Lawsuits Megaupload: Police Prepare to Seize Assets of Co-Founder Mathias Ortmann After New Zealand's Supreme Court handed down a "mixed bag" decision this week which allows Kim Dotcom more time in the country to fight extradition,… November 6, 2020, 09:47 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Major Torrent Site EZTV Has Domain Suspended By Registry EZTV, one of the world's most popular torrent sites, appears to have lost control of its main domain after its registry marked it with a… November 5, 2020, 22:02 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets With Copyright Takedown Requests Netflix has sent over a hundred takedown requests this week targeting tweets that are critical of the movie 'Cuties' and/or urged people to cancel their… November 5, 2020, 13:15 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy MPA Lawyers Are Trying to Shut Down Pirate Anime Giant Nyaa.si TorrentFreak understands that the MPA has delivered cease-and-desist letters to several individuals with alleged connections to massive anime torrent site Nyaa. Claiming that they are… November 4, 2020, 22:48 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub Two weeks ago the RIAA asked GitHub to remove the open-source stream-ripper software youtube-dl. This request wasn't well-received by developers, many of whom retaliated by… November 4, 2020, 13:03 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited To The United States, Subject to Judicial Review A few minutes ago a panel of judges at the Supreme Court of New Zealand announced that Kim Dotcom and his former Megaupload colleagues can… November 3, 2020, 23:57 by Andy Maxwell
Law and Politics Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms The Motion Picture Association says that circumvention services such as VPNs, DNS masks and Tor networks can pose a direct threat to legitimate streaming services.… November 3, 2020, 13:19 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits US Govt’s Pirate Site List Doesn’t Prove Anything, YouTube Rippers Tell Court Several major record labels recently cited the USTR's notorious markets list as evidence in their ongoing legal battle with YouTube-rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com. This mention… November 2, 2020, 22:40 by Ernesto Van der Sar