Hackernews posts about TorrentFreak

1. Two Decades of Piracy Reporting: TorrentFreak's Retrospective (torrentfreak.com)
   14 points by throw0101c 1 day ago | discuss
2. 2025: Two Decades of Piracy Reporting: TorrentFreak's Retrospective (torrentfreak.com)
   2 points by gslin 1 day ago | discuss
3. Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order (torrentfreak.com)
   290 points by t-3 20 days ago | 65 comments
4. Online Piracy Can Boost Box Office Revenue, Study Suggests (torrentfreak.com)
   21 points by gslin 19 days ago | 5 comments
5. Anna's Archive Backed Up Spotify, Plans to Release 300TB Music Archive (torrentfreak.com)
   20 points by HieronymusBosch 10 days ago | 1 comments
6. EU Ban on RU War Propaganda Misfires: Blocks Social Media Giants and Pirate IPTV (torrentfreak.com)
   12 points by gslin 15 days ago | 6 comments
7. Anna's Archive Backed Up Spotify, Plans to Release 300TB Music Archive (torrentfreak.com)
   8 points by gslin 10 days ago | 2 comments
8. Supreme Court: Can ISPs Be Liable for Piracy by Doing Nothing? (torrentfreak.com)
   6 points by gslin 30 days ago | discuss
9. A DMCA "Bot War": Google Search Processed 5B Takedown Requests in 2025 (torrentfreak.com)
   5 points by gslin 11 days ago | discuss
10. Belgium's Latest Pirate Site-Blocking Order Spares DNS Providers (torrentfreak.com)
    5 points by gslin 26 days ago | discuss
11. Hollywood warns: 'Extortionary' codec patent fees could hike streaming prices (torrentfreak.com)
    4 points by gloxkiqcza 17 days ago | discuss
12. Rampant U.S. Piracy Is a Multibillion-Dollar Concern for Manga Publishers (torrentfreak.com)
    4 points by t-3 21 days ago | discuss
13. Brazilian Criminal Court Convicts American Yout.com Owner in Stream Ripping Case (torrentfreak.com)
    3 points by HotGarbage 10 days ago | discuss
14. Automated Real-Time Pirate IPTV Blocking in France "Within Six Months" (torrentfreak.com)
    2 points by iamnothere 18 days ago | 1 comments
15. Lithuanian Watchdog Fines Torrent Tracker Users for Pirating Local Blockbuster (torrentfreak.com)
    2 points by gslin 26 days ago | 1 comments
16. The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawful' Traffic,TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
    67 points by janandonly almost 2 years ago | 136 comments
17. TorrentFreak is wrong about Google DNS notification (write.as)
    58 points by Harvesterify 7 months ago | 9 comments
18. TorrentFreak Turns 20 (torrentfreak.com)
    29 points by HieronymusBosch about 2 months ago | discuss
19. Cox to Appeals Court: DMCA Subpoenas Don't Apply to Us, Period * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
    6 points by isaacfrond about 1 year ago | 2 comments
20. TorrentFreak Enters the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov)
    5 points by popcalc over 1 year ago | discuss
21. AAPA Seeks to Expand EU Pirate Site Blocking to Browsers and VPNs * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
    3 points by janandonly about 1 year ago | discuss
22. Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
    439 points by itvision almost 2 years ago | 234 comments
23. Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand (torrentfreak.com)
    853 points by wut42 over 1 year ago | 1150 comments
24. 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist (torrentfreak.com)
    521 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 228 comments
25. Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly (torrentfreak.com)
    462 points by notamy almost 2 years ago | 910 comments
26. Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com)
    419 points by hn_acker about 1 year ago | 130 comments
27. U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction (torrentfreak.com)
    416 points by samizdis over 1 year ago | 492 comments
28. Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results (torrentfreak.com)
    397 points by gslin about 2 months ago | 158 comments
29. Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago (torrentfreak.com)
    389 points by luuurker over 1 year ago | 334 comments
30. French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy (torrentfreak.com)
    366 points by popcalc over 1 year ago | 222 comments
31. Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking? (torrentfreak.com)
    361 points by gloxkiqcza 4 months ago | 816 comments
32. Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017) (torrentfreak.com)
    329 points by __natty__ 10 months ago | 253 comments
33. Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers (torrentfreak.com)
    328 points by iamnothere about 2 months ago | 214 comments
34. Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction (torrentfreak.com)
    317 points by mistercheph over 1 year ago | 203 comments
35. DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat" (torrentfreak.com)
    268 points by gslin about 2 months ago | 116 comments
36. U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD" (torrentfreak.com)
    267 points by HieronymusBosch 5 months ago | 247 comments
37. Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives (torrentfreak.com)
    263 points by reynaldi 7 months ago | 256 comments
38. Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition (torrentfreak.com)
    257 points by mrzool over 1 year ago | 219 comments
39. Apple revokes EU distribution rights for an app on the Alt Store (torrentfreak.com)
    249 points by net01 4 months ago | 216 comments
40. Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users (torrentfreak.com)
    234 points by gloxkiqcza 6 months ago | 258 comments
41. "Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint (torrentfreak.com)
    222 points by bertman almost 2 years ago | 113 comments
42. Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’ (torrentfreak.com)
    192 points by gslin 5 months ago | 92 comments
43. DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently (torrentfreak.com)
    184 points by DanAtC 8 months ago | 160 comments
44. Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally (torrentfreak.com)
    180 points by mgdigital almost 2 years ago | 97 comments
45. Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe (torrentfreak.com)
    163 points by miki123211 12 months ago | 167 comments