Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 04/13/20
This week we have four newcomers in our chart. Bad Boys for Life is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is...
‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer’s Request for a Temporary Prison Release Due to COVID-19 Threat Fails
Last summer, a U.S. District Court in Minnesota sentenced Paul Hansmeier to 14 years in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. Hansmeier was a...
Judge in eBook.bike Piracy Case Asks Author to Consider a Massively Reduced Damages Claim
Just over a year ago, author John Van Stry filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in a Texas court against former Pirate Party Canada leader Travis McCrea,...
WordPress DMCA Takedown Notices Drop But Abuse Remains Prevalent
Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform WordPress.com, receives thousands of takedown requests from copyright holders. For a number of years, the volume of notices...
Danish Court Throws Out Three Piracy Cases, Plaintiff Had No Right to Sue
Legal actions against file-sharers come in all shapes and sizes but perhaps the most common are the mass lawsuits that target alleged BitTorrent users. Hundreds of...
The Pirate Bay’s Main Domain ‘Returns’ After a Month of Downtime
Over the past several weeks, The Pirate Bay has suffered prolonged downtime. For many people, the popular torrent site was completely unreachable through its main ThePirateBay.org...
Pirate Bay No Longer Uses Cloudflare, Visitors Sent to ‘Black Hole’ (Updated)
The Pirate Bay’s original and main domain has been unreachable for more than a month. While the site operates as usual on the Tor network, visitors...
Pirate Set-Top Box Seller Has Jail Sentence Overturned Due to Prosecution Error
All around the world, content creators, distributors and associated anti-piracy groups are grappling with the thorny issue of piracy-configured set-top boxes. These cheap devices were initially...
Court Allows ISP to Question Rightscorp’s Credibility at Piracy Trial
Three years ago, a group of RIAA labels sued the Texas ISP Grande Communications. The music companies accused the provider of not doing enough to stop...
ACE and MPA Help to Shut Down Taiwan’s Largest Pirate Movie and TV Show Site
While English language ‘pirate’ sites grab most mainstream headlines, anti-piracy groups have international platforms firmly on their radars. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of such sites...
