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Joined August 2023
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Married Couple Behind ‘Billion-Visit’ Webtoon Piracy Network Caught in Vietnam ift.tt/OuKnUVC

Married Couple Behind 'Billion-Visit' Webtoon Piracy Network Caught in Vietnam * TorrentFreak

Harimanga, Manhwaclan and Kunmanga have gone dark and their alleged operators were arrested in Vietnam.

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Hollywood Secures $9 Million Default Judgment Against IPTV Operator ift.tt/AS1npE7

Hollywood Secures $9 Million Default Judgment Against IPTV Operator * TorrentFreak

A Pennsylvania federal court ordered the operator of several pirate IPTV services to pay $9 million default judgment.

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Tech Industry Warns of Piracy Blocking Risks as FIFA World Cup Kicks Off ift.tt/90RyoTm

Tech Industry Warns of Piracy Blocking Risks as FIFA World Cup Kicks Off * TorrentFreak

Tech-industry group CCIA Europe warns that piracy-blocking systems built to protect live sports are damaging the open internet.

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Court Holds New York IPTV Box Seller Liable, Millions of Damages at Stake ift.tt/Yt5Lahz

Court Holds New York IPTV Box Seller Liable, Millions of Damages at Stake * TorrentFreak

An electronics store in Queens that sold pirate IPTV boxes for years has been found liable by a New York federal court.

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Filmmakers and ISP WOW! Settle Piracy Liability Lawsuit Before Trial ift.tt/ZbvQWaN

Filmmakers and ISP WOW! Settle Piracy Liability Lawsuit Before Trial * TorrentFreak

The long-running piracy liability lawsuit between filmmakers and internet provider WOW! has ended with a quiet settlement.

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Z-Library Lets People Run White-Label, Login-Only Pirate Mirrors ift.tt/2WFz7D3

Z-Library Lets People Run White-Label, Login-Only Pirate Mirrors * TorrentFreak

In what's partly an effort to push back against domain seizures and blocking efforts, Z-Library has upgraded its mirror infrastructure.

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YouTube Processed 2.5 Billion Content ID Copyright Claims in 2025 ift.tt/QgSmGZr

YouTube Processed 2.5 Billion Content ID Copyright Claims in 2025 * TorrentFreak

YouTube's Content ID system processed a record 2.5 billion copyright claims in 2025, up 14% from the year before.

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Vietnam’s Online Piracy Failures Trigger Section 301 Investigation, Tariffs on the Table ift.tt/SUscIGX

Vietnam's Online Piracy Failures Trigger Section 301 Investigation, Tariffs on the Table * Torren...

After designating Vietnam as a "Priority Foreign Country" over online piracy, the USTR launched a Special 301 a trade investigation.

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Streaming Piracy Crackdown ‘KRATOS 2’ Leads to 29 Arrests, Targets Remain Unknown ift.tt/zqgG5sf

Streaming Piracy Crackdown 'KRATOS 2' Leads to 29 Arrests, Targets Remain Unknown * TorrentFreak

A Europol operation, coordinated by Bulgaria with support form Europol, dismantled nine criminal networks running pirate streaming services

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Google’s Top DMCA Sender Plateaus at 70 Million Takedowns Per Week ift.tt/w4jDZFE

Google's Top DMCA Sender Plateaus at 70 Million Takedowns Per Week * TorrentFreak

Google has processed billions of DMCA takedown requests during the first months of the year. Reporting agency Link-Busters remains the top sender. While its dominance remains, the company appears to...

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The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid ift.tt/AdTIbav

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid * TorrentFreak

Twenty years ago today, dozens of Swedish police officers stormed a Stockholm data center, seizing The Pirate Bay's servers. The entertainment industry hoped the raid would finish the site for good....

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Torrent Giant YTS Suffers Extended Downtime ift.tt/8Zsx19r

Torrent Giant YTS Suffers Extended Downtime (Updated) * TorrentFreak

The popular torrent site YTS has been unreachable for more than a day, leaving millions of its users in the dark.

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Gay-Torrents Vanishes After Lawsuit, FlavaWorks Narrows Case from 325 to 39 Users ift.tt/sJmECTU

Gay-Torrents Vanishes After Lawsuit, FlavaWorks Narrows Case from 325 to 39 Users * TorrentFreak

Adult entertainment company FlavaWorks filed an amended complaint against private torrent tracker Gay-Torrents.

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Mexican President Responds to World Cup Piracy Concerns, Prefers ‘Open’ Broadcasts ift.tt/9Vn0iov

Mexican President Responds to World Cup Piracy Concerns, Prefers 'Open' Broadcasts * TorrentFreak

With the FIFA World Cup coming up soon, the organizers of one of Mexico's host cities want to warn the public off pirate streaming services.

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Italian Police Target “Previously Unseen” Streaming Piracy Tech That Looks Familiar ift.tt/HjtVgFf

Italian Police Target "Previously Unseen" Streaming Piracy Tech That Looks Familiar * TorrentFreak

Italy's Guardia di Finanza dismantled a piracy system it says it had never seen until now, carrying out more than 100 searches and seizures.

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Premier League Wants Domain Registrar Tucows to Unmask Sports Streaming Pirates ift.tt/MVm9pbH

Premier League Wants Domain Registrar Tucows to Unmask Sports Streaming Pirates * TorrentFreak

The Premier League has requested a DMCA subpoena in an attempt to unmask the operators of 25 pirate sports streaming sites.

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Spanish Court Declines to Fine NordVPN Over LaLiga Piracy Blocking Order ift.tt/lHEQLgS

Spanish Court Declines to Fine NordVPN Over LaLiga Piracy Blocking Order * TorrentFreak

After a Spanish court ordered VPNs to block pirate football streams, NordVPN says the same court has refused to punish the provider for non-compliance.

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Hollywood Secures Broad “Omnibus” Pirate Site Blocking Order in UK High Court ift.tt/w3GVu8v

Hollywood Secures Broad "Omnibus" Pirate Site Blocking Order in UK High Court * TorrentFreak

A recent UK High Court "omnibus" order reportedly grants Hollywood studios the power to block rotating networks of pirate sites.

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Anna’s Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order ift.tt/ivg3ZqA

Anna's Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order * TorrentFreak

A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive.

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Sky Sends Cease-and-Desist Letters to 200 Irish IPTV Subscribers Exposed via Revolut ift.tt/NdzKe5M

Sky Sends Cease-and-Desist Letters to 200 Irish IPTV Subscribers Exposed via Revolut * TorrentFreak

Sky Ireland has sent more than 200 cease-and-desist letters to IPTV subscribers, who were uncovered as part of an earlier IPTV crackdown.

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