Denuvo removed from Resident Evil Requiem, improving performance over hypervisor-based crack
Voices38 claims the Denuvo-free game code is faster and better at exploiting gaming hardware
Hypervisor-based cracks are breaking Denuvo protections in hours
The PC game piracy world will never be the same...
Supreme Court rules ISPs aren't liable for user piracy without intent
The decision overturns a $1B verdict against Cox, reinforces that liability requires inducement
Death Stranding 2 leaks early as unencrypted Steam build spreads online
An effort to rebuild civilization Down Under seemingly starts with piracy
Doom: The Dark Ages is the first Denuvo DRM game of 2025 to be cracked
Doom joins the small list of modern Denuvo-protected games to be cracked
Music publishers accuse Anthropic of pirating 20,000 songs in $3 billion lawsuit
Publishers call the alleged infringement "flagrant piracy"
A 300TB pirate archive claims to contain nearly every song ever streamed on Spotify
86 million songs and metadata for almost all of Spotify's 256 million tracks
Fake torrent for "One Battle After Another" delivers trojan through subtitles
Another sophisticated malware delivery method
Your pirated copy of Windows might have just stopped working
Microsoft shuts down popular KMS38 activation workaround for Windows and Office
Nintendo seeks $4.5 million in damages from Reddit moderator accused of running Switch piracy network
He allegedly guided people in the subreddit to outside piracy sites
Switch modder who represented himself in piracy case ordered to pay Nintendo $2 million
An ill-fated stand against a company seasoned in piracy litigation
Indie studio urges fans to pirate game rather than play Roblox imitation
The core issue is how quickly popular indie games are copied and sold by others with little change
YouTuber raided by Italian police for reviewing handhelds with preloaded ROMs
Up to three years in jail for simply discussing retro game ROMs?
YouTube hosts thousands of pirated films and TV shows at any given moment
From Hollywood blockbusters, and Netflix hits, to college football games
Anthropic destroyed millions of physical books to train its AI, court documents reveal
Destroying the books is partially why the company won the "fair use" defense
How PC makers exploited BIOS copyright strings to unlock trial software during the Windows 95 era
Microsoft programmers discovered the trick while developing Plug and Play
Federal court says AI training on books is fair use, but sends Anthropic to trial over pirated copies
Landmark decision draws line between lawful AI training and pirated content use
What just happened? A federal court has delivered a split decision in a high-stakes copyright case that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence development. US District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its Claude AI system qualifies as lawful "fair use" under copyright law, marking a significant victory for the AI industry.
Greek man sentenced to prison for running a private torrent site 10 years ago
File sharing crime doesn't pay, and could eventually land you behind bars
Amazon Fire Sticks are enabling billions in video piracy, report finds
Facebook and Google are also playing a major role
Why it matters: It's somewhat ironic that arguably the biggest piracy enabler today is a device that comes from Amazon, a $2 trillion tech giant with a streaming service. According to a new report, jailbroken Amazon Fire Sticks are used to watch billions of dollars worth of pirated streams, and Google, Meta and Microsoft are exacerbating the situation.
Italy fines thousands as crackdown on pirate IPTV targets viewers
Illegal streaming drains €1 billion every year from Italy's football industry
"You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy ads may have used a stolen font
The anti-piracy campaign that failed its own background check
WTF?! In what must be the very definition of irony, one of the most infamous anti-piracy campaigns from two decades ago may have included a font that was, in essence, stolen. The "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" PSA is still remembered by many people old enough to recall its 2004 launch, but it seems the ad didn't heed its own warning.
First-ever Switch modding case in Japan ends with fine and suspended jail time
His fine was over 400,000% less than the one given to Gary Bowser
Denmark issues "landmark" prison sentences to notorious piracy group member and one other
Both received "unconditional" minimum time served for piracy without profit
Piracy lawsuit against Meta could set precedent for torrenting copyrighted works in AI training
Plaintiffs believe case is clear-cut infringement, but judge does not understand what torrenting is