South Africa Proposes 30 Rules to Regulate Cryptocurrency
South Africa’s top financial regulators, including the South African Reserve Bank, have jointly released a policy paper with 30 recommendations for the regulation of cryptocurrency and related service providers. They aim to be in compliance with the cryptocurrency standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Top Regulators Publish Crypto Regulatory Policy A number of top South African financial regulators published...
Corona Money Printing Worries – Housing Prices Slide Downwards First Time in 10 Years in Northern Europe
Real estate price reports from March in northern countries like Denmark and Sweden now show negative developments for the first time in over 10 years. If furloughed workers continue into unemployment, the effects on the housing markets will be even more significant, says Claudia Wörmann at SBAB Bank. Spring Real Estate Price Increase, Trend Broken Inhabitants of the northern countries of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark have...
Book Piracy Scandal at Australian Govt. Could Trigger Police Referral
Music and video piracy grab most headlines, but there’s also a thriving market for pirated copies of books. Due to their small size, ebooks can be passed around without much trouble. With a file size of just a few megabytes, at most, they can easily be attached to an email. This is also what happened with the memoir of former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull. Although the official release is today, the book was being...
MPA Doesn’t Want Kenya to Simply Copy the DMCA, It Should Do Better
For more than a decade, countries around the world have mimicked United States policies regarding copyright infringement. The DMCA, which refers to the 1999 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, has become the standard for how rightsholders and online services deal with pirated content. While many believe that this is still sufficient, in recent years criticism has swelled. Many prominent copyright holders believe that the DMCA is...
Russia Plans to Block Access to ‘Pirate’ Apps on Google Play and Apple’s App Store
Site-blocking is one of the entertainment industries’ preferred tools for dealing with the spread of unlicensed content. Operated in dozens of countries around the world and currently being championed as an effective anti-piracy solution for the United States, site-blocking is not only controversial but also struggles to keep up with piracy innovations. When file-sharing hit the mainstream, it was via software clients such as...
