MPAA Reports The Pirate Bay to The U.S. Government - Responding to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the MPAA has sent in its annual list of rogue websites. TorrentFreak obtained a copy of the MPAA’s latest submission. The Hollywood group targets a wide variety of websites which they claim are promoting the illegal distribution of movies and TV-shows, with declining incomes and lost jobs in the movie industry as a result. These sites and s... http://ow.ly/2PJm22

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 10/27/14 - This week we have five newcomers in our chart. Let’s Be Cops is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart. Ranking (last week) Movie IMDb Rating / Trailer torrentfreak.com 1 (…) Let’s Be Cops 6.7 / t... http://ow.ly/2PI8C7

Kelly Brook Wants Fappening Nudes Removed From Google - Since late August hundreds of photos of naked celebrities have leaked online in what’s now known as “The Fappening.” The leaks resulted in a massive takedown operation targeted at sites that host and link to the controversial images. As a hosting provider and search engine Google inadvertently plays a role in distributing the compromising shots, much to the displeasure of the women involved. Several celebrities thr... http://ow.ly/2PGknN

Embedding Is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules - One of the key roles of the EU’s Court of Justice is to interpret European law to ensure that it’s applied in the same manner across all member states. The Court is also called upon by national courts to clarify finer points of EU law to progress local cases with Europe-wide implications. This week the Court of Justice issued a landmark ruling on one such case that deals with a crucial and integral part of today’... http://ow.ly/2PFfqe

Pirate Bay Sends 100,000 New Users to “Free” VPN - With an increasing number of BitTorrent users seeking solutions to hide their identities from the outside world, VPN services have seen a spike in customers in recent years. Pirate Bay users also have a great interest in anonymity. A survey among the site’s users previously revealed that nearly 70% already had a VPN or proxy or were interested in signing up with one. For this last group The Pirate Bay has an interesting... http://ow.ly/2PD14T

Record Labels Obtain Orders to Block 21 Torrent Sites - Having ISPs block file-sharing sites is a key anti-piracy strategy employed by major rightsholders in the UK. Both Hollywood-affiliated groups and the recording labels have obtained High Court orders alongside claims that the process is an effective way to hinder piracy. Last week these rightsholders were joined by luxury brand owner Richemont, which successfully obtained orders to block sites selling counterfeit p... http://ow.ly/2Pyd0R

Big Pirate Sites ‘Raided’, Admins on the Run - In June 2011, police across Europe coordinated to carry out the largest anti-piracy operation the continent had ever seen. Their target was Kino.to and its affiliates, a huge illegal movie streaming operation with links to Spain, France and the Netherlands. Ultimately several people went to jail and Kino.to disappeared, but it didn’t take long for replacement site Kinox.to to take up the slack. It’s been clear for some time... http://ow.ly/2PIn5v

FACT Wipes ‘Pirate’ Sport Streaming Software From Github - There are dozens, perhaps hundreds of sites offering either illegal sports streams viewable via embedded players or indexes of links to the same. It is these resources that were leveraged by SportsDevil, a piece of open source software popular in the various XBMC/Kodi and TVMC communities. Under development at Github, SportsDevil’s aim is to present its tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of users with links to ... http://ow.ly/2PGPMZ

Lawfirm Chasing Aussie ‘Pirates’ Discredited IP Address Evidence http://ow.ly/2PFRnD

Pirate Bay Blockade Set For Icelandic Expansion - In common with many countries around Europe, the movie and music industries in Iceland have been working hard to cut down on copyright infringement online. To this end copyright groups including the local equivalents of the RIAA (STEF) and MPAA (SMAIS) have targeted the leader of the usual suspects, the notorious Pirate Bay. After complaints to the police failed, STEF and SMAIS turned to web-blocking in the hope of achie... http://ow.ly/2PELaQ

Porn Piracy Cash Threats to Hit Virgin Media Customers - It’s been more than seven years since so-called copyright trolls first tried their luck with the British public. UK lawfirm Davenport Lyons, a company that attempted to mislead future targets with a semi-bogus high-profile damages ‘ruling’, went into administration early 2014 but not before its partners were disciplined for targeting innocent people. The follow-up debacle involving ACS:Law was widely documented, w... http://ow.ly/2PBn2z

Anti-Piracy Police PIPCU Secure Govt. Funding Until 2017 - In a relatively short space of time City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit has stamped its mark on the online piracy space in a way few other organizations have managed. Since its official launch in September 2013 the unit has tackled online copyright infringement from a number of directions including arrests, domain seizures and advertising disruptions. PIPCU has shut down several sports strea... http://ow.ly/2PxxtE