Anti-Piracy Over 900 RARBG Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked From GitHub The shutdown of major torrent site RARBG in May sent shockwaves through the entire pirate ecosystem. As part of an effort to preserve access to… July 1, 2023, 09:10 by Andy Maxwell
Authors Accuse OpenAI of Using Pirate Sites to Train ChatGPT Generative AI is a revolutionary technology that's expected to change society as we know it but, in parallel, it raises many copyright infringement concerns. This… June 30, 2023, 17:21 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Egyptian Authorities Shut Down Movizland and Arrest Operator With help from anti-piracy coalition ACE, Egyptian law enforcement authorities have shut down Movizland, one of the larger pirate sites in the Middle East. The… June 30, 2023, 15:11 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy French Govt. Wants to Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly Into Web Browsers A coordinated effort to associate online piracy with malware, identity theft and banking fraud, is well underway. As a result, legislation beyond copyright infringement is… June 30, 2023, 08:33 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Movie Companies Cannot Use Piracy Notice Scheme to Facilitate Class Action Movie companies known for aggressively tracking down alleged pirates in pursuit of settlements have been denied permission to proceed in a reverse class action in… June 29, 2023, 20:43 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Court Sentences YouTube Content ID Scammer to Over Five Years in Prison A U.S. federal court in Arizona has sentenced a YouTube Content ID scammer to 70 months in prison, to be followed by three years of… June 29, 2023, 10:42 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Six-Month Sentence For Sharing Pirated eBooks & Paywalled News Articles A man who shared copies of more than a thousand eBooks and articles obtained from a paywalled news site has been handed a six-month suspended… June 28, 2023, 19:41 by Andy Maxwell
Piracy The Pirate Bay Reopens its Doors to New Members After Four Years To combat spam and scammers, The Pirate Bay closed its doors to new members in May 2019. This temporary measure stayed in place much longer… June 28, 2023, 11:49 by Ernesto Van der Sar