Hackernews posts about TorrentFreak

1. U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD" (torrentfreak.com)
   267 points by HieronymusBosch 18 days ago | 247 comments
2. Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’ (torrentfreak.com)
   192 points by gslin 17 days ago | 92 comments
3. Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members (torrentfreak.com)
   107 points by speckx 2 days ago | 60 comments
4. PlayReady DRM leak triggers Microsoft takedown and Amazon account suspensions (torrentfreak.com)
   43 points by esseph 13 days ago | 9 comments
5. New Cloudflare Pirate Site Blocking May Involve Domains (torrentfreak.com)
   35 points by gslin 1 day ago | 8 comments
6. Belgium Targets Internet Archive's Open Library in Site Blocking Order (torrentfreak.com)
   16 points by raybb 5 days ago | discuss
7. Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input (torrentfreak.com)
   14 points by voxadam 25 days ago | 10 comments
8. Canadian Court Rejects Reverse Class Action Lawsuit Against BitTorrent Pirates (torrentfreak.com)
   8 points by gslin 13 days ago | 2 comments
9. Publishing Giants Escalate War on 'Shadow Libraries' with Cloudflare Subpoena (torrentfreak.com)
   6 points by treetalker 6 days ago | 1 comments
10. 'Fair Use' Prevails as Library of Congress Wins DMCA Anti-Circumvention Battle (torrentfreak.com)
    6 points by pabs3 20 days ago | discuss
11. 'Fair Use' Prevails as Library of Congress Wins DMCA Anti-Circumvention Battle (torrentfreak.com)
    5 points by isaacfrond 21 days ago | discuss
12. Facebook Rigorously Removes News Articles Mentioning Pirate Service "MagisTV" (torrentfreak.com)
    5 points by isaacfrond 21 days ago | discuss
13. Google Sues Operators of a 10M Device Android Set-Top Box Botnet (torrentfreak.com)
    5 points by gslin 28 days ago | discuss
14. Pirate Site Blockades Get Judicial Scrutiny in Germany, but No Transparency? (torrentfreak.com)
    4 points by gslin 29 days ago | discuss
15. $350M lawsuit: Meta allegedly used torrents of 2,600 adult films for AI (torrentfreak.com)
    3 points by BinaryWhiz 21 days ago | 1 comments
16. Google's DMCA Transparency Report 'Freezes' After Recent Volume Surge (torrentfreak.com)
    3 points by gslin 15 days ago | discuss
17. PlayReady DRM Leak Triggers Microsoft Takedown and Amazon Account Suspensions (torrentfreak.com)
    3 points by gslin 19 days ago | discuss
18. Copyright Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Pirating Adult Films for AI Training (torrentfreak.com)
    3 points by isaacfrond 22 days ago | discuss
19. Belgium Targets Internet Archive's Open Library in Site Blocking Order (torrentfreak.com)
    2 points by campuscodi 1 day ago | discuss
20. All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2023 Were Bogus (torrentfreak.com)
    451 points by HieronymusBosch over 1 year ago | 128 comments
21. The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawful' Traffic,TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
    67 points by janandonly over 1 year ago | 136 comments
22. TorrentFreak Turns 18 Today (torrentfreak.com)
    63 points by CoBE10 almost 2 years ago | 6 comments
23. TorrentFreak is wrong about Google DNS notification (write.as)
    58 points by Harvesterify 3 months ago | 9 comments
24. Cox to Appeals Court: DMCA Subpoenas Don't Apply to Us, Period * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
    6 points by isaacfrond 8 months ago | 2 comments
25. TorrentFreak Enters the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov)
    5 points by popcalc about 1 year ago | discuss
26. AAPA Seeks to Expand EU Pirate Site Blocking to Browsers and VPNs * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
    3 points by janandonly 11 months ago | discuss
27. Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
    439 points by itvision over 1 year ago | 234 comments
28. Copyright Holders in Italy Granted Power to Block IPs Without Judicial Oversight
    24 points by andrew-ld almost 2 years ago | 2 comments
29. Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand (torrentfreak.com)
    853 points by wut42 about 1 year ago | 1150 comments
30. 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist (torrentfreak.com)
    521 points by isaacfrond 12 months ago | 228 comments
31. Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly (torrentfreak.com)
    462 points by notamy over 1 year ago | 910 comments
32. Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com)
    419 points by hn_acker 9 months ago | 130 comments
33. U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction (torrentfreak.com)
    416 points by samizdis 11 months ago | 492 comments
34. Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old (torrentfreak.com)
    405 points by CoBE10 almost 2 years ago | 214 comments
35. Google sues two men who weaponized DMCA notices to crush competition (torrentfreak.com)
    390 points by HieronymusBosch almost 2 years ago | 181 comments
36. Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago (torrentfreak.com)
    389 points by luuurker about 1 year ago | 334 comments
37. French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy (torrentfreak.com)
    366 points by popcalc about 1 year ago | 222 comments
38. Shopify files lawsuit over DMCA abuse (torrentfreak.com)
    340 points by gslin almost 2 years ago | 206 comments
39. The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary (torrentfreak.com)
    339 points by HieronymusBosch almost 2 years ago | 122 comments
40. Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017) (torrentfreak.com)
    329 points by __natty__ 6 months ago | 253 comments
41. Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction (torrentfreak.com)
    317 points by mistercheph about 1 year ago | 203 comments
42. Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives (torrentfreak.com)
    263 points by reynaldi 3 months ago | 256 comments
43. Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition (torrentfreak.com)
    257 points by mrzool about 1 year ago | 219 comments
44. Google preemptively banned hundreds of millions of 'pirate' URLs last year (torrentfreak.com)
    251 points by CoBE10 almost 2 years ago | 218 comments
45. Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users (torrentfreak.com)
    234 points by gloxkiqcza about 1 month ago | 258 comments
46. "Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint (torrentfreak.com)
    222 points by bertman over 1 year ago | 113 comments
47. YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3M Restitution (torrentfreak.com)
    218 points by gslin almost 2 years ago | 49 comments
48. DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently (torrentfreak.com)
    184 points by DanAtC 3 months ago | 160 comments
49. Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally (torrentfreak.com)
    180 points by mgdigital over 1 year ago | 97 comments