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

  • 5/MAY/20 - US Removes Switzerland From ‘Pirate WatchList’

Countries where both downloading & sharing is illegal

• Argentina

• Bangladesh

• Brazil

  • Operation against digital piracy searches in 12 states
• Canada

• Chile

• Columbia

• Czech Republic

• Denmark

  • Denmark Blocked 141 Pirate Sites in 2019 But Pirates Are Bypassing The System
• 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.