Piracy Operator Goes from Jail to Getting Hired by a Tech Unicorn in a Month(torrentfreak.com)

68 points by askl 1 year ago | 42 comments

Putin’s Cinema Fund Rejects Movie Piracy, Fuming Cinema Boss Demands Barbie(torrentfreak.com)

41 points by gslin 3 years ago | 38 comments

All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2023 Were Bogus(torrentfreak.com)

393 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 102 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that every DMCA takedown notice filed against the site in 2023 was invalid, sent by anti-piracy companies.

DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked from GitHub(torrentfreak.com)

32 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 3 comments

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight(torrentfreak.com)

392 points by askl 6 months ago | 395 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting Spotify and major labels won a $322M default judgment and domain-suspension injunction against Anna's Archive operators.

Film Companies Seek 'Torrenting History' Related to Redditor(torrentfreak.com)

52 points by gslin 2 years ago | 17 comments

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.

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.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die(arstechnica.com)

411 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 240 comments

Ars Technica article on a murder-suicide lawsuit accusing OpenAI of withholding full ChatGPT logs and selectively hiding data after users die.

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage(torrentfreak.com)

348 points by Brajeshwar 3 months ago | 98 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that EuroISPA asks the EU Commission to hold rightsholders liable for damage caused by overblocking in site blocking orders.