📰 New article from TorrentFreak
Streaming Piracy Crackdown ‘KRATOS 2’ Leads to 29 Arrests, Targets Remain Unknown
If you thought the era of the “hobbyist” pirate was still alive, think again. Modern piracy has gone corporate, and law enforcement is finally playing hardball.
Enter Operation KRATOS 2. This massive, multi-national crackdown—led by Bulgaria and supported by Europol—has been tearing through the digital underworld from late 2025 into early 2026. The scale is impressive: authorities dismantled nine criminal organizations, arrested 29 people, and identified another 86 suspects across a dozen countries, including the UK and the US.
However, there’s a catch. While the statistics are eye-popping—mentioning over 27,000 removed URLs and hundreds of thousands of “infringing objects”—the authorities are being suspiciously quiet about the who.
There are no big platform names revealed and no major domains seized. Europol claims they are targeting the “wider criminal ecosystem” rather than just consumer-facing sites, but for now, the actual impact remains a bit of a mystery. Whether these links are gone for good or just replaced by mirror sites in minutes, one thing is certain: the hunt is heating up.