Publications

Everyone accepts that pirate suppliers are responsible for redistributing and profiting from content they don’t own and for that there could be a heavy price to pay. Yet when punishments for ordinary people enter the equation, that’s a completely d...

Back in July, the Brussels Business Court issued a sweeping ex parte site-blocking order targeting several “shadow libraries” including Anna’s Archive, Libgen, and Z-Library. Unusually, the order also included the Internet Archive’s Open Library, a...

The Motion Picture Association’s (MPA) submission to the USTR’s 2025 review of notorious pirate markets identifies a “rapidly expanding” category of pirate sites. Calling out the likes of Vidsrc, HydraHD, and Cineby, the MPA spoke of “one-stop pira...

Under US president Donald Trump’s new plan for Gaza, former British prime minister Tony Blair has been touted as having a senior role in governing Gaza, acting as a deputy to Trump himself. Aside from the obvious neo-colonial implications of this –...

Two years have passed since a war that neither ceasefires nor international resolutions have managed to end. Two years of fire, hunger, and slow death, endured by Palestinians in Gaza as they faced genocide head on. Since the very start, journalists...

Nintendo is doing everything in its power to prevent gamers from playing pirated games on its Switch console. This involves sending a steady stream of cease and desist letters and takedown notices, and if those don’t work, the company is prepared to...

Note: The weekend before last we filmed a spy plane leaving a UK airbase on Cyprus and heading towards Gaza. The footage will feature in a documentary out later this month on our YouTube channel. We are standing on a sand dune in the pitch dark liste...

Every year, the US Trade Representative (USTR) issues an updated review of “Notorious Markets” that facilitate copyright infringement. This overview is put together with help from copyright holders and aims to motivate the targets, foreign authoritie...

LaLiga’s escalation of its anti-piracy enforcement measures began back in February with unprecedented blocking of Cloudflare IP addresses used by pirate sites, affecting large numbers of innocent websites using them too. After a brief pause between...

Last year, the video rental and streaming company Redbox shut down its service and filed for bankruptcy. The service, owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (now CSS Entertainment), was running hundreds of millions in losses per year and...