Piracy AI-Generated ‘FIFA World Cup’ DMCA Notices Ask Google to Delist Pirate Sites In a series of DMCA takedown requests, "FIFA World Cup" is asking Google to permanently remove various pirate site domain names from its search results.… June 22, 2026, 11:10 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy WIPO Alert Pay Aims to Cut Off Piracy Profits with Help from Payment Providers For years, WIPO has tried to starve pirate sites of advertising money. Now it wants to cut off their payments too. A new system called… June 20, 2026, 11:05 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Major Publishers Sue ‘WeLib’, a Pirate Site Built on Anna’s Archive Code Less than a month after a New York court issued a default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive, thirteen major publishers have sued WeLib. The… June 18, 2026, 12:13 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy Music Publishers Truncated Musk’s ‘DMCA Plague’ Tweet to Back Piracy Case, X Tells Court Elon Musk's X Corp has filed a motion to dismiss the multi-million dollar music piracy lawsuit, which was recently amended following the Cox Supreme Court… June 17, 2026, 14:02 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Music Labels Win Canadian Site Blocking Order Against Y2Mate, YTMP3, and Savefrom For the first time in Canada, a site-blocking order has been issued that specifically targets YouTube rippers. The Federal Court has ordered major ISPs to… June 16, 2026, 14:47 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy Meta Must Face Adult Film Piracy Lawsuit as Court Denies Dismissal To keep their piracy lawsuit alive, adult film producers Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media don't have to prove Meta used their films for AI… June 15, 2026, 09:10 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy Married Couple Behind ‘Billion-Visit’ Webtoon Piracy Network Caught in Vietnam For more than two years, a husband and wife in Vietnam allegedly ran a billion-visit-a-year operation serving Korean webtoons in unauthorized English translation. The network,… June 13, 2026, 08:58 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits Hollywood Secures $9 Million Default Judgment Against IPTV Operator A Pennsylvania federal court has handed down a $9 million default judgment against the operator of pirate IPTV services 'Shrugs' and 'Zing'. Major Hollywood studios,… June 12, 2026, 12:56 by Ernesto Van der Sar