Massive IPTV piracy network with 22 million users shut down by Europol and Italian police
The pan-European cybergang was making €250 million/month by reselling popular streaming platforms
Nearly half of young Norwegians are fine with piracy to save money, survey shows
High costs cited as the main reason for piracy acceptance
Study finds 20% revenue drop when Denuvo DRM is cracked soon after game launch
No revenue is lost if Denuvo survives 12 weeks
A hot potato: PC gamers often label digital rights management systems like Denuvo as "consumer unfriendly" because they can lead to performance issues, punishing those who legitimately purchase the games. But a new study shows that for all its downsides, Denuvo actually does help shield game revenues from the scourge of piracy, at least initially.
Nintendo sues two Switch hardware and software modders
"Modded Hardware" store and "Archbox" targeted for distributing modding chips and pirated games
Unactivated copies of Windows 11 will soon limit Edge customization, too
A recently spotted change to Edge Canary builds has been confirmed
The MPA plans to collaborate with Congress on piracy website-blocking legislation
The MPA CEO called pirates "real-life mobsters" who engage in child pornography
A hot potato: Charles Rivkin, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association isn't a fan of pirates. He says many of those who operate piracy websites are "real-life mobsters" who engage in child pornography, drug trafficking, and other crimes. He has also announced that the MPA plans to work with Congress to introduce legislation that blocks pirate websites in the United States.
BitTorrent dethroned as the main source of internet's upstream traffic
File sharing protocol is now being superseded by streaming and cloud storage
Anti-piracy warnings have the opposite effect on men, new study says
Meanwhile, educational warnings had no effect on either genders
The tides have turned: there's been a post-pandemic piracy revival
But don't blame Covid
Spanish soccer league wants Google to remove IPTV pirate apps from users' phones
If it "can be done for child pornography," they should do it for IP piracy, too...
System admin and wife plead guilty to "massive" pirated software licensing scam
Couple faces 20 years and forfeiture of $4 million in cash and property
Rockstar sold pirated copies of its games on Steam, triggering anti-piracy measures
A new third-party mod fixes Manhunt's glitches caused by Rockstar's DRM
The UFC, NBA, and NFL ask the government for "instantaneous" DMCA takedowns of illegal streams
The leagues say processing current DMCA takedown requests takes too long
New single-frame watermark technology can detect piracy from just a screenshot
A cloud-based approach to the content watermarking issue
A single company asked Google to delist almost one billion "pirate" web pages in less than a year
A takedown spree against a streaming site abusing PornHub content
Italy's new anti-piracy law could bring swift justice to IPTV streamers and users
Government authority has been bestowed with effective enforcing powers against "live" pirate events
Almost 70% of Russian gamers are pirating in the wake of sanctions
Russia's piracy problem has worsened
The Pirate Bay restores new user registrations, with a twist
The torrent indexing service is expecting a flood of new applications
Netflix and Amazon send DMCA takedown requests for legal websites
Two perfectly legal URLs hidden in a sea of pirated content
Pirated Windows installer found to contain crypto-hijacker, exploit EFI partition
Is EFI system partition infiltration becoming a commodity for advanced security threats?
Operators of the UK's largest illegal streaming service jailed for over 30 years
The men made millions from subscribers
Europe wants all countries to block pirate sites to combat online piracy
Piracy has been on the rise in recent years, possibly exacerbated by the pandemic
Recent system update intentionally borks emulators on Xbox consoles
Emulator users promise they aren't pirating games
YouTuber teaches ChatGPT how to crack Windows 95 keys
It was successful, but it's easier to do it yourself
File-sharing site Zippyshare to shut down after 17 years
A big blow to file-sharers everywhere