Laws
- Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant
- Burn, drown, or smash your phone: Forensics can extract data anyway
- A new bill could punish web platforms for using end-to-end encryption
- French court rules that Steam’s ban on reselling used games is contrary to European law
- MEPs approve sweeping changes to copyright law
- The Legalities of Linking
- COPYRIGHT LIABILITY FOR LINKING AND EMBEDDING - Klaris Law (.PDF)
- EU court says linking to copyrighted material isn't illegal
- IP Address is Not Enough to Identify Pirate, US Court of Appeals Rules - (.PDF)
- New EU Piracy Watchlist Targets Key Pirate Sites and Cloudflare
- Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules
- Reporting When Pirate Releases Hit The Internet is Apparently Illegal Now
- Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking
- Web Sheriff
- List of websites blocked in the United Kingdom
- Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web
Internet Service Providers
- Major US ISPs Refuse to Discuss Repeat Infringer Policies
- British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings
- How to start your own ISP - Start your own ISP, lists tools which you need and lots of background information.
ISPs you should avoid
- AT&T
- CenturyLink
- Comcast/Xfinity
- Cox Communications
- Spectrum/Charter
- Telekom
- Verizon
- Vodafone
Piracy status among contries
- Where are torrents permitted? - A world map (picture) which shows where warez torrenting is allowed.
Countries where piracy is permitted
caution
For personal use only. Publishing & sharing it is always illegal!
- Poland
- Spain
- Switzerland
Countries where both downloading & sharing is illegal
- Argentina
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Columbia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Greece
- India
- Iran
- Israel
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Philippines
- Romania
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Uruguay
- Norge
- Sverige
Countries where torrenting copyright material is highly illegal
- Australia
- China
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Korea
- Latvia
- Portugal
- Russia
- UAE
- UK
- US
GeoIP restricted countries
- Canada
- China
- Germany
- India
- Itlay
- Japan
- Latvia
- Malaysia
- Portugal
- Russia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- UAE
- UK
- US
Public DMCA complaints
- Lumendatabase.org - A database e.g. Google uses for their blacklist, it provides hundreds of links with movie and tv shows.
- UK ISP Court Orders - A incomplete list of websites recently taken down in the UK by the High Court.
- Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List (.PDF) - A list from 2018 provided by Europol and others, to watch the current piracy status.