Mastercard Latest Crypto Patent: Anonymous Third Party Transactions
This week marks another set of patents granted Mastercard, which is part of a many years attempt by the payments behemoth to employ technology underpinning most cryptocurrencies. The latest turn involves anonymous distributed ledger transactions via a third party processor. Also read: Bitlicense Should be Smashed, Candidate for New York Governor Urges Mastercard Granted Still More Crypto Patents In its latest crypto patent filings,...
Ukraine Cyberpolice Shut Down Pirate Streaming Site
While torrent sites were once the next big thing, streaming is now at the height of fashion. A shocking number of platforms now offer instant access to massive movie and TV shows libraries, something the authorities seem powerless to do much about. Over in Ukraine, authorities say they have made a start. For the past nine years Onlainfilm has been serving up movies to the masses but this week all that came to an end when local...
Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results
The entertainment industries have repeatedly accused Google of not doing enough to limit piracy while demanding tougher action. Ideally, groups including the MPAA and RIAA want search engines to remove clearly infringing websites from their search results entirely, especially if courts have previously found them to be acting illegally. While Google doesn’t want to remove whole sites, the critique did prompt the company to make...
‘Pirate’ Cyberlocker Sites Vulnerable to Takedown, Study Finds
While BitTorrent indexing sites dominated the landscape until just a few years ago, streaming is now the most visible form of online video piracy. Through networks of hosting platforms and indexing sites, pirate streaming is now available to any Internet user, as long as he or she can operate a web browser. It’s a far cry from the complex file-sharing world of yesterday. This shift prompted researchers at Queen Mary University...