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State Attorneys General Warn Public About Piracy Scams and Malware

TorrentFreak

Participating law enforcers include California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark, and Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr. According to DCA’s executive director Tom Galvin, pirated content is often used as bait to exploit naive Internet users seeking cheap access to online entertainment.

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27th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: From the DMCA to the DSA: Keynote and copyright interactions

43(B)log

Good Samaritan”: implementation of measures detecting content that may infringe the law does not constitute knowledge and control over that which escapes deception. Clarified and a regulation instead of a directive: That’s important b/c a directive is transposed into national law, w/27 potential different means.

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Why the Online News Act is a Bad Solution to a Real Problem, Part Six: CBC Eligibility Harms News Competition and Its Public Interest Mandate

Michael Geist

The government appears to acknowledge that this could create some problems, leading to the possibility of further regulations specifically targeting public broadcasters that become eligible news businesses under the law. At the moment, there are no conditions or regulations that have been made publicly available.