Battlestate Games Issues Dozens of DMCA Takedowns to ‘Silence’ YouTuber Battlestate Games, the company behind the multiplayer shooter game Escape from Tarkov, has issued dozens of DMCA takedown requests against YouTuber Eroktic. While it's commonly… December 18, 2018, 15:17 by Ernesto Van der Sar
National Party Wins Copyright Damages Appeal Over Eminem Track New Zealand's National Party has won its appeal against Eminem's publishers. The party was previously ordered to pay $600,000 for infringing the copyrights of Eminem's… December 18, 2018, 11:05 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Courts Want “Something More” Than an IP-Address to Catch Pirates Following a high-profile order at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this summer, copyright holders are facing a roadblock in their quest to demand settlements… December 17, 2018, 23:09 by Ernesto Van der Sar
ISP Faces ‘Net Neutrality’ Investigation For Pirate Site Blocking Retaliation After being ordered to block a number of piracy-related domains following a complaint from academic publisher Elsevier, Swedish ISP Bahnhof retaliated by semi-blocking Elsevier's own… December 17, 2018, 11:14 by Andy Maxwell
Stats Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 12/17/18 The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'First Man' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Venom'. 'Mowgli: Legend of the… December 17, 2018, 10:32 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Warner Bros. Files Copyright Complaint Against Harry Potter-Inspired Kickstarter A Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a 'sizzle reel' to pitch a horror story collection to production companies has been hit with a takedown… December 16, 2018, 22:21 by Andy Maxwell
Shuttered Leechers Paradise Tracker Will Rise From the Dead to Serve Millions Leechers Paradise, one of the world's longest-standing and most important BitTorrent trackers, recently shut down after 12 years serving hundreds of millions of torrent users.… December 16, 2018, 15:28 by Andy Maxwell
Oops! EU Piracy Watchlist Includes a Perfectly Legal Site Earlier this week the European Union published its very first 'Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List'. The goal is to identify problematic "pirate" sites and encourage… December 16, 2018, 11:08 by Ernesto Van der Sar