How Seized Firesticks in a Plastic Bag Opened Up a Pirate Rabbit Hole
Here at TF we track a lot of lawsuits, not to mention buy, research, and then ultimately report on them. While that can be a lot of work, in the United States detailed information is mostly easy to find. The same can’t always be said when piracy-related news is made available by various third-parties, often with a commercial interest in how information is presented. Through selective emphasis, useful information may not even be...
23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It’s Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits
Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more. Powered by WPeMatico
How to Be More Anonymous Online
Being fully anonymous is next to impossible—but you can significantly limit what the internet knows about you by sticking to a few basic rules. Powered by WPeMatico
Pro-Plex News Articles on Facebook Deleted By Markscan On Behalf of Plex
On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices. At the start of 2023, anti-piracy outfits managed to leave us alone for almost three weeks but this year couldn’t manage 24 hours. On January 2, we received another...
Estonian Government Eyes a Pirate Site Blocking Regime
In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world. ISPs in more than forty countries prevent subscribers from accessing a variety of ‘pirate’ sites, in response to a court order or through a regulatory regime. Estonia Explores Site Blocking European countries have been particularly receptive to these measures with Estonia now considering a similar framework. The...
