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Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak
6+ hour, 54+ min ago (612+ words) Home > Anti-Piracy > DMCA > GitHub is home to hundreds of millions of code repositories, including some repositories that rightsholders would rather not see online. For Nintendo, Switch emulators have become the main challenge, one that keeps rearing its head. Most of…...
Paris Court Kicks Off New Football Season with Multi-Intermediary Piracy Blocking Orders * TorrentFreak
1+ week, 3+ day ago (872+ words) Home > Piracy > Europe's football seasons kick off again this month, with the Champions League to follow in September. In preparation, Canal+ has secured fourteen site-blocking orders spanning ISPs, DNS resolvers, VPNs, and search engines. It's a broad, coordinated effort — and…...
EU Study: Block Live Sports Piracy in 30 Minutes, Across DNS Resolvers, VPNs and CDNs * TorrentFreak
1+ week, 4+ day ago (776+ words) Home > Law and Politics > Three years ago the European Commission rejected calls for binding anti-piracy legislation, issuing a 'recommendation' instead. A new study commissioned by the European Parliament concludes that this soft approach has fallen short. It calls for a…...
European Space Agency Website Exploited to Advertise Shady IPTV Services * TorrentFreak
2+ week, 3+ day ago (542+ words) Home > Piracy > The European Space Agency's Cosmos portal is dedicated to space exploration. While the organization scans stars and galaxies far away, its own infrastructure is quietly hosting hundreds of PDFs promoting shady IPTV services, ranking them in Google right…...
France Approves Automated, Real-Time Blocking of Pirate Sports Streams * TorrentFreak
3+ week, 3+ day ago (805+ words) Home > Piracy > French lawmakers have officially adopted a new sports law that replaces manual domain checks with support for automated, real-time piracy blocking. The system allows for instant blockades during live sports broadcasts, with oversight checks from regulator ARCOM being…...
Pearson's Anti-Piracy Vendor Takes Down Best-Selling Author's Own GitHub Repo * TorrentFreak
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (509+ words) Home > Anti-Piracy > DMCA > 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 computer science educator pushed back, noting that the sender has "no idea…...
Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled * TorrentFreak
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (740+ words) Home > Piracy > 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 authorize blocking injunctions. The decision is a major setback for rightsholders, including the…...
French Police Dismantle Operation Behind the Already Defunct YggTorrent * TorrentFreak
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (614+ words) Home > Piracy > YggTorrent was France’s largest torrent community, with more than 10 million registered members when it shut down in March following a major hack. The hacker, known as Gr0lum, breached the site’s infrastructure, exfiltrated 19 GB of data, drained its crypto wallets,…...
Tech Industry Warns of Piracy Blocking Risks as FIFA World Cup Kicks Off * TorrentFreak
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (825+ words) Home > Piracy > As the FIFA World Cup kicks off, tech-industry group CCIA Europe warns that piracy-blocking systems built to protect live sports are damaging the open internet. The group, which represents tech giants such as Amazon, Cloudflare, and Google, echoes…...
Streaming Piracy Crackdown 'KRATOS 2' Leads to 29 Arrests, Targets Remain Unknown * TorrentFreak
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (780+ words) Home > Anti-Piracy > The Internet is full of cheap IPTV services that offer access to premium sports, films, and television content for a fraction of what legal services charge. This has turned into a multi-million dollar business for several similar networks,…...