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...
Domain Registry Investigates Spain’s Piracy Overblocking Damage
In recent months, piracy-related overblocking concerns in Italy and Spain have reached new highs. Rightsholders successfully advocated for broader blocking measures. While these may indeed be more effective, they have also resulted in a noticeable increase in overblocking reports. For example, Italy’s “Piracy Shield” blocked access to Google Drive, CDN providers, and other legitimate sites and services. Meanwhile in Spain,...
Porn Producer Targets Members of Gay Torrent Site in Court
Adult entertainment company Flava Works specializes in gay media, mostly pornographic films and magazines featuring Black and Latino men. Over the years, the company has built a reputation for aggressively pursuing legal action against individuals accused of sharing its copyrighted content, often via private torrent sites specializing in gay content. Flava is known for identifying ordinary downloaders and those who leak their content,...
CDN77 Isolates LaLiga IPTV Pirates in 15 mins. Allegedly Gets Blocked Anyway
Having listened to LaLiga chief Javier Tebas speak about piracy for almost an hour at a conference recently, several things become apparent. Whether one agrees or disagrees with his stance on how to tackle piracy, in particular the blocking controversy that has dogged Spain since early February, at a time of crisis this would be the man to have fighting your corner. He’s passionate about his mission, knows exactly what needs to be...
