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Piracy

U.S. Seizes More Pirate Sports Streaming Domains, But Iranian Fallbacks Remain

The U.S. continues to crack down on sports streaming sites, seizing well over a hundred additional domain names this weekend. While these enforcement actions sorted…

July 13, 2026, 10:32 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Piracy

Google Opposes Site Blocking in Europe as U.S. Piracy Blocking Plans Gain Momentum

Google has told the European Commission that pirate site blocking causes "significant harm" and should not target DNS resolvers, VPNs or shared IPs. The submission…

July 11, 2026, 12:37 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Anti-Piracy

Pearson’s Anti-Piracy Vendor Takes Down Best-Selling Author’s Own GitHub Repo

Pearson's anti-piracy vendor inadvertently used a DMCA notice to take down the official GitHub code repository of Pearson's own best-selling author, Paul Deitel. The prominent…

July 10, 2026, 11:21 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Piracy

Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled

Bulgaria's highest court has ruled that civil site blocking is legally impossible under current national law. Bulgaria failed to properly transpose the EU directives that…

July 8, 2026, 13:55 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Anti-Piracy

‘Tonga’ Suspends Popular Pirate Site Domains Following Indian Court Order

For years, Tonga's .to domain names have been a popular choice for pirate sites, but that may very well change. Following a restructuring of the…

July 7, 2026, 09:30 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Lawsuits

Alleged Operators of HiAnime Piracy Ring Arrested in Vietnam with U.S. Support

Supported by U.S. intelligence, Vietnamese authorities have dismantled a massive network of over 100 pirate sites. Seven suspects have been charged with running a mass…

July 6, 2026, 09:23 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Technology

Researchers Create Self-Replicating Seedbox in Quest for Decentralized Democracy

Researchers from Delft University of Technology have spent more than two decades building their decentralized BitTorrent client Tribler. The software is designed to be impossible…

July 5, 2026, 09:33 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Piracy

French Police Dismantle Operation Behind the Already Defunct YggTorrent

France's Gendarmerie nationale announced that it dismantled the organization behind YggTorrent, France's largest torrent site. Twelve people have been arrested on charges including money laundering.…

July 3, 2026, 07:58 by Ernesto Van der Sar

U.S. Seizes More Pirate Sports Streaming Domains, But Iranian Fallbacks Remain

Google Opposes Site Blocking in Europe as U.S. Piracy Blocking Plans Gain Momentum

Pearson’s Anti-Piracy Vendor Takes Down Best-Selling Author’s Own GitHub Repo

Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled

‘Tonga’ Suspends Popular Pirate Site Domains Following Indian Court Order

Alleged Operators of HiAnime Piracy Ring Arrested in Vietnam with U.S. Support

Researchers Create Self-Replicating Seedbox in Quest for Decentralized Democracy

French Police Dismantle Operation Behind the Already Defunct YggTorrent

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