Collaborate Disseminate
“Italy is using its Piracy Shield law to go after Google,” reports Ars Technica, “with a court ordering the Internet giant to immediately begin poisoning its public DNS servers” to prevent people from reaching pirate streams of football games.
“Italy… Continue reading Italy Demands Google Poison Its Public DNS Under Strict Piracy Shield Law
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A 37-year-old Tennessee man was arrested Thursday, accused of stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing and distribution company used by major movie studios and sharing them online before the… Continue reading Feds Arrest Man For Sharing DVD Rip of Spider-Man Movie With Millions Online
A malicious PyPi package effectively turned its users’ systems “into an illicit network for facilitating bulk music downloads,” writes The Hacker News.
Though the package has been removed from PyPI, researchers at security platform Socket.dev say it … Continue reading Malicious PyPI Package Exploited Deezer’s API, Orchestrates a Distributed Piracy Operation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Just because Meta admitted to torrenting a dataset of pirated books for AI training purposes, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Meta seeded the file after downloading it, the social media company … Continue reading Meta Claims Torrenting Pirated Books Isn’t Illegal Without Proof of Seeding
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Altice, parent company of Internet provider Optimum, must disclose the personal details of a hundred alleged music pirates. The request comes from a group of prominent record labels and is part of … Continue reading ISP Must Unmask 100 Alleged BitTorrent Pirates In RIAA Lawsuit
Kaspersky ICS CERT analyzes industrial threat trends and makes forecasts on how the industrial threat landscape will look in 2025. Continue reading Threat predictions for industrial enterprises 2025
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In ‘piracy’ associated circles, Z-Library has one of the most followed Telegram channels of all. The shadow library’s official channel amassed over 630,000 subscribers over the years, who were amon… Continue reading Telegram Shuts Down Z-Library, Anna’s Archive Channels Over Copyright Infringement
The shift from paywalled to open-access scientific publishing is progressing, driven in part by platforms like Sci-Hub — a website that allows users to upload PDFs of published papers and share them with anyone. While the shadow library website has fa… Continue reading Science Paper Piracy Site Sci-Hub Shares Lots of Retracted Papers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In a landmark ruling, the Court of Milan has ordered (PDF) Cloudflare to block pirate streaming services that offer Serie A football matches. The court found that Cloudflare’s services are instrume… Continue reading Cloudflare Must Block ‘Piracy Shield’ Domains and IP Addresses Across Its Service
A piracy ring that gave 22 million subscribers in Europe cheap access to content stolen from international streaming services has been shut down by Italian authorities after a two-year investigation. From a report: The criminal enterprise used a comple… Continue reading Italian Authorities Shut Down $3.2 Billion-a-Year Pirate TV, Streaming Ring