Publications

With nearly 700 million monthly active users across over 180 markets, Spotify is the world’s most popular music streaming service by a significant margin. The streaming giant has always positioned itself as a competitor to pirate services, but its...

A little over three years ago, SmoothStreams was considered one the most reliable and well-known pirate IPTV providers. Several years of what appeared to be fairly plain sailing in relatively calm waters proved to be deceptive. Following a years-long...

David Lammy held an off the record meeting with Sir Trevor Chinn, an influential businessman and one of Britain’s leading pro-Israel lobbyists, Declassified can reveal. The meeting took place on 11 February 2025 but was not recorded in official trans...

Any serious journalist would tell you that it’d be journalistic malpractice for a local journalist not to report that a prominent public official listed a boarded-up house as his official residence in order to claim eligibility for his position. But...

There’s little doubt that online businesses reliant on advertising revenue are negatively affected by increasing use of ad blocking solutions. Yet it’s thanks to abusive and invasive ads, and threats to privacy due to incessant online tracking, tha...

Some 21 months into Israel’s genocide, Palestinian suffering is only now being somewhat humanised by Britain’s political and media establishment. But ‘humanitarianism’ that omits naming the perpetrators or enablers just soothes public conscience and...

Under U.S. law, rightsholders have an option to identify alleged copyright infringers without directly having to file a lawsuit. Instead, they can request a DMCA subpoena which is typically signed by a court clerk and don’t require any judicial ove...

Recent news that the Home Office has ordered Apple to enable access to iCloud encrypted data has stirred public debate about the scope and secrecy of UK surveillance laws. Successive governments have argued that such powers are needed to combat nove...

If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. As of July 1st, South Dakota and Wyoming e...

The Ninth Circuit upheld an important limitation on Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoenas that other federal courts have recognized for more than two decades. The DMCA, a misguided anti-piracy law passed in the late nineties, created a bev...