Operation Endpoint: Pirate IPTV Services Down After Raids & Several Arrests
Brazil’s Special Task Force to Combat Organized Crime (Gaeco), part of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Ceará (MPCE), carried out a large operation on Tuesday targeting individuals and companies believed to be behind several pirate streaming platforms. With assistance from the Civil Police of Ceará (PCCE), Operation Endpoint saw the execution of 19 search and seizure warrants and five arrest warrants in Alagoas (AL), Ceará (CE) and...
LaLiga: ISPs Must Join Anti-Piracy War to Secure Broadcasting Rights
For much of 2025, top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga has waged war against online piracy in controversial yet completely unapologetic fashion. A more single-minded approach may not have been deployed by any other entity, ever. Launched around February, LaLiga’s persistent blocking of Cloudflare (and by extension, countless innocent customers) is a story still being told from distinct perspectives. In LaLiga’s view, a court order...
Pirate Site Op Wants Shueisha to File a U.S. Lawsuit in 180 Days or Restore their Privacy
With an impressive 185 million visitors in May this year, Mangajikan was one of the largest piracy sites on the Internet. The site’s popularity did not go unnoticed by manga publisher Shueisha, which took legal action at a California federal court this summer to uncover the operator’s identity. Shueisha filed a request for a DMCA subpoena, directed at Cloudflare, hoping to expose the operator. This appeared to yield results right...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 11/17/2025
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. Downloading content without permission is copyright infringement. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have three newcomers on the list. “One Battle After Another” is the most shared title. The...
Blocking Pirate Sites Inevitably Goes Wrong, Even When You Do it Yourself
Today’s internet is arguably better than it’s ever been. Yet there are significant privacy and security concerns that, despite best efforts, only seem to be getting worse. Calls for governments to get much more involved carry the not insignificant risk of them doing just that. Not necessarily to tackle the issues that led to the cordial invitation, of course, but when blocking and access restrictions are heavily promoted as the...
New Investigation Unravels “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” Anti-Piracy PSA
In 2004, the online piracy epidemic was becoming more serious for the movie industry, largely due to the spectacular growth of bandwidth-efficient torrent sites. This concern was recognized by the Motion Picture Association (MPA[A]) and its renowned CEO, Jack Valenti, who had been in charge of the Hollywood group since 1966. “If we don’t react promptly to an ascending curve of illegal uploading and downloading soon to be reinforced...
