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Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers

February 16, 2026 World Justice News 0

More than two years ago, Amazon sued a network of websites that sold pirated DVDs of Prime Video exclusives such as The Rings of Power and The Boys. The defendants, believed to be based in […]

Bypass Amazon Fire TV Stick Piracy Ban and See What Happens Next

December 8, 2025 World Justice News 0

After enjoying years of relative freedom to do whatever they liked with their Amazon Fire TV Sticks, last month users were informed that apps linked to piracy would be blocked, banned, or even deleted moving […]

Motion Picture Association Shut Down OnionPlay’s Discord & Tries to Unmask Pirate Site Operator

November 28, 2025 World Justice News 0

The Motion Picture Association has its eyes set on the streaming portal OnionPlay. After successfully petitioning Discord to shut down the site’s community server, the Hollywood group has secured a DMCA subpoena requiring Discord to […]

U.S. Pirate IPTV Operator Faces $9 Million in Damages After Ghosting Hollywood Lawsuit

November 1, 2025 World Justice News 0

A Pennsylvania man, alleged to be the operator of several pirate IPTV services including ‘Shrugs’ and ‘Zing’, faces a potential $9 million default judgment. After major Hollywood studios sued him in March, the defendant was […]

Previously-Convicted IPTV Pirates Arrested For Running $10m IPTV66 Service

September 22, 2025 World Justice News 0

In a major anti-piracy crackdown dubbed “Operation Domo,” authorities in the Dominican Republic targeted an IPTV service that allegedly generated $10 million in revenue. The sting, supported by ACE and U.S. authorities, resulted in the […]

ACE Shuts Down World’s Largest Sports Piracy Ring ‘Streameast’ – But the Original Streameast Survives

September 4, 2025 World Justice News 0

In a major anti-piracy action against a Streameast-branded operation, ACE has shut down what it calls the world’s largest illegal sports streaming ring. Conducted alongside Egyptian authorities, the operation dismantled a network of more than […]

Hollywood Studios Sue Pirate IPTV Services in U.S. Court

March 5, 2025 World Justice News 0

Members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) filed two separate copyright infringement lawsuits yesterday, targeting the alleged operators of IPTV services including ‘Outer Limits IPTV’, ‘Shrugs’ and ‘Zing’. Amazon, Netflix and several major […]

FMovies Piracy ‘Mastermind’ Confesses – Authorities Confirm Piracy Prosecution

November 15, 2024 World Justice News 0

The alleged owner and operator of FMovies and affiliated platforms, together considered the most visited pirate sites on the planet before they were recently shut down, has confessed and will be prosecuted in Vietnam. Phan […]

ACE Has Prepared a Huge List of Pirate Sites it Wants to Shut Down in 2024

December 31, 2023 World Justice News 0

At a time when hundreds of millions of people in North America, Latin America, Europe, and beyond had little but Christmas on their minds, MPA & ACE were deciding which platforms to target in 2024. […]

ACE Shuts Down Major Pirate Site Extreme-Down After 15 Years of Resilience

February 15, 2023 World Justice News 0

After being targeted in French courts by movie companies, blocked by French ISPs, and then deindexed by Google, illegal streaming/DDL site Extreme-Down burned domain after domain in an effort to stay in the game. Ending […]

Human Rights

Ethiopian police arrest alleged leader of multi-million-dollar trafficking ring

July 22, 2026 0

Police in Ethiopia say they have arrested 17 suspects including the alleged leader of what they say is a multi-million-dollar international human trafficking network. The gang is accused of “the deaths of 60 migrants”, sexually […]

Human Rights

US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in blow to Trump

July 1, 2026 0

The US Supreme Court has ruled that babies born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship, rejecting Donald Trump’s bid to end the 150-year-old policy. In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that […]

Human Rights

Four men held over child marriage in Sierra Leone appear in landmark court case

June 28, 2026 0

For the first time since child marriage was banned in Sierra Leone two years ago, people accused of committing the crime have been brought to trial. Four men appeared at a High Court on Friday […]