Blind Denial of Cryptocurrencies Leads Nowhere, Bank of Lithuania Says
The central bank of Lithuania has started discussions on regulations with crypto businesses and commercial banks. The reluctance to understand the world of cryptocurrencies leads nowhere, its fintech coordinator said during a meeting in Vilnius. Lithuanian projects have attracted 10% of ICO investments last year, the local community claims. Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin enjoy a growing popularity in the Baltic state. Also read: Latvia...
Pirate Site-Blocking? Music Biz Wants App Blocking Too
In some way, shape or form, Internet piracy has always been carried out through some kind of application. Whether that’s a peer-to-peer client utilizing BitTorrent or eD2K, or a Usenet or FTP tool taking things back to their roots, software has always played a crucial role. Of course, the nature of the Internet beast means that software usage is unavoidable but in recent years piracy has swung more towards the regular web...
Google Search Receives Fewer Takedown Notices Than Before
In recent years Google has had to cope with a continuous increase in takedown requests from copyright holders, which target pirate sites in search results. Just a few years ago the search engine removed ‘only’ a few thousand URLs per day. This has since grown to millions and has kept growing, until recently. Around a year ago Google received a billion takedown requests a year, and for a while, it stabilized at roughly 20...
MPAA and RIAA Still Can’t Go After Megaupload
Well over six years have passed since Megaupload was shutdown, but there is still little progress in the criminal proceedings against its founders. The United States wants New Zealand to extradite the men but have thus far failed to achieve that goal. Dotcom and his former colleagues are using all legal means to prevent this eventuality and a final conclusion has yet to be reached. While all parties await the outcome, the criminal...
IP Address Fail: ISP Doesn’t Have to Hand ‘Pirates’ Details to Copyright Trolls
On October 27, 2016, UK-based Copyright Management Services (CMS) filed a case against Sweden-based ISP, Tele2. CMS, run by Patrick Achache of German-based anti-piracy outfit MaverickEye (which in turn is deeply involved with infamous copyright troll outfit Guardaley), claimed that Tele2 customers had infringed its clients’ copyrights on the movies Cell and IT by sharing them via BitTorrent. Since Tele2 had the personal details...
