading across Europe. 10,000 sites have already been removed and more will follow.| TorrentFreak
Cloudflare has become the first intermediary to join the UK's pirate site blocking program. It's a shift that may surprise VPN users too.| TorrentFreak
The European Commission has published a new 'Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List', providing a detailed overview of piracy sites and services.| TorrentFreak
European ISPs rarely contest site-blocking applications but after BREIN's recent request for a dynamic injunction, Dutch ISP KPN pushed back.| TorrentFreak
Anti-piracy group BREIN has obtained a new blocking order in the Netherlands, targeting 1337x, LimeTorrents, YTS, RARBG, KAT and EZTV.| TorrentFreak
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN plans to request a court order to block Z-Library domain names, if the site returns on the surface web..| TorrentFreak
Google has succeeded in having a vicarious copyright claim dismissed from a lawsuit in which publishers allege that Google profits from piracy.| TorrentFreak
A new LaLiga statement reveals that two pirate IPTV providers servicing 400,000 local users have been blocked, again by targeting Cloudflare.| TorrentFreak
The world's leading VPN providers have been ordered to block around 200 pirate site domains following legal action in France by Canal+ Group.| TorrentFreak
Italy's Piracy Shield, launched in February 2024, is an automated system designed to combat illegal streaming of live events, particularly football matches.| torrentfreak.com
All major Dutch Internet providers have signed a landmark site-blocking agreement with anti-piracy group BREIN.| TorrentFreak
Cloudflare has asked a Spanish court to declare LaLiga's “disproportionate” piracy blocking measures illegal.| TorrentFreak
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain.| TorrentFreak
Outages at Movistar are indeed linked to a LaLiga's site-blocking measures. As LaLiga slams Cloudflare, Spain has a problem on its hands.| TorrentFreak
A judge has rejected requests by Cloudflare and hacker group RootedCon to overturn LaLiga's authority to incidentally block innocent users.| TorrentFreak
MPA Senior Executive Vice President Karyn Temple will share the movie industry group's site blocking 'best practices' at a WIPO meeting.| TorrentFreak
Google has removed The Pirate Bay and more than 100 related domains from its search results in the Netherlands.| TorrentFreak
If FADPA becomes law, the MPA's 'export-only' site-blocking tools will be deployed at home, maximum strength, straight off the bat.| TorrentFreak
Several domains related to popular ebook repository Z-Library became inaccessible a few hours ago. DNS records suggest action by the US government.| TorrentFreak
Shadow library Anna's Archive is calling for an overhaul of copyright law. Staying relevant in the AI race depends on it.| TorrentFreak
Pirate site blocking orders are a step closer to reality in the U.S., after Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act.| TorrentFreak
The U.S. Government has indicted two Russian nationals who stand accused of operating the ebook piracy site Z-Library.| TorrentFreak
The alleged operators of Z-Library have asked a U.S. federal court to dismiss the criminal indictment due to various shortcomings.| TorrentFreak
With a landmark injunction, an Italian court ordered Cloudflare to block three torrent sites on its public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1.| TorrentFreak
Cloudflare complies with blocking orders targeting its customers but believes that blocking domains on its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver goes too far.| TorrentFreak
Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau has executed a raid against a hidden IPTV provider, seizing 279 items and arresting two suspects.| torrentfreak.com
A court has rejected Cloudflare's appeal against a DNS-blocking injunction. If Cloudflare can block other content, it can block pirate sites.| torrentfreak.com
For the greater good, Sony's 12-year-old plus lawsuit against cheat device maker Datel must end with an unambiguous loss for the gaming giant.| torrentfreak.com
Popular pirate library search engine Anna's Archive faces monetary damages and a permanent injunction at a U.S. court.| torrentfreak.com
Cisco has responded to a site-blocking order obtained by Canal+ by suspending its entire OpenDNS service for the whole of France.| torrentfreak.com
Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco must poison their DNS resolvers to prevent access to around 117 domains used by pirate sport streaming sites.| torrentfreak.com
The Dutch pirate site blocklist has expanded with two new services, shadow libraries Anna's Archive and Library Genesis.| TorrentFreak
