On December 9th, 2025 with 49 comments
Netflix's $72 billion bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery has triggered a consumer class action claiming the merger would crush competition, erase HBO Max as a...
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On October 1st, 2025 with 6 comments
In India, Bollywood stars are asking judges to protect their voice and persona in the era of AI. From a report: One famous couple's biggest target is Google's...
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On August 26th, 2025 with 111 comments
Amazon is facing a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it misleads customers by advertising digital movies and TV shows as "purchases," when in reality...
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On May 29th, 2025 with 61 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An accused movie pirate who stole more than 1,000 Blu-ray discs and DVDs while working for a DVD...
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On January 8th, 2025 with 32 comments
Former MoviePass CEO Theodore Farnsworth has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy charges for misleading investors about the movie subscription...
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On October 29th, 2024 with 62 comments
Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. has threatened legal action against future studio executives who attempt to recreate his likeness using AI. "I intend to sue all...
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On October 21st, 2024 with 78 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Hollywood Reporter: A production company for Blade Runner 2049 has sued (PDF) Tesla, which allegedly fed images...
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On September 27th, 2024 with 31 comments
A U.S. Trademark Office tribunal canceled Marvel and DC's jointly owned "Super Hero" trademarks after the companies failed to respond to a request by...
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On August 8th, 2024 with 76 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In Brazil, there was a [...] unbelievable display of public piracy last week that went on to make...
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On March 5th, 2024 with 36 comments
Piracy was traditionally seen as something that predominantly young males were interested in. This is a largely outdated representation of reality, as girls...
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On February 26th, 2024 with 21 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In recent months, Movie-Web has quickly gained popularity among a particular group of movie aficionados....
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On January 12th, 2024 with 110 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The trailer for "Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food" promised a sunny if melodramatic story of...
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On August 23rd, 2023 with 71 comments
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against a group of online stores that sell pirated DVDs of key titles such as "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" and "The...
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On August 1st, 2023 with 55 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Film companies lost another attempt to force Reddit to identify anonymous users who discussed piracy. A...
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On April 18th, 2023 with 111 comments
Netflix is planning a "broad rollout" of the password sharing crackdown that it began implementing in 2022, the company said today in its Q1 2023 earnings...
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On January 9th, 2023 with 198 comments
AmiMoJo writes: Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has signed a new law that legalizes piracy of movies, music, TV shows and software owned by...
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On November 4th, 2022 with 19 comments
Mitch Lowe and Ted Farnsworth already settled with the FTC over fraudulent activity affecting MoviePass customers, but now the former heads of MoviePass and...
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On September 16th, 2022 with 63 comments
Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Comcast were hit with copyright lawsuits accusing them of turning a blind eye to customers who illegally distribute and download...
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On September 13th, 2022 with 81 comments
Adobe thinks it has the answer to Netflix's "password sharing" problem that involves up to 46 million people, according to a 2020 study. TorrentFreak reports: ...
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On September 9th, 2022 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted five men for running an operation that uploaded movies to the...
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On August 2nd, 2022 with 257 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: You wouldn't steal a car, right? So why are you pirating? With this 2004 message, the movie industry...
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On May 25th, 2022 with 74 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: The ordeal of three people, who edited major movies down to 10 minutes and then uploaded those summaries...
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On March 11th, 2021 with 81 comments
Netflix is testing a new feature that could signal the start of an effort to crack down on password sharing. Hollywood Reporter reports: Spotted by GammaWire,...
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On September 4th, 2020 with 85 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Every day, millions of people download or stream pirated content including movies, TV-shows, games,...
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On August 29th, 2020 with 98 comments
The official premiere of Tenet has drawn many people to the movie theaters this week. On pirate sites, there's been plenty of interest too, as thousands of...
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On June 10th, 2020 with 66 comments
European police busted an illegal streaming ring that provided service to 2 million people and was so sophisticated that it had its own customer-service team....
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On March 17th, 2020 with 31 comments
Popcorn Time, the highly popular and extremely-easy-to-use "Netflix for piracy" service, came back Tuesday after a years-long hiatus. The move comes as people...
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On March 6th, 2020 with 158 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: For those who don't want to dive fully into torrents, Plex is a great alternative for streaming television shows and...
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On February 13th, 2020 with 91 comments
On Tuesday, Netflix lost a bid to escape a lawsuit brought by the trademark owner of "Choose Your Own Adventure" over the 2018 immersive film Black Mirror:...
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On January 10th, 2020 with 150 comments
In 2019, companies lost about $9.1 billion to password piracy and sharing. From a report: On Dec. 9, Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge took aim at the...
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"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11
