Enders’ Piracy Report Blames Big Tech; That’s What Anti-Piracy Lobbyists Do
If Hollywood studios, major record labels, broadcasters, and sports organizations stopped publishing their own piracy research, the scale of the phenomenon and potential solutions would likely be less clearly defined than they are today. What we have instead is a largely unified response across multiple industries, featuring broadly similar claims on the scale of the problem, what needs to be done, and by whom. Everyone pushing in the...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 06/02/2025
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 no newcomers on the list. “Sinners” is the most shared title. The most torrented movies...
Record Labels and ISP Frontier Settle Piracy Liability Lawsuit
In recent years, music and movie companies have filed several lawsuits against U.S. Internet providers, for failing to take action against pirating subscribers. One of the main allegations is that the ISPs failed to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in ‘appropriate circumstances’, as the DMCA requires. These lawsuits resulted in multi-million-dollar judgments against Cox and Grande. Meanwhile, other companies remained at...
IPTV Pirate Fights 25-30 Years Prison, “Facially Absurd” U.S. Govt Calculations
A complex case that had dragged on for years, in part due to the global pandemic, concluded last summer with the conviction of five men behind pirate streaming service Jetflicks. The court heard that Kristopher Dallmann, Douglas Courson, Felipe Garcia, Jared Jaurequi and Peter Huber, generated millions of dollars in revenue through what was described as one of the largest pirate sites in the United States. The Case That Refuses to End...
Brazil Advances Criminal Prosecution of American Yout.com Operator
Over the past few years, stream-ripping service Yout.com has fought legal battles on several continents. The most prominent lawsuit was filed by the site’s operator, American developer Johnathan Nader, who took the RIAA to court in an attempt to have the site declared legal. Criminal Prosecution The RIAA case is still under appeal and Yout.com remains available in most countries. Not in Brazil, however, as the site was effectively...
Employee Pleads Guilty in “Spider-Man” Pre-Release Piracy Case
Three years ago, pirated Blu-ray copies of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” began circulating on pirate sites, weeks before its official release. Such high-profile leaks are rare, and the source of the breach remained unknown until earlier this year. In February, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted 37-year-old Steven Hale from Tennessee, a former employee of a disc manufacturing and distribution company in Memphis. While working at the...
