The U.S. Tops the Manga Piracy Chart, While Iran Leads in Music Piracy
Despite the growing availability of legal options, online piracy remains rampant. Every day pirate sites and services are used by millions of people worldwide. New data released by UK-based piracy tracking company MUSO shows that pirate sites remain very relevant. And people have no trouble finding them either. 229 Billion Pirate Site Visits A few weeks ago it was revealed that video piracy continued to grow in 2023. A new report...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 02/12/2024
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. “The Beekeeper” is the most downloaded title. The most...
Roblox ‘Weight Lifting Sim’ Dev Gains Muscle From DMCA Counter-Notice
The last time developer Christopher Boomer appeared on our radar was back in July 2022 when he attempted to unmask thousands of alleged copyright infringers using the DMCA subpoena process. As the developer behind the Weightlifting Simulator series of games, among others, Boomer has enjoyed extraordinary success in the Roblox community. Billions of plays of the developer’s games are an endorsement of his work; for some, it’s also a...
‘Pirate Site Blocking is a Privatized Paid Service in Egypt’
In recent years, rightsholders have repeatedly teamed up with Egyptian law enforcement to tackle several large pirate sites and services. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) booked several successes, shutting down domains related to popular piracy rings, streaming portals such as MyCima and, more recently, Cima4U. Several of these actions took place in coordination with sports broadcaster beIN. The company is very...
City Council Unwittingly Approves Pirate IPTV Scheme and Documents Everything
From the very beginning and from every possible angle, this story makes almost no sense. But it will, eventually. By chance, when trying to track down a document a few weeks ago, a .pdf file with ‘IPTV’ in the description suddenly stood out in Google search results. Interesting things can appear by pure luck but, on first view, the document seemed quite mundane. Sporting a maple leaf in the top left corner and text on the right...
Appeals Court Hears RIAA and Yout in ‘High Stakes’ Stream-ripper Case
At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest YouTube rippers took the unprecedented step of taking the music industry to court. Yout.com’s Johnathan Nader had grown tired of the bombardment of DMCA takedown requests and allegedly defamatory claims. In response, he sued the RIAA, asking the federal court in Connecticut to declare his service non-infringing. The RIAA and others were asking Google to remove so-called...
