OpenDNS Quits Belgium Under Threat of Piracy Blocks or Fines of €100K Per Day
Without assurances that hosts, domain registries, registrars, DNS providers, and consumer ISPs would not be immediately held liable for internet users’ activities, investing in the growth of the early internet may have proven less attractive. Of course, not being held immediately liable is a far cry from not being held liable at all. After years of relatively plain sailing, multiple ISPs in the United States are currently embroiled in...
Nhentai Operators Ordered to Expose Themselves in U.S. Copyright Lawsuit
With an estimated 240 million visits during the first three months of the year, Nhentai is one of the most trafficked websites online today. The site serves adult-oriented anime and manga, also known as hentai. These spicy Japanese comics are popular worldwide but not everyone is happy with Nhentai or its massive audience. Some rightsholders consider the site a deviant pirate operation. California-based rightsholder PCR Distributing,...
Non-Transparency Resumed After Pirate Site Blacklist Publicly Exposed in Error
As debate heats up in the United States over proposed site-blocking legislation, opinions of what that might mean in practice are already beginning to emerge. Introduced by Rep. Zoe Lofgren late January, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA) attempts to distill well over a decade of site blocking experience amassed by U.S. rightsholders overseas, into a package carefully curated for use on home soil. Site-Blocking Debate Returns...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 04/14/2025
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 two newcomers on the list. “Mickey 17” is the most shared title. The most torrented...
Meta AI ‘Piracy’ Lawsuit: Publishers and Professors Challenge Fair Use Defense
Tech companies are racing to build the most powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) but how these systems are trained is now mired in controversy. Many major tech firms allegedly used huge amounts of copyrighted material to train their AI, without obtaining permission from rightsholders. This has triggered a series of copyright infringement lawsuits. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is one of the companies being sued....
Block Mirror: Dystopian Site-Blocking Triggers Circumvention Innovation
In the wake of a global pandemic, an ongoing war in Europe, and a new U.S. president taking the world on a surprise mystery tour to somewhere, Season 7 of Black Mirror faces the show’s toughest test following its Netflix debut on Thursday. Ensuring each episode has a provocative, meaningful impact is getting harder in a world where the highly improbable seems to happen much more frequently. Facing genuine competition from real world...
