Top Hackernews posts from torrentfreak.com

1. DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results (torrentfreak.com)
   864 points by TangerineDream over 2 years ago | 446 comments
2. ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’ (torrentfreak.com)
   743 points by input_sh over 3 years ago | 296 comments
3. Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content (torrentfreak.com)
   615 points by prvc over 3 years ago | 269 comments
4. FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims (torrentfreak.com)
   555 points by mrzool over 3 years ago | 297 comments
5. YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship (torrentfreak.com)
   516 points by thunderbong over 1 year ago | 213 comments
6. Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge (torrentfreak.com)
   494 points by gslin about 1 year ago | 73 comments
7. Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order (torrentfreak.com)
   493 points by XiS almost 3 years ago | 316 comments
8. Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly (torrentfreak.com)
   462 points by notamy 8 months ago | 910 comments
9. Z-Library Returns on the Clearnet in Full Hydra-Mode (torrentfreak.com)
   460 points by bertman over 1 year ago | 138 comments
10. High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students (torrentfreak.com)
    455 points by andrew-ld over 1 year ago | 314 comments
11. All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2023 Were Bogus (torrentfreak.com)
    451 points by HieronymusBosch 9 months ago | 128 comments
12. "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix (torrentfreak.com)
    449 points by bertman over 2 years ago | 293 comments
13. YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban (torrentfreak.com)
    440 points by marban about 1 year ago | 236 comments
14. How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices (torrentfreak.com)
    417 points by perihelions about 2 years ago | 183 comments
15. Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old (torrentfreak.com)
    405 points by CoBE10 about 1 year ago | 214 comments
16. Google sues two men who weaponized DMCA notices to crush competition (torrentfreak.com)
    390 points by HieronymusBosch 10 months ago | 181 comments
17. Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago (torrentfreak.com)
    389 points by luuurker 4 months ago | 334 comments
18. Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses (torrentfreak.com)
    385 points by TangerineDream about 3 years ago | 496 comments
19. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)
    384 points by EMIRELADERO about 1 year ago | 276 comments
20. French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy (torrentfreak.com)
    366 points by popcalc 3 months ago | 222 comments
21. UK ISP Sky feeds realtime customer bandwidth data to litigous anti-piracy firm (torrentfreak.com)
    351 points by azalemeth about 3 years ago | 99 comments
22. Shopify files lawsuit over DMCA abuse (torrentfreak.com)
    340 points by gslin 11 months ago | 206 comments
23. The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary (torrentfreak.com)
    339 points by HieronymusBosch 12 months ago | 122 comments
24. Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements (torrentfreak.com)
    337 points by dp-hackernews over 2 years ago | 168 comments
25. U.S. indicts two men for running a $20M YouTube content ID scam (torrentfreak.com)
    320 points by ivank almost 3 years ago | 209 comments
26. More than 600k students and teachers use Z-Library (torrentfreak.com)
    310 points by nickthegreek over 1 year ago | 107 comments
27. Cloudflare disables access to ‘pirated’ content on its IPFS gateway (torrentfreak.com)
    304 points by gslin over 1 year ago | 163 comments
28. Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, secure and adware free (torrentfreak.com)
    303 points by CTOSian almost 3 years ago | 89 comments
29. Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (2011) (torrentfreak.com)
    301 points by ROARosen over 3 years ago | 242 comments
30. Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User (torrentfreak.com)
    285 points by HieronymusBosch almost 2 years ago | 132 comments
31. U.S. Hits Z-Library with New Domain Name Seizures (torrentfreak.com)
    281 points by nickthegreek over 1 year ago | 190 comments
32. The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon (torrentfreak.com)
    278 points by uniqueid about 3 years ago | 98 comments
33. Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline (torrentfreak.com)
    256 points by bigtimber over 1 year ago | 130 comments
34. Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS (torrentfreak.com)
    255 points by muterad_murilax over 3 years ago | 121 comments
35. “The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says (torrentfreak.com)
    252 points by TangerineDream almost 3 years ago | 270 comments
36. Google preemptively banned hundreds of millions of 'pirate' URLs last year (torrentfreak.com)
    251 points by CoBE10 about 1 year ago | 218 comments
37. Zippyshare quits after 17 years, 45M visits per month makes no money (torrentfreak.com)
    245 points by HieronymusBosch over 1 year ago | 219 comments
38. Publishers carpet-bomb IPFS gateway operators with DMCA notices (torrentfreak.com)
    234 points by gslin about 1 year ago | 137 comments
39. GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is apparently a problem (torrentfreak.com)
    230 points by TangerineDream over 3 years ago | 94 comments
40. Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy (torrentfreak.com)
    223 points by turbohz over 3 years ago | 90 comments
41. "Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint (torrentfreak.com)
    222 points by bertman 9 months ago | 113 comments
42. YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3M Restitution (torrentfreak.com)
    218 points by gslin 10 months ago | 49 comments
43. Music Company Asks Google to Delist 'YouTube Downloader' Wikipedia Article (torrentfreak.com)
    218 points by picture over 1 year ago | 66 comments
44. Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity (torrentfreak.com)
    217 points by dredmorbius almost 3 years ago | 328 comments
45. Iconic Torrent Site Rarbg Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop (torrentfreak.com)
    217 points by notmine1337 over 1 year ago | 2 comments
46. IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare (torrentfreak.com)
    216 points by weinzierl about 1 year ago | 88 comments
47. Sci-Hub: Scientists, Academics, Teachers and Students Protest Blocking Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)
    212 points by parsecs over 3 years ago | 88 comments
48. Z-Library to let users share physical books (torrentfreak.com)
    208 points by quazar over 1 year ago | 80 comments
49. Amazon removes books from Kindle Unlimited after they appear on pirate sites (torrentfreak.com)
    203 points by JetSpiegel over 1 year ago | 152 comments
50. Sci-Hub: Elsevier and Springer Nature Obtain UK ISP Blocking Order (torrentfreak.com)
    201 points by picture over 3 years ago | 97 comments
51. Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order (torrentfreak.com)
    187 points by gslin about 1 year ago | 145 comments
52. Popular Pirate Bay proxy site disappears from GitHub (torrentfreak.com)
    186 points by gslin over 1 year ago | 136 comments
53. Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally (torrentfreak.com)
    180 points by mgdigital 7 months ago | 97 comments
54. TekSavvy takes pirate site blocking battle to Canada’s Supreme Court (torrentfreak.com)
    177 points by curmudgeon22 about 3 years ago | 54 comments
55. Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA's Artemis Towards Black Hole (torrentfreak.com)
    177 points by CoBE10 9 months ago | 52 comments
56. BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited (torrentfreak.com)
    171 points by boramalper about 3 years ago | 90 comments
57. The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old (torrentfreak.com)
    169 points by gslin 12 months ago | 50 comments
58. Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application to Fight ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com)
    167 points by gengear almost 3 years ago | 20 comments
59. Several piracy-related arrests spark fears of high-level crackdown (torrentfreak.com)
    162 points by gslin 10 months ago | 320 comments
60. 'Terminating Internet Access over Piracy Claims Is Drastic and Overbroad' (torrentfreak.com)
    161 points by gslin 11 months ago | 144 comments
61. Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires (torrentfreak.com)
    158 points by forlorn almost 3 years ago | 85 comments
62. Research Suggests That Software Piracy Lowers Poverty (torrentfreak.com)
    157 points by elashri about 2 years ago | 67 comments
63. Take-Two Sues Enthusiasts Behind GTA Fan Projects Re3 and ReVC (torrentfreak.com)
    157 points by askl about 3 years ago | 90 comments
64. 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload (torrentfreak.com)
    150 points by raninepaths over 2 years ago | 79 comments
65. Over 900 Rarbg Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked from GitHub (torrentfreak.com)
    146 points by KomoD about 1 year ago | 61 comments
66. Quad9 blocks pirate site globally after Sony demanded €10k fine (torrentfreak.com)
    138 points by gslin about 1 year ago | 65 comments
67. Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links (torrentfreak.com)
    133 points by gslin about 1 year ago | 49 comments
68. “The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs (torrentfreak.com)
    132 points by curmudgeon22 almost 3 years ago | 181 comments
69. Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names (torrentfreak.com)
    131 points by mrzool almost 2 years ago | 73 comments
70. European Commission Calls for Pirate Site Blocking Around the Globe (torrentfreak.com)
    124 points by CoBE10 over 1 year ago | 96 comments
71. Major torrent sites are currently exposing details of their operations? (torrentfreak.com)
    120 points by HieronymusBosch over 1 year ago | 71 comments
72. Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution (torrentfreak.com)
    118 points by gslin about 1 year ago | 51 comments
73. GitHub and EFF back YouTube ripper in legal battle with the RIAA (torrentfreak.com)
    116 points by HieronymusBosch over 1 year ago | 6 comments
74. Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens’ Fundamental Rights in France (torrentfreak.com)
    114 points by gslin over 1 year ago | 12 comments
75. IPTV Anti-Piracy Threats May Increase Male Motivation to Pirate by 30% (torrentfreak.com)
    109 points by gslin 8 months ago | 85 comments
76. Comcast Subscriber Receives DMCA Notice for Downloading Ubuntu (torrentfreak.com)
    105 points by LopRabbit over 3 years ago | 2 comments
77. Movie Tycoon Sues YouTube over Piracy and Exposes Content-ID ‘Caveat’ (torrentfreak.com)
    105 points by curmudgeon22 over 3 years ago | 40 comments
78. Viewing Illegal Streams: No Cautions, Fines or Arrests Say GM Police (torrentfreak.com)
    104 points by CTOSian 8 months ago | 106 comments
79. DNS Providers as Piracy Fighters? (torrentfreak.com)
    101 points by HieronymusBosch almost 2 years ago | 94 comments
80. Canada Proposes New Regime to Block and Deindex Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com)
    100 points by curmudgeon22 over 3 years ago | 71 comments
81. Sky Asked Govt. To Target Pirate IPTV Resellers via New Dedicated Police Unit (torrentfreak.com)
    99 points by gslin 11 months ago | 76 comments
82. U.S. Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act to Combat Piracy (torrentfreak.com)
    95 points by redm over 2 years ago | 97 comments
83. RIAA Thwarts Yout’s Attempt to Declare YouTube-Ripping Legal (torrentfreak.com)
    94 points by ChrisArchitect almost 2 years ago | 57 comments
84. French Gov Wants to Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly into Web Browsers (torrentfreak.com)
    94 points by CoBE10 about 1 year ago | 100 comments
85. Court: Cloudflare Is Liable for Pirate Site, but Not as a DNS Provider (torrentfreak.com)
    94 points by isaacfrond 10 months ago | 97 comments
86. Anti-Piracy Firm Asks Google to Block 127.0.0.1 (torrentfreak.com)
    89 points by latexr about 3 years ago | 12 comments
87. Lawsuit accuses Anna's Archive of hacking WorldCat (torrentfreak.com)
    86 points by nickthegreek 7 months ago | 35 comments
88. Court orders WhatsApp to suspend users sharing pirated movie (torrentfreak.com)
    85 points by curmudgeon22 over 3 years ago | 84 comments
89. Publishers secure widespread support in copyright battle with Internet Archive (torrentfreak.com)
    85 points by gslin 6 months ago | 57 comments
90. LaLiga “Talks to Google” About Deleting Piracy Apps from a Million Phones (torrentfreak.com)
    84 points by gslin 12 months ago | 60 comments
91. 'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate' (torrentfreak.com)
    83 points by HieronymusBosch 5 months ago | 107 comments
92. JW Player suffers traffic loss after dynamic piracy blocking blunder (torrentfreak.com)
    82 points by gslin 8 months ago | 8 comments
93. Google and Amazon Helped the FBI Identify Z-Library’s Operators (torrentfreak.com)
    80 points by picture almost 2 years ago | 31 comments
94. FBI and Austria's C4 Hit Z-Library with a New Wave of Domain Seizures (torrentfreak.com)
    79 points by Zweihander 11 months ago | 41 comments
95. 2.6M Piracy Reports Against French Users Resulted in 234 Financial Penalties (torrentfreak.com)
    78 points by isaacfrond 3 months ago | 41 comments
96. DMCA Notices Took Down 20,517 GitHub Projects Last Year (torrentfreak.com)
    78 points by isaacfrond 6 months ago | 64 comments
97. Italian Piracy Shield Adds Cloudflare IP Thus Blocking many Websites (torrentfreak.com)
    78 points by isaacfrond 7 months ago | 34 comments
98. Court Orders U.S. Navy to Pay $154,400 in Software Piracy Damages (torrentfreak.com)
    77 points by gslin almost 2 years ago | 43 comments
99. Pirate site traffic surges with help from manga boom (torrentfreak.com)
    77 points by gslin over 2 years ago | 90 comments
100. Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine (torrentfreak.com)
     77 points by HieronymusBosch 5 months ago | 18 comments