TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

“Meta downloaded millions of pirated books from LibGen through the bit torrent protocol using a platform called LibTorrent. “By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyright infringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books.” copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Real-Debrid is nifty tool that provides access to premium and unrestricted downloads from a variety of file hosting and torrent websites. The popular download service operates as a middleman to access file-hosting platforms, for example, and also uses cached content to stream content from torrent sites instantly.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 31, 2023

Netflix's King of Collectibles is sued over show idea, Google takes down Downloader app and USPTO launches new roundtable on piracy. The post 3 Count: Not-so Goldin Touch appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2025

This case has a clear piracy angle, as Meta used BitTorrent to download archives of pirated books to use as training material. Meanwhile, the authors argued that the downloading of millions of books cannot be classified as fair use, since the source of the books is clearly copyright infringing. downloading for personal enjoyment).

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In general terms, these apps disguise themselves as a game or some other benign tool then once downloaded, users are able to ‘activate’ new functionality, such as streaming the latest movies and TV shows illegally.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

Internet Archive hits back in music label lawsuit, German police seize billions worth of bitcoin and Nightshade gets 250K downloads. The post 3 Count: 78 RPMs appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

For downloaders in the early 2000s, faster connections couldn’t come soon enough. In the meantime, ads promising faster downloads began appearing everywhere. Others linked to all-you-can-eat ‘direct download’ portals with flashy names and equally flashy graphics. In most cases there was no content to download.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2025

Specifically, the authors say that Meta willingly used BitTorrent to download pirated books from LibGen, knowing that was legally problematic. “Put another way, by opting to use a bit torrent system to download LibGens voluminous collection of pirated books, Meta ‘seeded’ pirated books to other users worldwide.”

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below. Robert Diab , a law professor at Thompson Rivers University, raised similar thoughts in his own piece on the lawsuit. Robert joins the Law Bytes podcast to discuss the case and its implications for copyright and AI in Canada.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2024

According to an infamous anti-piracy PSA that just recently celebrated its 20th birthday, downloading a copy of a movie is the same as stealing a physical disc from a regular store, stealing a handbag, or even stealing a car.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

The authors previously alleged that Meta shared copies of pirated books with third-parties when it downloaded shadow library data via BitTorrent. Because seeding typically refers to the state where a BitTorrent user has a complete copy of the downloaded files, the rightsholders became interested in Metas leeching activity.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2024

These tools allow people to download music from platforms such as YouTube and, despite their legal use cases, the music group considers stream-rippers a prime copyright infringement tool. The RIAA goes on to list other typical pirate threats, including torrent indexers, direct music download sites, and cyberlockers.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Sites were overwhelmingly free and if MP3 files were spotted by an alert surfer, it was almost considered rude not to download them, bandwidth permitting. The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In recent years, music industry groups have become increasingly concerned by tools that allow users to download MP3s from online streaming services, including YouTube. It cannot download content from third-party sites. These so-called ‘stream-rippers’ violate the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision; they argue.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

According to the reports, Lin set up a company that acquired the rights to 18 movies and then began to “tempt” users into downloading those films illegally. It then began to target alleged downloaders of those films, seeking to obtain quick but lucrative settlements from the alleged infringers.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They uploaded those videos to Twitter, but Ngo would later download those videos and reupload them to his own accounts. He claims to have only used tools provided by Twitter and, as the plaintiffs allege, have downloaded the videos separately. Those tweets have already been removed by Twitter.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Voltage Holdings, a company best known for strongly litigating against piracy of films it holds the rights to, has begun sending out threatening letters to suspected UK pirates, seeking settlement fees for alleged illegal downloads.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 7, 2025

The following are 25 of the most common classes and what they broadly or generally contain.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

They note that rampant piracy was a primary reason the industry moved from selling physical albums to making individual downloads and streams available. This present lawsuit is based on alleged BitTorrent downloads. It’s not immediately clear whether these were only torrents for individual songs.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2024

As downloading of ‘physical’ MP3-based tracks from peer-to-peer networks finally began to subside, in no small part assisted by the rise of legal streaming platforms like Spotify, a new foe had already emerged. Many use the open source ripping software youtube-dl to easily download music from YouTube.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2025

The title tag ‘WEB-DL’ is an indication that the copy was downloaded (rather than ripped) from an online source, potentially an online screener viewing platform. Paramount operates a service for precisely that purpose, but there’s no information to suggest any specific origin.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As the days get shorter, downloads of specific pirated movies start to increase. As a follow-up, we now take a closer look at the seasonal download, reaching an unexpected conclusion. As a follow-up, we now take a closer look at the seasonal download, reaching an unexpected conclusion.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

According to the Court, the content of the downloaded images was correlated with pre-existing image descriptions stored in the LAION 5B dataset. The plaintiff, in this case, asserted his opt-out right – the website hosting his photographic works prohibits “downloading, scraping, or caching” of any content.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

. “A thorough examination of the evidence presented and the evaluation report submitted reveals that all the cited websites are hosting pirated versions of movies or TV shows, allowing users to access these illegal copies by downloading or streaming them,” IPOPHL writes.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2024

remain online, but downloading pirated books turns out to be quite a challenge. Inactive LibGen Admin and Downloads? Starting last weekend, regular LibGen downloads suddenly stopped working. There is no indication that the current download problems are related to this court case, however. Today, Libgen.rs, Libgen.is

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

In light of Amazon’s decision to disable the ‘Download or Transfer via USB’ feature from their Kindle devices, Arnav Kaman discusses DRMs/TPMs, the rights of the user, what users can do with their ebooks within the fair use doctrine, and the future of ebooks in this guest post. This would be perfectly within Kindles rights.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2024

In the report, the group lists various pirate sites that enable the public to download games for free. The ESA, which represents video game companies including Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft, hopes that the interests of its members will be taken into account.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Link-Busters clients (selection) Websites such as Z-Library and Anna’s Archive allow the public to download free books. The rise of shadow libraries, combined with the threat of AI scraping, has made these companies very active on the anti-piracy front. These books can also be used for AI training.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 31, 2025

The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below. He joins the Law Bytes podcast to talk about the state of the major platforms in Canada in 2025, how our information ecosystem is vulnerable to misinformation, and what we should be doing about it. Updates on the podcast on X (Twitter) at @Lawbytespod.

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

March 5, 2025 - 11 AM [Virtual]: Asustek Computer Incorporation v. ASOS plc , Opposition No.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Shueisha’s application notes that around April 2024, its attorney investigated pirate sites that were offering links that allowed site visitors to illegally download its manga content.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

LaLiga chief Javier Tebas reported that during the first five days of the new Spanish football season, it had “eliminated” 58 Android-based piracy apps believed to have been downloaded by four million users worldwide. Tebas said that 800,000 of those users are in Spain where they use the app to watch pirated football streams.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 27, 2023

This means that all downloads and uploads can be browsed, including data related to those transfers, as seen below. The problem here is that with an entirely exposed WebUI, people can find out what Russians are downloading. The image above shows a WebUI for the Tixati torrent client.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Mixdrop is a well-known cyberlocker site that allows users to upload media content for streaming or download by others. The injunction was obtained by a group of large rightsholders and appears to primarily target the site Mixdrop.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

He alleges that thousands, if not millions, of Roblox users downloaded his work to their boomboxes for use on the Roblox platform, each paying a fee to Roblox for doing so, and that thousands, if not millions, of users downloaded his work from the Roblox server to their own personal hard drives. Direct Copyright Infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

In general, it is legally safer to embed content than to download/reupload. withhold key facts, like whether the video was embedded or downloaded/reuploaded. However, these cases show that embedding isn’t risk-free, especially outside the Ninth Circuit. Lynk Media is positioning itself for many appearances on this blog.

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The Trichordist

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The fight over frozen mechanicals continues to pay off as songwriters log another cost of living increase for physical/downloads while streaming falls farther behind.

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