Anti-Piracy Non-Transparency Resumed After Pirate Site Blacklist Publicly Exposed in Error Since shutting down most pirate sites is impossible, Germany's ISPs are given a secret list of pirate domains to block, which in theory hides the… April 15, 2025, 07:41 by Andy Maxwell
Meta AI ‘Piracy’ Lawsuit: Publishers and Professors Challenge Fair Use Defense As Meta defends its AI training practices in court, major publishers and copyright law experts are weighing in against the company. An amicus brief from… April 14, 2025, 12:50 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Block Mirror: Dystopian Site-Blocking Triggers Circumvention Innovation Site blocking and similar censorship measures are vulnerable to circumvention, helping to popularize VPNs and other encrypted solutions all over the world. That includes Spain,… April 13, 2025, 10:27 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Domain Registry Investigates Spain’s Piracy Overblocking Damage Under a court order obtained by LaLiga and Telefonica, Spanish ISPs now conduct broad blocking of live pirated sports streams. These measures target shared Cloudflare… April 12, 2025, 08:52 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Porn Producer Targets Members of Gay Torrent Site in Court Adult entertainment company Flava Works is demanding millions in damages in a new lawsuit targeting members of a private gay torrent site. The complaint names… April 11, 2025, 13:29 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy CDN77 Isolates LaLiga IPTV Pirates in 15 mins. Allegedly Gets Blocked Anyway LaLiga's court-ordered authority to block Cloudflare IP addresses to disrupt pirate IPTV services continues to black out large numbers of entirely legal sites. Interestingly, LaLiga's… April 10, 2025, 12:24 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Internet Archive vs. Music Labels: $600m+ Copyright Rift Edges Toward Settlement The Internet Archive's 'Great 78 Project' digitizes historical recordings to preserve musical heritage, but in 2023 the initiative led to major record labels filing a… April 9, 2025, 20:44 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Tech Giants Propose “Critical” Piracy Shield Regulation Amendments Tech and communications group CCIA has listed dozens of recommendations in its response to a public consultation on regulatory amendments concerning the Piracy Shield IPTV… April 9, 2025, 07:34 by Andy Maxwell