MissAV: One of the World’s Largest ‘Pirate’ Sites Targeted in Takedown Effort
Adult entertainment is massively popular online and there are many pirate sites that specialize in this niche. In Asia, Japan in particular, MissAV is the leading player. The site, which has a strong focus on uncensored Japanese Adult Videos (JAV), is listed among the 15 most-visited websites in the country. With over 300 million monthly visits, it’s also one of the most trafficked websites globally. This is a major frustration for...
Nhentai Asks California Court to Dismiss Piracy Lawsuit
Manga and anime have become increasingly popular in recent years. These formats originate in Japan but are now in demand worldwide. Similar popularity also extends to the adult counterpart known as “hentai,” which has millions of avid fans. Like other forms of media, not everyone accessing hentai content chooses to pay for it. Instead, many people opt for free websites like nHentai.net, which averaged close to 80 million visits in...
Tonga! Tonga! Tonga! Online Piracy’s Unusual Attraction to ccTLD .to
With limited choice mostly a thing of the past, domain names today are available in many flavors. Above all others, however, the gTLD (generic top-level domain) .com is the most enduring. Domain Tools data shows that of all TLDs, .com is the stand-out leader with 153,999,258 domains registered at the time of writing. In distant second place, with 17,195,162 registered domains, is the German ccTLD (country code top-level domain) .de,...
‘Strike 3’ Filed a Record Number of Piracy Lawsuits in 2024
The ease with which IP addresses and BitTorrent downloads can be tracked has created a fertile ground for copyright lawsuits. This inherent transparency has fueled thousands of lawsuits against alleged video pirates, both in the U.S. and around the world. In the United States, Strike 3 Holdings has emerged as a key player in this legal landscape. The company, known for adult entertainment videos published under the ‘Milfy’, ‘Tushy’,...
DoodStream Can’t Comply With Court Orders, Major Investor is a Russian Dude
After labeling DoodStream the world’s largest illegal video hosting site, the major Hollywood studios, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple, teamed up in a lawsuit filed against its India-based operators at the High Court of Delhi. The need for urgent action was underscored by the scale of the DoodStream operation; according to the MPA, 2.69 billion visitors in 2023 alone. A March 2024 injunction issued by the High Court compelled the site to...
EFF Sides with Cox to Protect Piracy-Accused Internet Users from ‘Copyright Trolls’
In the early 2000s, the music industry took a stand against online piracy by going after tens of thousands of alleged pirates through U.S. courts. The RIAA tracked down IP addresses of suspected music pirates and requested corresponding DMCA subpoenas, hoping to link these addresses to subscribers’ contact details. This initially worked well. However, as the practice became more common ISPs began to object. They countered that DMCA...
