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Strike 3’s Piracy Litigation Campaign Broke More Records in 2025
https://torrentfreak.com/strike-3s-piracy-litigation-campaign-broke-more-records-in-2025/
Published: January 1, 2026 11:58
Strike 3’s piracy litigation campaign reached new milestones in 2025, with over 4,000 cases filed in twelve months. While the vast majority of these still target individual BitTorrent users, the porn producer has also set its sights on Meta, one of the…
2025: Two Decades of Piracy Reporting: TorrentFreak’s Retrospective
https://torrentfreak.com/2025-two-decades-of-piracy-reporting-torrentfreaks-retrospective/
Published: December 31, 2025 09:06
As a tradition, we use the last day of the year to look back at some of the biggest stories of the past twelve months. However, since TorrentFreak just celebrated its 20th anniversary, we're zooming out even further, looking back at some of the key moments…
Premier League Targets Dozens of Pirate Streaming Sites through Cloudflare Subpoena
https://torrentfreak.com/premier-league-targets-dozens-of-pirate-streaming-sites-through-cloudflare-subpoena/
Published: December 30, 2025 09:06
England’s Premier League has obtained a DMCA subpoena against Cloudflare, hoping to curb the seemingly unbridled growth of sports streaming services. The filing in the Central District of California identifies dozens of infringing domains and demands that…
Cloudflare Reports Surge in Streaming Piracy Takedowns, Removes 20k+ Storage Accounts
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-reports-surge-in-streaming-piracy-takedowns-removes-20k-storage-accounts/
Published: December 28, 2025 16:38
Cloudflare’s latest transparency report reveals a massive 3,800% surge in copyright-related takedown actions, fueled by a shift to more automated enforcement. By granting rightsholders direct API access, the company says that it was able to target live…
Legal Push to Unmask Minions 3 Leaker Targets YouTube and Reddit
https://torrentfreak.com/legal-push-to-unmask-minions-3-leaker-targets-youtube-and-reddit/
Published: December 26, 2025 13:42
NBCUniversal is doing all it can to identify the person(s) behind a series of high-profile leaks of the film Minions 3, which is scheduled to come out on July 1, 2026. Through DMCA subpoenas, both Google and Reddit are compelled to hand over the personal…
‘Stranger Things’ Is The Most Pirated TV Show of 2025
https://torrentfreak.com/stranger-things-is-the-most-pirated-tv-show-of-2025/
Published: December 25, 2025 17:17
'Stranger Things' is the most pirated TV show of 2025 on torrent sites. The final season of the Netflix production beats its other global powerhouse, the Korean thriller "Squid Game." HBO's "The Last of Us", meanwhile, ended up in third place this year.…
French Torrent Giant YggTorrent Faces User Revolt after Introducing Paid ‘Turbo Mode’
https://torrentfreak.com/french-torrent-giant-yggtorrent-faces-user-revolt-after-introducing-paid-turbo-mode/
Published: December 23, 2025 14:39
YggTorrent, the largest francophone torrent community, faces widespread pushback after it introduced a paid 'Turbo Mode' for €86 this week. For regular users, the tracker now has a limit of five torrent downloads per day and a 30-second download delay.…
Anna’s Archive Backed Up Spotify, Plans to Release 300TB Music Archive
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-backed-up-spotify-plans-to-release-300tb-music-archive/
Published: December 22, 2025 17:35
In what appears to be the largest music leak in history, Anna’s Archive says it has made a multi-terabyte 'backup' of Spotify, including metadata for nearly the entire catalog and audio files for 86 million tracks. While Anna's Archive typically focuses on…
Brazilian Criminal Court Convicts Yout.com Owner in Landmark Stream Ripping Case
https://torrentfreak.com/brazilian-criminal-court-convicts-yout-com-owner-in-landmark-stream-ripping-case/
Published: December 22, 2025 11:55
The owner of popular U.S.-based stream-ripping site Yout.com has been found guilty of massive copyright infringement by a criminal court in Brazil. Last week, the court sentenced American citizen Johnathan Nader to a prison term of three years and four…
Video Game Giants Suddenly Have RuTracker in their Crosshairs Again
https://torrentfreak.com/video-game-giants-suddenly-have-rutracker-in-their-crosshairs-251221/
Published: December 21, 2025 10:10
RuTracker is not only Russia's largest torrent site, it's one of the oldest and most resilient pirate sites anywhere in the world. Most major entertainment companies have had issues with RuTracker at some point during its 21 years online, and those in the…