TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2024

Pirated livestreams and downloads are frequently used to bypass the monthly subscription fee for UFC Fight Pass , something the company is clearly not happy with. With “ UFC Ripper “, Fight Pass subscribers can download fights to their devices, so they can watch them at their own convenience.

Music 128

Music Art Copyright Technology 128

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Real-Debrid is nifty tool that provides access to premium and unrestricted downloads from a variety of file hosting and torrent websites. The popular download service operates as a middleman to access file-hosting platforms, for example, and also uses cached content to stream content from torrent sites instantly.

Marketing 117

Marketing Marketing Copyright 117

IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

LAION case, heard by the Hamburg Regional Court, centered on LAION's automatic downloading of images, including a copyrighted work by photographer Robert Kneschke, for AI training purposes. LAION had downloaded the photo from a licensed website to check if it matched the description using its software. The Kneschke v.

Copyright Infringement 105

Copyright Infringement Copyright Copying Copyright Law 105

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JULY 4, 2025

Despite this, internal data from Energy Intelligence’s servers showed that, over just a few months, dozens of issues were downloaded hundreds of times on over 100 devices. This pattern, the plaintiffs argue, reveals a systematic practice of unauthorized copying and internal distribution.

Copying 40

Copying Copyright Infringement Licensing Publishing 40

Plagiarism Today

MAY 31, 2023

Netflix's King of Collectibles is sued over show idea, Google takes down Downloader app and USPTO launches new roundtable on piracy. The post 3 Count: Not-so Goldin Touch appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

Plagiarism 246

Plagiarism Copyright 246

Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The Court dismissed photographer Robert Kneschke’s injunction claim against the German non-profit organization LAION for the unauthorized reproduction of Kneschke’s photograph through a download from a stock photo agency website in connection with the creation of an open-source dataset for AI training purposes. 44a UrhG; Art.

Copyright 115

Copyright Art Law Technology 115

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In general terms, these apps disguise themselves as a game or some other benign tool then once downloaded, users are able to ‘activate’ new functionality, such as streaming the latest movies and TV shows illegally.

Intellectual Property 109

Intellectual Property Publishing Reporting Copyright 109

Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

Internet Archive hits back in music label lawsuit, German police seize billions worth of bitcoin and Nightshade gets 250K downloads. The post 3 Count: 78 RPMs appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

Plagiarism 264

Plagiarism Music Copyright 264

TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2025

This case has a clear piracy angle, as Meta used BitTorrent to download archives of pirated books to use as training material. Meanwhile, the authors argued that the downloading of millions of books cannot be classified as fair use, since the source of the books is clearly copyright infringing. downloading for personal enjoyment).

Fair Use 130

Fair Use Law Copying Copyright Infringement 130

IP Law 360

JUNE 30, 2025

could set new liability boundaries for internet service providers that have faced significant damages for allegedly not curbing users who repeatedly download songs illegally. Supreme Court's decision Monday to take on a $1 billion battle between major music publishers and Cox Communications Inc.

Music 98

Music Publishing 98

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

For downloaders in the early 2000s, faster connections couldn’t come soon enough. In the meantime, ads promising faster downloads began appearing everywhere. Others linked to all-you-can-eat ‘direct download’ portals with flashy names and equally flashy graphics. In most cases there was no content to download.

Reporting 113

Reporting Business Music Advertising 113

TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2025

Specifically, the authors say that Meta willingly used BitTorrent to download pirated books from LibGen, knowing that was legally problematic. “Put another way, by opting to use a bit torrent system to download LibGens voluminous collection of pirated books, Meta ‘seeded’ pirated books to other users worldwide.”

Fair Use 132

Fair Use Copyright Infringement Copying Copyright 132

TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2025

These lawsuits typically target people whose Internet connections were allegedly used to download and share copyright-infringing content via BitTorrent. ‘Thousands of Pirate Downloads’ The case started as a John Doe lawsuit, but after an IP address was linked to a Comcast account, the defendant was named.

Social Media 77

Social Media Settlement IP Copyright 77

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2024

According to an infamous anti-piracy PSA that just recently celebrated its 20th birthday, downloading a copy of a movie is the same as stealing a physical disc from a regular store, stealing a handbag, or even stealing a car.

Settlement 104

Settlement Copyright Copyright Law Copying 104

Michael Geist

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below. Robert Diab , a law professor at Thompson Rivers University, raised similar thoughts in his own piece on the lawsuit. Robert joins the Law Bytes podcast to discuss the case and its implications for copyright and AI in Canada.

Copyright 97

Copyright Law Settlement Copyright Infringement 97

TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

The authors previously alleged that Meta shared copies of pirated books with third-parties when it downloaded shadow library data via BitTorrent. Because seeding typically refers to the state where a BitTorrent user has a complete copy of the downloaded files, the rightsholders became interested in Metas leeching activity.

Fair Use 93

Fair Use Copyright Infringement Copying Copyright 93

TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2024

These tools allow people to download music from platforms such as YouTube and, despite their legal use cases, the music group considers stream-rippers a prime copyright infringement tool. The RIAA goes on to list other typical pirate threats, including torrent indexers, direct music download sites, and cyberlockers.

Music 104

Music Copyright Infringement Reporting Technology 104

TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Sites were overwhelmingly free and if MP3 files were spotted by an alert surfer, it was almost considered rude not to download them, bandwidth permitting. The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s.

Fair Use 133

Fair Use Social Media Copyright Copyright Infringement 133

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In recent years, music industry groups have become increasingly concerned by tools that allow users to download MP3s from online streaming services, including YouTube. It cannot download content from third-party sites. These so-called ‘stream-rippers’ violate the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision; they argue.

Music 104

Music Cease and Desist Copyright Technology 104

Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

According to the reports, Lin set up a company that acquired the rights to 18 movies and then began to “tempt” users into downloading those films illegally. It then began to target alleged downloaders of those films, seeking to obtain quick but lucrative settlements from the alleged infringers.

Licensing 246

Licensing Copyright Intellectual Property Plagiarism 246

Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They uploaded those videos to Twitter, but Ngo would later download those videos and reupload them to his own accounts. He claims to have only used tools provided by Twitter and, as the plaintiffs allege, have downloaded the videos separately. Those tweets have already been removed by Twitter.

Copyright Infringement 246

Copyright Infringement Social Media Licensing Copyright 246

Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Voltage Holdings, a company best known for strongly litigating against piracy of films it holds the rights to, has begun sending out threatening letters to suspected UK pirates, seeking settlement fees for alleged illegal downloads.

Copyright Infringement 246

Copyright Infringement Settlement Licensing Publishing 246

Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 7, 2025

The following are 25 of the most common classes and what they broadly or generally contain.

Social Media 130

Social Media Editing Music Advertising 130

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

They note that rampant piracy was a primary reason the industry moved from selling physical albums to making individual downloads and streams available. This present lawsuit is based on alleged BitTorrent downloads. It’s not immediately clear whether these were only torrents for individual songs.

Music 104

Music Copyright Infringement Copyright Copying 104

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2024

As downloading of ‘physical’ MP3-based tracks from peer-to-peer networks finally began to subside, in no small part assisted by the rise of legal streaming platforms like Spotify, a new foe had already emerged. Many use the open source ripping software youtube-dl to easily download music from YouTube.

Music 67

Music Marketing Marketing Licensing 67

Michael Geist

JUNE 30, 2025

The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below. He joins the Law Bytes podcast to talk about the implications of Part 15 – aka the Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act – and what it means for network providers and the safety, security, and privacy of Canadians.

Law 90

Law Privacy 90

TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2025

The title tag ‘WEB-DL’ is an indication that the copy was downloaded (rather than ripped) from an online source, potentially an online screener viewing platform. Paramount operates a service for precisely that purpose, but there’s no information to suggest any specific origin.

Copying 109

Copying Marketing Marketing Reporting 109

SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2025

The Judge finds downloading works from shadow libraries to be per se infringing. Judge Chhabria states that “ to say that Meta’s downloading was ‘piracy’ and thus cannot be fair use begs the question because the whole point of fair use analysis is to determine whether a given act of copying was unlawful.”

Fair Use 64

Fair Use Copyright Copying Law 64

Velocity of Content

JULY 2, 2025

However, he drew a sharp line at how the data was acquired, ruling that creating a permanent library from unauthorized sources was not fair use, stating Anthropic “stole the works for its central library by downloading them from pirated libraries.” ” In Kadrey v.

Copyright Law 106

Copyright Law Fair Use Copyright Law 106

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

According to the Court, the content of the downloaded images was correlated with pre-existing image descriptions stored in the LAION 5B dataset. The plaintiff, in this case, asserted his opt-out right – the website hosting his photographic works prohibits “downloading, scraping, or caching” of any content.

Copyright Law 105

Copyright Law Copyright Law Copyright Infringement 105

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The software has been downloaded millions of times and made headlines in 2022 as the official sponsor of the Afghan cricket team. On behalf of Amazon, GitHub was asked to remove APK files related to the streaming apps PikaShow , Castle and FlixFox. PikaShow is the most prominent target.

Reporting 113

Reporting Copying Branding Branding 113

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

. “A thorough examination of the evidence presented and the evaluation report submitted reveals that all the cited websites are hosting pirated versions of movies or TV shows, allowing users to access these illegal copies by downloading or streaming them,” IPOPHL writes.

Intellectual Property 123

Intellectual Property Copying Copyright Infringement Copyright 123

TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2024

remain online, but downloading pirated books turns out to be quite a challenge. Inactive LibGen Admin and Downloads? Starting last weekend, regular LibGen downloads suddenly stopped working. There is no indication that the current download problems are related to this court case, however. Today, Libgen.rs, Libgen.is

Social Media 135

Social Media Publishing Reporting Copyright 135

TorrentFreak

MAY 20, 2025

Prominent Releases Its unknown how the authorities eventually pinpointed Will1869, but his operation under the COLLECTiVE tag has been a high-profile target for a while, as its releases have been downloaded through pirate sites many millions of times.

Reporting 109

Reporting Branding Branding Brands 109

SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

In light of Amazon’s decision to disable the ‘Download or Transfer via USB’ feature from their Kindle devices, Arnav Kaman discusses DRMs/TPMs, the rights of the user, what users can do with their ebooks within the fair use doctrine, and the future of ebooks in this guest post. This would be perfectly within Kindles rights.

Copying 59

Copying Editing Licensing Copyright 59

TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2024

In the report, the group lists various pirate sites that enable the public to download games for free. The ESA, which represents video game companies including Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft, hopes that the interests of its members will be taken into account.

Copying 127

Copying Marketing Marketing Reporting 127

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Link-Busters clients (selection) Websites such as Z-Library and Anna’s Archive allow the public to download free books. The rise of shadow libraries, combined with the threat of AI scraping, has made these companies very active on the anti-piracy front. These books can also be used for AI training.

Publishing 127

Publishing Reporting Copyright 127