Publications

Last month, Keir Starmer’s special representative to Syria, Ann Snow, met defence minister Murhaf Abu Qasra in Damascus. This followed a meeting between Qasra and Britain’s chief military adviser in the Middle East, Vice Admiral Edward Ahlgren, in Ju...

Every day, millions of clips from movies and TV shows are shared on social media and other online platforms. These short clips may qualify as fair use when used as part of memes or parodies, for example. Depending on context, they can also trigger a...

Investigations, prosecutions and substantial prison sentences are an important part of the anti-piracy arsenal. The public downfall of a prolific pirate provides the kind of deterrent messaging that can put people off before they even get started....

A shirtless British soldier, clinging to the hair of an Iraqi man whose eyes and nose have been tightly wrapped with black gaffer tape. A line of eight Iraqi men with sand bags over their heads, crouched in stress positions on a pavement as a soldi...

The Supreme Court case between several major record labels and Internet provider Cox Communications is one of the landmark copyright battles of this decade. The outcome will determine how Internet providers should deal with pirating subscribers on th...

At the start of the year, TorrentGalaxy was one of the most-visited torrent sites, welcoming millions of users every day. Launched by former members of ExtraTorrent which had shut down in 2018, TorrentGalaxy soon established itself as one of the mo...

For more than two years, Hanan Samir has not known a full night’s sleep or a moment of peace. Each day brings the same hope and despair as she continues the search for her husband, Abdullah Fayez Abu Sharif, 35 years old, who went missing in the ear...

In May 2024, the Paris Judicial Court ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to block access to several pirate sports streaming sites. The move was a major enforcement escalation by French rightsholders, but in hindsight it was only the beginning. In...

There’s a common belief that people pirate content to save money, whether on another streaming subscription or a pricey box office ticket. That said, movie theaters still draw millions of visitors, many of whom may also turn to pirate sites occasiona...

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 227 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and the government hasn’t stopped targeting journalists for deportation. Read on for news from Illinois, our lat...