Zoro.to: World’s Largest Pirate Site Suddenly “Acquired” & Rebranded
Here’s a curious conundrum: given its extraordinary traffic and likely position as the world’s largest pirate site, why does Zoro.to feature so rarely in rightsholders’ public complaints over piracy? One explanation could be the site’s age; at just over two years old, it’s possible that established sites are considered more of a priority. Another factor could be that Zoro.to focuses on Japanese anime rather than mainstream Hollywood...
Soap2Day Shut Down By Federal Court Following Hollywood Legal Action
Many pirate sites have attracted large volumes of traffic over the years but a relatively new breed of streaming portals have taken things to a whole new level. Excellent traffic levels a few years ago were measured in tens of millions of visits per month, but when Soap2Day suddenly threw in the towel around June 12/13, the site was receiving at least 108 million visits. Given that traffic levels were trending up and the site had no...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 07/03/2023
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have two newcomers on the list. “John Wick: Chapter 4”, which came out as a high-quality pirate release, is the most downloaded title. The most torrented...
US Supreme Court Hands Cyberstalkers a First Amendment Victory
Plus: Hackers knock out Russian military satellite communications, a spyware maker gets breached, and the SEC targets a victim company’s CISO. Powered by WPeMatico
Gary Bowser: How a 1980s Hacker Became Nintendo’s Nemesis Decades Later
More than forty years ago in the early eighties, Texas Instruments home computers were all the rage. The world wide web didn’t exist yet and most people interested in these new devices saw themselves as tinkerers or hackers. These original ‘hackers’ tried to put the hardware to use in ways that others hadn’t envisaged. This was also the case for a Canadian teenager named Gary Bowser, who founded the company “Oasis Pensive Abacutors”...
