Sony shut down Overdrive, the fake PlayStation Store for pirated PS5 games, but clones appeared within hours
The GitHub project went up on October 9 and listed more than 1,600 free games for jailbroken PS5s
ESA calls Anbernic-style handhelds "superfakes" and wants the US to treat them as piracy hubs
Retro handhelds loaded with ROMs are now a US trade policy target
Denuvo DRM removed from Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and everyone is wondering why
Another major win for PC gamers or just a developer's oversight?
A new PS5 jailbreak works on almost every firmware version, and it already runs the latest games
A new wave of piracy is about to hit Sony right in the... discs
UK man sentenced to prison for selling thousands of pirated vinyl records
Physical media is surging in popularity, and so are fake copies printed by pirates
Nintendo wins $4.5 million piracy judgment after former Reddit moderator fails to defend himself in court
The former SwitchPirates moderator must also shut down piracy shops and stop distributing unauthorized Nintendo games
Putin's awkward online video shows him running an unactivated copy of Windows on a US-made Dell PC
Putin channels "I have no idea what I'm doing" meme
Facepalm: Russia might have spent more than a decade trying to drop US technology in favor of home-grown alternatives, but it appears that even President Vladimir Putin is happy to use a Dell PC and Windows for a video showing him casting his vote. It also seems that the Kremlin didn't want to pay Microsoft $139 for an activation key (or $10 for that matter): Putin was using an unactivated copy of the OS, and looked about as comfortable using the computer as most 73-year-olds would.
A years-long investigation just unmasked a major torrent pirate, the how remains unclear
The 56-year-old is accused of seeding nearly 1,000 NHK recordings
Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations
Microsoft targets KMS-based Windows piracy with mandatory TPM attestation starting August 2026
Denuvo may have reached the end as every protected PC game is now crackable
The takeaway: The PC piracy scene appears to have reached a milestone many once thought unlikely: Denuvo, long regarded as one of the most formidable DRM and anti-tamper systems in gaming, has effectively been defeated. With hypervisor bypasses emerging as the latest breakthrough, there is now no known PC game protected by Denuvo that cannot be obtained for free through either a crack or a functional bypass.
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