Publications

Internet service providers BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk, EE, and Plusnet account for the majority of the UK’s residential internet market and as a result, blocking injunctions previously obtained at the High Court often list these companies as r...

In late 2023, a group of nearly 50 music labels, including Warner Records and Sony Music, filed a ‘mass-infringement’ lawsuit against Altice. These music companies, all members of the RIAA, alleged that the ISP failed to take action against repeat in...

The British government provided ‘counter-terrorism’ training to officers in Azerbaijan’s brutal successor to the KGB, newly declassified files reveal. Organisation for the training began in October 1994, just days after a BP-led consortium won a maj...

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton did not end the legal debate over age-verification mandates for websites. Instead, it’s a limited decision: the court’s legal reasoning only applies to age restrictions on sexual...

As the Kodi ‘addon’ boom scooped up millions of new recruits and Amazon’s ‘Fire TV Stick’ sold out as a result, in 2015, a new wave of casual ‘living room’ pirates were ready for the next big thing. The leap from free but oftentimes unreliable web-...

Three MPs have failed to declare an all-expenses-paid trip funded by Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), Declassified can reveal. The group is funded by anonymous donors and was described as a “lobbying organisation” by one of its former directors. Reco...

An official inquiry has been launched after Declassified revealed that an Israeli state-owned weapons firm had funded a group of British MPs. RUK Advanced Systems Ltd sells weapons including urban combat missiles and “hard kill” torpedoes. But reco...

Adult entertainment is big business on the internet and several of the largest brands in this niche are owned by the Aylo conglomerate. Formerly known as Mindgeek, Aylo is the driving force behind free ‘tube’ sites such as Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTu...

This day last year, the beach at Al-Mawasi – designated as a “safe zone” by Israel – became the scene of a major massacre in Gaza. Israeli jets fired explosive missiles at the tents of displaced civilians who were receiving food aid. According to t...

In a lawsuit filed at a New York court in June 2024, publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, Elsevier, and McGraw Hill, bemoaned Google’s ‘systemic and pervasive advertising’ of infringing copies of their copyrighted textbooks. The...