Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 07/28/2025
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 three newcomers on the list. “How to Train Your Dragon” is the most shared title. The...
ACE & MPA Continued to Scoop Up Pirate Domains in Bulk During Q2 2025
For pirate sites trying to stay online in the face of expanding site blocking measures, a supply of effective domains and an operational DNS are absolutely critical. No surprise then that both are considered priority anti-piracy targets to be blocked, tampered with, seized by law enforcement, or sacrificed when anti-piracy groups get a little too close. Courts are also known to transfer ownership of domains in copyright lawsuits, or...
Study Reveals a Malware Problem on Pirate Sites, but How Bad is It?
The link between online piracy and malware is far from new. More than two decades ago, LimeWire users were already plagued by malicious software masquerading as music downloads. Today’s online landscape continues to face similar issues, if not worse. With more attack vectors and potential victims than ever before, security risks are front and center. Even if operators of pirate sites and services are not actively looking for trouble,...
Copyright Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Pirating Adult Films for AI Training
Over the past two years, rightsholders of all kinds have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. Most of these cases allege that copyrighted works are used to train models without authorization. This applies to text, but also to images and video. A new lawsuit filed at a California federal court by two adult production companies focuses on a specific type of video downloaded from pirate sources. Meta Sued for Massive...
Police, LaLiga & Alianza Target MagisTV With ISP Office Raids & Arrests
With around 400 million Spanish speakers and tens of millions of passionate football fans, Latin America is a natural overseas market for top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga. At least initially market prospects look quite good. Data reported in 2023 by LATAM-focused anti-piracy group Alianza (DirecTV, SimpleTV, SKY Brasil, Warner, Disney, LaLiga & more) around 98.2m households in the region have access to broadband. The fly in...
President Trump: It’s Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input
Over the past few years, AI technology has progressed at a rapid pace. This includes large language models, which are typically trained on a broad datasets of text; the more, the better. When AI hit the mainstream, it became apparent that rightsholders were not always pleased to learn that their works had been used to train AI. Those works include millions of books and articles, as well as libraries of music and photographs. There are...
