Piracy
Subnautica 2 sells over 2 million copies after early access launch
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Subnautica 2 reached more than 2 million sales across PC and Xbox Series X/S within hours of its Early Access release on May 14. The game also hit a peak of 467,582 concurrent players on Steam on launch day. Lead designer Anthony Gallegos responded to pre-release piracy incidents in the official Discord server.
Dodi Repacks, a prominent figure in video game piracy, revealed plans to reduce his activities to pursue a law career and marriage. The announcement came in a blog post on his website dated May 16.
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The United States has kept Brazil on its intellectual property watch list, as released by the U.S. Trade Representative's Office (USTR). The report highlights São Paulo's 25 de Março street as a major market for counterfeit goods. Physical and digital piracy remain central challenges in the country.
A pirate group known as Anna's Archive has announced it scraped Spotify's vast music library, acquiring metadata for 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files totaling nearly 300 terabytes. The group frames the effort as cultural preservation, planning to release the files publicly despite copyright violations. Spotify has responded by disabling involved accounts and enhancing safeguards against such activities.
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A pirate activist group has scraped and released metadata from Spotify's music library, with plans to distribute 86 million audio files. The breach, reported on December 21, 2025, involves 256 million rows of track data set for peer-to-peer sharing. Spotify is investigating the unauthorized access.