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Fri, Apr. 17th, 2026, 09:33 am
tiphareth: всегда остается гулагом
avva@lj задается вопросом: https://avva.dreamwidth.org/3668704.htmlколь скоро все конспирологические теории о тоталитарном контроле спецслужб Орбана над всеми аспектами венгерского государства верны, он мог бы с легкостью фальсифицировать выборы, так почему же не сделал. Конспирология дает очень простой ответ: лично Орбан никакой не тоталитарный, а контроль оставался в руках deep state, бюрократических структур, спецслужб и аналогичных гадов. После того, как Орбан окончательно спалил всю контору, его поменяли на втоорого такого же. Более интересно, почему этого не сделали с путлером. Вполне очевидно, что Навального готовили как такую же замену, чтобы (когда путлер попалится окончательно) заменить его и сказать западу, смотрите какие мы теперь демократические. Я думаю, что в дип стейте нет единства, одна часть планировала поменять путлера на Навального, и его для этого готовила, другая всеми силами пыталась Навального уничтожить. В итоге враждебной башне гебни удалось перевербовать либо захватить всерую кого-то из окружения Навального (либо его жену, либо его гебешного куратора), Навального уговорили вернуться в сраную, после чего его тушку захватили враждебные гебнюки и уничтожили, чтобы не дать осуществить сценарий по косметической санации режима. Лично мне сценарий по косметической санации режима (по типу переименования СССР в РФ при ебне) во главе с Навальным вполне устраивл. Конечно, ЕБН это феерическая дрянь, совок и мразь, а режим его был целиком гебешный и комсомольский, но по крайней мере Интернет он не глушил и массовых политических арестов не устраивал. Думаю, что после 1-2 лет всеобщего воодушевления Навального бы ненавидели примерно как и ебно, и как ненавидели раннего путлера, и тоже заслуженно. Но государство в сраной всегда остается гулагом, поэтому не ненавидеть его все равно невозможно. Зато при ЕБН и раннем путлере, если не лезть слишком активно в политку, можно было спокойно жить, не опасаясь рандомных обысков и арестов, при позднем путлере сие невозможно. Привет
Fri, Apr. 17th, 2026, 07:33 am
syn_torrentfrea: Korean Rights Holders Behind Takedown of Manga Piracy Giant TuMangaOnline
Tu Manga Online (TMO) has long been the go-to destination for many Spanish-speaking manga fans.
Through multiple domains, it offered access to manga and manhwa comics free of charge, attracting many millions of visitors.
In 2024, a detailed report from Deepsee flagged Zonatmo.com as a particularly popular domain. Together with the other TMO properties, it was estimated to generate a billion views in November that year.
The same research linked the TMO operation to the Spanish company Nakamas Web SL, which was reportedly responsible for the sites.
This level of openness is unusual for a pirate site. DeepSee.io CEO Rocky Moss projected that the site would be stopped before the end of 2025. That projection was off by a few months, as TMO went offline in early 2026.
TMO’s website started having problems around March 18. This was widely noticed on social media, including a post by Animetrends that has been viewed close to 2.5 million times.
Without an official explanation from the site’s operators, many fans kept hope that it would make a comeback. A notice on the site suggesting it was “under maintenance” added to that impression.
However, after a few days that hope faded, as the main ZonaTMO domain was put on clienthold. This suspension status is typically set by a domain registrar in response to a legal complaint, and effectively renders the domain inaccessible.
The WHOIS data for zonatmo.com also clearly lists Nakamas Web as the company behind the site.
While TMO’s future was looking more and more troubled, the operators remained silent. Information received by TorrentFreak suggested that Korean webtoon platforms were involved, helped by serious anti-piracy forces. That information was officially confirmed today.
Spanish Takedown Following Cross-Border Investigation
The Copyright Overseas Promotion Association (COA), which represents many Korean publishers, including Kakao and Webtoon, announced that it conducted a multi-month investigation into the piracy operation.
COA worked with the commercial anti-piracy outfit IP-House and Spanish law firm Santiago Mediano Abogados, who eventually shared their gathered evidence with the local authorities for follow-up action.
This operation eventually led to an enforcement effort in Almeria, Spain, which resulted in the takedown of a network of interconnected websites, including Visortmo and TuMangaOnline.
While it is now confirmed that Korean rightsholders are behind the Spanish shutdown, not many details are shared. There is no mention of any arrests, for example, and no suspects have been identified either.
The involvement of the company Nakamas Web remains unconfirmed as well, although it’s worth noting that this company is based in Almeria, which was the center of the police operation. A request for comment to the company, whose website is still online, remains unanswered.
Pending Law Enforcement Investigation
Speaking with TorrentFreak, COA confirms that its members had their eyes set on TMO for a long time. While the group confirms the takedown, it can’t share further information at this point as the law enforcement investigation is ongoing.
“Zonatmo (TuMangaOnline, TMO) has long been recognized as a major illegal platform known for distributing unauthorized translations of Korean content in Spanish. Korean rightsholders had been monitoring the platform since its earlier stages, and in response, have pursued concrete legal enforcement actions overseas through COA.”
“At present, several matters remain at the stage of investigation in cooperation with local law enforcement authorities. As such, we are not in a position to disclose specific additional targets at this time,” a COA spokesperson adds.
TMO
For details, COA referred us to IP-House, which we asked about the suspects that were identified, whether any arrests were made, or whether a deal was reached with the operator of TMO. However, IP House declined to answer, citing an active investigation.
IP-House CEO Jan van Voorn commented on the action in broad terms in a press statement.
“This outcome reflects the strength of cross-border collaboration in addressing complex digital piracy to protect creators, consumers, and the integrity of the global content ecosystem,” Van Voorn said.
“We are proud to have supported COA in advancing this investigation and commend the Spanish National Police for their leadership and effectiveness in executing this enforcement action,” he added.
Part of a Wider Wave
The TMO takedown coincided with one of the most active periods of manga and anime piracy enforcement in history. In March 2026, HiAnime also went offline. The reason for HiAnime’s closure has not been officially confirmed, though it followed sustained pressure from the anti-piracy alliance ACE and a recent callout by the USTR.
Earlier, in January 2026, the manga aggregator Bato.to was shut down following action by Japanese anti-piracy body CODA and pressure from the Korean company Kakao Entertainment, with its operator identified and subject to criminal investigation in China.
According to COA, the TMO takedown is not the last enforcement action that’s planned on their end.
“This action forms part of a broader enforcement initiative led by COA, representing the K-content alliance” COA told TorrentFreak, adding that it “is actively investigating operators of such platforms and preparing coordinated legal actions across multiple jurisdictions.”
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Thu, Apr. 16th, 2026, 08:14 pm
tiphareth: сначала поменяй локаль!

libxcb был модным говном еще до того, как мода на модное говно стала модной. Libxcb это бывшее модное говно, которое изобрели для разрушения иксов еще до wayland, который стал следующим модным говном. Вообще программеров для линукса надо убивать нахуй, любая новая система хуже старой практически во всем. Все это общественно опасные мрази, которых надо убивать нахуй, а особенно Гном и Редхат. Вот тут люди кладут говно на wayland https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1pxectw/wayland_is_flawed_at_its_core_and_the_community/https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25999218https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/17590l7/x11_vs_wayland_the_actual_difference/Сжигать эту хуйню огнем, сжигать нахуй. Установка Wayland пока что не обязательна, но libxcb устанавливать приходится. Я по случаю пересобирал себе систему с нуля. Все более-менее собиралось, пока компилятор не добрался до libxcb, на котором он и вылетел (в середине из 300 с лишним программ). Долго не мог понять, почему, но потом посмотрел на локаль LANG=C.UTF8 LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.koi8r LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF8" LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE=ru_RU.koi8r LC_MONETARY="C.UTF8" LC_MESSAGES=C LC_PAPER="C.UTF8" LC_NAME="C.UTF8" LC_ADDRESS="C.UTF8" LC_TELEPHONE="C.UTF8" LC_MEASUREMENT="C.UTF8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C.UTF8" Поменял ее на "C.UTF8", все заработало. Мораль, хочешь компилировать вонючее забагованное говно, сначала поменяй локаль. Записываю для памяти. Также: компиляция в перл модуля Unicode/Map8.pm потребовала переписать код, потому что модуль сломанный, переписал (не сам, чат гопоты продиктовал). Привет
Thu, Apr. 16th, 2026, 09:08 am
syn_torrentfrea: Warner Bros. Files Criminal Complaint Against Chilean IPTV Operator Over “Alarming” Piracy Growth
Pirate streaming apps and unauthorized IPTV services have continued to gain popularity worldwide.
This is also the case in Chile, where there’s no shortage of options. This includes brands such as MagisTV, FlujoTV, and, XuperTV, which are popular throughout many countries in the region.
These services are a thorn in the side of rightsholders, including the American Hollywood giant Warner Bros. Entertainment, which filed a formal complaint. This effort paid off in February, when Chile’s Department of Telecommunications issued a dynamic blocking order, requiring ISPs to block domains linked to these pirate brands.
Warner Bros. Raises the Stakes
While the blocking action sorted some effect, the IPTV problem remained. This prompted Warner Bros. to raise the stakes by filing a criminal complaint against a company named Streaming Chile SpA that allegedly sells copyright-infringing IPTV subscriptions.
Chilean newspaper La Tercera reports that Warner Bros. accuses the company and its representatives, the 56-year-old Marta Leyton and her son Joaquín Ávila (25) of copyright infringement and computer fraud.
The complaint mentions that IPTV services are widely adopted. While some of these streaming services operate legally, many operate without permission of rightsholders.
“Alongside the growth of a legal IPTV service industry, an illegal industry of unauthorized IPTV service providers has grown alarmingly. These providers offer their clients pay television services via the internet, providing them with access to various content (channels),” the complaint alleges.
Warner Bros. is represented by attorney Daniel Steinmetz, who noted that illegal IPTV services often rebroadcast legal streams without permission from rightsholder, bypassing copyright protections.
Several Linked IPTV Services
TorrentFreak has not seen a copy of the complaint, and the available reporting does not identify any associated URLs. However, the website streaming-chile.net notes in the its footer that it is owned by Streaming Chile SpA, which fits the picture.
streaming-chile.net
The website in question mentions that the operation serves more than 35,000 customers worldwide. The same company, which also offers reseller services, is linked to other streaming platforms such as mejoriptv.net, maxtv.cl, and plandetv.cl.
Our customers say…
As seen above, these IPTV services are also mentioned in the “our customers say” section on the main website. The Trustpilot page has less favorable reviews.
Part of a Broader Crackdown
Warner Bros. referral is part of a broader regional push against IPTV piracy. In February, for example, an Argentine court expanded the crackdown on pirate IPTV services by blocking more than 70 domains while ordering Google to disable sideloaded Android apps.
In Chile, the criminal referral against Streaming Chile SpA stands out because it targets a company and its representative by name, under criminal law rather than a civil procedure.
The Warner Bros. complaint is also the first known Chilean case to invoke the Ley de Delitos Económicos (Economic Crimes Law). Enacted in 2023, the law allows courts to order confiscation of all profits derived from criminal conduct. In addition, it imposes fines that scale with the defendant’s income, well beyond the penalties available under standard copyright law alone.
For now, the criminal complaint is at an early investigative stage. No arrests have been reported, and, as far as we can see, the IPTV services that we could link to the company remain online.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Thu, Apr. 16th, 2026, 10:12 am
aculeata:

Дима Прусс обсуждает в фейсбуке статью про овердиагностику аутизма. Он пишет: Авторы новой статьи видят три области, в которых слишком широкий "спектральный" диагноз вредит людям.
1. Ресурсы по-прежнему ограничены, и, когда они растрачиваются на более успешных / более перспективных детей, то тем, кому дополнительные ресурсы нужны сильнее всего, достаются лишь крохи. Тем несчастным семьям, в которых все силы родителей уходят на ежедневную борьбу, просто недостает никаких сил выбивать что-то из перегруженной системы. Авторы уверены, что сегодня система совершенно сознательно распределяет ресурсы несправедливым образом, обделяя многих из тех, кому они нужнее всего. Например, даже при одном и том же общем уровне сложности аутизма, с каждым годом дети начинают считаться всё менее способными к нормальной жизни и всё больше требующими помощи - то есть налицо перераспределение ресурсов в пользу детей с меньшей тяжестью спектра (слайд 3). Географические различия в частоте диагнозов аутического спектра оказываются просто гигантские, и в штатах, где помощь более доступна, частота аутизма ВПЯТЕРО выше, чем в штатах с менее доступными ресурсами (слайд 4) - воистину вопиющее неравенство.
2. Общество в целом перестаёт относится с глубоким пониманием и сочуствием к семьям с аутичными детьми, поскольку у всех на виду более нормальные из детей из спектра, кому, может быть, и без специальной помощи не настолько тяжело было бы приспособиться к нормальной жизни - не просто, не комфортно, но совершенно реально - в то время как тяжелые случаи не на виду, не на улице, не в классе и т.п. И так, считают авторы, общество начинает забывать, насколько это может быть непосильно тяжело, и укореняется мнение, что море по колено.
3. Даже сами достаточно высоко функцирующие аутичные люди теряют интерес в дальнейшем приспособлении к обществу и жизни в нём, считают авторы. Ведь у них появляется объективная причина, в современном западном обществе приобретающая форму самоидентификации в "спектре нейроразнообразия". Раз они такие, раз это их природа, то по-другому им самим не надо? (звучит это для меня грубо, если не ужасно, но ссылки авторов достаточно убедительные).
Конечно, порой здорово раздражает вот это "мы нейроотличные, нас миллионы, и нами гордится страна" (хотя у меня как раз есть всякие эти диагнозы). Но мне кажется вполне очевидным, что общество стало "замечать проблему" только потому, что нейроотличие вошло в моду. Для того, чтобы оно заметило проблемы категории А, нужен посыл "А тоже люди" и обязательно несколько громких историй со счастливым концом: кого-то из категории А заметили, общество вложило свои усилия, и ситуация резко изменилась к лучшему. Вопрос, с кем это возможно? Дети с "настоящим аутизмом" историй с громким счастливым концом не предоставят -- только что вот, им и их родителям стало легче. (С "ненастоящим" на самом деле тоже, но если история короткая, то можно.) Можно теперь сказать, что хайп сыграл свою роль, попрыгали и хватит. Тем более, общество на этом теряет: деньги вкладывает в вашу диагностику, а вы вместо страдающих Байронов становитесь белыми и пушистыми потребляющими медикаменты и лишнее внимание нейроотличными. Но так-то следующий шаг будет -- а уроды нам не нужны, вот вам гуманная эвтаназия. Ну, вы скажете, в эвтаназии нет ничего плохого, особенно если вы этот самый нейроотличный (а не мать нейроотличного, например). Это потому, что при всем вашем нейроотличии крышечка статус кво у вас прикручена плотно, поднимать ее неохота. Есть -- когда ее навязывают. (Здесь место для напоминания об исторических прецедентах.) Другое дело, что это неизбежно. Маятник качнулся, скоро общество опять в лишних тратах нуждаться не будет, если вообще будет существовать. Конформизм уже требует статей такого рода, а не наоборот. Вынесу из комментов, пожалуй. Wed, Apr. 15th, 2026, 07:55 am
syn_torrentfrea: Anna’s Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight
Anna’s Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, helping users find pirated books and other related resources.
However, last December, the site announced that it had also backed up Spotify, which came as a shock to the music industry.
Anna’s Archive initially released only Spotify metadata, and no actual music, but that put the music industry on high alert. Together with the likes of Universal, Warner, and Sony, Spotify filed a lawsuit days later, hoping to shut the site down.
Through a preliminary injunction targeting domain registrars and registries, the shadow library lost several domain names. However, not all were taken down, and the site registered various new domain names as backups.
The legal pressure also appeared to pay off in other ways. Not long after the lawsuit was filed, the shadow library removed the Spotify listing for their torrents page. The same applies to the first batch of music files that was accidentally released in February.
The site’s operator, Anna’s Archivist, hoped that these removals would motivate the music industry to back down, but that wasn’t the case. Instead, they returned to court requesting a $322 million default judgment after the defendant failed to show up in court.
$322 Million, Granted in Full
Yesterday, Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York entered a default judgment against the site’s unknown operators, awarding Spotify and the major labels the requested $322 million damages award in full.
Default judgment
The music labels get the statutory maximum of $150,000 in damages for around 50 works. Spotify adds a DMCA circumvention claim of $2,500 for 120,000 music files, bringing the total to more than $322 million.
The plaintiff previously described their damages request as “extremely conservative.” The DMCA claim is based only on the 120,000 files, not the full 2.8 million that were released. Had they applied the $2,500 rate to all released files, the damages figure would exceed $7 billion.
| Plaintiff(s) |
Damages Sought |
Amount |
| Warner |
Statutory damages for willful copyright infringement (17 U.S.C. § 504(c)) at $150,000 for 48 sound recordings |
$7,200,000.00 |
| Sony |
Statutory damages for willful copyright infringement (17 U.S.C. § 504(c)) at $150,000 for 50 sound recordings |
$7,500,000.00 |
| UMG |
Statutory damages for willful copyright infringement (17 U.S.C. § 504(c)) at $150,000 for 50 sound recordings |
$7,500,000.00 |
| Spotify |
Statutory damages for circumvention of a technological measure (17 U.S.C. § 1203(c)(3)(A)) at $2,500 for 120,000 music files |
$300,000,000.00 |
| Total |
$322,200,000.00 |
Anna’s Archive did not show up in court, and the operators of the site remain unidentified. The judgment attempts to address this directly, by ordering Anna’s Archive to file a compliance report within ten business days, under penalty of perjury, that includes valid contact information for the site and its managing agents.
Whether the site will comply with this order is highly uncertain.
For now, the monetary judgment is mostly a victory on paper, as recouping money from an unknown entity is impossible. For this reason, the music companies also requested a permanent injunction.
Permanent Injunction Targets Domains
In addition to the damages award, Rakoff entered a permanent worldwide injunction covering ten Anna’s Archive domains: annas-archive.org, .li, .se, .in, .pm, .gl, .ch, .pk, .gd, and .vg.
Domain registries and registrars of record, along with hosting and internet service providers, are ordered to permanently disable access to those domains, disable authoritative nameservers, cease hosting services, and preserve evidence that could identify the site’s operators.
Domain names
The judgment names specific third parties bound by those obligations, including Public Interest Registry, Cloudflare, Switch Foundation, The Swedish Internet Foundation, Njalla SRL, IQWeb FZ-LLC, Immaterialism Ltd., Hosting Concepts B.V., Tucows Domains Inc., and OwnRegistrar, Inc.
Anna’s Archive is also ordered to destroy all copies of works scraped from Spotify and to file a compliance report within ten business days, under penalty of perjury, including valid contact information for the site and its managing agents. That last requirement could prove significant, given that the identity of the site’s operators remains unknown.
A Way Out, at a Price
In theory, Anna’s Archive has the option to prevent the domain suspension. The permanent injunction allows the site to seek relief from this measure, after showing that it has paid the full $322 million damages award and complied with all injunctive obligations.
That’s an unlikely option, to say the least. At the same time, however, it is not guaranteed that the site’s domain names will be suspended.
As reported previously, several domain names, including the Greenland-based .gl version, are linked to registries and registrars outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. court. As such, they previously did not comply to the preliminary injunction, and it is unknown whether the latest order changes that.
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A copy of the default judgment entered by Judge Rakoff is available here (pdf).
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Tue, Apr. 14th, 2026, 05:35 pm
syn_torrentfrea: EU Pirate Site-Blocking Is Broken: Report Calls for IP Blocking Ban and Rightsholder Liability
Since the first court order late 2000’s, European countries have been at the forefront of pirate site-blocking efforts.
These blocking actions initially relied on measures that required Internet providers to restrict access to notorious pirate sites. More recently, however, blocking requirements have spread to other online intermediaries.
For example, in several countries, blocking injunctions expanded to third-party DNS resolvers such as Cloudflare, OpenDNS and Google. Not much later, VPN services became a target, as these could also be used to circumvent blocking orders.
While major rightsholders argue these measures are effective and proportionate, critics highlighted overblocking incidents where anti-piracy measures restricted access to legitimate sites and services, restricting the free flow of information.
A new report published by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) today adds substantial weight to that critique. CEPS is not part of the EU, but it operates as a leading independent think tank that advises on EU policy.
Benefits and Costs of Website-Blocking Legislation
The study, titled The Benefits and Costs of Website-Blocking Legislation: An Economic, Legal and Policy Assessment, examines website-blocking measures across all 27 EU Member States and assesses whether those measures are effective, proportionate, and compatible with EU law.
The report’s central finding is blunt. It concludes that site blocking is associated with substantial risk of unintended consequences and harmful side effects. These adverse effects, including overblocking, are not always fully recognized before site-blocking measures are enacted.
The report
The report suggests that blocking schemes are prone to overblocking because these rightsholders are not liable for mistakes, nor do they bear the costs, which are typically paid by the ISPs or other intermediaries.
“These problems are exacerbated by the fact that rightsholders bear none of the costs of website blocking and are thus incentivised to pursue stringent blocking orders without concern for the collateral damage they cause – there is no back-pressure,” the report reads.
Italy and Spain: A Pattern of Collateral Damage
The report examines six EU jurisdictions in detail, and in each case, the findings are critical of site blocking.
Italy’s Piracy Shield, operated by regulator AGCOM, requires ISPs to block notified domains and IP addresses within 30 minutes, with no prior court order. This system has repeatedly resulted in overblocking, where the anti-piracy system blocked access to legitimate sites and services.
Instead of addressing the collateral damage concerns, AGCOM fined Cloudflare €14.2 million in January, after the company refused to globally filter its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. Cloudflare has since appealed the fine, while challenging the legitimacy of the Piracy Shield system.
Spain has also seen reports of similar collateral damage through its blocking regime. For example, the report notes that when LaLiga was granted a court order in its favor, it targeted a series of Cloudflare-owned IP addresses starting in February 2025. These blocked pirate streams, but also 3,300 lawful services that used the same infrastructure.
“The collateral damage was significant for ordinary users, businesses, and services that had no connection whatsoever to piracy,” the report notes, adding that the court formally dismissed Cloudflare’s appeal in March 2025.
Meanwhile, in Belgium, site-blocking orders have targeted DNS resolvers, which led to OpenDNS temporarily exiting the country in April 2025. The company eventually returned as the ruling was suspended pending appeal, but by then it had already done its damage.
“The episode illustrates how overreaching court orders can have unintended consequences for the broader digital ecosystem, and how disproportionate liability exposure can sometimes incentivise service provider withdrawal rather than compliance,” the report writes.
Report Questions Blocking Effectiveness
Beyond the collateral damage, the report also questions whether blocking achieves its stated objective of stopping piracy. After all, users are typically good at bypassing blocking measures.
The report cites various academic studies, including a 2023 paper published by researchers from Chapman University and Carnegie Mellon University, which found that site blocking led to a modest increase in visits to legal sites. According to the report, it’s unclear if these effects last.
“Recent research confirms that blocking can sharply reduce access to targeted IPTV and streaming piracy services, but no study in the past five years provides a rigorous estimate of how long these effects persist,” the report reads.
Interpret with caution
The report does find that illegal consumption of films and music has declined substantially over time. However, it attributes this to increasing availability and affordability of legal content, not to enforcement.
Rightsholders are well aware of the limits of site blocking. In response, they expanded their blocking requests to also cover DNS resolvers and VPN providers, as we have seen in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and elsewhere.
The CEPS report does not see stricter blocking measures as a solution; it suggests a wide range of other recommendations for the EU, member states, and copyright holders.
IP Blocking Should Be Abolished
The report makes 12 formal recommendations. The most significant is that IP-based blocking should be avoided altogether, due to its inherent tendency to block large numbers of legitimate service sites. DNS-level or URL-level blocking should be used instead.
CEPS points out that this conclusion was also reached following reviews conducted by local telecoms regulator TKK, which effectively banned IP-address blocking in the country.
“To the extent that blocking is used at all, better targeted mechanisms such as DNS-level or URL-level blocking should be used instead, consistent with the Austrian TKK’s reasoning. IP-based blocking is inherently overinclusive because shared IP addresses serve thousands or millions of legitimate domains,” the report reads.
Other recommendations include a requirement for rightsholders to contribute to the costs of implementing blocking measures, and the option to be held liable for damages caused by overblocking at their request.
| # |
Target |
Recommendation Summary |
| 1 |
Rightsholders |
Reflect on pricing schemes and restrictions on availability and convenience, such as geo-blocking. Widespread availability of affordable content is the most effective means of combating piracy. |
| 2 |
Member States |
Measures to assist users in distinguishing legal from illegal content, including improved education, should be part of a comprehensive strategy. |
| 3 |
European Union |
Whether content is illegal or infringing should be judged under the laws of the country of use, not the country of origin. |
| 4 |
Rightsholders |
Whenever legally and practically feasible, rightsholders should first pursue infringers who reproduce content without consent before addressing intermediaries. |
| 5 |
European Union |
Additional EU-level guidance is needed on whether and how to block, taking into account the principle of subsidiarity and the need to avoid market fragmentation. |
| 6 |
Member States |
Blocking orders should be subject to prior or rapid judicial review, as a standard to be required across Member States. |
| 7 |
European Union |
IP-based blocking should be avoided altogether. If blocking is used, better targeted mechanisms like DNS-level or URL-level blocking should be used instead. |
| 8 |
Member States |
Any delegation of blocking authority to private entities must be accompanied by meaningful oversight and safeguards. |
| 9 |
Member States |
Blocking orders should be time-limited with periodic review, and the geographical scope should be clearly defined and limited. |
| 10 |
European Union |
Rightsholders should contribute to implementation costs and bear liability for damages caused by overblocking implemented at their request. |
| 11 |
Member States |
National regulators should assess blocking orders for compliance with Article 3(3) of the Open Internet Regulation before implementation, not merely after the fact. |
| 12 |
European Union / Member States |
Enforcement and coordination of hybrid warfare content blocking should be strengthened at EU level, and national regulators should be provided with sufficient technical capacity and clear guidance for consistent implementation. |
The report also calls for all blocking orders to be subject to prior or rapid judicial review, to be time-limited with periodic reviews, and narrow in scope.
According to the report, the UK blocking model comes closest to its ideal. English High Court orders are time-limited, technically evidenced, and require rightsholders to demonstrate that proposed blocking methods will not affect legitimate content. There hasn’t been any significant overblocking reported in the UK either.
Nord Security Funded the Study
CEPS writes that the study was conducted at the request of and with the support of Nord Security, parent company of NordVPN. However, the think tank states that the analysis and conclusions are entirely independent and reflect the views of the authors alone.
Speaking with TorrentFreak, a Nord Security spokesperson confirmed its support of the study while stressing that the research was conducted independently.
“Website-blocking measures are expanding across Europe, yet there has been limited independent analysis of whether they are effective, proportionate, and compatible with EU law. Nord Security funded this CEPS study because we believe policy in this area should be shaped by evidence, not assumptions,” Nord told us.
As one of the world’s most widely used VPN services, NordVPN has a major stake in the blocking debate. The company has been targeted by blocking orders, including in France, where it appealed alongside other VPN services.
Nord Security also attended the report’s presentation in Brussels this afternoon, where its Regulatory Policy & Compliance Counsel Emilija Beržanskaitė was critical about site-blocking efforts. At the same hearing, the EU’s Intellectual Property Office and the EU’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology were also present.
For now, the report arrives at a moment when intermediaries are pushing back against blocking regimes across Europe, while the European Commission is yet to issue harmonized guidance on how member states should address blocking concerns.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Tue, Apr. 14th, 2026, 02:56 am
aculeata:

К Юрьеву дню собрали с пацанами летающую тарелку. Что возьму с собой? Сломанный телефон, Ахтунг на дармовой присоске (выдержит ли вакуум? дать давление в каюте -- хотя давно уж никто не следит). Там фотки, музыка, порно. Степлер. Зубную щетку. Матушка вышла, ломает руки, что ты, Володенька, ой лышенько, да ты посмотри на свое корыто, не возьмет ведь и второй космической, пропашет носом круговую орбиту, станешь болтаться без дела там шелапутником. А я ли тебя не растила, говорит, я ли не баловала. Голос на краю срыва дрожит. Пацаны понимающе переглядываются: надо мамаше хорошенько повыть, такой порядок. Батя вышел, сделал каменное лицо. Ронял слезу скупую, ронял Да и выронил. Вот тебе, сынок, говорит, на, говорит, бабу мою ебательну, мне, говорит, от нее уже мало толку, а тебе в невесомости, тебе пригодится. Инструкцию к ней закачай в ахтунг. Я закачал. Пацаны понимающе переглядываются: батю-старика обижать не годится. баба его античного образца, функций на пятнадцать, только половина уж отвалилась. Ну что, ну, там приткну ее где-нибудь. Будет штурман. Я буду капитан. Только раз в семь десятков лет поднимают гравизаслоны, зачехляют лазерные пушки, Зодиак развязывает пояс, выпускает рабов на свободу. Если будет с рабом удача, если не подведет его жалкая его колымага, выйдет раб Володя в открытый космос, пронесется вольной кометой и сгорит в чужой атмосфере ослепительно-ярким голубым и белым небесным огнем.
Mon, Apr. 13th, 2026, 01:23 pm
tiphareth: "Дореволюцiонный совътчикъ"
Популярная группа "Дореволюцiонный совътчикъ",как известно, прекратилась более-менее сразу после начала войны, а Вячеслава Малахова, который сочинял песни, сначала пытались посадить в дурку, а потом сшили ему дело по дискредитации. Это само по себе загадка, кстати, ибо он никакой не активист, но тут, видимо, сыграл роль отказ выдать ментам пароли, "противоправная жизненная позиция" и то, что он уроженец Украины; ну или просто по рандому выпало. В общем, Малахов в августе 2025-го откинулся, но чем он занимается сейчас, непонятно, вероятно, лечится. В его канале появляются новые песни, типа вот https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UdXzqpumgс пояснением "Всем привет, это Алёна и Анастасия, подруги Вячеслава Малахова, автора и создателя Дореволюционного Советчика, что ведут этот аккаунт в его благотворительную поддержку. Сегодня у нас премьера - новая песня на одно из самых известных стихотворений Славы, написанное в 2021 году."Песня, походу, на порядок лучше всего творчества группы "Дореволюцiонный совътчикъ", известного мне. Не знаю уж, суно это или не суно, но реально охуительно получилось. Ночью убегай из дома В олимпийке на пижаму. Научу тебя плохому В темноте за гаражами. Вечер северных окраин Снегом южным припорошен. Я пою Захара Мая И кажусь тебе хорошим. Мы едва с тобой знакомы, Но плохой казаться силясь Ты зовёшь в свой тихий омут Пока черти отлучились. Старший брат на русском марше, Мама пашет, папа квасит. Не стремись казаться старше - Жизнь сама потом подкрасит.
Будут партаки-скрижали, Будут ранние морщины, Будет Бали, будут дали, Будут разные мужчины. Будет много, дорогая, Упоительных историй - Мы ж из детства уезжаем Кто на скором, кто на скорой.
Ясным утром, кратким летом. Громким туром, тихой сапой, Кто с билетом на край света, Кто поэтом по этапу.
Это в Ницце целоваться Могут дети у причалов. Где тут нам любить в семнадцать - Нам бы выжить для начала. Где-то ночь сгущает воздух И наводит сладкий морок, А у нас темнеет поздно... Тут бы было лет по сорок Что Ромео, что Джульетте. Здесь Россия, здесь веками Правят пожилые дети Молодыми стариками.
В зимний вечер не прощаясь. Слишком тяжело прощаться. Мы из детства уезжаем, Чтобы вечно возвращаться.
Я вангую, что однажды К расписной поставит стенке Нас седых, томимых жаждой Вертухай с лицом младенца. Как кредитные проценты Неизбежный, планомерный, Всех поставит на коленки. Вот как я тебя, примерно. Впрочем, это всё не точно. В этом хладе замогильном Счастье, как эффект побочный, Пусть не часто, но стабильно. Не тушуйся, это юмор. Будь фартовая по масти. Да, и набивать не вздумай Моё имя на запястье.
* * * Вот тоже неплохо https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohaZbeTuGCQДореволюцiонный Совътчикъ - Статистика. Привет
Mon, Apr. 13th, 2026, 09:32 am
tiphareth: "Партия умеренного прогресса в рамках законности"

Движение "Весна" меня поражало своей бессмысленностью, типа движуха "за все хорошее", сферическая в вакууме, никаких вообще свойств, кроме дебильного идеализма с выпученными глазами. "Партия умеренного прогресса в рамках законности". Практически пародия, да? Но пришли и за ними: https://zona.media/article/2026/04/07/springСажают в сраной чисто конкретно для галочки, уж точно никого безобиднее и травояднее движения "партии умеренного прогресса в рамках законности" и придумать невозможно, а взяли и их. Валите из сраной, в хуйлостане вас либо посадят по рандому, либо разбомбят ядеркой, а скорее всего и то и другое. Привет
Mon, Apr. 13th, 2026, 07:23 am
syn_torrentfrea: Paris Court Issued Simultaneous Site Blocking Orders Against ISPs, DNS Resolvers and VPNs
Since 2024, the Paris Judicial Court has gradually expanded the typical piracy site blocking orders beyond residential Internet providers.
The initial order required Cloudflare, Google, and Cisco to actively block access to pirate sites through their own DNS resolvers, confirming that third-party intermediaries can be required to take responsibility. Not much later, VPN providers were added to the blocking roster.
Initially, these orders were to address circumvention techniques for domains that were already blocked through ISPs. The DNS resolver and VPN provider blockades limited these loopholes. Several blocking orders have followed since, but a series of orders that came out at the Paris Judicial Court take a different approach.
On March 18, Judge Jean-Christophe Gayet issued seven simultaneous rulings, targeting a broad range of online intermediaries that enable access to pirate sports streams in France. The cases were filed by the Spanish professional football league LaLiga, which requested blocking measures against 35 domain names of sports streaming sites.
The pirate sites listed include librefutboltv.su, which has over 27 million monthly visits, as well as smaller ones such as tflix.live, daddylive.dad, yallashooot.video, ballcontrol.click, and kora-live.im.
The targeted intermediaries span every layer of the technical stack: this includes major French ISPs, alternative DNS resolvers such as Google, Cloudflare, and Quad9, as well as several of the world’s largest VPN providers.
Court: LaLiga Lacks Standing
Interestingly, however, LaLiga was not victorious in court. In each of the seven cases, the court declared the league’s claims inadmissible.
The court explained that, under Article L. 333-10 of the French Sports Code, the right to bring blocking injunctions applies to rightsholders, broadcasting companies, and professional sports leagues. However, the court interprets that last category narrowly.
To qualify for protection, sports leagues must be created by a state-delegated federation under French law, specifically under Articles L. 131-14 and L. 132-1 of the Sports Code. As a Spanish association with no delegation from the French state, LaLiga does not meet that definition.
LaLiga argued that the law should also cover foreign leagues that commercialize their audiovisual rights, and that reading it otherwise would discriminate against non-French rights holders. However, the court rejected these arguments.
The restriction has nothing to do with LaLiga’s nationality, the court noted; the league simply needs a subdelegation from the French state to qualify for protection via site-blocking orders. Additionally, the court concluded that LaLiga is not directly harmed by piracy in France, as it assigned its exclusive French broadcast rights to beIN Sports France.
This same reasoning applied to all seven cases and initially appears to be a major setback for the football league. However, help was just around the corner.
beIN Sports Steps In
beIN Sports France, which holds exclusive broadcast rights to LaLiga in France as part of a deal with the Spanish league, intervened voluntarily in all seven cases.
As the company that acquired exclusive French broadcasting rights for LaLiga, it qualifies under the second category in Article L. 333-10. Unlike LaLiga, beIN could also point to documented harm, including evidence that 35 disputed domain names were streaming LaLiga matches, with beIN Sports branding visible in the pirate feeds.
The court ultimately concluded that there was grave and repeated infringement of beIN Sports France’s exclusive rights in all seven cases and granted the blocking orders in its name.
Blocking The Full Stack
What further stands out is the fact that these orders all came out on the same day, targeting nineteen French ISPs, three DNS resolvers, a CDN provider, and four VPN services. This broad approach ensures that the most popular circumvention options are immediately cut off.
The orders run until June 21, 2026, and are also dynamic in nature. This means that new domain names can be added in the future, once they are approved for blocking by France’s audiovisual regulator, ARCOM.
The ISP order will have the most direct impact. It includes France’s largest providers, such as Orange, SFR, Free, and Bouygues Telecom, as well as various smaller ones.
If subscribers try to circumvent these blocking measures by switching to alternative DNS resolvers, orders against Google, Cloudflare, and Quad9 will prevent this.
VPN providers are not necessarily an option either, as the court granted blocking orders against ProtonVPN, as well as CyberGhost and ExpressVPN. LaLiga also referenced orders against NordVPN and Surfshark jointly, but TorrentFreak was unable to locate these.
The Cloudflare order is the most technically comprehensive of the batch. It covers not only Cloudflare’s public DNS resolver but also its CDN, reverse proxy service, and WARP service under a single ruling. The court requires Cloudflare to block the domains across its infrastructure, by whatever technical means it chooses.
Some of the defendants raised counterarguments in court. For example, several VPN providers argued that Article L. 333-10 conflicts with the EU E-Commerce Directive, while others sought a referral to the Court of Justice. However, none of these arguments convinced the court.
Site Blocking Evolution
The seven court orders represent the most comprehensive single-day blocking action under France’s sports piracy framework, as far as we know. Whereas initial orders targeted single intermediary categories, these come in one full sweep.
LaLiga president Javier Tebas is pleased with the outcome and thanks beIN for their cooperation.
“These rulings represent a significant step forward because they extend protection to the entire technical ecosystem that piracy currently relies on. The fight against audiovisual fraud must grow through collaboration, as is the case here with beIN Sports France, which has been key to developing a solid and effective defense in the French market,” Tebas said.
After multiple successful site-blocking petitions, it’s clear that the French court sees a blocking role for a wide variety of intermediaries. This was recently confirmed by the Paris Court of Appeal too.
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A copy of the ISP blocking order (RG 25/10055) is available here (pdf). The Cloudflare order (RG 25/08543) can be found here (pdf). The Google order (RG 25/08548) is available here (pdf). The Quad9 order (RG 25/10053) is available here (pdf). The ProtonVPN order (RG 25/10054) is available here (pdf). The CyberGhost/ExpressVPN order (RG 25/08569) is available here (pdf).
Below is a list of all 35 targeted domain names:
- daddylive.dad
- daddylive2.top
- daddylivehd.world
- daddyliveru.top
- rojadirecta.at
- rojadirectaenvivo.me
- rojadirectaenvivo.sx
- la12hd.com
- jalaace2.cc
- jalaliveace3.cc
- stream196tp.com
- hoca4u.xyz
- bfpc.jllivetx.cc
- bienkoora.live
- kora-live.im
- yalla1shoot.com
- camel1.live
- yacine-tv.com
- ppv.to
- live-match-tv.net
- librefutboltv.su
- yallashooot.video
- tv.tflix.app
- hesgoal.im
- rojadirecta-tv.net
- directfr.sbs
- koora-live.net
- live.sia-live.live
- s3.stream-on.live
- yacine-tv.watch
- ar.kora-top.space
- envivolibre.com
- pl.yalashoot.xyz
- tflix.live
- ballcontrol.click
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Sat, Apr. 11th, 2026, 04:55 pm
syn_torrentfrea: RapidIPTV Kingpin ‘Dash the Iranian’ Gets Two Years Prison Under Spanish Plea Deal
In June 2020, Spanish police led a Europe-wide operation that arrested 11 people connected to a pirate IPTV platform with two million subscribers.
Europol and Eurojust announced the action with considerable fanfare but declined to name the service. However, at the time we confirmed that a key target was RapidIPTV, a platform that had been quietly running an IPTV streaming empire since at least 2014.
The authorities saw Amir Z. as the alleged mastermind behind the empire, which also offered a ‘franchise’ model. The man, known to his colleagues as “Dash the Iranian,” was arrested, and this week, after nearly six years of pre-trial proceedings, the prosecution formally started in court.
RapidIPTV Kingpin Goes to Trial
Spain’s National Court (Audiencia Nacional) began hearing the case on Tuesday against five defendants, all of Iranian origin. The charges cover membership of a criminal organization, intellectual property crimes, offenses against the market and consumers, as well as money laundering.
In sharp contrast to the multi-year wait following the arrests, the trial was relatively short-lived.
After three hours of negotiation, all defendants reached an agreement with prosecutors, according to EFE. The prosecution agreed to drop the most serious charge, membership of a criminal organization, after the defendants pleaded guilty to the three other charges.
This resulted in a large sentencing reduction. The prosecution had originally sought 22 and a half years of prison time for Amir Z., but the agreed sentence was just over two years. Similarly, the money-laundering fine that initially could be as high as €70 million was reduced to €8 million as part of the deal.
Because all sides agreed to the plea deal, it cannot be appealed by any party. This effectively ends the prosecution. The sentences for the remaining defendants were not reported.
€12 Million for the Rights-Holders
In addition to the €8 million fine to the state, the sentence also includes a damages fee of €12 million for the affected companies. The court also ordered the confiscation of all material seized during the raids, as well as all funds and accounts held by the defendants.
The private prosecution coalition was an unusually large one. Warner Bros, Universal, Columbia, Sony Pictures, Paramount, New Line, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, and LaLiga had all joined the action under Spain’s acusación particular mechanism, to hold the IPTV operators responsible.
How much money can eventually be recouped has yet to be seen, but with an estimated 2 million subscribers, the operation generated substantial revenue.
A Building in Iran, a Flat in Barcelona
The money-laundering element of the case was also notable. Prosecutors alleged that the group moved approximately €25.1 million through payment processors, cryptocurrency exchanges, shell companies, and falsified invoices.
Specific transactions identified by investigators included the construction of a residential building in Iran, the purchase of a Barcelona property valued at €1.6 million, and the purchase of two luxury vehicles worth a combined €400,000.
Those figures partially overlap with what was already public: at the time of the 2020 raids, Europol reported that police seized real estate, cars, jewelry, cash, and cryptocurrency worth approximately €4.8 million, and €1.1 million frozen in bank accounts.
The platform used various domain names, including rapidiptv.com, rapidiptv.net, iptvstack.com, and the iptv.community forum. According to the prosecution, it captured signals from licensed pay-TV platforms and routed them through a private server network of 50 servers in at least 13 countries across Europe and North America.
Interestingly, iptvstack.com and iptv.community both remain operational at the time of writing.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Sat, Apr. 11th, 2026, 12:11 am
aculeata:

Сегодня неведомые науке потомки человекообразных обезьян захватили наши качели. Мутный фонарь могильно-зеленоватого цвета был включен в их расширенный фенотип. Мы легко могли бы их спугнуть, у нас есть собака, тренированная загонять мотоциклистов и прочих самцов человека. Но Ленка решила не лениться и пройти полный круг по холмам. И мы прошли его, строя планы и пытаясь вспомнить, как сказать по-немецки "Das ist eindeutig keine Orange". (Насчет планов, если коротко, мы будем жить в замке в северной Италии. Оттуда далеко до продуктовых магазинов, но в замках всегда бывают повара и угодья, где пасутся съедобные животные -- угодники, сказала Ленка, но она лучше разбирается во флоре, чем в фауне. Хотя она говорит, что уже встречала дикобраза и трубкозуба. Откуда возьмется замок, я еще не знаю. В прудах и озерах вокруг замка тоже плавает снедь.) Когда мы прошли полный круг, неугодники продолжали противно освещать наши качели своим пакостным фонарьем. Ленка предложила не ходить туда этой ночью, а влезть на гору. Дорога вела отвесно вверх, и совсем не напоминала человеческую -- скорее, такие тропы делает вода, когда идет очень много дождей. Мы полезли на гору. Тут Ленке эта идея разонравилась, она принялась на середине подъема недовольно пищать, как она любит, и заявлять, что теперь она поедет на жопе вниз. Я решила немного осмотреться на холме, а когда вернулась, Ленка уже спокойно поднялась и шла мне навстречу. Когда я хвалила ее за героизм, она презрительно фыркала. Отвесные и скользкие горные, точнее, холмные тропы ей нипочем. Fri, Apr. 10th, 2026, 06:48 am
syn_torrentfrea: HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask ‘Euphoria’ Spoiler Account on X
HBO has a history of being plagued by high-profile leaks.
Several Game of Thrones episodes leaked in the past, and the same applies to the sequel, House of the Dragon.
With the long-awaited third season of HBO’s hit series Euphoria coming up this weekend, the company was on high alert. So, when it saw several ‘spoilers’ being posted by an X account operating under the name “Lexi howard’s cat”, it wasted no time to take action.
Not the infringing tweet
The Lexi-inspired fan account has been around for a long time, sharing various Euphoria-related updates. However, a series of posts that were published in late March appeared to have hit too close to home.
On March 31, HBO’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) sent a takedown notice to X, flagging several posts. According to Michael Bentkover, WBD’s Director of Worldwide Online Enforcement, these were “spoilers for unaired episodes of our Euphoria TV Series”.
TorrentFreak was unable to find out what was posted exactly, but the DMCA notice identifies it as video/audiovisual recording.
The DMCA notice
X confirmed receipt on the same day and presumably removed the posts. However, that was not the end of it. A week later, on April 7, the company requested a DMCA subpoena at a California federal court, with the goal to identify the person behind the @maudesfancat account.
DMCA subpoenas are relatively easy to obtain, as they only require a court clerk to sign off, which indeed happened a day later.
The issued subpoena requires X to share information sufficient to identify the person behind the account. This includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, account numbers, IP addresses, and any other contact or billing records held by the platform.
The signed subpoena
Unlike the DMCA notice, where WBD used “video” to describe the content, the declaration to the court by Michael Bentkover classifies the infringing content as “summaries of unpublished, character, setting, and plots of a forthcoming series”.
This distinction may matter, as a summary of a plot may not enjoy the same protection as a leaked video. Copyright generally protects the expression of a work, not the underlying ideas or plot descriptions.
Then again, Bentkover also states that the user in question “posted access to HBO’s unpublished, copyright protected work from its forthcoming series,” which sounds substantial.
For now, X Corp. has until April 23 to respond. Legally, both X and the account holder can challenge the subpoena, but no objections have been submitted in court yet. Meanwhile, the ‘Lexi howard’s cat’ account is no longer online.
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A copy of the subpoena, filed April 8 at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is available here (pdf). The notice of filing and supporting declaration can be found here (pdf).
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Thu, Apr. 9th, 2026, 10:56 am
lj_a_krotov: 10 апреля: лекция Сергея Лекая

Завтра, 10 апреля - в пятницу - у меня дома в МОСКВЕ выступит с показом фотографий Сергей Лекай, опытнейший путешественник нашего времени из нашего поколения (по моему мнению). С. Лекай стал известен в походной среде ещё в 1990-х годах. Он покорял самые недоступные другим людям местности: проник в Лхасу по Западно-Тибетской дороге в 1990х, пересёк в 2000-1 году всю Африку (в составе экспедиции АВП, о ней написано в книге "200 дней на юг"), потом ещё раз поехал в Африку, занимался по дороге гидростопом, 4 месяца пересекал Конго-Заир (вместе с Ольгой Смирновой) и из этих времён 1 месяц сидел в тюрьме города Киквит; в 2002 году поехал в Афганистан (в составе экспедиции АВП) и потом там прошёл по Центрально-Афганской дороге через Чагчаран и минарет Джам; в России достиг пешком мыса Челюскин — на Таймыре; прошёл пешком с лодочкой и с Арбузовым (и с В.Щериновым и Женщиной Ю) из Магаданской области на Камчатку (1500 км); сплавился (вместе с В.Щериновым) по самым глухоманным сибирским рекам, по всяким там Подкаменным Тунгускам и, кажется, Индигиркам... Он же нашёл места на реке Клязьме и в Кривандино под Сходы АВП (другое место, на реке Дубна, нашёл А.Кротов). Сергей Лекай посещает почти все Сходы АВП, кроме двух лет, когда он отправился на Чукотку, пересёк на лодке Берингов пролив (вместе с Яной Лебедихоной), потом пересёк Америку — США и Канаду, и Центральную Америку, прошёл пешком через Дарьенский разрыв и таким образом достиг Бразилии наземным путём из РФ, и только ковид помешал ему закончить наземную кругосветку. Он также горник, лыжник, водник, специалист по всяким видам туризма. Он же проник с Камчатки на Чукотку, о чём и будет рассказывать. С.Лекай отлично фотографирует и рассказывает, но книг не пишет. Поэтому его изречения мы послушаем устно завтра. Начало рассказа в 19:00, приходить можно с 18:00, кто не знает адрес — заранее спросите у меня адрес и НЕ ОПАЗДЫВАЙТЕ. Приносите вкусности к чаю. Если кому нужны купюры для коллекции из Аргентины, Боливии и других стран, то приходите в 18:00, пока народ не набежал. Thu, Apr. 9th, 2026, 06:25 am
syn_torrentfrea: Kocowa Secures Win Against Dramacool Pirates, U.S. Court Grants Domain Takeovers
Pirate streaming network Dramacool and several associated sites shut down in November 2024, citing legal pressure from copyright holders.
The operators of the Asian drama and anime portal never revealed who was behind that pressure, but court records later showed it was Wavve Americas Inc., the parent company of legal Korean streaming service Kocowa.
Wavve had filed a copyright lawsuit in Arizona federal court against the unknown operators of multiple Dramacool domains, hoping to take the associated sites offline permanently.
Defendants Go Silent
When Wavve eventually identified the defendants, they were scattered across Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, the Netherlands, and New Jersey.
Kocowa identified domain operators in Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, the Netherlands, and New Jersey. The amended complaint named Asian C, Tommy USA, Najeeb Ullah Mirani, Baidar Bakhtand, and Dorothy Bradshaw, none appeared in court to answer the complaint.
Meanwhile, some Dramacool domains remained operational. While these may include copycat sites unrelated to the original operation, the ongoing copyright infringement is a serious problem for Kocowa.
To break this impasse, Wavve filed a motion for default judgment in September 2025, noting that some defendants had not only ignored the litigation but expanded their operations to new domains while the case was pending.
The company did not seek any monetary compensation but simply requested an order that would allow the company to take over the Dramacool domain names.
Default Judgment Entered
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Krissa M. Lanham granted the motion for a default judgment in full. The court found the requested injunction proportional and appropriate.
“Requiring defendants stop their infringing activities will not cause any legitimate hardship. And the public interest is served in enforcing copyright law. A permanent injunction prohibiting defendants from continuing their activities is appropriate,” the order reads.
The order prohibits all defendants from operating the sixteen named domain names, including watchasia.to and asianwiki.co, and also bars them from registering or owning any new piracy-linked domain names.
Default Judgment
Wavve had acknowledged that an award for monetary damages would be meaningless, as the foreign pirate site operators are unresponsive. Therefore, they set all their hopes on a domain transfer order, which the court granted as well.
Domain Transfers Granted
In the order, Judge Lanham acknowledged that domain transfers are legally contested territory in copyright cases. The standard trademark statute that typically enables such transfers does not apply here, as the lawsuit did not include trademark claims.
However, since none of the defendants put up a defense and because several of the associated sites remain online, the transfers were granted. This was in part justified by judgments in a number of other courts, which approved domain transfers in similar copyright cases.
The order notes that domain transfers can be an appropriate remedy when there are indications that the defendants will not comply with an injunction. That is the case here, Judge Lanham concluded.
“Here, defendants concealed their identities, ignored this litigation, and have an ‘established practice of evading copyright enforcement by moving their operation to new domains, even after having a judgment rendered against them’,” the order reads,
“Wavve is entitled to an order transferring the domain names,” Judge Lanham adds.
Dramacool Domains Still Online
Whether Wavve can actually take control of all 16 domains remains to be seen, as not all registrars and registries may comply with U.S. court orders.
Several of the original Dramacool-operated domains, including dramanice.la, runasian.net, watchasia.to, asianc.sh, and asianwiki.co, have been offline since the November 2024 shutdown.
However, at least three of the named domains are still actively serving pirated content several days after the judgment was entered. Dramacool.bg, dramacool.com.tr, and dramacool.ba all remain online, redirecting visitors to functional streaming sites with full drama libraries.
In closing, it is worth stressing that the permanent injunction prevents the defendants from registering new domain names for infringing purposes. However, the domain transfer order targeted at registrars and registries, is limited to the sixteen named domain names.
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A copy of the default judgment order, issued by U.S. District Judge Krissa M. Lanham, is available here (pdf). The clerk’s entry of default judgment is available here (pdf).
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Wed, Apr. 8th, 2026, 11:54 pm
aculeata:

Youtube внезапно засыпало выпусками Betti Boop -- и исходными, и раскрашенными -- безо всяких запросов с моей стороны. Это у всех так, или только мне повезло? С субтитрами на случайных, кажется, языках (когда они по-английски, то расходятся с тем, что на самом деле говорит и поет Бетти по английски же; субтитры часто не в рифму). Выпал мне первым выпуск, которого раньше не видела: "Betti Boop -- Judge for One Day". Там Бетти утром ждет автобуса на углу, и из-за угла все время выходят ее знакомые, хлопают ее по спине и здороваются. Сильно нахлопали спину, она недовольна. Потом в автобусе соседи читают ее газету через плечо, она злится и разрывает ее пополам, дает каждому половину и пересаживается. Соседи по очереди задымливают ее сигаретой, вытесняют огромной жопой на коленки другим соседям, жуют у нее под ухом, она пересаживается, пересаживается, наконец сердито выходит из автобуса, и тут же проезжий автомобиль окатывает ее водой из лужи. Она ужасно обижена. Приходит в суд, собирает там бумажки какие-то (возможно, у нее такая работа) и поет песню о том, как она отомстила бы всем обидчикам, если бы ей стать судьей хотя бы на один день. Она очень увлекается и воображает, что она присудила бы им всем. Место наказаний -- особый парк аттракционов, вроде малого ада, где отбывают наказание, например, люди, охотно хлопающие ближнего по спине, когда они с ним здороваются. Такого человека одно устройство удерживает на месте, а другое раскачивается на пружине и хлопает по спине огромной ладонью, приговаривая: "hi, old pal!", типа, здорово, старина, и так далее. Человека, например, который громко включает для соседей радио, посадили в клетку с попугаями, и они постоянно орут ему что-нибудь в уши. Вот это все там происходит, а Бетти поет про это песню, примерив мантию судьи. Постепенно зал суда наполняется восхищенными зрителями и слушателями, и они на волне народного ликования выбирают Бетти своим судьей. Хороший выпуск. Еще показали Бетти в виде Синдереллы -- сто лет назад он мне не понравился, а зря. Там, например, мыши перед превращением в коней поют, что они мыши и счастливы тут быть, потом приходят две толстые ящерицы (жирнохвосты) и поют, мол, вы, мыши, никогда не можете быть так счастливы, как мы, ящерицы, сейчас счастливы быть с вами, потом тыква разевает зубастый хэллоувинский рот и тоже поет, как она счастлива быть вместе с ними, потому что ее вот-вот должны были покрошить в тыквенный пирог, а теперь она может быть вместо этого с мышами и с ящерицами. Fairy Godmother превращает их во что положено, а потом начинает разбираться с одеждой Бетти. Взмах палочки, и верхняя одежда Бетти -- лохмотья -- полностью исчезает. Второй взмах палочкой, и длинные заплатанные панталоны Бетти становятся модными мини-панталончиками с кружавчиками, еще взмах -- и рубашка становится мини-лифчиком. Четвертый взмах -- высоко на ноге возникает подвязка. После пятого взмаха вся эта роскошь медленно обрастает полупрозрачным вечерним платьем. Дальше я уже не помню, что было, но это неважно. Замок был очень красивый, кстати, уж точно не хуже, чем у Диснея. И много еще выпусков, буду их потом смотреть; интересно, чего это вдруг. Wed, Apr. 8th, 2026, 04:34 pm
aculeata:

Кот, например, не дурак же. Он не сомневается, что пылесос живой. Он не предлагает ему капчу: поставьте галочку везде, где вы видите котопереноску. Он знает, как надо действовать при виде громко рычащего и вздымающего пыль врага. Wed, Apr. 8th, 2026, 03:14 am
aculeata:

Дедушка Мороз развернул-таки американские бомбардировщики, но стражей тех, как и Путина, никак не хочет снять с елочки. Женя Л. говорит, что они теперь превратятся в розовых пони; ну, в ближневосточной магии я не эксперт. Качели мы с Ленкой сегодня ночью застали во вчерашнем положении. Я сказала Ленке, что мы тут понаехали, а она как раз знала об этом несколько историй, совершенно сбивших ее с панталыку. Понаехавший красномордый репатриант в нее влюбился (как я думаю). Он стоял под Ленкиным домом. Он решил начать с ней знакомство, как это принято у пикаперов, со слов: "Если бы я жил с вами, я бы отравил вашу собаку." Ленка почему-то решила, что эта угроза адресована не ей, а ее собаке. Я попыталась изложить ей основы российского пикапа, но она на меня разозлилась и сказала, что я должна быть на ее стороне. Я испугалась и перестала излагать. Вторая история про понаехавших сложнее и требует знания как русского языка, так и иврита. Я не знаю, как ее рассказать. Она мне напомнила один из любимых анекдотов моего покойного свекра: "Право, маменька, мне нельзя идти замуж за этого поручика!" -- "Но отчего, душенька?" -- "Ах, он знает столько неприличных песен!" -- "Помилуй бог, он что же, при тебе их поет?" -- "Нет, но он их насвистывает!" Розовые пони, кстати, уже заявили, что враг повержен и согласился поэтому на все их условия. Сегодня день рождения у совершенно потрясающих людей. Пусть будет хороший день. Wed, Apr. 8th, 2026, 01:25 am
aculeata:

Добрый дедушка Мороз, пусть КСИР сбежит в Северную Корею, а американцы пускай развернут обратно свои бомбардировщики. Трампа пускай назначат скрытым имамом и его золотой статуей. Хотя про Путина вот просили, просили... |