Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe(torrentfreak.com)

126 points by miki123211 1 year ago | 136 comments

Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books(torrentfreak.com)

121 points by antonmks 9 months ago | 83 comments

Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository over Piracy Fears(torrentfreak.com)

25 points by signa11 2 years ago | 8 comments

Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally(torrentfreak.com)

128 points by mgdigital 2 years ago | 64 comments

BitTorrent Tracker Blocks 'Infringing' Hashes(torrentfreak.com)

47 points by gslin 2 years ago | 18 comments

More than 600k students and teachers use Z-Library(torrentfreak.com)

266 points by nickthegreek 3 years ago | 90 comments

Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding(arstechnica.com)

570 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 382 comments

Ars Technica article on Meta's legal defense that torrenting pirated books for AI training isn't infringement without proof it seeded files.

Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly(torrentfreak.com)

360 points by notamy 2 years ago | 698 comments

TorrentFreak article on a Netflix SEC filing stating that online piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly.

AI-Built Torrent Site Looks Inside Downloads to Catch Fakes and Malware(torrentfreak.com)

6 points by HieronymusBosch 14 days ago | 1 comments

TorrentFreak article on TorrentClaw, an AI-built torrent search engine whose TrueSpec feature inspects torrent contents, revealing a malware trick using a genuine VLC player as a decoy.

Google sues two men who weaponized DMCA notices to crush competition(torrentfreak.com)

351 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 155 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that Google sued two men accused of using 65 accounts to send fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting competitors' URLs.

Rarbg Is No More(web.archive.org)

1275 points by 0___0 3 years ago | 519 comments

Archived RARBG shutdown notice explaining the torrent site is closing due to team deaths from covid, the war in Europe, energy costs, and inflation.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing(pluralistic.net)

1007 points by jay_kyburz 2 years ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.