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Cloudflare liable for copyright infringement by providing CDN services but not for DNS resolver services

The IPKat

provided a download link to one of her music albums without hosting the album itself. The plaintiff sued Cloudflare for copyright infringement. It found that Cloudflare was liable for copyright infringement due to providing the CDN services but not for the DNS resolver services. DNS means ‘domain name system’.

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Forwarding Piracy Warnings Violates Privacy Law, Dutch Court Rules

TorrentFreak

According to Ziggo, linking IP addresses to specific subscribers raises serious privacy concerns, even if the personal information isn’t shared with BREIN. While BREIN has a license to process the personal information of alleged infringers, Ziggo doesn’t. This was a severe setback for the anti-piracy group.

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3 Count: Public Telegram

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Manish Singh at TechCrunch reports that the messaging platform Telegram has disclosed names, phone numbers and IP addresses of administrators that are accused of operating copyright-infringing channels on the service. Telegram has now indicated that it has complied with the order.

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MPA: Pluto TV.m3u Playlists Facilitate Piracy on a Massive Scale

TorrentFreak

Users may also prefer less advertising or find the amount of user data scooped up by official apps a privacy risk. Downloading a Pluto TV.m3u playlist takes a second and they can be used in anything from VLC Media Player to systems like TVHeadEnd , which enables streaming to locations in a network, no official apps required.

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Court Overrules Subscribers’ Objections in ISP Piracy Liability Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Nearly all of them denied having downloaded the pirated films and one subscriber said they had never received a copyright infringement complaint, contrary to the filmmakers’ claim. Finally, the court addresses privacy concerns. ” The Neighbours?

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Cheat Developer Can Pursue ‘Hacking’ Claims Against Bungie, Court Rules

TorrentFreak

In addition, it refuted the copyright infringement allegations; these lacked substance and were ungrounded because some of the referenced copyrights were registered well after the cheats were first made available. Court Dismissed Bungie’s Copyright Claims In May 2022, U.S. May also had to purchase a new computer.

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Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally

TorrentFreak

Those who know how to create a Docker container can have an instance up and running in minutes and for the privacy conscious, the docker-compose file on GitHub supports VPNs via Gluetun. The Docker image has been downloaded nearly 25k times and the repository has been starred by more than a thousand other developers so far.

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