FBI Seizes Gaming Piracy Domains Including ‘Pre-Release’ Target NSW2U
Nintendo and other gaming companies are doing everything in their power to stop the public from playing pirated games. This includes sending a steady stream of cease-and-desist notices, as well as filing lawsuits. And in some rare cases, law enforcement agencies are stepping up to help. Feds Seize Gaming Piracy Domains Today, the FBI seized several domain names linked to well-known game piracy websites, including NSW2U.com,...
Sci-Hub’s Crypto Coin Aims to Power a New Era of ‘Open’ Science
By offering free access to millions of ‘paywalled’ research papers, Sci-Hub is an unauthorized bastion of knowledge. The site is used by researchers from all over the world to access papers they otherwise have a hard time accessing. For some, the site is essential to their work. Major academic publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society, view the site quite differently. They have taken it to court on several...
After SOPA’s Painful Death, Safe Site Blocking Claim Disputed By Cloudflare
Unveiled earlier this year by Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Rep. Darrell Issa respectively, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA) and the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA) have underlying differences but much in common. Both bills would enable copyright holders to request site blocking orders against foreign pirate sites, with ISPs and DNS resolvers required to prevent U.S. internet users from accessing them. Different Bills, Same...
UK Hosting Provider Asks Court to Dismiss $25 Million Pirate IPTV Lawsuit
As pirate IPTV services have continued to grow in recent years, TV broadcasters and distributors have intensified their efforts to combat piracy. Pay TV provider DISH Network, in tandem with the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP), has been particularly active on this front, filing a series of lawsuits in the United States. DISH Sues Innetra In May, DISH filed a copyright infringement complaint against UK...
Sky TV Piracy Pair Arrested & IPTV Servers Seized After UK Police Raids
While other law enforcement agencies and rightsholders can’t be ruled out, those involved in pirate IPTV in the UK should be aware of four names in particular. A specialist unit funded in part by the private sector, the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at City of London Police often investigates piracy of Sky TV broadcasts. As the ultimate rightsholders of the country’s most popular football broadcasts available via...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 07/07/2025
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. “Thunderbolts” is the most shared title. The most...
