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Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this
Can you patent something Indigenous peoples already know about? Too often, the answer is yes - but moves are afoot to stop it.
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Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past
Back in 2019 we noted how the streaming sector risked driving consumers back to piracy if they didn’t heed the lessons of the past. We explored how the rush to raise rates, nickel-and-dime us…
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Top Nintendo Switch piracy subreddit banned after 3 years
The r/NewYuzuPiracy subreddit was home to hundreds of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom modding discussions before it was banned on Tuesday.
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Twitter Hit With $250 Million Copyright-Infringement Lawsuit From Music Publishers
The National Music Publishers Assn., acting on behalf of 17 major music publishers, is filing a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter for its failure to license and pay
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Piracy Could Result in $113 Billion Loss for Streaming Services by 2027
Piracy is projected to expand to new heights in one of the most popular forms of entertainment consumption — streaming services. By 2027, there is a projected loss of $113 billion for streaming vid…
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File-sharing site Zippyshare shutting down after 17 years
File-sharing site Zippyshare has announced they are shutting down the site by the end of March 2023 after announcing they can no longer afford to keep the service running.
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The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library. Judge John G. Koeltl decided that the Internet Archive had done nothing more than create “derivative works,” and so would have needed authorization from the books’ copyright holders — the publishers — before lending them out through its National Emergency Library program.
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Rights holders got Google to remove 6 billion links from Search over 10 years
Experts say policymakers mostly ignore Google's transparency reports.
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"House of the Dragon" Crushes "The Rings of Power" on Pirate Sites * TorrentFreak
"House of the Dragon" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" are two completely different TV series but pirates favor the former.
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Eve 6 Lead Singer: ‘Owning Media Is Now An Act Of Countercultural Defiance’
Max Collins, the lead singer of the band Eve 6 has penned a great piece for Popula, noting that owning media is now an act of countercultural defiance. Specifically, he’s speaking out against…
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Study Shows Anti-Piracy Ads Often Made People Pirate More
As it turns out, people would download a car. For decades, Techdirt has highlighted the wide array of incredibly stupid anti-piracy ads the entertainment industry has used.
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Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services
A federal judge has ordered all Internet service providers in the United States to block three pirate streaming services operated by Doe defendants who never showed up to court and hid behind false identities.
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Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web
Websites could face mandatory anti-piracy technology upgrades every three years.
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DuckDuckGo insists it didn’t ‘purge’ piracy sites from search results
DuckDuckGo insists piracy search suppression is in error
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DuckDuckGo removes search results for major pirate websites | Engadget
DuckDuckGo has delisted major pirate sites, and also appears to have scrubbed YouTube-DL..
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Man Who Lived in Small Apartment Owes Nintendo $14.5 Million
Gary Bowser was recently sentenced to over 3 years in prison and ordered to pay millions to Nintendo for what his lawyers say was a relatively minor role in a Nintendo Switch piracy ring.
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Marvel's BLACK WIDOW Lost $600 Million Due To Pirating
As you know, Disney not only released Marvel’s Black Widow in theaters, but they also released it on Disney+ as a Premiere Access option on the same day. This caused a major pirating issue and it’s being reported that the film was pirated by more than 20 million viewers, which translates to about $600 million worth of lost money.
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Modder pleads guilty to piracy charges, will pay Nintendo $4.5 million
Gary Bowser admits SX OS devices' "primary design [was] to play pirated ROMs."
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Anti-Piracy Firm Asks Google to Block 127.0.0.1
The Ukrainian TV channel TRK asked the impossible. The company wants the search engine to remove a link that points to 127.0.0.1.
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U.S. Govt. Should Pay $155m in Piracy Damages, Software Company Argues
At the US Court of Federal Claims, software company Bitmanagement requests $155 million in copyright infringement damages from the US Govt.
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