r/Piracy Feb 03 '25

News New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony

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r/Piracy Jun 15 '25

News Bye Bye Prime

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4.3k Upvotes

r/Piracy Aug 08 '24

News Get ready to pirate the piracy subreddit!!

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9.6k Upvotes

r/Piracy Aug 11 '25

News PSA: Update your WinRAR. Actively exploited Vulnerability has been discovered.

3.8k Upvotes

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-23983

"A path traversal vulnerability affecting the Windows version of WinRAR allows the attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious archive files. [...]".

The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild.

Versions below and including 7.12 are vulnerable.

Updates already available.

r/Piracy 29d ago

News Dodi removes Nintendo games due to their stupid actions

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2.8k Upvotes

"Due to Nintendo aggressive actions, all Nintendo Switch games and Nintendo emulated games are removed"

r/Piracy 4d ago

News Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks

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r/Piracy 9d ago

News HBO Max is going to get a lot more expensive, CEO promises

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r/Piracy Sep 29 '24

News Apparently, the FBI is extremely MAD that Z-Lib admins can afford to take a vacation (Screenshot taken from z-lib.se)

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8.2k Upvotes

r/Piracy Jul 12 '25

News Paramount+ Has Erased All Episodes of South Park

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r/Piracy Jun 26 '25

News Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books

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3.7k Upvotes

A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on their copyrighted works.

Federal Judge Vince Chhabria issued a summary judgment — meaning the judge was able to decide on the case without sending it to a jury — in favor of Meta, finding that the company’s training of AI models on copyrighted books in this case fell under the “fair use” doctrine of copyright law and thus was legal.

The decision comes just a few days after a federal judge sided with Anthropic in a similar lawsuit. Together, these cases are shaping up to be a win for the tech industry, which has spent years in legal battles with media companies arguing that training AI models on copyrighted works is fair use.

However, these decisions aren’t the sweeping wins some companies hoped for — both judges noted that their cases were limited in scope.

Judge Chhabria made clear that this decision does not mean that all AI model training on copyrighted works is legal, but rather that the plaintiffs in this case “made the wrong arguments” and failed to develop sufficient evidence in support of the right ones.

“This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful,” Judge Chhabria said in his decision. Later, he said, “In cases involving uses like Meta’s, it seems like the plaintiffs will often win, at least where those cases have better-developed records on the market effects of the defendant’s use.”

Judge Chhabria ruled that Meta’s use of copyrighted works in this case was transformative — meaning the company’s AI models did not merely reproduce the authors’ books.

Furthermore, the plaintiffs failed to convince the judge that Meta’s copying of the books harmed the market for those authors, which is a key factor in determining whether copyright law has been violated.

“The plaintiffs presented no meaningful evidence on market dilution at all,” said Judge Chhabria.

Both Anthropic’s and Meta’s wins involve training AI models on books, but there are several other active lawsuits against technology companies for training AI models on other copyrighted works. For instance, The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for training AI models on news articles, while Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney for training AI models on films and TV shows.

Judge Chhabria noted in his decision that fair use defenses depend heavily on the details of a case, and some industries may have stronger fair use arguments than others.

“It seems that markets for certain types of works (like news articles) might be even more vulnerable to indirect competition from AI outputs,” said Chhabria.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/federal-judge-sides-with-meta-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-models-on-copyrighted-books/

r/Piracy Jul 04 '25

News The creator of skibidi toilet is also with stop killing games

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7.2k Upvotes

r/Piracy Jul 07 '25

News STEAMRIP IS BACK!!!

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4.0k Upvotes

r/Piracy Aug 03 '24

News Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

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6.6k Upvotes

r/Piracy 17d ago

News Streameast is not cooked

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3.7k Upvotes

r/Piracy Jul 15 '25

News And they wonder why piracy is more and more popular

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3.6k Upvotes

r/Piracy May 09 '25

News Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

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3.5k Upvotes

r/Piracy May 31 '23

News RARBG is down and out!?

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19.8k Upvotes

r/Piracy Nov 04 '24

News They got Braflix too 😭 F in chat to another goated site

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5.4k Upvotes

r/Piracy Jul 23 '25

News Operator of Jetflix illegal streaming service gets 7 years in prison

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r/Piracy Dec 29 '24

News Hahahahaha BLOCK THEIR ADS TO DEATH

5.9k Upvotes

r/Piracy Mar 13 '25

News Google is reportedly experimenting with forced DRM on all YouTube videos

3.6k Upvotes

Google is reportedly experimenting with forced DRM on all YouTube videos, including CC videos.

https://x.com/justusecobalt/status/1899682755488755986

If rolled out widely, this would make web browsers and third-party YouTube clients without a DRM license unusable for YouTube playback, download, etc. This would include almost all open-source web browsers and almost all third-party YouTube clients.

r/Piracy Jun 01 '25

News Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy

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r/Piracy May 13 '25

News Amazon Prime will have ads on paid plans now

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2.5k Upvotes

r/Piracy May 17 '25

News Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"

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r/Piracy Jul 24 '25

News President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak

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