TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2023

In recent years, pirate streaming platforms have surpassed torrent sites and direct download portals in terms of popularity. These portals offer the ‘on-demand’ convenience many people have grown accustomed to. For site operators, the streaming business also has its advantages. Piracy as a Service The streaming boom has created a new branch of pirate entrepreneurs that offer “piracy as a service” This includes platforms that provide access to a library of pirated content,

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Michael Geist

JULY 4, 2023

Evan Scrimshaw, who writes an engaging Substack primarily focused on Canadian politics, posted an interesting piece over the holiday weekend that linked the Toronto Raptors failure to resign guard Fred VanVleet and the reaction to Google and Facebook’s announcement that they plan to block news sharing or links as a result of Bill C-18. I liked the piece and it got me thinking about the parallels, leading to this post.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2023

Here’s a curious conundrum: given its extraordinary traffic and likely position as the world’s largest pirate site, why does Zoro.to feature so rarely in rightsholders’ public complaints over piracy? One explanation could be the site’s age; at just over two years old, it’s possible that established sites are considered more of a priority.

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IP Law 360

JULY 4, 2023

Apple failed to convince appellate judges on Tuesday to invalidate two crucial wireless communications patents that Optis has accused it of infringing, as the iPhone maker gears up to take the dispute to the U.K.'s top court.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

Technology

Christopher Roser

JULY 4, 2023

Continuously moving assembly lines are commonly found in industry, especially high-volume production. Most final assembly lines in automotive are continuously moving lines, but there are also many more examples in industry. Such lines have many of the same requirements of pulsed or untimed lines, but in a few specific circumstances continuously moving lines can have.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

JULY 4, 2023

HSF Alumnus Joins Client Panel at 2nd Annual Africa Relationship Law Firm event in Johannesburg We are thrilled to have hosted our 2nd Annual Africa Relationship Law Firm event, 54Plus, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Despite challenging economic conditions, our HSF Africa practice continues to thrive, thanks to our dedicated Africa experts and our relationships with leading African law firms spanning all 54 jurisdictions across the continent.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 4, 2023

What is FetchRSS? RSS Generator First of all it’s an online RSS feed generator. This service allows you to create RSS feed out of almost any web page. Your only task is to provide us with target URL and point on desired blocks in our visual RSS builder. The rest is our job. And you get your feed in seconds Feed provider We store your RSS feed in your account on our cloud servers.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

JULY 4, 2023

Renee Garner is Head of amaysim, an Australian provider of mobile phone plans. She was a solicitor with Freehills from 2005 and 2010 and co-wrote Global Climate Change: Australian Law and Policy. I didn’t want to be a lawyer. My childhood dream was to become a pilot that moonlighted as a professional snowboarder. But as I grew older, I realised that being a lawyer had more potential for shaping the world than shredding mountains all day.

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The IPKat

JULY 4, 2023

The puns of hair salons are legendhairy. Names like Shear Lock Combs, Julius Scissor and Hairport are just the tip of the iceberg. But what happens when the pun consists of a well-known trade mark? Can the owner of the well-known mark successfully oppose an application for a parodic sign? This question is explored by the German Patent Court in a recently published decision (case 30 W (pat) 15/19 ).

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