Pirate IPTV Co. & Seven Workers Fined After Massive Raids Eight Years Ago
News that the Provincial Court of Pontevedra has handed down substantial fines to individuals behind a very large pirate IPTV operation was first reported by ElMundo on Tuesday. Seven employees and managers of Spanish company Engel Systems SL received fines ranging from 540 euros to 7,290 euros for their part in the sale of pirate decoders, plus IPTV boxes and services, through their company over eight years ago. Engel Systems as a...
Nintendo’s Yuzu Lawsuit is All But Done. Price: $2.4m. Cost to Emulation: TBD
Available on Windows, Linux, and since 2023, Android, Yuzu claims to be the most popular open-source Switch emulator in the world. That’s probably why Nintendo targeted Yuzu in a major copyright complaint filed last Monday in the United States. According to the Japanese gaming giant, Nintendo games are designed for Nintendo hardware and being the most popular Switch emulator in the world isn’t an accolade, it’s a statement of global...
Namecheap Suspends Zorox.to, Upmovies.to and Other ‘Pirate’ .to Domains
Last week, we reported that an Indian dynamic+ court order had taken down movie-web’s demo site, along with several other pirate sites. The injunction, issued by the New Delhi High Court, requires local ISPs to block access to the domains. In addition, domain name registrars are also urged to take action. The reach of this Indian order expands far outside the nation’s borders. Several international domain registrars, including the...
Publishers Target LibGen Domains, IPFS Gateways, Plus $30m in Piracy Damages
Library Genesis (LibGen) is one of the oldest shadow libraries on the Internet, offering free access to millions of books and academic papers people otherwise have to pay for. The site’s origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Union’s underground publishing culture ‘samizdat,’ which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century. LibGen launched around 2008 as a digital version of the same concept. In addition to...
China Sentences Pirate Site Operators, Huge Win For Japan’s Anime Industry
Anime piracy site B9Good first appeared way back in 2008, initially operating under B9DM branding. Defying the usual odds, 15 years later the site was still alive and kicking. Last March, Japan-based anti-piracy group CODA reported an estimate of B9Good’s traffic for the two years running up to February 2023. Based in China, the site had been accessed more than 300 million times and, crucially, around 95% of those visits came from...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 03/04/2024
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 four newcomers on the list. “Poor Things” is the most downloaded title. The most...
