Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 02/26/2024
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 three newcomers on the list. “Mean Girls” is the most downloaded title. The most...
Njalla: Hundreds of Suspended .TV Domains Could Soon Return to Life
The last time over 200 pirate sites went offline at the same time was…..well, probably never. Certainly, so many sites have never gone down and stayed down for four days straight in what still amounts to a relatively tight niche. Yet that’s exactly what happened this week, when at least 200 .TV domains were suddenly rendered useless. WHOIS records revealed that the domains had a status of ‘serverHold’ which indicates a domain with no...
“Perfect” Piracy Shield & Propaganda: Blocking Blunders Branded “Fake News”
Italy’s Piracy Shield blocking platform is the mechanism through which sports rightsholders exercise their right to use state-approved tools in their fight against IPTV piracy. In common with other systems in use around Europe, Piracy Shield acts on information provided by rightsholders. After identifying the target to be blocked, domain names and IP addresses are fed into the Piracy Shield system. From there, data is pumped directly...
‘Movie-Web’ Domain Shut Down By Hollywood Complaint
In recent months, Movie-Web has quickly gained popularity among a particular group of movie aficionados. The open source software, which is still available on GitHub, allows anyone to set up a movie search engine capable of streaming content from third-party sources. These external sources tend to have large libraries of pirated entertainment. Like Google Movie-Web’s developers are not oblivious to the legal ramifications but since...
Google Search Takedown Requests Rush to 8 Billion at Record Pace
For many people, Google is the go-to starting point when they need to find something on the web. With just a few keystrokes, the search engine can find virtually anything. This is generally good, but copyright holders are not happy with all content that can be discovered. Pirates sites, for example, should remain hidden when possible. In recent years Google has tweaked its algorithms to address this issue. At the same time, it...
‘IFPS Gateway Operator is not Liable for Pirated Software Keys’
The InterPlanetary File System, more broadly known as IPFS, has been around for nearly a decade. While the name may sound alien to the general public, the peer-to-peer file storage network has a growing user base among the tech-savvy. In short, IPFS is a decentralized network where users make files available to each other. The system makes websites and files censorship-resistant and not vulnerable to regular hosting outages; as long...
