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MANGA Plus Invites Users to Confess Piracy & Name Most-Used Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

Manga pirates often take credit for what amounted to a highly successful unpaid marketing project but having seen the potential, manga publishers understandably want this market for themselves. Legal Action by Publisher Shueisha. In January 2019, Shueisha launched direct publishing platform MANGA Plus with accompanying mobile apps.

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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

TorrentFreak

.” According to some, this almost utopian model with ‘free’ and ‘sharing’ underpinning everything, had no chance of survival. Right now, a company is claiming that Blender’s free content is actually their content and as a result, must be immediately removed from the internet.

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Piracy Advertising Researchers Fall Victim to Ransomware Attacks

TorrentFreak

The group has a long history of publishing anti-piracy research and has highlighted the malware angle before. ering them ‘free content,’ including the latest movies, music, and television shows. “As this report shows, malicious actors dangle free content as ‘bait’ to lure users to be victimized.

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BeStreamWise: New IPTV Anti-Piracy Campaign Begins With Fake Site ‘Scam’

TorrentFreak

” “Streaming services offering free content from other platforms can be too good to be true and aren’t always legal. ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Illegal streaming can let criminals into your devices and network. Who Wants Brits to BeStreamWise?

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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

At a minimum, there must be some level of free content, both news and entertainment, on CBC/Radio-Canada’s digital platforms. Nowhere will the role of a well-resourced public media provider be more important than in the area of news and information content.

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Spicy IP Weekly Review (November 16- November 21)

SpicyIP

Pikashow is an app which claims to provide free content of known OTT platforms. Delhi High Court granted an interim injunction to the Plaintiff, blocking ‘Pikashow’ App from being accessed in any matter whatsoever. Pidilite Industries Limited vs Riya Chemy on 11 November, 2022 (Bombay High Court).

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

43(B)log

Most content that is taken down is for copyright reasons: why not talk about copyright along with other content moderation? As I say, the copyright industries hated Content ID so much they made it a universal law.] Under direct licensing w/platforms, large publishers skim off the top first.