A Baseless Copyright Claim Against A Web Host — And Why It Failed

Copyright law is supposed to encourage creativity. Too often, it’s used to extract payouts from others. Higbee & Associates, a law firm known for sending copyright demand letters to w…

Strike 3’s Piracy Litigation Campaign Broke More Records in 2025 * TorrentFreak

Strike 3’s piracy litigation campaign reached new milestones in 2025, with over 4,000 cases filed in a year.

Judge Eviscerates Motions For ISPs to Unmask 2,400 Alleged Hellboy Pirates * TorrentFreak

A judge at Canada's Federal Court has eviscerated an attempt to unmask 2,400 alleged pirates of the movie Hellboy: The Crooked Man.

Men Who Uploaded Movies to Extract Cash From Pirates Have Been Acquitted * TorrentFreak

Six men who uploaded movies to BitTorrent to extract cash settlements from people who downloaded them, have been acquitted after an appeal.

Copyright Troll Backfires: Has To Pay Up To Get Out Of Its Lawsuit Of Lies (Techdirt) | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Copyright Troll Backfires: Has To Pay Up To Get Out Of Its Lawsuit Of Lies

It’s been a good while since we’ve had an old-fashioned copyright troll nonsense story around here, and boy do we have a doozy for you today. Regular Techdirt readers know that we&#8217…

Victory! Ninth Circuit Limits Intrusive DMCA Subpoenas

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 bevy of powerful tools, ostensibly to help copyright...

Lawsuits Continue to Put U.S. BitTorrent Pirates in a Financial Hurt Locker * TorrentFreak

Strike 3 is aggressively suing U.S. BitTorrent users, in a system where settlements are often cheaper than proving innocence.