Publications

Traditional site-blocking measures that require local ISPs to block subscriber access to popular pirate sites, have been utilized by rightsholders in France for years. The aim is to deter piracy by making sites more difficult to find, but these measu...

The extraordinary online popularity of Japanese manga comics shows no sign of retreat, with pirate site-based consumption at unprecedented levels fueled by billions of visits. Japanese publishers are pursuing pirate site operators all around the wo...

Earlier this month, dozens of rightsholders and copyright groups urged the European Commission to pave the way for more robust measures to tackle live-streaming piracy. Two main themes in many of these submissions were broad pirate site blocking powe...

Britain’s defence secretary, John Healey, walked through oncoming traffic to escape questions about why the UK is still sharing military intelligence with Israel. Healey told Declassified he had “nothing more to add” about the hundreds of Royal Air F...

U.S. sanctions on Syria have for several decades not only restricted trade and financial transactions, they’ve also severely limited Syrians’ access to digital technology. From software development tools to basic cloud services, Syrians were locked o...

61,989. That’s how many social media posts by President Donald Trump over the past decade that journalist Stephanie Sugars has single-handedly reviewed. At all hours of the day, Trump posts about everything from foreign policy to personnel matters. “...

In countries where protection is granted automatically, it’s possible for ordinary people to become copyright owners in a matter of minutes. For the lucky few with a sudden viral video on their hands, a general understanding of the ‘rules’ governin...

The UK Supreme Court is hearing a case this week that cuts to the core of state secrecy and its corrosive role in blocking truth and accountability for victims of the Northern Ireland conflict. At stake is whether the UK government can hide behind a...

A police force in England has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds protecting an arms factory owned by Israel’s ministry of finance, Declassified can reveal. Based in Newcastle, Pearson Engineering manufactures “mobility equipment to armed forces ar...

State, federal, and international regulators are increasingly concerned about the harms they believe the internet and new technology are causing to users of all categories. Lawmakers are currently considering many proposals that are intended to provi...