Netflix is trying to limit the visibility of the "Orange is The New Black" leaks by sending takedown requests targeted at various websites. The leak is significant enough for the video streaming service to direct one anti-piracy vendor to focus specifically on copies of the leaked files. Last Friday, Netflix became the key victim in one of the biggest piracy leaks in history. A hacking group or person calling itself TheDarkOverlord (TDO) released the premiere episode of the fifth season of Netflix’s Orange is The New Black, followed by nine more episodes a few hours later. Netflix hasn’t said much about the issue in public, aside from the generic response. “We are aware of the situation. A production vendor used by several major TV studios had its security compromised and the appropriate law enforcement authorities are involved.” However, it appears that behind the scenes something has changed. While browsing through Google’s public repository of piracy takedown requests, hosted by Lumen, we noticed that the anti-piracy vendor “IP Arrow” suddenly started to submit requests on Netflix’s behalf. The first request from IP Arrow came in on Saturday, the day after the leak, and there have been at least a dozen more since. What’s unusual about these notices is that they only target the leaked “Orange is The New Black” episodes, no other content. This is also clearly reflected in a statement by the anti-piracy firm, which comes with the request. “This is submitted for my client Netflix These links are facilitating piracy of my client’s work. The work can be seen by visiting their site www.netflix.com. The item this is relating to is Orange Is The New Black Season 5,” it reads. Although Netflix might not believe that the leak is a disaster for its business, which is also reflected in several opinion pieces published in recent days, the IP-Arrow notices suggest the company is focusing part of its takedown efforts specifically on containing the fallout. Netflix isn’t new to anti-piracy work. With help from Vobile Inc the company started sending takedown requests to Google roughly a year ago. Unlike IP-Arrow’s requests, Vobile targets a wide variety of content. A few weeks ago we also reported that Netflix has its own “Global Copyright Protection Group” which is tasked with fighting online piracy. Given the recent leaks, we assume that the group has plenty of work to do now.

Warner Archive Collection In view of the loosely-drawn nature of the WAC label's release parameters and the large number of Mainstream and Asian films and TV films that are already or soon could be issued, Staff members have unanimously decided that allowing this to happen would drive an unacceptably large wedge into our carefully thought-through rules on that sort of content. In future, therefore, all Asian WAC releases made at any time and Mainstream releases made post-1976 must meet our Upload Rules just like those of any other label. Criterion, the BFI and MoC/Eureka - though not the rest of Eureka's releases - are still exempt from these restrictions. Marginal or debatable content should be queried in the 'Staff Approval for Questionable Films' Forum topic as usual.

拜了唯美四月，相逢火红五月。在经过一轮考核洗礼后，为了回馈珍惜而努力留下来的会员，本站将于即日至下周开启(未烧)User级别的邀请权限，同时提供1万魔力换1限时邀请的机会，限时邀请3天内有效，且每会员限购3枚，欢迎各位邀请喜欢高清、喜欢本站的朋友加入CHD大家庭，共建我们的高清乐园，谢谢~~~ （另友情提醒，请不要邀请马甲或涉嫌交易，若查实，邀请与被邀请者都将被清出CHD） As a token of appreciation to all of you who managed thru the assessment month, we will open up our invitation system from now on for "User" to invite new users. Each invitation costs 10,000 bonus point and each user are only allowed to buy 3 invites. Each invite is valid for 3 days only. (and as a friendly reminder, no duplicate nor trading accounts or everyone involved will be banned from CHD)

New data published by Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that close to 9 percent of all North American households have at least one Kodi device. Roughly a third of these actively use pirate add-ons, which is good for millions of families in total. The Kodi media player software, previously known as XBMC, has seen a massive surge in popularity in recent years. More and more people have started to use Kodi as their main source of entertainment, often with help from unofficial add-ons that allow them to access pirated movies and TV-shows. While there has been plenty of anecdotal evidence on how prevalent its use is, there hasn’t been much research to back this up. A new report published by broadband management company Sandvine today, aims to fill this gap. Sandvine analyzed a dataset from multiple North America tier one fixed-line provider, which covers over 250,000 anonymized households throughout North America. Using this data, it was able to estimate how many households actively use at least one Kodi device. “The Kodi application itself does not generate much data, but it is easy to detect within a household due to its ‘heartbeat’ traffic which can easily be identified,” Sandvine reports. Overall Sandvine estimates that 8.8% of the households with Internet access across North America have an active Kodi device. This translates to several millions of households and many more potential users. Of course, this doesn’t mean that all these people are pirates. Kodi has plenty of legal uses, and so Sandvine also looked at the use of pirate add-ons specifically. Looking at the various traffic sources for the streaming data, including file-hosts, the company determined that 68.6% of the households with Kodi devices also use unofficial, or “pirate” add-ons. The report was in part triggered by an increased interest from content service providers, copyright owners, and regulators. Some of these pointed to the Kodi software as the root of the piracy problem, but Sandvine laudably rejects this claim. “In some of the discussion Sandvine has had with the parties listed above, Kodi is often referred to by name as the root of the streaming of unlicensed content problem, but that is wrong,” Sandvine notes. “Kodi simply serves as a front end; If Kodi disappeared tomorrow, then all of the content made available through the unofficial Add-ons would quickly be made be accessible via a web browser, or by another media player, and the parties that are benefitting today, would continue to profit,” they add. Sandvine should receive praise for making such a clear distinction, something the media often fails to do, which is cause for great frustration among the Kodi developers. Finally, the company notes that there are clear geographical differences in Kodi adoption within North America. In Canada, for example, over 10% of the households have a Kodi device installed, which is a higher adoption rate than in the US. It will be interesting to see how these trends develop during the years to come. For now, Kodi continues to draw more and more users, so it wouldn’t be a big surprise if the numbers further increase.

BREIN says it has reached a 10,000 euro settlement with a supplier of illegal IPTV services. The Dutch anti-piracy outfit obtained an ex-parte court order against the individual, who was selling cheap subscriptions to otherwise premium channels, accessible via a set-top box or regular PC. While movies can be obtained from BitTorrent sites and live TV watched on unlicensed streaming portals, the combined experience generally lacks convenience when compared to official services. There is, however, a massive price difference to sweeten the deal. Illicit IPTV services, on the other hand, nicely fill the middle ground. Providing decent quality streaming TV with VOD services often alongside, they offer superior convenience at bargain basement prices. As a result, these are increasingly being targeted by copyright holders. IPTV services are prevalent across Europe with many anti-piracy groups trying to mitigate the threat. One such outfit is Netherlands-based BREIN who recently went to court in an effort to shut down an IPTV supplier. In an ex-parte application dated April 27, 2017, BREIN asked for an immediate injunction to prevent live TV and on-demand streams being offered by the provider. BREIN described the infringement as both “large scale” and “professional”. According to the anti-piracy outfit, the supplier offered subscriptions costing between 80 euros and 119.95 euros per year, which provided almost 1,800 channels of infringing content. Included in the package was a VOD service, which offered around 545 HD movies organized into categories including action, comedy, sci-fi, kids and drama. These kinds of services often contain the latest movies, beyond what even Netflix is able to offer. Since the content provided by the supplier was accessed via a hyperlink (in this case an .M3U file), BREIN cited the recent GS Media decision from the European Court of Justice, which found that there is a communication to the public when illicit content is supplied via a for-profit link. The anti-piracy group also noted that streams would often be accompanied by corresponding movie posters or DVD covers, which also amounts to copyright infringement according to local case law. On May 1, 2017, the supplier received the ex parte order, upon which BREIN agreed to enter into a settlement agreement of 10,000 euros plus further potential multiple penalties of the same amount. “The provider has the obligation to pay a penalty of 10,000 euros for each individual IPTV subscription, individual hyperlink, or day that he acts in violation of the court order and continues with the sale of IPTV subscriptions,” BREIN said in a statement. While these amounts may sound large, the initial 10,000 euro settlement seems relatively reasonable given the substantial penalties that could be handed down following a successful direct infringement lawsuit. Of course, if the supplier wants to avoid further penalties, his service needs to come down, something which is likely to infuriate customers that have already paid money up front. BREIN is happy to pile on the pressure in this respect and is encouraging people to be proactive. “We advise consumers who bought such a media player and / or subscription to retrieve their money from the seller,” says Kuik. “Once the links are no longer tracked, the boxes and subscriptions stop working. People are getting excited. It’s better to spend your money on legal offerings, so you pay for innovation and creation and you can keep enjoying new content.” In the meantime, dozens of similar suppliers will move in to fill the gap. Whether once-bitten customers will risk another spend will remain to be seen but the usual advice around IPTV discussion forums is not to commit to long-term subscriptions – they can end in disappointment.

A few hours ago a pirated copy of the "Smurfs 2" UHD Blu-Ray Disc appeared on the well known private torrent tracker UltraHDclub. The release suggests that the AACS 2.0 encryption technology used to protect these discs may have been circumvented for the first time. However, without further details, it's probably wise not to jump to conclusions too quickly. While there is no shortage of pirated films on the Internet, Ultra-high-definition content is often hard to find. Not only are the file sizes enormous, but the protection is better than that deployed to regular content. UHD Blu-Ray Discs, for example, are protected with AACS 2.0 encryption which was long believed to unbreakable. A few hours ago, however, this claim was put in doubt. Out of nowhere, a cracked copy of a UHD Blu-Ray Disc surfaced on the HD-focused BitTorrent tracker UltraHDclub. The torrent in question is a copy of the Smurfs 2 film and is tagged “The Smurfs 2 (2013) 2160p UHD Blu-ray HEVC Atmos 7.1-THRONE.” This suggests that AACS 2.0 may have been “cracked” although there are no further technical details provided at this point. UltraHDclub is proud of the release, though, and boasts of having the “First Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc in the NET!” Those who want to get their hands on a copy of the file have to be patient though. Provided that they have access to the private tracker, it will take a while to download the entire 53.30 GB disk. At the time of writing, there are still very few seeders available, which means that progress is slow. TorrentFreak reached out to both the uploader of the torrent and an admin at the site hoping to find out more, but thus far we have yet to hear back. From the details provided, the copy appears to be the real deal although not everyone agrees. TorrentFreak spoke to an expert at a well-known torrent distribution group who reviewed the media information and compared it to the retail UHD Blu-Ray Disc. While the audio seems to match, the Maximum Content Light Level and Maximum Frame-Average Light Level listed in the media info appear to be different, and the colors in the screenshots are off too. This means that it’s warranted to remain reserved when it comes to definitive “cracked” claims at this time. The potential ‘breakthrough’ release hasn’t gone unnoticed though, and in various discussion forums people are suggesting that AACS 2.0 must have been broken. Hundreds of downloaders have jumped on the release too, congratulating the uploader. “Great job! Congratulations to the person/team who achieved this awesome milestone. I’ve got nothing but love for you!” one downloader writes. “This is history in the making and I`m proud and glad to be able to participate and experience it first hand. This is so freakin amazing and it feels sort of unreal but yet it isn`t which is the best part,” another one notes. If the encryption has indeed been broken it will be bad news for AACS, the decryption licensing outfit that controls it. The company, founded by a group of movie studios and technology partners including Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft and Intel, has put a lot of effort into making the technology secure. If more information becomes available, we will update the article accordingly.

Tracker's Name: HDTurk.org Tracker's Genre: General Signup Link: http://hdturk.org/signup.php Closing Date: N/A Additional Information: HDTurk is a Turkish Private Torrent Tracker for HD / General Releases ~2000 active users / day | ~27.000 active peers

Tracker's Name: Kosmoaelita.com Tracker's Genre: Movies Signup Link: http://kosmoaelita.com/profile.php?mode=register Closing Date: N/A Additional Information: Russian private tracker for science fiction films and documentary films about сosmonautics and astronomy. Do not pay attention to the inscription: "Регистрация временно только по инвайтам" ("Registration is temporary only with invites"). Registration is open... for now.

Tracker's Name: DataTalli.net Tracker's Genre: General Signup Link: http://datatalli.net/members.php?action=reg Closing Date: Soon! Additional Information: DataTalli is a Finnish Private Torrent Tracker for Movies / TV / General Releases

Popular anime torrent site NYAA has lost control over its Swedish .SE domain name, which was deactivated a few hours ago. As a result, the site has become unreachable. The domain status suggests that the responsible registry intervened, which is something that could happen in response to a copyright-related court order. NYAA is heralded as one of the top sources for anime content and has an audience of millions of regular users. The site has operated for years without any significant trouble. However, a few hours ago it suddenly became unreachable due to a worrying domain name issue. The NYAA.se domain was updated with the infamous “serverhold” status (see update below) which suggests that the responsible registry interfered. The status has been used in the past when domain names have been flagged due to copyright issues and stripped of their DNS entries. “This status code is set by your domain’s Registry Operator. Your domain is not activated in the DNS,” ICANN writes. As a result of the issue, NYAA is no longer accessible from its .SE domain. TorrentFreak reached out to the responsible registry for a comment, but at the time of writing we haven’t heard back. If the registry is indeed involved, then there must be some sort of legal authority backing the request. The .SE domain registry previously stated that it will not suspend any domain names unless there is a court order. “We believe that the judicial authorities should determine whether or not it is appropriate to take action against a particular domain name registrant. Unless we have been ordered to do so, there is a risk that we could call the validity of the legal process into question by taking action before a ruling is passed,” Punkt SE said. Thus far it’s unclear on what grounds the domain was deactivated. A copyright complaint is one of the possibilities, but this hasn’t been confirmed. Whatever the reason for the deactivation, there’s still hope for the site’s users. In theory, the NYAA team could return online if they setup an alternative domain. That is, if the domain name deactivation is the only issue they are facing at the moment, which remains to be seen. If more information becomes available on NYAA’s domain name troubles we will update this article accordingly. Update: The NYAAtorrents.org and NYAA.eu domains are also deactivated now. This suggested that there’s a coordinated action involving multiple domain name registries.

Transmithe.net's new domain is called Nebulance.io now. That was decided after a poll took place at the site, where members voted for a few weeks what should be the new domain's name. From their forum: So the new site is up. We've transitioned successfully. Perhaps someone should read the new operating manual... The engine power-up sequence begins... "By squeezing something that looks like a red ligament with blue veins on the right side... coming out of a sack of gooey fluid... shaped like a dog".

M-Team Invitation Round 20 Lottery is open now: Started on: 2017-05-01 00:00 Beijing time (GMT+8) Ending on: 2017-05-03 00:10 Beijing time (GMT+8) Invitation Lottery: 100 spots How to apply: Use email to apply (to the address just below )(you'd better use a gmail address): https://tp.m-team.cc/preregistered.php You will then receive an email confirmation with a query code. Then you wait! Wait until the M-Team Invitation Lottery closes on 2017-05-03 00:10 Beijing time (GMT+8), and after 2 hours from closing time, then you can post your query code (to the address just below) to check if you won: https://tp.m-team.cc/preregistered.php?action=query If you're lucky, you will get an invite to signup (and you will have 24 hours only to signup), or, if you get this message: "很抱歉，本次你沒有被抽中", it means that you are "Unlucky, You have not drawn invitation lottery." Good luck.

All Torrents Free Enjoy Until 5 May 2017

Hey guys, Just an update on the site downtime. One of the drives on the server died, sadly of the multiple drives in the server it was the one with all the important stuff on it... no surprise there Host replaced the drive after I told them I had a backup. Equally sadly, having a backup and getting a backup restored in a timely manner are two entirely different things and let just say this has been a learning experience regarding making assumptions about shit The tracker itself should be up pretty soon, part of the delay was me actually being human (unlike Gordo) and requiring sleep... But that has been dispensed with and we should be right to get this all sorted out. The forum is what's causing the problems at this stage, the database dump that backed up the forum isn't being cooperative and restoring without dying in the middle from some obscure errors. So I'll bring the tracker back up and make sure that's working and then get to working out what's wrong with the forum. So your normally scheduled leeching should be able to resume sometime soon... I can also see some likely freeleech time in all your futures too.

Good afternoon dear SeedFile users , We want to let you know that in the new event called SHOW OF THE WEEK we will try to set a new tv show with this title every week. It should be understood that if a show has the title SHOW OF THE WEEK it is set as FreeLeech for the whole period (one week) and a banner is displayed on the front page to announce this event. This topic is edited every time the show is changed wich means there is no posting!

The 6 hour FL has now been removed at GGn.

Google Translation: On May 28, users who have been warned that they are inactive will be deleted, so tell your friends that if they haven't been to the site for a while then they will have to be logged in or deleted, we will not be able to reset the accounts after deleting!

To be clear: A few weeks ago, the servers were disabled at the host. After a trouble ticket was submitted, the host said the servers were disabled due to "possible identity theft". Jait, Skiff and I all provided information to the host to prove we were who we said we were. The only person who didn't was Shibby, who said he was going off for a "family visit" and he'd look into it when he got back. During that 'family visit", the email contact at the host was changed to an email of, yes, one of his family members. Then our access to the control panel was cut off, but not before we were able to see the new email address and the IP address associated with the last login, an IP that matched up with an account that Shibby had personally interceded on several years ago... which is weird, because across the years his personal intervention in any matter was exceptionally rare. The sites remained down, and Shibby kept deflecting, kept heel-dragging as to why he wouldn't contact the host to get things resolved. After all, he was the person tasked with paying the bills, he could easily have mailed them with invoice numbers and bank details and said "We are the real deal, please release control to us." Which, apparently, he did. Except not to us, but to himself. And that's when the rest of us were cut off. Then he did the same at the domain registrars. At that point what we had suspected had been more or less confirmed: this wasn't some hack, some 'horrible misunderstanding', it was a hostile takeover. So we did what anyone on the internet does when faced with breakage: we routed around it. It took several days and a whole bunch of late nights, but we got theClickGroup up and operational, and here we are. Meanwhile, Shibby tries desperately to get the .bz sites operational and apparently is having extreme difficulties maintaining operation of a system that, when I'd last left it, was not only largely self-running but self-starting. I don't what they're doing to the databases there but I've seen more reports of db errors there in a week than have happened in several years that I was tending the shop. Literally his first and second acts as Grand Poobah of All The Bz was first to promote himself and his friend Albert, and then to disable all the existing staff. The weird database issues and his inclusion of 3rd parties into looking at codebase and data is why we tell everyone to change their passwords, not just at .click and (if you still have access) at .bz, but any other site you might have used that password at. Meanwhile, not only we have been continuously trying to contact him to find out what the hell his game plan is, but various admins and mods have as well. He either flat out ignores or rebuffs them, or he sets up plans that he doesn't follow through on. At the end of the day, there's no indication that he's interested in either being honest with people, nor in 'reconciliation' in the interest of his decade-long personal relationships with the rest of the team, nor of the users. At this point, there's not much more that can be done aside from letting people know what happened at .bz, the nature of the person(s) running the show there now, and moving on. You might try to appeal against splitting over there, but I wouldn't count on your account remaining active if you try... apparently there's a policy of disabling anyone who makes a reference to .click in forums or pms there.

Australia's Federal Court has issued a new blocking order targeting several KickassTorrents related sites. When the original site was taken down, music industry companies shifted the focus to several spinoffs. Twenty Internet providers now have two weeks to implement reasonable measures to block users from accessing the infringing domains. Last spring, members of the Australian music industry teamed up to file their first ‘pirate’ site blocking request Down Under. In an application at the Federal Court, member labels Universal Music, Warner Music, Sony Music and J Albert & Son demanded that then leading torrent site KickassTorrents (KAT) should be blocked by the country’s ISPs. The labels argued that KickassTorrents showed a “complete disrespect for music creators and the value of music,” and wanted Internet users to be prohibited from accessing the site. However, before the court could decide, KAT was already ‘taken care of‘ by the U.S. Department of Justice, which shut it down. That didn’t end the blocking effort in Australia though. Instead of going after the main KickassTorrents site, which no longer exists, the labels changed their focus to the various spinoffs that appeared in its wake. A few days ago the Federal Court issued its judgment, ordering 20 Australian Internet providers to block a variety of domain names. The new targets, which shifted quite a bit as the case progressed, include Katcr.co, the KAT ‘reincarnation‘ that was launched by a group of former staffers of the original site. In addition, the order also listed some domains that have absolutely nothing to do with the original KickassTorrents. Kickass.cd, for example, which is little more than a dressed up Pirate Bay mirror. Justice Burley is nonetheless convinced that the domain names in question deserve to be blocked, relying on the argument that KAT’s primary motive was to infringe or facilitate copyright infringement. “The large number of monthly visits to the KAT website indicate that the infringement facilitated by the KAT website can be described as flagrant and reflect an open disregard for copyright on the part of the operators of the KAT website,” SMH quotes Justice Burley. The ISPs in question now have two weeks to implement reasonable measures to block these domains. Whether this will stop people from infringing is unclear though. A similar Federal Court targeted at The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt and streaming service SolarMovie was quickly defeated earlier this year.

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Logan' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Fifty Shades Darker'. 'Kong: Skull Island' completes the top three. This week we have two newcomers in our chart. Logan is the most downloaded movie for the third week in a row. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart. This week’s most downloaded movies are: Movie Rank Rank last week Movie name IMDb Rating / Trailer Most downloaded movies via torrents 1 (1) Logan (Subbed HDRip) 8.6 / trailer 2 (…) Fifty Shades Darker 4.7 / trailer 3 (3) Kong: Skull Island (Subbed HDRip) 7.0 / trailer 4 (5) Split 7.0 / trailer 5 (2) The Fate of the Furious 6.7 / trailer 6 (…) Colossal 7.4 / trailer 7 (4) Get Out (Subbed HDRip) 8.1 / trailer 8 (8) The Boss Baby (HD-TS) 6.5 / trailer 9 (7) La La Land 8.4 / trailer 10 (10) Ghost in The Shell (HDTS) 6.9 / trailer

Tracker's Name: HDKnights.org Tracker's Genre: HD Signup Link: http://www.hdknights.org/sbg_login_classic.php Closing Date: N/A Additional Information: HD Tracker for movies and TV Shows

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Hi ! The tracker calculates x2 (double) the amount of data uploaded! This weekend!

Google translation: So far, every forum post announcing an upload link directly to the torrent download. This caused some problems to many users when downloading the torrent from the forum, either because they were not logged in the tracker, browser incompatibility, unregistered users, etc. From now and gradually, in the new downloads the link will point to the tab of the torrent and from there you can download without problems the torrent to your client. In addition you can take advantage and press the button thanks in the tab of the torrent. Each time you press the button you add bonus. Regards, the xBytes Administration. Long life to xBytes and live the P2P.

Planned Maintenance On Saturday April 29th, 2017 around 12:00PM GMT, FunFile will be down for planned maintenance. During this time, the site and tracker will be down. IRC will remain up without services (no announce, credit accrual, etc). Please keep your torrent clients running during this time to avoid incorrect stats. The downtime could last 48 hours but we're hoping it won't take that long. Thank you for being patient with us during this planned downtime. Discuss this HERE