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Twitter Hunts Down Github User Who Leaked Company’s Source Code

TorrentFreak

On March 17, Musk raised the topic once again. In response to GitHub’s request to identify the infringed content, Twitter revealed that it was “Proprietary source code for Twitter’s platform and internal tools.” “Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st,” he tweeted.

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The War Over the Future of WHOIS

Plagiarism Today

As a way to help identify the people behind domains and websites, it was widely used by everything from spammers to journalists and law enforcement agencies. The system, which made domain registrant contact information available to the public, was inherently incompatible with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Uncovering Novel Insights with Data Analytics

Velocity of Content

The following is an excerpt from Accessing and Analyzing Relevant Content in Today’s Information Chaos.   Yet, as the explosion in data and information has spread pervasively across research and development organizations, putting these treasure troves of data to use has become a priority.

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Reddit: IP Address Disclosure Puts User Anonymity At Risk

TorrentFreak

Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena, requesting Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. Instead, the company objected , arguing that handing over the requested information would violate their users’ right to anonymous speech.

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The WIPO Files I: the quest to protect user rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

for persons with visual impairments, for persons with other disabilities, for libraries, archives and museums, and for education and research institutions), as well as on cross-cutting issues such as existing flexibilities in international conventions and the impact of technological protection measures on L&Es.

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Japan’s Systematic Assault on Manga & Anime Piracy Broadens & Intensifies

TorrentFreak

In August 2022, Japanese manga publisher Shueisha filed an ex parte application at a California district court seeking information for use in a foreign proceeding – a lawsuit in Vietnam or Japan targeting pirate site operators. Hoping to identify the operators of pirate manga sites including gokumanga.com and doki1001.com,

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Court Overrules Subscribers’ Objections in ISP Piracy Liability Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

This brings us to the next topic on the court’s agenda; a request from the filmmakers to release the identities of 125 Grande subscribers who were repeatedly flagged for sharing pirated films. This means that Grande must identify all 125 subscribers and share their personal details with the plaintiffs.

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