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Nintendo has won a $4.5 million lawsuit against a Reddit moderator for distributing pirated Switch games, and the court has ordered him to shut down related online stores.
Music publishers including Sony are suing Anthropic for allegedly pirating copyrighted songs to train its AI, with internal chats extolling piracy cited as evidence.
Anna's Archive, a shadow library, owes $340 million in damages from lawsuits by music and book industries and lost several domains, but it continues to operate after mitigating a coordinated attack.
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement requiring Anthropic to pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its Claude chatbot, marking the largest known copyright recovery in history.
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action lawsuit over the use of pirated books in AI training, while the court ruled that training AI on copyrighted text itself is fair use.
A retrospective on BitTorrent's 25-year history, detailing its creation by Bram Cohen, its role in revolutionizing file-sharing and piracy, and its impact on internet traffic and the entertainment industry.
Amazon executives citing malware threats as the reason for ending sideloading support on new Fire Sticks, which now run the Linux-based Vega OS instead of Android-based Fire OS.
European ISPs, represented by EuroISPA, are urging the EU Commission to hold rightsholders accountable for overblocking damage caused by aggressive site blocking orders, citing numerous incidents across Europe.
A Spanish court has rejected LaLiga's request to fine NordVPN for non-compliance with a piracy blocking order, accepting that a technical dispute over IP blocking justified the VPN provider's actions.
A 2005 lawsuit by DirecTV against O.J. Simpson for satellite TV piracy, based on evidence found during an FBI raid, is revisited as an obscure chapter in his legal history.
Stremio, a media player created by two Bulgarian developers, paired with the open-source Torrentio plugin, can aggregate torrent resources across the web for free streaming content without any subscription, fully decentralized, posing a challenge to traditional streaming business models.
A New York federal judge granted a $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive and ordered a global domain takedown, after major publishers sued over copyright infringement and the site's use as a training data hub for AI companies.