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Game Repacker DODI Retires Ahead of Wedding, Hands Site to New Team
https://torrentfreak.com/game-repacker-dodi-retires-ahead-of-wedding-hands-site-to-new-team/
Published: November 13, 2026 08:31
Popular game repacker DODI is retiring, citing his wedding and a move to France, noting that running a pirate site is not an option there. He says the domains, hosting and accounts were already handed to a new repack team. Meanwhile, the game industry…
Copyright-Strike-for-Hire: Lawsuit Targets Service Over Fake Meta Takedowns
https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-strike-for-hire-lawsuit-targets-service-over-fake-meta-takedowns/
Published: November 12, 2026 08:56
A rivalry between two Miami sellers of $120 dog breed photo books has been escalated to a Florida federal court. The lawsuit accuses a rival publisher of hiring an account-ban vendor, who allegedly weaponized Meta's copyright system by filing takedown…
Nintendo Targets Picofly Switch Modchip Firmware in GitHub DMCA Takedown
https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-targets-picofly-switch-modchip-firmware-in-github-dmca-takedown/
Published: November 11, 2026 09:08
After taking down Switch emulators and hacking tools on GitHub for years, Nintendo is now going after modchip firmware. The gaming company sent a DMCA notice targeting firmware for modchips such as Picofly, SX Core and HWFLY, after which GitHub disabled…
Pirate Library WeLib Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Domain Takedown Order
https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-library-welib-hit-with-19-5m-judgment-and-domain-takedown-order/
Published: November 10, 2026 09:36
A New York federal judge has awarded thirteen major publishers $19.5 million in damages in their lawsuit against pirate library WeLib. The default judgment also orders registries, registrars and hosting providers, including Cloudflare and Njalla, to take…
Movistar Blocks Its Own Support Forum Under LaLiga Anti-Piracy Order
https://torrentfreak.com/movistar-blocks-its-own-support-forum-under-laliga-anti-piracy-order/
Published: November 9, 2026 09:36
Spain's court-ordered piracy blocking regime blocked the official customer support forum of Internet provider Movistar on Saturday night. A blocking notice referenced a ruling that LaLiga obtained together with the company that runs the Movistar Plus+…
Inside a French Piracy Blocklist: Expired Domains, a Seized Site, and Hong Kong Servers
Published: November 7, 2026 13:36
In May, a Paris court ordered DNS resolvers to block six domains that streamed pirated tennis matches. After a series of quiet, unannounced expansions, the list has since grown to 118. This includes two domain names that now belong to TorrentFreak.…
Mexico’s Senate Approves ISP Rules to Disconnect Persistent Online Pirates
https://torrentfreak.com/mexicos-senate-approves-isp-rules-to-disconnect-persistent-online-pirates/
Published: November 6, 2026 08:34
Mexico's Senate has approved copyright amendments that require Internet providers to have a policy to cut off repeat infringers, or risk liability for their subscribers' piracy. The law doesn't explicitly say who counts as a repeat infringer. The changes…
Meta Employees ‘Interacted’ With Pirated Copies of Adult Films, Filing Shows
https://torrentfreak.com/meta-employees-interacted-with-pirated-copies-of-adult-films-filing-shows/
Published: November 5, 2026 07:22
A newly unredacted court filing shows that Meta’s internal investigation found several employees who appear to have interacted with Strike 3’s adult films. The adult content producers say these were torrented copies listed in their lawsuit, but Meta says…
Vietnam Jails Pirate Football Streamers for Up to a Year, Three Escape Prison
Published: November 4, 2026 09:27
A Vietnamese court has sentenced 14 people who worked on the pirate football streaming site Bún Chả TV, handing out the first prison terms we've seen since the country's piracy crackdown began earlier this year. Eleven defendants received sentences ranging…
Funimation Shutdown Fuels Push for DMCA Exemption to Legally Rip Anime Content
Published: November 3, 2026 08:08
When Funimation shut down in 2024, buyers of DVDs and Blu-ray discs that came with a Funimation digital release lost access to those copies. A fresh petition to the U.S. Copyright Office cites this as a reason for a DMCA exemption that would allow disc…