Islamic Extremists Use YouTube’s Automated Copyright Dispute Process To Access Critics’ Personal Data
YouTube’s infringement reporting system is — like many others around the web — fundamentally broken. Making bogus copyright claims is still an easy way …
Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij arrested in Thailand
Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij was arrested Monday at the Thailand-Laos border after five years of avoiding incarceration for his conviction in Sweden of …
How Publishers & Copyright Gave Amazon The Very Power That Publishers Now Hate
We’ve been meaning to weigh in some more on the whole Amazon/Hachette battle, because lot of misinformation has been spewed around (including by Paul …
New ‘Company’ Claims It Uses Algorithms To Create Content Faster Than Creators Can, Making All Future Creations ‘Infringing’
Over the weekend, TorrentFreak covered the discovery of the latest thing in copyright enforcement: algorithmically-generated content created solely for the purpose of extracting infringement …
Kiwi Prime Minister’s Party Sued For Pirating Eminem Track
In a twist of irony that has entertained Kim Dotcom, Eminem’s publisher has sued the National Party in New Zealand over the alleged unauthorized …
Telstra wants film studios to sue downloaders
Telstra has supported Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s call for rights holders to sue customers who have ignored warning notices and have continued to download …
After movie studios, record labels sue Kim Dotcom and Megaupload
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a lawsuit against the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload and its founder, Kim Dotcom, alleging “massive …
Once Again, File Sharing Tools Declared Legal In Spain Because They’re Just Tools
For many years, we highlighted how Spain was a country that actually had much more reasonable copyright laws, in that it did not try …
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