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A Google lawsuit filed in a New York court has been partly unsealed, revealing details of what is believed to be the largest botnet of its type in history. Consisting of 10 million compromised Android devices, mostly cheap Chinese set-top boxes popular with users of free and pirate streaming services, the Badbox 2.0 botnet turns user devices into nodes in a massive residential proxy network. Google says the botnet is used for ad fraud, malware distribution, and other digital crimes. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-21 16:22:28 READMORE

Today, online piracy is largely driven by unauthorized streaming sites and services. When it comes to lawsuits, however, BitTorrent users are the prime target, as they are easy to track. In recent years, one adult entertainment company has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of all cases filed in thhe U.S. against individual pirates. While these rarely make the news, they can have consequences, court records show. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-21 01:16:13 READMORE

Earlier this year, Microsoft published a report on an infostealer malware campaign identified as stemming from pirate streaming sites. With one million user devices infected, the potential for damage is clearly enormous but the threat isn't new. Data sourced from specialist breach databases reveals that Fmovies, the world's most popular pirate streaming site before its closure in 2024, was "strongly linked" to Infostealer activity targeting users worldwide. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-19 18:18:47 READMORE

Law enforcement authorities in Vietnam will prosecute the operators of around 400 pirate sites offering pornographic content. Such material is illegal in Vietnam and the authorities say the men made large profits from visitors viewing lucrative advertising. Also of note are claims that the men circumvented blocking measures at ISPs either owned by, or closely connected to, the government. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-18 18:09:42 READMORE

Germany's voluntary pirate site blocking regime has undergone a fundamental change, now requiring judicial oversight for all blocking actions. The participants will rely on court orders going forward, instead of their own recommendations. While the change ensures a proper review of blocking requests, it does not necessarily make the blockades more transparent for the public. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-17 23:02:49 READMORE

Late last week, the FBI seized the domain names of several gaming piracy websites, including NSW2U.com. The sites in question were used to download more than a million games per month, according to a press release, which inadvertently identified a nonexistent domain. The FBI eventually seized the correct domain, and the investigation continues. Meanwhile, opportunists are moving in to lure displaced pirates to new "NSW2U" domains. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-16 23:03:54 READMORE

Cloudflare has become the first internet intermediary beyond local residential ISPs, to block access to pirate sites in the UK. Users attempting to access certain pirate sites are greeted with 'Error 451 - Unavailable for Legal Reasons'. In theory, ISP blocking should prevent UK users from even seeing this notice, but a combination of Cloudflare's blocking mechanism and choices made by some VPN users results in a piracy dead end. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-15 23:31:07 READMORE

A coalition of nearly 50 record labels, including industry giants Warner and Sony, accuse Internet provider Altice of providing a safe haven for pirates. The companies request summary judgment in their ongoing lawsuit, arguing that Altice's repeat infringer policy is a "farce" and the "antithesis of reasonable." The ISP allegedly allowed piracy to flourish on its Optimum network, thus disqualifying it from safe harbor protection under the DMCA. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-15 15:54:49 READMORE

Arrested in 2019 following an investigation by the UK's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit, the former owner of pirate IPTV service Helix Hosting has just been sentenced to three years in prison by a court in the UK. Stephen Woodward, 36, reportedly generated around £1 million in revenue from three services, with offending that reportedly continued after his initial arrest. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-14 16:56:53 READMORE

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Thunderbolts' tops the chart, followed by 'Ballerina'. 'Karate Kid: Legends' completes the top three. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-14 08:09:40 READMORE

Adult entertainment conglomerate Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, has filed a lawsuit against the as-yet-unidentified operators operators of PornXP. The company accuses the website of widespread copyright infringement. After obtaining an early discovery order to unveil the operators through various domain registrars, the case moves forward with site blocking as part of the requested remedies. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-14 05:19:50 READMORE

A lawsuit, filed by several publishers in 2024, accused Google of not doing enough to prevent piracy while simultaneously profiting from it. A recent success for Google led to the dismissal of the publishers' vicarious liability claim, leaving a claim for contributory infringement to be decided. In a letter to the court on Thursday, counsel for Google requested a stay, pending the Supreme Court's decision in Cox vs. Sony, and a “potentially dispositive” impact on the case. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-12 19:57:29 READMORE

Some rightsholders in the EU are now demanding blocking of pirated live streams, no later than 10 minutes after notification. In Australia, extreme 'live' blocking doesn't yet exist, but even dynamic blocking delays can be measured in days rather than minutes. A blocking order handed down this week took 90 days to navigate through a system designed to respect everyone's rights. Is that too slow? Or simply how long it takes to get things right. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-11 22:46:31 READMORE

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized the domain names of several gaming-related pirate sites, including NSW2U.com, which has been Nintendo's nemesis for years. The operation was carried out in collaboration with other law enforcement agencies, including the Dutch fiscal police. It is not immediately clear whether the action is linked to any arrests or indictments. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-11 05:16:25 READMORE

Sci-Hub has launched its own SCI token through which it hopes to unlock more paywalled research. The controversial shadow library, which is used by millions of researchers around the globe, sees this as the next step to decentralize science and reward knowledge sharing. Whether this pirate 'tokenomics' works in practice has yet to be seen. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-10 19:05:56 READMORE

A recent forum event held in Washington promised to discuss how pirate site-blocking orders can be safely implemented in the United States. With speakers Rep. Darrell Issa and Rep. Zoe Lofgren both openly admitting that SOPA was a disaster, Issa said that he believes that this time around, the errors of SOPA have all been fixed. That's clearly the case, or at least it was until a lone voice offered insight on the very topic those in attendance were there to discuss. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-09 17:45:12 READMORE

UK hosting provider Innetra PC is pushing back against a $25 million lawsuit from pay-TV giant DISH Network. Accused of enabling widespread copyright infringement, Innetra filed a motion to dismiss the complaint, arguing that a U.S. court lacks the necessary jurisdiction. Among other things, Innetra stresses that its servers and customers are located outside the United States. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-08 20:40:17 READMORE

Following an operation carried out last Thursday but reported just this morning, the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit at City of London Police says it shut down a number of servers and arrested two people in a series of raids. A man and a woman in their 30s were arrested near to Birmingham and police say they disrupted several IPTV services after targeting a datacenter in Cheltenham. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-07 23:50:31 READMORE

In a case being heard at a California court, domain registrar Dynadot has partially declined to cooperate with the disclosure requirements of a DMCA subpoena, claiming immunity as a conduit service provider. In response, a copyright holder has asked the Court to issue an order clarifying service providers' safe harbor protection. The case is certainly unusual but also forms part of a more complex set of events, that may ultimately culminate in a potential moment of clarity. From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Posted On:2025-07-06 20:03:54 READMORE