Pirate Sites Eye Profit as Russian Bill Imposes Moral Values on Streaming Services
Decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) networks offer network participants (peers) the means to communicate or otherwise interact with each other directly. Since each peer acts as both a client and a server, central servers or no longer required. Removing this potential point of network failure makes P2P systems more robust. And by removing the central point of control, distributed networks become more difficult to shut down. As a result,...
VPN Providers Consider Exiting France Over ‘Dangerous’ Blocking Demands
Copyright holders see pirate site blocking as an effective and proportional tool to combat widespread online piracy. Over the years, courts and lawmakers in dozens of countries have agreed, resulting in a patchwork of blocking regimes around the globe. Initially, these efforts focused on residential ISPs as the key intermediaries. While these companies were not blamed directly, they were the go-to parties to implement blocking. That...
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Emulation Console Update Bakes in Instant Free [Pirated] Game Downloads
To outsiders they may have appeared chaotic but for players in the early 1980s, jammed-to-capacity videogame arcades provided escape from the chaos of the outside world. A single coin in the slot and then total inner silence: 1UP. Even for the privileged few who later installed a cocktail Galaxian in their own garage, the idea that an entire arcade could be squeezed inside a TV set was ridiculous. That almost every arcade game ever...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 02/24/2025
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. “The Gorge” is the most shared title. The most torrented...
Did a Court Really Authorize Internet Service Providers to Block Cloudflare?
With the prospect of future piracy taking place within encrypted networks designed for connectivity and enhanced privacy, the current concept of blocking may have limited shelf life. Yet, the commitment to blocking shows no sign of retreat. Blocking requests are now so common that even the courts have grown accustomed to their frequency. Given the often harmonious outcome, some courts allow plaintiffs and defendants to solve their own...
DMCA Notices Took Down 31,151 GitHub Projects Last Year
GitHub, home to hundreds of millions of code repositories, takes pride in being the largest and most advanced development platform in the world. Like other platforms that host user-generated content, this massive code library occasionally runs into copyright infringement issues. Pirate Troubles One of the ‘pirate’ issues GitHub faces is a constant stream of scammy pirate advertisements posted to the site. These ads typically promise...
