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Plex Sued for Copyright Infringement by Press Agency

TorrentFreak

The company was founded in 2009 and today boasts 16 million active monthly streaming users, making Plex a serious market player. In an apparent attempt to stop widespread copyright infringement, the service announced that it would ban servers hosted at Hetzner, as these are frequently linked to terms of service violations.

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Copyright Infringement: Friend or Foe in the Music Industry?

IPilogue

It used to be that occasionally we would hear in the news that some artist is suing some other artist for infringing their song. You may remember the big music copyright infringement case of 2012 , where Robin Thicke was sued by Marvin Gaye over claims that Thicke’s hit song “Blurred Lines” infringed on Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up”.

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Copyright Infringement Case: Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.

Intepat

Java owned by Sun Microsystems was later acquired by Oracle in 2009. Android even though they developed their own run time environment independent of Java, used 37 API calls that are similar to Java API and literally copied 11,500 lines of code deemed central to Java. The post Copyright Infringement Case: Google LLC v.

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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.

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1Fichier Held Liable After Failing to Remove Pirated Nintendo Games

TorrentFreak

Ever since its launch in 2009, rightsholders have complained that file-hosting platform 1fichier.com fails to take intellectual property rights seriously. 1fichier allows user content to be accessed via links posted elsewhere, meaning that when users upload infringing content, links render that content available to the public.

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

TorrentFreak

Gaming giant sony responded with a copyright infringement lawsuit targeting two companies and a director connected to the Datel products. In parallel, Datel saw opportunities to ‘enhance’ the PSP with software that changed how games were supposed to be played. The questions are as follows: (translated from German) 1.

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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. The music companies accused the company of failing to take action against subscribers who were accused of repeat copyright infringements. Internet provider RCN.

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