Ro Phim, a popular Vietnamese piracy system, including a range of websites and app that provided access to pirated movies and TV shows, has officially shut down, leaving many users surprised and sparking widespread discussion online. The system, which had become one of the country’s most widely used illegal streaming platforms, posted notifications across its channels announcing the immediate halt of its operations. The operators cited “careful consideration and acknowledging

A 40-year-old man once labelled a major figure in India’s online piracy world has been formally acquitted  after more than a decade of criminal proceedings tied to the defunct torrent site TellyTorrents . TorrentFreak Background: In the summer of 2015, Pune police arrested Priyank Pardeshi  during a visit to India, accusing him of running TellyTorrents  a site notorious for hosting pirated Bollywood films, including early leaks of blockbuster Bahubali . At the time, police al

The iQIYI v. Minimax AI case in China is a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the major Chinese video-streaming platform iQIYI against AI startup MiniMax. The case covers 2 critical issues in the legal landscape for AI:  Unauthorized Training Data: iQIYI alleges that MiniMax used its copyrighted movies, TV shows, and other content without authorization to train MiniMax's large AI models. Infringing Output: The lawsuit also claims that the content generated by MiniMax's A

In Vietnam widespread concerns about piracy have been reflected in the mass copying of the film "Red Rain"  ( Mưa Đỏ ). This is the 2025 Vietnamese epic historical war drama adapted from a novel about the Second Battle of Quảng Trị in 1972, a fierce and protracted battle in the Vietnam War. The film was released for free streaming on Vietnamese TV platform TV360. However within hours it was illegally copied, edited, and re-uploaded to many Vietnamese-language websites.  TV360