article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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

TorrentFreak

It’s proven popular with fans for the range of free content in multiple languages but for a number of reasons it fails to compete with pirate sites. Shueisha also reserves the right to hand over information to third parties in cases based on “laws and regulations including inquiry pursuant to Criminal Procedure Law.”

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I’m a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, located in California’s Silicon Valley, where I hold the titles of Associate Dean for Research, Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute, and Supervisor of the Privacy Law Certificate. Online Account Terminations and Content Removals in the US.

article thumbnail

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.

Licensing 143
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.