Movistar Blocks Its Own Support Forum Under LaLiga Anti-Piracy Order

Spain's court-ordered piracy blocking regime blocked the official customer support forum of Internet provider Movistar on Saturday night. A blocking notice referenced a ruling that LaLiga obtained together with the company that runs the Movistar Plus+ streaming service. On Sunday, the forum moved from Cloudflare to Amazon CloudFront, without any word from Movistar on why.

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 11/09/2026

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Resident Evil' tops the chart, followed…

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Inside a French Piracy Blocklist: Expired Domains, a Seized Site, and Hong Kong Servers

In May, a Paris court ordered DNS resolvers to block six domains that streamed pirated tennis matches. After a series of quiet, unannounced expansions, the…

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Mexico’s Senate Approves ISP Rules to Disconnect Persistent Online Pirates

Mexico's Senate has approved copyright amendments that require Internet providers to have a policy to cut off repeat infringers, or risk liability for their subscribers'…

November 6, 2026, 09:34 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Meta Employees ‘Interacted’ With Pirated Copies of Adult Films, Filing Shows

A newly unredacted court filing shows that Meta’s internal investigation found several employees who appear to have interacted with Strike 3’s adult films. The adult…

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Piracy

Vietnam Jails Pirate Football Streamers for Up to a Year, Three Escape Prison

A Vietnamese court has sentenced 14 people who worked on the pirate football streaming site Bún Chả TV, handing out the first prison terms we've…

November 4, 2026, 10:27 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Law and Politics

Funimation Shutdown Fuels Push for DMCA Exemption to Legally Rip Anime Content

When Funimation shut down in 2024, buyers of DVDs and Blu-ray discs that came with a Funimation digital release lost access to those copies. A…

November 3, 2026, 09:08 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Anti-Piracy

Dutch Court Orders ISP to Block Z-Library and OceanofPDF

A Dutch court has ordered Internet provider KPN to block shadow libraries Z-Library and OceanofPDF. The dynamic blocking order, requested by anti-piracy group BREIN, also…

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Lawsuits

Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books Dataset, Deleted It ‘Due to All This Litigation’

A former Meta researcher has testified that he downloaded an AI training dataset via BitTorrent, including the pirated Books3 collection. According to various rightsholders, this…

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Movistar Blocks Its Own Support Forum Under LaLiga Anti-Piracy Order

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 11/09/2026

Inside a French Piracy Blocklist: Expired Domains, a Seized Site, and Hong Kong Servers

Mexico’s Senate Approves ISP Rules to Disconnect Persistent Online Pirates

Meta Employees ‘Interacted’ With Pirated Copies of Adult Films, Filing Shows

Vietnam Jails Pirate Football Streamers for Up to a Year, Three Escape Prison

Funimation Shutdown Fuels Push for DMCA Exemption to Legally Rip Anime Content

Dutch Court Orders ISP to Block Z-Library and OceanofPDF

Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books Dataset, Deleted It ‘Due to All This Litigation’

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