Spanish soccer league wants Google to remove IPTV pirate apps from users' phones
If it "can be done for child pornography," they should do it for IP piracy, too...
System admin and wife plead guilty to "massive" pirated software licensing scam
Couple faces 20 years and forfeiture of $4 million in cash and property
Rockstar sold pirated copies of its games on Steam, triggering anti-piracy measures
A new third-party mod fixes Manhunt's glitches caused by Rockstar's DRM
The UFC, NBA, and NFL ask the government for "instantaneous" DMCA takedowns of illegal streams
The leagues say processing current DMCA takedown requests takes too long
New single-frame watermark technology can detect piracy from just a screenshot
A cloud-based approach to the content watermarking issue
A single company asked Google to delist almost one billion "pirate" web pages in less than a year
A takedown spree against a streaming site abusing PornHub content
Italy's new anti-piracy law could bring swift justice to IPTV streamers and users
Government authority has been bestowed with effective enforcing powers against "live" pirate events
Almost 70% of Russian gamers are pirating in the wake of sanctions
Russia's piracy problem has worsened
The Pirate Bay restores new user registrations, with a twist
The torrent indexing service is expecting a flood of new applications
Netflix and Amazon send DMCA takedown requests for legal websites
Two perfectly legal URLs hidden in a sea of pirated content
Pirated Windows installer found to contain crypto-hijacker, exploit EFI partition
Is EFI system partition infiltration becoming a commodity for advanced security threats?
Operators of the UK's largest illegal streaming service jailed for over 30 years
The men made millions from subscribers
Europe wants all countries to block pirate sites to combat online piracy
Piracy has been on the rise in recent years, possibly exacerbated by the pandemic
Recent system update intentionally borks emulators on Xbox consoles
Emulator users promise they aren't pirating games
YouTuber teaches ChatGPT how to crack Windows 95 keys
It was successful, but it's easier to do it yourself
File-sharing site Zippyshare to shut down after 17 years
A big blow to file-sharers everywhere
Microsoft official support used a pirate script to activate Windows, customer claims
When everything else fails, just embrace the digital pirate's way of life
Anti-piracy coalition helped dismantle Evo piracy group
A major threat to the movie industry gone silent, and it likely won't come back
Reddit lawyers tell movie studios to take a hike after they demanded to identify users
A hot potato: Lawyers litigating a movie piracy case have demanded the identities of nine Reddit users who "might" have discussed piracy on the platform. Reddit turned over some of the information on one (or two) of the users that seemed to be engaging in a "how-to" discussion on bootlegging movies; the plaintiffs want all of the users exposed. Reddit says, "No. We'll see you in court."
Notorious game cracker has removed Denuvo from Hogwarts Legacy after just two weeks
Turns out Denuvo is out, but there's no free performance boost
Belarus law grants government ability to pirate western multimedia, including software until 2025
Scheme allows IP owners to collect money owed, if they can
New information-stealing malware is being spread by fake pirate sites
"Arrr, beware of RisePro, matey"
In a nutshell: In another showing of why downloading pirated software, games, movies, etc., can be riskier than it's worth, cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new information-stealing malware distributed through fake websites hosting pirated and other illegal content.
Home Alone was the most pirated classic Christmas movie of 2022
This is my house, I have to defend it
GitHub Copilot slammed with the first class-action against "unfair" AI
A hot potato: The first class-action lawsuit against a machine learning algorithm has been filed in San Francisco federal court. Proponents are calling for millions of GitHub users to reaffirm their rights against Copilot, an AI that suggests new code by violating open-source licenses and several other copyright infringement laws.
Online piracy is on the rise, with television and movies leading the charge
Fragmented streaming options are partially to blame