#TorrentFreak
LEARN 2 PIRATE - dashare.zone ADMIN
September 21, 2026 at 2:32 AM
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak
In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.
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March 7, 2026 at 8:03 PM
It's frustrating that TorrentFreak doesn't have a Bluesky. We need more active reporting on the horrors of intellectual property.

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BitTorrent Pirate Gets 5 Years in Prison, €10,000 Fine, For Decade-Old Offenses * TorrentFreak
A man found guilty of operating a private torrent site has received a five-year prison sentence, a €10,000 fine, plus €1,800 in costs.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
When an InterPlanetary File System host received a DMCA takedown notice for content accessible through his site, EFF’s Kit Walsh came to the rescue, TorrentFreak reports.
'IFPS Gateway Operator is not Liable for Pirated Software Keys' * TorrentFreak
JetBrains warned an IPFS gateway operator that they are liable for the alleged availability of pirated keys.
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February 23, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Finally found it. The average book thief makes between 60k and 99K USD.

The average author makes around 10k. Most pirates are stealing from people worse off than themselves. But they cosplay as poor or use poor people as a shield to justify their class warfare.

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March 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Fair Use requires that the copyrighted materials be legally obtained.

Pirated books are not legally obtained.

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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak
In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.
torrentfreak.com
March 8, 2026 at 3:44 AM
"People who buy books but also sometimes pirate them" is an interesting and probably misleading way for TorrentFreak to define the broad term "ebook pirates"
March 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
aside: how in the hell does torrentfreak choose such unappealing hero images
February 21, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Remember when it turned out Nintendo would hire private investigators to stalk and intimidate homebrew devs
Nintendo Conducted Invasive Surveillance Operation Against Homebrew Hacker * TorrentFreak
Leaked documents have revealed an invasive surveillance operation carried out by Nintendo against a 3DS hacker.
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October 2, 2024 at 1:33 AM
How OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google responded to EU court orders to block DNS resolution for pirate sites; OpenDNS left France and Belgium instead of complying (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

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May 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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NVIDIAとうとう著作権侵害で集団訴訟されたっぽい
'NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books' * TorrentFreak
NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training.
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January 21, 2026 at 12:55 AM
as predictable as clockwork: chasing Wall Street's need for improved quarterly returns at ANY cost, streaming companies are going to steadily make their services shittier and more expensive

then when users inevitably migrate back to piracy they're going to blame absolutely everything but themselves
Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly * TorrentFreak
Netflix believes that it's difficult to compete against the free entertainment piracy offers. Not only that, it's growing rapidly too.
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February 9, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Anna´s Archive pierde el dominio .LI por presiones legales. No se encuentra suspendido directamente lo eliminaron.
(Obvio desde esta cuenta no recomendamos para nada probar con el .gl eso esta muy muy mal.)
Anna's Archive Loses .LI Domain As Legal Pressure Mounts * TorrentFreak
Anna’s Archive has lost its .li domain a few hours ago, likely due to ongoing legal pressure. The .gl domain survived for now.
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March 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Great news everyone, piracy is now legal! Just say it was used to train AI
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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak
In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.
torrentfreak.com
March 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Kinda irrelevant because most of the serious Switch emulation moved off of GitHub to being self hosted but it’s fun to see that Nintendo is still spinning its wheels over this. torrentfreak.com/nintendo-wip...
Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak
Nintendo has filed seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub in a single day, wiping out more than 400 Switch emulator repos.
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August 22, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Torrents still work, they never stopped working, and Torrentfreak reports on currently operating torrent sites.

Also the Pirate Bay never left.

And the price for a single annual VPN subscription is miniscule compared to multiple streaming subscriptions.

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Netflix, hungry for more growth, signals more price hikes
Basic ad-free plan being ripped from subscribers in Canada, UK first.
arstechnica.com
January 24, 2024 at 10:20 PM
quando alguém descobrir o novo domínio, não deixe de nos informar
Anna's Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order * TorrentFreak
A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive.
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May 21, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Link-Busters, an anti-piracy company working for big publishers, passed 2B URL takedown requests sent to Google and is behind 50%+ of Google takedown requests (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

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January 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM