Judge Fines Pirate IPTV Man €30,000, Owing Sky €500K is Punishment Enough
Sky’s investigation into the activities of David Dunbar reportedly began in Ireland during November 2024. Investigators had become aware of a social media account selling so-called ‘dodgy boxes’ and with assistance from an anonymous tip provided by the Federation Against Copyright Theft, Sky was able to connect the dots. Papers filed at the High Court describe Dunbar as operating under the brand ‘IPTV is Easy.’ As a reseller, Dunbar...
Apple Revokes EU Distribution Rights for Torrent Client, Developer Left in the Dark
Historically, Apple has banned torrent clients from its iOS devices. In the EU, however, these types of apps have been available for more than a year through third-party app stores. This breakthrough was a direct result of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) that went into effect last year, requiring Apple to allow apps to be installed through third-party stores. AltStore Pal is one of the most popular altstores in the EU. Soon after...
LaLiga Threatens Cloudflare Customer For Using an IP Address Linked to Piracy
The new football season is underway in Spain’s top professional football league which means LaLiga is also back at work doing whatever it can to block illegal match streams. The final few months of last season were marred by a bitter dispute between LaLiga and Cloudflare, triggered by the former obtaining unprecedented authorization to block Cloudflare IP addresses used for piracy, and then doing so en masse. The resulting fallout was...
Sci-Hub Blocked in India, Founder Tells Plaintiffs to Expect Disappointment
A multi-year legal campaign by academic and scientific publishers continued in 2020 with a lawsuit filed at the High Court in Delhi. Once again the target was Sci-Hub and site founder Alexandra Elbakyan, and by naming local ISPs as defendants, Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society aimed to have the shadow library blocked nationwide in India. The publishers left no stone unturned in their 2,169-page complaint, carefully...
‘Leaked’ Prerelease Films Were Shared on Vimeo by Industry Insiders
Earlier this month, we reported that a screener copy of In the Hands of Dante had leaked online from an unknown source. The unreleased Julian Schnabel film, featuring a star cast, is officially set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month. However, pirates got early access. The same was true for other independent films, including The Best Thing About Christmas, Agon, American Cryptids, Life Is, and Extreme Family, all of...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 08/25/2025
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 four newcomers on the list. “Superman” is the most shared title. The most torrented...
