HiAnime Outranks DisneyPlus in the U.S. With a Record 364m Monthly Visits
In January 2017, Alexa data indicated that The Pirate Bay was the most popular torrent site on the internet. In July that same year, the notorious torrent site entered the Alexa Top 100 with the 99th most popular domain on the internet. TPB had been there before but following a disastrous period of downtime in 2014, many users simply went elsewhere. That had a significant effect on the site’s traffic and its coveted Top 100 ranking....
Manga Publisher Shueisha Wants X to Expose ‘One Piece’ Pirates
Japanese manga comics have always been popular on pirate sites, whereas other categories have seen their growth stall. In contrast, manga piracy continues to grow. This unauthorized activity is a thorn in the side of publishers, who are increasingly fighting back against this piracy activity, wherever it takes place in the world. Japan’s largest publisher Shueisha has taken a variety of legal actions, also in U.S. courts. The company...
TV Group Couldn’t Force U.S. ISPs to Block Pirates, UK ISPs May Offer Help
More than two-and-a-half years ago, a group of Israel-based TV companies entered a new phase of their multi-year war against the country’s most popular and resilient pirate sites. Companies including United King Film Distribution, Keshet Broadcasting, Hot Telecommunications Systems, and Reshet Media, requested a broad injunction at a federal court in the United States. The targets were three popular and highly-resilient pirate...
Piracy Shield: Top 10 Countries Blocked For Hosting IPTV Pirates in 2024
Ever since the existence of online piracy first hit the mainstream, the phenomenon has been described using words such as massive or vast. Setting the bar so high means that as far as basic descriptions go, the last quarter-century has always had a huge piracy problem. Only when focusing on a relatively small aspect of the piracy market and then pausing to look up, does the true scale come into focus. When Italy officially launched...
ACE Wraps Up Transformative Year with a Fresh List of Pirate Site Targets
In 2017, a new global anti-piracy coalition formed under the umbrella of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The Alliance for Entertainment and Creativity (ACE) bundled the powers and pockets of dozens of entertainment companies, and were joined by many more in the years that followed. While skeptics may have dismissed the launch of yet another anti-piracy group, ACE was and is a grand success. The group has industry members and law...
More Than Half of All Google Search Takedowns Now Come from Link-Busters
Online piracy is a constant headache for copyright holders; one that’s particularly hard to beat. Because those who run pirate sites often ignore takedown requests, copyright holders began targeting search engines and other online platforms that inadvertently help users to find pirated content. Typically, copyright holders outsource this work to third-party companies that scan the web for links to pirated material. These companies...
