Jetflix Streaming Piracy Ringleader Sentenced to 7 Years Prison The founder of illegal streaming service Jetflicks, a platform said to have negatively affected every significant copyright owner of TV shows in the United States, has been sentenced to 84 months in prison. Kristopher Dallmann had pleaded not guilty to several counts including conspiracy, criminal copyright infringement, and money laundering. He received sentences ranging between 12 and 84 months in prison to be served concurrently. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
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The founder of illegal streaming service Jetflicks, a platform said to have negatively affected every significant copyright owner of TV shows in th...
Pirate Service ‘MagisTV’ Fails to Secure U.S. Trademark, Faces Malware Backlash MagisTV, a leading pirate streaming brand in Latin America, finds itself caught between a legal storm and a mounting malware backlash. This week, the service saw its U.S. trademark application abandoned amidst growing scrutiny from authorities and rightsholders worldwide. At the same time, a barrage of local news reports warn consumers that using MagisTV's software could lead to identity theft and expose them to viruses. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
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Pirate Service 'MagisTV' Fails to Secure U.S. Trademark, Faces Malware Backlash * TorrentFreak
MagisTV, a leading pirate streaming brand popular in Latin America, finds itself caught between a legal storm and a mounting malware backlash.
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 07/21/2025 Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'How to Train Your DragonThunderbolts' tops the chart, followed by 'Ballerina'. 'Karate Kid: Legends' completes the top three. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 12/22/2025 * TorrentFreak
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Predator: Badlands' tops the ...
Google Sues Operators of a 10 Million Device Android Set-Top Box Botnet A Google lawsuit filed in a New York court has been partly unsealed, revealing details of what is believed to be the largest botnet of its type in history. Consisting of 10 million compromised Android devices, mostly cheap Chinese set-top boxes popular with users of free and pirate streaming services, the Badbox 2.0 botnet turns user devices into nodes in a massive residential proxy network. Google says the botnet is used for ad fraud, malware distribution, and other digital crimes. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
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Google Sues Operators of a 10 Million Device Android Set-Top Box Botnet * TorrentFreak
A botnet of 10 million compromised Android set-top boxes, popular with users of free streaming services, is the target in a Google lawsuit.
Lawsuits Continue to Put U.S. BitTorrent Pirates in a Financial Hurt Locker Today, online piracy is largely driven by unauthorized streaming sites and services. When it comes to lawsuits, however, BitTorrent users are the prime target, as they are easy to track. In recent years, one adult entertainment company has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of all cases filed in thhe U.S. against individual pirates. While these rarely make the news, they can have consequences, court records show. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
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Lawsuits Continue to Put U.S. BitTorrent Pirates in a Financial Hurt Locker * TorrentFreak
Strike 3 is aggressively suing U.S. BitTorrent users, in a system where settlements are often cheaper than proving innocence.
Former #1 Movie Piracy Site “Strongly Linked” to Global Infostealer Activity Earlier this year, Microsoft published a report on an infostealer malware campaign identified as stemming from pirate streaming sites. With one million user devices infected, the potential for damage is clearly enormous but the threat isn't new. Data sourced from specialist breach databases reveals that Fmovies, the world's most popular pirate streaming site before its closure in 2024, was "strongly linked" to Infostealer activity targeting users worldwide. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
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Former #1 Movie Piracy Site "Strongly Linked" to Global Infostealer Activity * TorrentFreak
Fmovies, previously the world's most popular pirate streaming site, was "strongly linked" to Infostealer activity targeting users worldwide.
Pair Behind 400 Block-Evading Pirate Porn Sites Face Prosecution Law enforcement authorities in Vietnam will prosecute the operators of around 400 pirate sites offering pornographic content. Such material is illegal in Vietnam and the authorities say the men made large profits from visitors viewing lucrative advertising. Also of note are claims that the men circumvented blocking measures at ISPs either owned by, or closely connected to, the government. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
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Pair Behind 400 Block-Evading Pirate Porn Sites Face Prosecution * TorrentFreak
Authorities in Vietnam will prosecute the operators of 400 pornographic pirate sites after they evaded government blocking measures.
Pirate Site Blockades Get Judicial Scrutiny in Germany, But No Transparency? Germany's voluntary pirate site blocking regime has undergone a fundamental change, now requiring judicial oversight for all blocking actions. The participants will rely on court orders going forward, instead of their own recommendations. While the change ensures a proper review of blocking requests, it does not necessarily make the blockades more transparent for the public. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
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Pirate Site Blockades Get Judicial Scrutiny in Germany, But No Transparency? * TorrentFreak
Germany's voluntary pirate site blocking regime has undergone a fundamental change, now requiring judicial oversight for all blocking action.
FBI’s Video Game Piracy Crackdown Leads to Domain Confusion Late last week, the FBI seized the domain names of several gaming piracy websites, including NSW2U.com. The sites in question were used to download more than a million games per month, according to a press release, which inadvertently identified a nonexistent domain. The FBI eventually seized the correct domain, and the investigation continues. Meanwhile, opportunists are moving in to lure displaced pirates to new "NSW2U" domains. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
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FBI's Video Game Piracy Crackdown Leads to Domain Confusion * TorrentFreak
The FBI's gaming piracy crackdown on NSW2U is complicated by a domain error and the appearance of new, potentially troubling domains.
Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users – That’s a Pretty Big Deal Cloudflare has become the first internet intermediary beyond local residential ISPs, to block access to pirate sites in the UK. Users attempting to access certain pirate sites are greeted with 'Error 451 - Unavailable for Legal Reasons'. In theory, ISP blocking should prevent UK users from even seeing this notice, but a combination of Cloudflare's blocking mechanism and choices made by some VPN users results in a piracy dead end. From: [TF][1], for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. [1]:
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Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users - That's a Pretty Big Deal * TorrentFreak
Cloudflare has become the first intermediary to join the UK's pirate site blocking program. It's a shift that may surprise VPN users too.