27 stories tagged piracy, newest first.
6 points by HieronymusBosch | 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.
58 points by robaato | 30 comments
Japan Inside article about Kiyoshi Kimura, Japan's famous tuna buyer, who says he helped turn Somali pirates into fishermen by supplying boats and buying their catch.
27 points by HotGarbage | 3 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that a Paris court rejected Canal+'s request for penalties against Cloudflare, accepting that its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver need not block pirate sites.
96 points by montag | 53 comments
GitHub issue on the Photosuite repo where Photopea's developer accuses the project of copying Photopea's web photo editor code.
680 points by piotrgrabowski | 352 comments
A MUBI Notebook feature by Devan Scott exploring the underground world of fan-driven film preservation and piracy, illustrated with comparisons of differently graded Leone western frames.
1116 points by mraniki | 223 comments
A satirical Mastodon post claiming the author's qBittorrent escaped its sandbox and downloaded copyrighted media, which Jellyfin then added to its libraries.
348 points by Brajeshwar | 98 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that EuroISPA asks the EU Commission to hold rightsholders liable for damage caused by overblocking in site blocking orders.
506 points by speckx | 248 comments
TorrentFreak article marking 20 years since Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay's servers, and how the site has remained online since.
463 points by akyuu | 187 comments
News article reporting that Spain's Congress approved a PSOE-ERC initiative to reform rules so anti-piracy court orders sought by LaLiga stop mass IP blocks hitting third-party sites.
392 points by askl | 395 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting Spotify and major labels won a $322M default judgment and domain-suspension injunction against Anna's Archive operators.
383 points by akyuu | 355 comments
Spanish news article reporting that Telefónica has extended court-ordered IP blocking against piracy to Champions League, tennis and golf broadcasts.
393 points by askl | 220 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting Meta's argument in a lawsuit that uploading pirated books via BitTorrent while training AI models qualifies as fair use.
578 points by CTOSian | 298 comments
TorrentFreak news article reporting that shadow library Anna's Archive lost its annas-archive.org domain after it was suspended and placed on serverHold status.
977 points by jerheinze | 463 comments
A blog post from the Anna's Archive team saying the shadow library is still operating amid increased attacks, hardening its security, and recapping its scraping and preservation work.
1308 points by todsacerdoti | 375 comments
A fediverse post on an Iceshrimp instance titled "You wouldn't steal a font"; the post content did not load in the capture.
363 points by hn_acker | 97 comments
TorrentFreak article on a study finding that students, including Chinese postgraduates, use Z-Library to overcome expensive books and limited access to academic material.
348 points by samizdis | 329 comments
News article on a U.S. court ordering pirate library LibGen to pay $30 million to publishers and issuing a broad injunction against its domains.
429 points by isaacfrond | 166 comments
TorrentFreak article about a 17-year-old German student who launched a site exposing the domains secretly blocked by German ISPs under a voluntary agreement with rightsholders.
335 points by luuurker | 285 comments
TorrentFreak article marking 25 years since Napster's 1999 launch and its influence on piracy and later streaming services like Spotify and Netflix.
813 points by brandrick | 557 comments
News article reporting that Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the creators of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu.
360 points by notamy | 698 comments
TorrentFreak article on a Netflix SEC filing stating that online piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly.
1007 points by jay_kyburz | 473 comments
Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.
357 points by gslin | 42 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that the EFF will give Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan an award for providing access to scientific knowledge.
378 points by andrew-ld | 281 comments
TorrentFreak article on Rights Alliance research showing most Danish students find pirating textbooks acceptable due to high prices despite lawsuits.
1275 points by 0___0 | 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.
449 points by PaulHoule | 193 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that a judge voided film studios' subpoena seeking the identities of Reddit users who commented about piracy.
353 points by grecy | 75 comments
Gizmodo news article reporting that the European Commission withheld a 300-page study finding no evidence that online piracy harms sales of copyrighted content.