Publications

With an estimated 85 million visits per month, Nhentai is one of the most trafficked websites online today. The site serves adult-oriented anime and manga, also known as hentai. These spicy Japanese comics are popular worldwide, but not everyone is h...

A senior British special forces officer warned that the failure to own up to criminal behaviour in Afghanistan by the SAS – including shooting toddlers in their beds – would allow the regiment to descend into “the sewer” and sink to the level of desp...

Described by the MPA, Premier League and other rightsholders as a priority piracy threat, a set-top box available to buy right now on popular markets, initially sounds like an attractive buy. Manufactured in China, EVPAD TV boxes look fairly unrema...

Five years ago, YouTube ripper Yout.com sued the RIAA, asking a Connecticut district court to declare that the site does not violate the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. The music group had previously used DMCA takedown notices to remove many of...

Despite a stream of news reports that seem to suggest the opposite, there are more examples of pirate site operators surviving unscathed than there are public catastrophes. That’s to be expected when facing finite anti-piracy resources, yet some indi...

Technology is supercharging the attack on democracy and EFF is fighting back. We’re suing to stop government surveillance. We're fighting to protect free expression online. And we're building tools to protect your data privacy. Help support our missi...

In late September, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his government’s plans to introduce a new digital ID scheme in the country to take effect before the end of the Parliament (no later than August 2029). The scheme will, acc...

Founded in 2019, pirate streaming service aggregator OnionPlay has been around for half a decade already. While the site had to switch domain names occasionally, OnionPlay maintained its core identity while its user base continued to grow. Discord De...

The British government’s Cabinet Office rejected Declassified’s attempts to learn whether Donald Trump and Keir Starmer discussed Palestine Action shortly before the group’s proscription. Conversations between the two leaders were referenced during a...

In October 2019, an international police operation brought an abrupt end to Share-Online.biz, the largest file-hosting platform in Germany at the time. The raids, which targeted data centers in the Netherlands and France as well as residential addr...