“The Pirate Bay” TV Series Teaser Appears Online
The inception and early years of The Pirate Bay are an intriguing chapter of the Internet’s history. While most pirate site operators hid in the shadows, Pirate Bay’s founders were public figures who openly taunted the entertainment industries. This chapter didn’t end as planned for Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Gotffrid Svartholm, who were eventually sentenced to prison. By then, however, they had already sparked a digital and...
Bypass Paywalls Clean Shut Down For DMCA Anti-Circumvention Violations
For many traditional newspapers reliant on sales of a physical product, the rise of the internet as an integrated publishing, distribution, and content consumption platform, disrupted almost everything. With new opportunities came new challenges. Popularity of free-to-consume digital versions had a tendency to cannibalize print sales. Advertising revenue that once kept digital publications online, later began to diminish. That was...
Aussie Piracy Survey: ‘Poor Picture’ & ‘Slow Device’ = Cybersecurity Issues
Creative Content Australia (CCA) has just released the 2023 edition of its Australian Piracy Behaviors and Attitudes survey. Research for ‘wave 15’ was carried out nationally between October 3 and October 9, 2023, among 1,293 adult respondents (18+). The results of the survey arrive just a few months after the publication of broader research carried out on behalf of the Australian government. Both reports broadly agree that around...
Feds Seize Domain Names of Sports Streaming Site Streameast
In recent years, rightsholders of major sports events have repeatedly complained that piracy of live sports is getting out of hand. Ideally, they would like to see updates to current legislative frameworks, so the problem can be targeted more efficiently. Site-blocking is high on the list of preferred options, particularly in the United States. While ISP blocking is still a debated issue among U.S. lawmakers, the country’s enforcement...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 08/19/2024
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 two newcomers on the list. “Twisters” is the most shared title. The most torrented...
Radiohead ‘Leaked’ Their Own Track in 2009, Now We’re Accused of Pirating It
If 2009 sounds like it happened half a lifetime ago, many 30 year-olds would likely agree. At the time the UK government was taking advice from the entertainment industries on how to tackle surging piracy via the BitTorrent protocol. Presented as an entirely proportionate and reasonable response for dealing with habitual downloaders, disconnecting entire households from the internet loomed ominously on the horizon. Yet in 2007, the...
