TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Peer-to-peer technologies such as Napster, Gnutella, FastTrack, and BitTorrent, revolutionized file-sharing but without the support of dozens of thriving forum-based communities, where people shared P2P tutorials, tips, news, and each other’s company, things may have gone quite differently. ” Replacements or Opportunists?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena which required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. The movie companies said they were not planning to go after these people in court but wanted to use their comments as evidence in an ongoing piracy lawsuit against Internet provider RCN.

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Rather, the lobby group knew that the government was inclined to support it and the government simply fell in line. It is a negotiation between Google and the media companies with the government acting as their representative since there will be no deal unless the media companies grant their approval.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 24, 2022

A few years later Google processed more than 20 million DMCA notices per week, which translates to more than a billion per year. billion URLs that allegedly link to copyright-infringing content. UK music group BPI is the most prolific sender. From 250,000 to 1,000,000,000 Takedowns Per Year.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2023

Operation Gervais Local anti-piracy groups SACEM and ALPA filed a complaint against Zone-Telechargement in 2014. The alleged founders of Zone-Telechargement were later identified as high-school buddies Thibault Ferreira and Wilfrid Duval. In the wake of the raid, it was claimed that Zone-Telechargement generated at least 1.5

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 23, 2022

That platform eventually shut down but a similarly named site, IKnowWhatYouDownload , later emerged with similar functionality. Not even a magnet link. Anti-piracy groups and leading entertainment companies arrived at a different conclusion five years ago and still haven’t changed their minds. million users.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The IIPA represents the interests of prominent rightsholder groups, including the MPA, RIAA, and ESA, and highlights the Vietnam problem in its recent “ Special 301 ” recommendation. It’s no secret that many large pirate sites and services have links to Vietnam and local authorities are aware of at least some of them.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2016, it added support for torrents and, five years later, it completely dropped its Gnutella base in favor of BitTorrent. IMI represents the interests of local music companies and record labels, including familiar names such as Universal Music India, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music India.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 30, 2023

How the information team impacts a global pharma company’s pipeline A big challenge for major pharma companies these days is to systematically spot promising new ideas from universities and biotechs. And in these new areas, even the best companies need input from scientists around the globe.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Utilizing captured satellite and cable streams or even its own streaming service NowTV, today’s Sky faces the most organized pirates the company has ever seen, and in greater numbers too. Despite anti-piracy groups claiming to have taken hundreds down , new apps or resurrections of old ones are never in short supply.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 14, 2022

Most of these companies prefer not to get involved without a court order but occasionally we see some action on this front. registry was bought by Afilias a few years ago, which was acquired by Donuts not much later. Following a cease and desist letter, 30 Cuevana-related domain names were signed over to the movie industry group.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 29, 2023

Rightsholders and anti-piracy groups in Japan are committing considerable resources to their fight against online piracy. A new report from anti-piracy group CODA indicates that with persistence and smart tactics, solutions can be found in difficult overseas regions. The man was held until March 19 before being released on bail.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 27, 2022

In 2002, a group of researchers at the University of Stockholm discovered that high acrylamide levels were present in cooked, starch-based foods like potato chips. Potato snack companies experienced falling stock prices, and in-store potato snack purchases in Sweden and bordering countries were reduced by over 50%.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2022

is being sued by a group of smaller movie companies, including Millennium Media and Voltage Pictures. The Court said that objections from subscribers would be dealt with at a later stage. Links to YTS and Reddit Users? They want to hold WOW! 168 Objections. That time has come. disagree on how these should be handled.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2023

That’s not unexpected among companies in the same market but since some rightsholders are represented in more than one submission, for the sake of clarity those are shown in bold below. The operators have been very careful to hide their location and identities, Premier League links them to Hong Kong and China.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

However, the launch ended up attracting some unwanted attention as, several days later, it was pointed out that Loyal Samoyed bore an uncanny resemblance to an earlier work by concept artist Sail Lin entitled Samoye Medical. The more people involved in a project, the more likely someone in that group will behave unethically.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2023

On behalf of music group BPI, PIPCU sent a takedown request to the Microsoft-owned company, alerting it to the alleged criminal activity taking place on its domain. And indeed, two weeks later, GitHub restored the repository. As it turns out, one of the Proxy Bay sites used a GitHub subdomain at proxybay.github.com. .

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2022

So-called DMCA subpoenas are regularly used by anti-piracy groups in order to obtain the personal details of those who operate pirate sites and services. Typically they are filed against companies such as Cloudflare and Namecheap, who are then required to hand over their customers’ details. ” (emphasis in original). .

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As in the US, it relies on stakeholder groups to nominate several problematic sites and services for inclusion. As in previous years, the EU Piracy Watch List includes a wide range of targets, including online marketplaces that are linked to counterfeiting. The ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’ is compiled by the European Commission.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 10, 2023

This, in turn, dilutes the customer support and leads to unhealthy impact on other lending companies as well as on the economy. The new framework is based on recommendations of ‘working group on digital lending’ ( “WGDL” ) which was constituted in January 2022. [ii] of loans, amounting to 0.9 lakh crore compared to 0.7%

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Signed by some of Russia’s most powerful tech and entertainment companies in 2018, a Memorandum of Cooperation saw the creation of a centralized database of pirated content. Internet companies agreed to query the database every few minutes and then remove corresponding content from their indexes. There are some outliers, however.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And anti-piracy groups making test purchases, of course. Anyone involved in the pirate IPTV market in Sweden runs the risk of attracting local anti-piracy group Rättighetsalliansen (Rights Alliance). The anti-piracy group has just announced the indictment of a man suspected of being behind pirate IPTV service, Smart IPTV.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Over the past year in particular, anti-piracy group Rights Alliance has been applying maximum pressure to various players in the piracy ecosystem. The trackers in question are: [link] [link] (And all subdomains/alternative domains) [and] [link] The sites have been blocked on the network level,” the provider explained.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 31, 2021

Around the same time, Github removed the Popcorn Time repository following a complaint from the MPA , a decision that was later reversed. Movie Companies Sue Popcorn Time. The movie companies kept a close eye on these developments and remain determined to shut the fork down once and for all. build/, which remains online today.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 28, 2023

Movie and TV show companies, including Village Roadshow, Universal, Warner, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Disney, sent copyright infringement notices to internet service provider iiNet, demanding action against its pirating subscribers. These are sometimes referred to as voluntary arrangements.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 31, 2021

Four years later, The Pirate Bay joined in when the site renamed itself the “ Olympic Bay ,” providing users with a direct link to newly uploaded torrents for the London 2012 games. The release comes from the group TrollUHD, which is known for its high-resolution releases. surround sound.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

What the group’s members didn’t realize at the time, is that the plans they made would create a ripple effect that still has an impact decades later. A New Torrent Tracker One of the group’s unwritten goals was to offer a counterweight to the propaganda being spread by local anti-piracy outfit Antipiratbyrån.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 30, 2023

How the information team impacts a global pharma company’s pipeline A big challenge for major pharma companies these days is to systematically spot promising new ideas from universities and biotechs. And in these new areas, even the best companies need input from scientists around the globe.

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The IPKat

JUNE 6, 2023

Goods or services can address completely distinct groups of consumers so that the trade mark with a reputation may be unknown to the public targeted by the contested trade mark (application). If so, it will not establish a link between the marks. 8(5) EUTMR. 8(5) EUTMR.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 9, 2023

The document has sparked criticism from business groups and the U.S. While the digital services tax (DST) is typically framed as a tax on big tech, the reality is that the Canadian version extends far beyond just companies such as Google and Facebook, potentially including major Canadian retailers such as Canadian Tire, Loblaws, and others.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Introduction Corporate governance is a term which is used in very broader sense when it came to company or corporate law. In simple language, the term ‘corporate’ is used for denoting a company or group of company which is defined under section 2(20) of the Companies Act [1].

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Music Companies sued RCN. Two years ago, the company was sued by several major music industry companies including Arista Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music, and Warner Records. The music companies alleged that RCN wasn’t doing enough to stop subscribers from pirating on its network.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2023

Accountability Principle The update with respect to the accountability principle includes a new section on data protection impact assessments (“DPIA”), which sets out what a company should take into account when conducting a DPIA on AI. The new content relates to AI and inferences, affinity groups and special category data.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Changing market dynamics have also obviously changed the digital ad market, with more money moving toward companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. As will be further discussed in a later post on copyright, mere links, headlines, or even short blurbs fall short of copyright protection for the news publishers.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2024

Protecting the Africa Cup of Nations Over four years later, beIN is still battling commercial-scale piracy. The order obtained by beIN allows it to serve court orders on companies such as Google, requiring the domains to be delisted from search results. The blocking action in France complements the action we reported here on Monday.

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Corsearch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Later some pieces were resold worth over $3,000⁶. The Sandbox’, a player-driven creation system based on NFT lands and items, has established many successful collaborations, with companies such as Warner Music Group which provided a virtual music venue and experience within the game. ‘The

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 21, 2023

In my view, the issues associated with these tragic events have little to do with Meta blocking news links and the attempt to bring it into the conversation is a transparent attempt to score political points (the connectivity issues with some NWT communities completely taken offline for days is somehow never mentioned).

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