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iTunes DRM Removal Could Come Back to Haunt Record Labels in Piracy Liability Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

The music industry had initially insisted on strong copy protection to make it harder for music pirates to share these files. i]dentify all persons who participated in Plaintiffs’ decision in or around 2009 to remove Digital Rights Management (‘DRM’) from sound recordings sold through the iTunes Store,” the request reads.

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1Fichier Held Liable After Failing to Remove Pirated Nintendo Games

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Ever since its launch in 2009, rightsholders have complained that file-hosting platform 1fichier.com fails to take intellectual property rights seriously. The Court found that Dstorage could be held liable for failing to remove illegal copies of Nintendo games hosted on 1fichier, based on notifications sent by rightsholders.

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Sony vs. Datel: Game Cheat Copyright Questions Referred to EU’s Top Court

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4 (1)(b) of Directive 2009/24/EC if neither the object or source code of a computer program or a copy is modified, but something else running at the same time as the protected computer program modifies the content of variables that the protected computer program has created in the main memory and uses in the course of the program?

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Plex Sued for Copyright Infringement by Press Agency

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The company was founded in 2009 and today boasts 16 million active monthly streaming users, making Plex a serious market player. “Without permission or authorization from Plaintiff, Defendant volitionally copied and/or displayed Plaintiff’s copyright protected Photograph on the Website,” the complaint reads.

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A Frustrating Pagan Plagiarism Scandal

Plagiarism Today

Back in 2009, Amazon launched a Kindle service for blogs that made it easy for anyone to sell any blog’s content. . All it has to do is use readily available plagiarism detection tools to detect works that contain a large volume of clearly copied text. Amazon’s Ongoing Plagiarism and Copyright Problem.

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Court: iTunes DRM Removal is Irrelevant for Piracy Liability Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

RCN focuses heavily on the piracy tracking evidence from Rightscorp but has also brought up another topic; the decision by major record labels to remove DRM from the iTunes music store in 2009. — A copy of Magistrate Judge Tonianne J. This decision was made two years before the timeframe covered in the piracy liability suit.

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Anti-Piracy Veteran Tim Kuik Retires After Leading BREIN for a Quarter Century

TorrentFreak

In the summer of 2009, hackers from all over the world gathered at an outdoor conference near Vierhouten in the Netherlands. The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies. “So, I was tasked to collect evidence against video rental shops that carried illegal copies of it. “When ‘E.T.