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Online piracy is connected to the loss of 71,000 jobs and $12.5 billion annually in the U.S. economy, according to research from nonprofits in the marketing and internet safety industries.
In December 2020, ACE shut down pirate IPTV service Beast IPTV. [5] In May 2021, ACE shut down and seized the domain of popular streaming site 123movies.la. [6] In July 2023, ACE shut down Zoro.to, the world's largest anime pirate site. The organization promotes itself as marking a new level of coordination among multiple stakeholders. [3]
According to Cloudflare, "The pirate site tried to interfere with and thwart the operation of the company's abuse reporting systems." [14] In 2020 the site was blocked in India, along with other pirate streaming and torrent websites, after a decision by the Delhi High Court in favour of the plaintiff, Disney India. The court order provided for ...
In December 2004, Finnish police raided Finreactor, a major BitTorrent site. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Seven system administrators and four others were ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of euros in damages . The defendants appealed the case all the way to the Supreme Court of Finland , but failed to overturn the verdict. [ 5 ]
February 14, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim found YouTube, an American video sharing site, that becomes popular in Japan and around the world. The website Nyaa Torrents comes online providing links to torrents for Japanese anime and other East Asian files.
On its face, the r/piracy subreddit is an online forum for discussing the topic of digital piracy, but it can lead to the sharing of illegal content. Westend61/Getty Images
As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [22] [23]
A directory is also a site where users can find other websites. Some sites focus on certain content – such as etree that focuses on live concerts – and some have no particular focus, like The Pirate Bay. Some sites specialize as search engines of other BitTorrent sites.