Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 04/07/2025
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 four newcomers on the list. “Mickey 17” is the most shared title. The most torrented...
DAZN Pirate IPTV Action Coincided With Massive Public DNS Blockade
Like many similar reports published most weeks by newspapers in Europe, an article published by Belgian media outlet L’Echo late Saturday evening pulled few punches. The publication explained that after football broadcasters DAZN and 12th Player obtained authority from a local court for a new type of enforcement action, on Saturday Belgian ISPs blocked around 100 illegal streaming sites and five pirate IPTV providers. The measures...
Cloning Premier League’s Pirate Site DMCA Subpoena Toolkit
Most prevalent in the movie and TV show sectors, applications for DMCA subpoenas are regularly filed at courts in the United States. Aside from their intended purpose, DMCA subpoenas can provide useful clues about future anti-piracy strategies. When subpoenas are contested by intermediaries, subpoena applications sometimes become copyright cases in their own right. From a rightsholders’ perspective, in some cases they may be the only...
French Court Orders Cloudflare to ‘Dynamically’ Block MotoGP Streaming Piracy
The frontline of online piracy liability keeps moving, and core internet infrastructure providers are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs. In a significant ruling last week, the Paris Judicial Tribunal ordered Cloudflare to actively block access to pirate MotoGP streams, confirming that third-party intermediaries can be required to take responsibility. The ruling follows a complaint from French entertainment powerhouse...
LaLiga/Cloudflare Crisis: ISPs Urged to Action Amid Mass Overblocking
When rightsholders feel that conditions are optimal, site-blocking measures are presented to countries as a proportionate, precise, and entirely reasonable response to rampant piracy. Should there be a need for new legislation, care should be taken to provide room for rightsholders to maneuver, to ensure that adaptive pirates are placed under maximum continuous pressure. Under intense pressure itself by an impatient United States...
Unfinished Copy of ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Leaks on Pirate Sites
More than a decade ago, Mojang Studios announced that it was working on a Minecraft movie together with Warner Bros. The film had been scheduled for a 2022 release, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic among other factors. Today, ‘A Minecraft Movie‘ will finally see its American box office premiere. While it’s too early to say whether it will be a blockbuster hit, the film already has the dubious honor of being linked to an...
