Channel
@torrentfreaknews
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206subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001142973220 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @torrentfreaknews |
| Created | Between 1 June 2016 and 31 January 2020 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 12 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/torrentfreaknews |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Sept 2026, 00:37 | 206 | +1 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 08:23 | 205 | -1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 23:55 | 206 | +1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 04:00 | 205 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 21:20 | 205 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 11:01 | 206 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 11 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
YggTorrent Teases a Comeback in September, Weeks After Arrests https://torrentfreak.com/yggtorrent-teases-a-comeback-in-september-weeks-after-arrests/ YggTorrent was France's largest torrent site until a hacker gutted it in March. In July, the police arrested twelve suspected operators. That was not the end of it, however. Following a purported takeover, YggTorrent's domains are back online and counting down to a "g…
Broadcaster Wins Broad U.S. Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don’t Exist Yet https://torrentfreak.com/broadcaster-wins-broad-u-s-blocking-injunction-covering-pirate-sites-that-dont-exist-yet/ Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision has obtained one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions ever issued by a U.S. federal court. After initially targeting five pirate IPTV streaming operations, the case expande…
European Space Agency Website Exploited to Advertise Shady IPTV Services https://torrentfreak.com/european-space-agency-website-exploited-to-advertise-shady-iptv-services/ The European Space Agency's Cosmos portal is dedicated to space exploration. While the organization scans stars and galaxies far away, its own infrastructure is quietly hosting hundreds of PDFs promoting shady IPTV services, ranking them in Google…
Record Labels Offer to Abandon $46.8 Million Piracy Case Against Grande https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-offer-to-abandon-46-8-million-piracy-case-against-grande/ After the Supreme Court's Cox ruling reshaped ISPs piracy liability, the record labels behind a $46.8 million verdict against Grande Communications are ready to walk away from the case entirely. Grande won't let them, however. The Internet provider i…
World Cup Piracy Crackdown Shows Limits of Domain Seizures, MPA Pushes Site Blocking https://torrentfreak.com/world-cup-piracy-crackdown-shows-limits-of-domain-seizures-mpa-pushes-site-blocking/ Operation Offsides seized more than 1,000 pirate streaming domains during the FIFA World Cup. While the enforcement efforts were broadly praised, domain seizures are no silver bullet. In an op-ed, leaders of the MPA and the …
HBO’s Blocking Order Takes Out Popular Pirate Streaming Domains Including Streamzy.to https://torrentfreak.com/hbos-blocking-order-takes-out-popular-pirate-streaming-domains-including-streamzy-to/ Popular pirate streaming sites, including Streamzy and Lordflix, are key targets in a new Indian site-blocking order obtained by HBO and other major studios. The order, which lists over 120 domain names, refines how India …
Vietnam Uses HiAnime Arrests As Defense Against U.S. Trade Sanctions https://torrentfreak.com/vietnam-uses-hianime-arrests-as-defense-against-u-s-trade-sanctions/ Facing potential U.S. trade sanctions over online piracy, Vietnam is using the recent shutdown and its criminal prosecution of the HiAnime piracy ring as a key line of defense. Notably, Vietnam's response was submitted on the same day that the HiAnime pros…
France Approves Automated, Real-Time Blocking of Pirate Sports Streams https://torrentfreak.com/france-approves-automated-real-time-blocking-of-pirate-sports-streams/ French lawmakers have officially adopted a new sports law that replaces manual domain checks with support for automated, real-time piracy blocking. The system allows for instant blockades during live sports broadcasts, with oversight checks from regul…
Copyright Scammers Weaponized Meta’s Rights Manager with Backdating Exploit https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-scammers-weaponized-metas-rights-manager-with-backdating-exploit/ Scammers are allegedly exploiting a flaw in Facebook's 'Edit Post' feature to backdate stolen videos and hijack copyright claims through Meta's Rights Manager. This allows them to monetize content of other creators, while also hitting them wi…
Meta Confirms ‘Data Engineer’ is Behind Key IP Address in Adult Film Piracy Lawsuit https://torrentfreak.com/meta-confirms-data-engineer-is-behind-key-ip-address-in-adult-film-piracy-lawsuit/ Meta has responded to the amended multi-million copyright lawsuit filed by adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings. While flatly denying that it pirated adult films for AI training, Meta confirmed that a key IP address is traced …
X and Music Publishers Settle Three-Year Copyright Clash After SpaceX IPO https://torrentfreak.com/x-and-music-publishers-settle-three-year-copyright-clash-after-spacex-ipo/ Three years of litigation that triggered explosive allegations of DMCA "weaponization" and "maximum pain" pressure tactics quietly ended in coordinated settlements. X Corp and several music companies settled the copyright infringement lawsuit an…
Canada’s ‘Expanded Scope’ Blocking Order Targets Existing and Future Pirate Sites https://torrentfreak.com/canadas-expanded-scope-blocking-order-targets-existing-and-future-pirate-sites/ For the first time, a Canadian site-blocking order can target pirate sites that don't exist yet. The Federal Court has ordered ISPs to block thirteen piracy brands including 123Movies and FMovies, and its catch-all "Expanded Scope" …
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @torrentfreaknews. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 2 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 4 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“TorrentFreak” (@torrentfreaknews), 206 subscribers as measured 4 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/torrentfreaknews.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.