TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2023

The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization that aims to save the history of the Internet for generations to come. The digital library is a staunch supporter of a free and open Internet and began meticulously archiving the web over a quarter century ago. After GitHub removed the code, it soon popped up elsewhere.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

CODA represents the interests of around 30 corporate entities doing business in the publishing, media, movie, music, and wider entertainment industries. Japan Video Software Association 4. The Association of Japanese Animations ### Gaming and Software 6. Association of Copyright for Computer Software 8.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 22, 2021

Earlier this week the ‘American Society of Composers’ sent a series of “DRM Circumvention” complaints to Google, acting on behalf of the Video Industry Association of America. The news article in question covers legal developments in the lawsuit against Blu-Ray ripping software DVDFab, which dates back five years ago.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

The California Legislature is aggressively pursuing several wide-sweeping and radical proposals to regulate the Internet. Framed as a protect-kids-online bill, the AADC would radically reshape the Internet — and harm both kids and adults alike. Mandatory age authentication would change how everyone uses the Internet.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2023

Over the past several decades, Sony has established itself as a leading player in the technology, music, film, and gaming industries. In the years that followed, Sony rolled out some rather aggressive technology, most notably the software exposed in the DRM rootkit scandal. Sony recognized this threat early on.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Major entertainment industry companies regularly obtain injunctions that require local Internet providers to block websites to prevent piracy. Not all subscribers appear to be affected and other Internet providers don’t appear to have the same issue. On X, several users are reporting that they continue to have issues too.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2022

Companies in many sectors suspended or terminated business in Russia, including prominent entertainment industry players. As a result, new US-owned movies dried up, leaving the entire Russian cinema industry in crisis. Music & Video Companies Not Impressed.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2022

To stop this, the music industry titans are using a variety of legal tactics around the world. In late 2020, the open-source software youtube-dl was added to the list of targets. The company didn’t take any action at the time, not least because the software itself is not hosted on the website which only links to it.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 24, 2023

TikTok required content moderators to use its proprietary “TCS” software to review its videos, and it exercised “full control” over that software. TikTok enforced these quotas by “constantly surveil[ling]” moderators through its software. Given that control, TikTok had a duty to use reasonable care related to the software.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 24, 2023

In recent years, many people have canceled their expensive cable subscriptions, opting to use cheaper Internet TV instead. Giving Pirate IPTV Operators Credit This industry isn’t just run by digital vigilantes in dark attics. These pirate IPTV services are often accessed through relatively cheap subscriptions.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The FBI issued a Private Industry Notification targeted to the health care sector on September 12, 2022, warning that it has “identified an increasing number of vulnerabilities posed by unpatched medical devices that run on outdated software and devices that lack adequate security features.”

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JD Supra Law

JULY 19, 2021

Jerich Beason is joined by Don Dennis, who is an attorney focusing on copyright and trademark infringement, Internet law, defamation, trade secret misappropriation, data security breach, and privacy law. Jerich and Don discuss what escrow software is, why it matters to the legal industry, and how it can be used to protect important data.

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The issue that the manufacturers in different industries face is not that today’s technology has transformed and become exceedingly complicated. Consequently, companies are needed to focus on the best possible ways of acquiring the usage rights from different IP owners in the industry. Understanding the Meaning of Free Software.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, major copyright industry groups including the RIAA, ESA, and Hollywood’s MPA, fiercely opposed the plan. People are only allowed to use jailbroken devices with “lawfully obtained software.” Copyright Holders Fear Widespread Piracy. This proposal received broad support from digital rights activists.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 20, 2023

.” Upgrade After Upgrade After repeatedly upgrading to meet rising demand, Zippyshare launched Zippyshare Uploader, a software application that allowed users to upload files without using a web browser. million Zippyshare URLs but for internet users in Europe, worse was on the horizon. See you in the depths of the Internet.”

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IAM Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

"Beyond traditional services such as IP prosecution and IP litigation, our services include IP harvesting and IP generation on demand, for example in the areas such as the fourth Industrial Revolution, the Internet of Things, security, software, AI, blockchain and fintech.".

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IAM Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

"Beyond traditional services such as IP prosecution and IP litigation, our services include IP harvesting and IP generation on demand, for example in the areas such as the fourth Industrial Revolution, the Internet of Things, security, software, AI, blockchain and fintech.".

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2023

“This is a collaboration of like minded corporate Industry associations and individual right holders to help fight piracy,” the Copyright Board added. Whether it’s the product referenced in the Lime Fiber case remains to be seen, but software isn’t the key issue.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2022

According to the movie industry group, the effect is significant. Specifically, piracy has been estimated to reduce employment in our industry between 230,000 and 560,000 jobs,” MPA writes, citing external research. The Internet’s Responsibility. “In 2020, there were an estimated 137.2 economy at least $29.2

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 15, 2023

Authorities say they collaborated with the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit and the British Embassy, Peruvian intellectual property protection agency INDECOPI, MPA Latin American, anti-piracy group Alianza, and US-based videogame industry group Entertainment Software Alliance (ESA).

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The IPKat

MARCH 21, 2022

When this Kat taught computer law in the 1990's (which primarily meant software law), the main issue was how far copyright protection would apply to cover functional features. But the computer/online world has moved on from a focus on protecting computer software to a different kind of struggle: what is the locus of control?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For example, anti-piracy campaigns frequently stress that piracy hurts normal workers as it costs the entertainment industry thousands of jobs. This is a conclusion we have seen in many industry reports over the years and while it’s certainly true there are elevated risks, there have been more nuanced voices too.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2022

The “ State of the Internet ” report that was released by Akamai this week shows that there is plenty of potential. This includes websites that are commonly dedicated to TV-show, movie, music, software, and publishing-related copyright infringement. 132 Billion Visits. billion (11%) and music with 10.8 billion (8%).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Entertainment Software Association ( ESA ) has submitted its latest overview of “Notorious Markets” to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). Cyberlockers, Linking and Torrent Sites Download sites remain a key problem for the video games industry and these exist in various forms.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2023

The RIAA sent a takedown notice to GitHub, alleging that the software bypassed technological protection measures, in violation of the DMCA. Targeting Youtube-dl’s Host This episode was a massive setback for the music industry, which had been fighting stream-ripping tools for years. ” Hosting Companies as Internet Police?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

VPNs are valuable tools for people who want to access the Internet securely and with decent privacy. These types of restrictions are problematic according to ‘ ACT | The App Association ‘, a trade organization that represents thousands of startups and small businesses in the software industry. Trade Representative.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The overview is largely based on input from copyright industry groups, including the RIAA and MPA, that submitted their recommendations late last year. The music industry nominated several stream-rippers as notorious markets and FLVTO.biz, 2Conv.com, and MP3Juices.cc Music, Games, Books, and Science. are included this year.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 31, 2023

Big Coalition The International Intellectual Property Alliance is a coalition of already powerful trade associations, including the Motion Picture Association, Recording Industry Association of America, Entertainment Software Association, Independent Film & Television Alliance, and the Association of American Publishers.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Russia’s reliance on Western software suppliers led to proposals in favor of removing liabilty for piracy, as long as the unlicensed software originates from a country supporting sanctions. But as the months pass by all options remain on the table, and for the entertainment industries, the situation looks pretty bleak.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

The case was probably a bad test case anyway, as it involved some very functional aspects of some very functional code – the declaring code (which acts as a set of signposts pointing the software to where certain computing assets are located) for an API (which enables interoperability between different computer programs).

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 10, 2021

Backed by the RIAA, several major music industry companies have taken some of the largest U.S. Internet providers to court. Internet subscribers for several years but struggled to make a profit. In fact, Boswell is the person who wrote Rightscorp’s software and system, starting on a PC in his garage.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 7, 2022

In software, overall infringement was up from 20% in 2020 to 23% in 2021 while infringement of e-books decreased by 3% from the previous year to 14%. In the previous wave, the report found that alluding to the financial impact of infringement on individuals within industries was more engaging than talking about industries as a whole.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2022

On Monday, Spain’s National Police said that following LaLiga’s investigation, two people had been arrested on suspicion of illegally selling access to premium audiovisual content distributed via the Internet and satellite. Technology created by LaLiga is also being used by other industries to protect their intellectual property.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2023

Anti-Piracy Bill Unanimously Approved This week in the Chamber of Deputies, Italy’s lower house of parliament, the football and broadcasting industry-developed anti-piracy bill was unanimously waved through to the final. Search engines will be required to remove pirate platforms from their results.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2022

Seventeen years later, with billions of internet users now both consumers and creators of content, people are becoming more educated. Up until last summer, so-called ‘Fast Movies’ didn’t seem like a key concern for the movie industry. The Rise of ‘Fast Movies’ Receives a Crushing Response.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The week before Christmas was disrupted by a controversy in Silicon Valley over the future of the internet. It is no wonder that the future of the internet triggers so much debate and disagreement. Take the definition of web3 offered by Packy McCormick: “web3 is the internet owned by the builders and users, orchestrated with tokens.”

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 9, 2024

These include sites that offer software and music, but only visits to video content are counted. However, the increase in Internet penetration is just as important. Piracy as a Goldmine These numbers are not exactly uplifting for the video entertainment industry. Traditionally, this is the most popular content category by far.

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