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.

Techdirt: Copyright Troll Backfires: Has To Pay Up To Get Out Of Its Lawsuit Of Lies. “The short version: a copyright troll that has been shaking down small businesses for years with fraudulent claims about its licensing fees just had to pay its own target to make a lawsuit go away. And in the process, [Paul] Levy has potentially opened the door for hundreds of previous victims to sue for […]

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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…

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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...

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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.

Porn Producer Targets Members of Gay Torrent Site in Court * TorrentFreak

Flava Works has filed a new lawsuit, targeting members of a private gay torrent site, demanding millions in damages.

U.S. Court Orders Up to $97,500 in Damages for Sharing 'Adult' Films via BitTorrent * TorrentFreak

Strike 3 Holdings continues its quest against alleged BitTorrent pirates in U.S. courts, obtaining three significant default judgments.

Copyright is a Civil Liberties Nightmare

If you’ve got lawyers and a copyright, the law gives you tremendous power to silence speech you don’t like. Copyright’s statutory damages can be as high as $150,000 per work infringed, even if no actual harm is done. This makes it far too dangerous to rely on the limitations and exceptions to fair...

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