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5 days ago | torrentfreak.com | Andy Maxwell

When the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment launched in 2017, the globalization of online piracy had been apparent for some time. In the relatively calm waters of a decade earlier, the Hollywood majors tackled pirate adversaries all around the world, often while pooling resources under the banner of the MPAA. Less-connected rightsholders had little choice but to go it alone while shouldering 100% of the costs.

1 week ago | torrentfreak.com | Andy Maxwell

A trio of DMCA subpoena applications filed in the United States this week aim to extract any information held by three well-known internet companies, on potentially dozens of pirate site operators using their services. The vast majority of the requests appear in a single DMCA subpoena targeting Cloudflare. Of the 52 main domains in that application, six also appear in another application directed at Tonic Corporation’s .to registry.

1 week ago | torrentfreak.com | Andy Maxwell

Anna’s Archive is a meta-search engine for shadow libraries that allows users to find pirated books and other related resources. In late 2023, the search engine Anna’s Archive expanded its offering by making data from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database available online. Anna’s Archive scraped several terabytes of data over the course of a year and published roughly 700 million unique records online, for free. These records contain no copyrighted books or articles.

1 week ago | torrentfreak.com | Andy Maxwell

Without assurances that hosts, domain registries, registrars, DNS providers, and consumer ISPs would not be immediately held liable for internet users’ activities, investing in the growth of the early internet may have proven less attractive. Of course, not being held immediately liable is a far cry from not being held liable at all.

1 week ago | torrentfreak.com | Andy Maxwell

As debate heats up in the United States over proposed site-blocking legislation, opinions of what that might mean in practice are already beginning to emerge. Introduced by Rep. Zoe Lofgren late January, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA) attempts to distill well over a decade of site blocking experience amassed by U.S. rightsholders overseas, into a package carefully curated for use on home soil.