Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

First off today, Jason Schneider at PetaPixel reports that Zillow is asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reduce damages against them by ruling that a collection of 2,700 infringed photos should be treated as one infringement rather than 2,700 separate ones. 2: Viacom18 Pursues Legal Action Against Piracy of Laal Singh Chaddha.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 27, 2022

For over 20 years, the WHOIS system remained one of the key pieces of internet architecture. It was a powerful tool, if an imperfect one, for investigating a wide range of internet issues, legal and otherwise. Then, one day, it was pretty much gone. One common resolution to this was the use of domain privacy services.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Four years later, Megaupload went down in spectacular fashion, but Extreme-Down and similar sites chose to ride out the storm. Millions of Visits, Against The Odds Focused on French-language content, Extreme-Down was predictably popular in France. Some even exploited the confusion to separate people from their money.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

In addition to providing the new tool, TikTok said that they will be providing additional prompts to encourage users to attribute original creators and education pop-ups that will explain the importance of attribution. Back in February, the company posted a guide on how to provide attribution on TikTok. Image Credit: TikTok.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One still needs to make the site look attractive, fill it with useful content, and then maintain/update the site moving forward. However, if you purchase one of these themes, the very first thing you should do is replace all the content that comes with it. As such, it can cause both legal and professional problems down the road.

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IP Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In all, nearly 9,000 complaints were filed, many challenging more than one fraudulent domain. Domain scams have been compared to a whack-a-mole challenge: As soon as one fraudulent domain is beaten down, another pops up. percent; (2) biotechnology and pharmaceuticals: 9.7 percent; (3) retail: 9.6

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

1: Ex-White House Photographer Sued for Copyright Over His Own Photo: ‘You Can’t Make This Up’. First off today, Bevan Hurley at The Independent reports that former White House photographer Pete Souza says that he is facing legal threats over his use of a photograph he took on his own website. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

Dickson, however, began to investigate and found that he had obtained the photo from a free stock photo site, one that doesn’t require attribution. When he followed up, he never received a response. This caused the website to go down and seemingly bring an end to this particular. However there are still other oddities.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2024

As reported yesterday, the Australian government has just released the 2023 edition of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement. One-in-ten users said their VPN use is motivated by the ability to “access content for a reasonable price” which sounds like a similar geo-blocking problem finding a solution.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 5, 2022

First off today, Kent Online reports that the judge in the Ed Sheeran case has announced that he will be handing down his ruling in the closely-watched case tomorrow. At the time, it was unclear when that verdict would be handed down but we now have a time, which is tomorrow in the UK. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 20, 2023

“A few days ago Zippyshare.com turned one year old,” its operators wrote in 2007. A little later, when the internet was consumed with Megaupload being taken down, Zippyshare carried on as if nothing had happened, or it did once its email servers had been fixed. No one needs a dinosaur like us anymore.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

Last March, Japan-based anti-piracy group CODA reported an estimate of B9Good’s traffic for the two years running up to February 2023. With Planning and Patience, China Became Less Complex After revealing a few details in 2023 when B9Good was targeted and later shut down , this morning CODA put more meat on the bones.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Initially, he insisted that he was innocent and that legal advice he received before setting up his operation was sound. Though he credits Disney+ for changing his heart on the issue, he insists that no one is “pulling his strings” and that he wasn’t coerced into making the video. Warner Bros.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

From a standing start alongside these innovative products in 2007, within a year SeriesYonkis would establish itself as one of Spain’s most-visited sites. The search turned up nothing useful, at least when viewed through the eyes of Spanish law and how it was perceived at the time. That didn’t go unnoticed.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With millions of monthly visits, FileList is one of the largest private torrent trackers. Last weekend, the journey appeared close to an end when the site’s main operator, EboLLa, decided that he would rather spend time on other parts of his life. I am delighted to announce that the website will not be shutting down!”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2024

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), for example, is actively trying to shut the platform down, which they believe is operated from Vietnam. Last year, ACE had its sights set on shutting down the rogue operation. ” one user writes. Under that new brand, business continued as usual.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2024

The event was mostly a meetup of like-minded geeks, but one person stood out a mile; Tim Kuik, director of anti-piracy group BREIN. Kuik joined a panel discussion where he calmly explained why his organization helped rightsholders to shut down pirate sites. In part, perhaps, because BREIN often found the law on its side in courts.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the United States government’s crackdown on Z-Library , one of the world’s largest shadow libraries. With legal proceedings underway in the United States, authorities have not given up trying to take Z-Library down.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

As with Finnegan’s Wake , the most important content of that opinion comes in the form of an opaque metaphor, the “gates-up-or-gates-down inquiry.” The court never actually declared, “the correct interpretation of the CFAA is that liability under both clauses of the CFAA stems from a gates-up-or-down inquiry.”

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2023

The decision to shut down obviously came as a shock, but the complete lack of notice took everyone by surprise. There would be no closing down event, and no last few days to grab whatever people had taken for granted would always be available. The same can’t be said about not having a backup when you absolutely need one.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 25, 2024

In my 30-year career, I have been fortunate to work alongside many brilliant scientists, and one thing they tend to have in common is that they’re very well read. They are on top of new scientific discoveries and can connect the dots from diverse sources to come up with new insights. One of the biggest is network security.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2023

Founded in the last millennium, CannaPower must be one of the oldest pirate sites still around today. CannaPower Blocking Efforts With roughly a million monthly visits, mostly from Germany, the download portal is large enough to appear on the music industry’s radar. “They will never get us down!

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2024

site-blocking regime have started to flare up. Last week, MPA CEO Charles Rivkin used his keynote speech at CinemaCon to double down on this demand, urging U.S. This top ten listing is even more impressive if we consider the level of competition the pirate site is up against. politicians would rather avoid. Lieu asked.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2024

On the basis of the plaintiff’s arguments, the court passed a dynamic injunction ordering to take down the impugned domain names and websites and directing the authorities to take down other domain names/ websites as and when shared by the plaintiff. Unfortunately, the order falls short in addressing these issues.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The new year can’t start without reflecting the current one; looking back at the major stories of the past months. RARBG Shuts Down Pirate sites come and go, often without being noticed by the public at large. Follow-up reports revealed that the service itself costs hundreds of thousands of pounds to run.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

One circumstance involves unduly delayed patent prosecution that results in “patent term adjustment” or PTA under 35 U.S.C. Of some importance here — over the past 18 months PTA has been steadily creeping-up. This is generally an indication that the prosecution process has slowed down.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

So, in partnership with their colleagues at Danish anti-piracy group Rights Alliance, a decision was made to shut down all local torrent sites – for good. Pulling Sites Up At The Roots. He allegedly co-founded Asgaard in May 2019, with Rights Alliance describing him as one of the site’s masterminds.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2023

Still, when everything boils down, the hunter and the hunted ultimately find themselves on the same digital battlefield, equipped with broadly similar tools, underpinned by mostly the same technical rules. Internet Investigator (OSINT) On a basic level, most internet users have dabbled in the world of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The default language was naturally Portuguese and according to this image from the Wayback Machine, potential members needed a basic grip of the language to sign up. ip.biz, which may suggest a site regularly on the move. domain dumped in favor of a new one. After all, Google Translate wouldn’t exist for another two years.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Following the site’s demise, several copycats popped up. Visiting a pirate streaming site as a casual user is an entirely different ball game to running one, and the legal implications are not immediately obvious to everyone. The alliance has more OSINT tricks and can rely on help from third-party intermediaries.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 24, 2023

Minecraft is unquestionably one of the most iconic and recognizable videogames of recent times. In the weeks that followed, Mojang kept up the pressure. The company targeted a Discord server and a Gitlab account operated by one of the main developers. Both were shut down. He eventually took that offline as well.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Popcorn Time , Showbox , Mobdro and Terrarium TV all played their part – at least before every last one succumbed to legal pressure. The problem for Sky is that it’s easier than ever for today’s competent programmers to come up with an alternative. Sky, MPA and ACE vs. TeaTV: Seconds Out, Round 6.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 16, 2023

is one of the bigger ones to survive, although it came close to shutting down a few years ago when Romanian authorities seized its domain name. The enforcement action was a wake-up call for both staff and users of the members-only tracker, but it didn’t mark the end of the road. The decision was a difficult one.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2024

Ygg sees itself as a community instead, one with a dedicated tracker, something that’s quite rare these days. The site was founded in 2017, to fill the gap left behind when T411 shut down. Registrations are expected to open up again in the near future, however. In France, that’s YggTorrent , Ygg for short.

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IP.com

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Coming up with a new and innovative idea—one that solves a problem your team, company, or industry is facing—is no easy task. The post Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation with AI appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics. Uncovering novel ideas, as well as protecting and.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 20, 2022

When pirates or their links appear in one place, they can quickly reappear in another. Mimicking the creature of the same name in Greek mythology, when one head is chopped off, two more grow back to take its place. has at times gone down, only to come back up again. At the time of writing, the domain is indeed down.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 14, 2022

This success attracted the attention of Disney and in 2007, New Horizon was scooped up for $350 million. Ten years later, Disney pulled the plug in favor of successor Club Penguin Island, which in turn was shut down late 2018. UK Police Shut Down The Game. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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