When Funimation shut down in 2024, buyers of DVDs and Blu-ray discs that came with a Funimation digital release lost access to those copies. A fresh petition to the U ...

A Dutch court has ordered Internet provider KPN to block shadow libraries Z-Library and OceanofPDF. The dynamic blocking ...

A former Meta researcher has testified that he downloaded an AI training dataset via BitTorrent, including the pirated Books3 ...

A fresh academic paper on Z-Library cites a TorrentFreak article that doesn’t exist, and several other sources in the paper ...

Vietnam's top prosecutor has indicted seven alleged HiAnime operators, sending them to trial for copyright infringement and money laundering. According to the indictment, the group behind the anime ...

A new report published by the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) warns that poorly targeted VPN regulation can ...

Live sports piracy service Streamed, which offered streams to many pirate sites, has surprisingly shut down. Its operators posted a brief farewell message without further detail, pointing visitors to ...

Earlier this month, DNS resolver Quad9 informed TorrentFreak that it was weighing its future in France, including the option to leave the country altogether. The Swiss non-profit foundation faced a ...

In August, City of London Police and anti-piracy group FACT announced a six and a half year prison sentence for a 68-year-old pirate IPTV operator. Without dates or a service name in the release, some ...

Meta will have to name the people who greenlit its torrenting of pirated books. A federal magistrate judge has ordered the company to identify everyone who approved sourcing books from LibGen and Anna ...