Articles
Analysis and explainers on how film and television are watched without paying, and the items from around the web that matter to it.
The rise of the omnibus streaming site
One domain, every catalogue, a player that works on a phone. How the all-in-one site replaced the torrent index as the front door to unlicensed viewing.
Stremio is not a piracy app. Its add-ons are.
The media centre ships clean. A handful of community add-ons turn it into the most polished unlicensed front end yet built. How the layers fit together, and who runs each one.
How to read a torrent chart
What a monthly download ranking does and does not tell you, why a film can top it weeks after release, and how to set it beside a streaming ranking.
Downloads and streaming are two different audiences
Same title, two charts, two behaviours. Why we publish both every month and never add them together.
What Piracy Shield blocks, and what it misses
Italy gave rightsholders a thirty-minute blocking clock. Two years on, what the system catches, what it breaks, and where the traffic went.
The debrid layer: the quiet middle of streaming piracy
The subscription services that turn a torrent into a stream, why they look legitimate, and how much of the add-on ecosystem depends on them.
From the web
Updated weekly- Court upholds Belgian pirate DNS blocking order, OpenDNS exit loomsTorrentFreak
- Rep. Issa files competing US pirate site blocking billTorrentFreak
- Pirate IPTV operators face USD 32.7 million judgment and self-expanding blocking injunctionTorrentFreak
- Research: Nordics spend EUR 280 million a year on pirate streamingAdvanced Television
- UK man jailed for GBP 1 million illegal streaming businessAdvanced Television
- Cineby starts staged shutdown of its piracy empireTorrentFreak
Each item links to its source. When an item changes a chart, we say so in a line beneath it.
August 2026, downloads
Full chart- 1
Spider-Man: Brand New Day100 - 2
The Odyssey91 - 3
Project Hail Mary84 - 4
Reacher77 - 5
The Mandalorian and Grogu71
August 2026, streaming
Full chart- 1The Odyssey100
- 2Spider-Man: Brand New Day96
- 3
The Gentlemen88 - 4
Moana80 - 5
Minions & Monsters74