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Grand Theft Auto VI is one of the most anticipated game releases in years, with the official launch scheduled this fall.

Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, have kept the game’s marketing under tight control, with a planned “Extended Look” at the gameplay premiering on Netflix later this month.

However, a few days ago, millions of fans already got a sneak peek. On August 18, someone identifying as “Cyberleek” started posting unreleased gameplay footage online. These clips went viral on social media, despite Take-Two issuin...

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 these emulators were killed off long ago. Yuzu settled in February 2024, for example, Ryujinx shut down that October, and the successors that tried to keep edited versions online have been targeted in waves ever since.

These waves keep coming. Earlier this week, Nintendo filed seven separate DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitH...

Last September, we reported that a filmmaker named Matthew Schneider obtained a DMCA subpoena through a California federal court, seeking information from Cloudflare on several prominent private trackers.

These trackers, including PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, KaraGarga, HDBits, and Beyond-HD, allegedly shared several of his works without permission.

At the time, multiple sources informed TorrentFreak that several of the “infringing URLs” submitted as evidence did not point to working torrent pages and used URL structures that didn’t match the targeted sit...

Since 2021, major German Internet providers have agreed to block the country’s most egregious pirate sites through the Clearing Body for Copyright on the Internet, better known as CUII.

The system started as an administrative scheme without judicial oversight. CUII’s own committee issued blocking recommendations, and the Federal Network Agency signed off before providers acted.

This setup changed in mid-2025, when the stakeholders rewrote their code of conduct so that every block now starts with a rightsholder suing one ISP. Once a court confirms the block, the ot...

With more than 160 million visits last month, Cineby is one of the most popular pirate streaming sites on the Internet.

The streaming portal has been a thorn in the side of Hollywood, with the Motion Picture Association (MPA) listing it as a notorious pirate site in its submission to the USTR last fall.

“Cineby is a fast-growing one-stop-shop piracy site in the ‘hydra site’ category. These are a rapidly expanding category of one-stop piracy sites offering content somewhat comparable to IPTV services, but without the need for subscriptions or dedicated device...

Like many other public communication services, Telegram can be abused to facilitate illegal activities.

While much of this occurs beyond the company’s purview, pirates appear to be drawn to the platform, sharing links to pirated movies, TV-shows and other content in dedicated channels.

Despite this reputation, the platform’s piracy ecosystem has rarely been mapped in any detail. A new academic paper sets out to fill that gap, while also trying to offer a potential AI-powered solution to the problem.

Researchers from Louisiana State University and the University...

Japanese publishing giant KADOKAWA is known for responding aggressively to copyright infringers, including creators who share narrated recaps of its content on YouTube.

These channels are highly popular and generate many millions of views. While they only use clips from anime shows, often with narration and commentary, the publisher equates it to piracy.

In January, KADOKAWA tried to unmask three YouTubers, each with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, through a U.S. federal court. The company requested a DMCA subpoena, compelling YouTube to expose their identifying inform...

When the Motion Picture Association (MPA) described its new UK blocking order to WIPO in May, it was presented as a key step in the fight against online piracy.

The “omnibus” order would make it easier and quicker to block new domain names and pirate site brands that pop up in response to blocking efforts.

According to the MPA, it allows Hollywood studios to seek blocking of any “structurally infringing audiovisual piracy services that meet defined criteria, without having to bring a fresh court application for each new domain or site name available in the futu...

While site blocking efforts were a novelty in France a few years ago, they have since transformed into a streamlined annual ritual.

Ahead of each new football season, broadcaster Canal+ goes to the Paris Judicial Court, requesting site blocking orders to stop pirate streaming sites and services.

Over several years, these blocking requests have grown from simple ISP blocks to cover DNS resolvers, CDN providers, VPN services, and search engines. Initially these orders were scattered, but a batch signed last month reveals a clear pattern.

On July 17, Vice-President Irèn...

For years, rightsholders have demanded urgent and decisive action from the European Commission, to tackle live-streaming piracy of live sports and events.

The EU heard these calls and in 2023 it published a targeted recommendation, “encouraging” member states to introduce measures to facilitate prompt takedowns of live streams.

This advice was largely seen as a disappointment by rightsholders, since it was not binding. While some EU member states have increased their enforcement efforts since, with Italy’s “Piracy Shield” as the prime example, others took...