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Sky Italia Targets Pirate Streaming App VancedFlix Through GitHub

TorrentFreak

These pirate services often use slick designs and easy-to-use apps that appeal to a broad audience. The app openly promotes the availability of free content from paid services such as Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney+ , although the operators suggest that legal responsibility for the streamed content lies with third-party services.

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My Testimony to the Colombian Constitutional Court Regarding Online Account Terminations and Content Removals

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In other words, the law simply wasn’t designed to redress the plaintiffs’ concerns. To have enough money to pay for the professionally-produced content, publishers will increasingly adopt subscription models to access the content (sometimes called “paywalls”), which means we will enjoy less free content online.

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

43(B)log

But commercial users, in the leaked agreements, had their uses blocked/put into commercial review queue to allow rightsholders to go into system and identify high-value users who could afford a license. 17: more money in authors’ pockets by requiring licenses is the aim. Substitutes for fair use. Husovec: Would resist Goldman’s view.