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Telegram Block Averted For Now But Escalating Threat is Far From Over

TorrentFreak

A sampling of opinions on this controversial topic would likely place sentiments like these at the edge of a spectrum, acting as a perfect counterbalance to equally extreme positions adopted by a subset of particularly aggressive rightsholders. But Was it Really Proportional?

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BeStreamWise ‘Piracy=Malware’ Campaign Site Blocked For Malware

TorrentFreak

After being offered free lifetime subscriptions to a new streaming service from a pop-up stand in London’s Paddington Station, commuters were encouraged to sign up to ‘MalStreams’ using their real personal details. Handing over personal and credit card details to strangers can be more dangerous than people think.

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Rightsholders Urge U.S. Govt to Pave the Way for Pirate Site Blocking

TorrentFreak

For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. This stance was a remnant of the SOPA defeat, which drove copyright holders to focus on blocking efforts in other countries instead, with success. After more than forty countries around the world instituted site-blocking measures, including in Canada, U.S.

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MPA: Site-Blocking Will Stop Pirate Site Owners Who Abuse Kids & Traffick Drugs

TorrentFreak

It’s no secret that the Motion Picture Association (MPA) views site-blocking measures in the United States as the logical next step in their perpetual campaign against piracy. An unquestionably great achievement, especially without protection from site-blocking. Working with U.S.

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EU Opinion: Streaming Services Are Not Liable for VPN ‘Pirates’

TorrentFreak

One of the key questions for the CJEU is whether online streaming services are liable for copyright infringement if their subscribers use VPN services to bypass geo-blocking efforts. The Advocate General (AG) notes that geo-blocking efforts are essentially a form of digital rights management (DRM).

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First preliminary injunction issued by a court in Turkey regarding NFTs

The IPKat

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), ranging from art and literature to fashion and cinema, remain among the hottest legal topics in the world of intangible rights, despite the lack of clear legal regulation. Notably, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled in the “Lavinia Deborah Osbourne v (1) Persons Unknown (2) Ozone Networks Inc.

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Court Overrules Subscribers’ Objections in ISP Piracy Liability Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

This includes a three-strikes termination policy against alleged pirates as well as an outright block of various pirate sites, including The Pirate Bay. The requested pirate site-blocking injunction was dismissed, however, although it can be reintroduced at a later stage.

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