Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books
Over the past two years, rightsholders of all ilks have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. Most of these cases allege that AI developers used copyrighted works to train LLMs without first obtaining authorization. Using copyrighted content without permission can be problematic, but many AI companies cite fair use as a defense. Whether that is valid will vary from case to case. Just last week, a Delaware federal...
ISP Must Unmask 100 Alleged BitTorrent Pirates in RIAA Lawsuit
Piracy liability lawsuits have targeted large and small Internet providers across the United States. American telco Altice was sued by various parties in recent years, both directly and indirectly as the owner of ISP Optimum. Last summer, Optimum chose to settle its lawsuit with some music industry giants, including BMG, UMG, and Capitol Records, under undisclosed terms. But that didn’t mean its legal woes were over. In a similar yet...
LaLiga Blocks Cloudflare Again, New Pirate IPTV Providers & Anything in The Way
When pirate site-blocking measures have hit Cloudflare in the past, those responsible responded in various ways when news of collateral damage began to spread. A swift and relatively silent ‘CTRL-Z response’ seemed most effective at subduing criticism, mostly because it solved the problem. When blunders were to blame, a quick-fix while pretending to know nothing was reasonably effective too. Flat-out public denials, despite...
Incredible Fmovies Piracy Indictment is Not a “Stunning Victory” For Hollywood
Decade after decade, Hollywood studios have produced many of the greatest movies ever committed to celluloid, together telling some of the most inspiring, terrifying, beautiful, outrageous, spectacular, and funny stories ever told. Movies make the impossible, possible, and when the Fmovies piracy empire was shuttered in 2024, the MPA showed that with enough time, effort, resources, and persistence, impossible achievements aren’t...
TorrentGalaxy Drama Continues With Days of Downtime
Founded in 2018, TorrentGalaxy has grown to become a leading player in the torrent ecosystem. However, the past few months have been far from smooth sailing and last Thursday, TorrentGalaxy become entirely unreachable once again. Attempts to access the popular torrent site stopped short of their intended destination. With one exception (torrentgalaxy.mx which points to 127.0.0.1) the site’s domain names are working just fine, but the...
Real-Debrid Traffic Falls 16% in 3 Months, Anti-Piracy Action Painful But Non-Fatal
If the dismantling of Megaupload in 2012 hadn’t turned into a legal quagmire, Real-Debrid’s statement concerning new anti-piracy measures may have arrived somewhat sooner. Ostensibly legal file-hosting services don’t exist in a legal gray area, but when platforms are mindful of conduct that could strip away eligibility for safe harbor-style protection, allegations of infringing conduct can always be countered. Not always successfully,...
