US Court Hands Down Preliminary Injunction Against Pirate IPTV Provider
May30

US Court Hands Down Preliminary Injunction Against Pirate IPTV Provider

Pirate IPTV services have flourished in the past few years with little to hold them all back. To counter the threat, however, US-broadcaster DISH Network hasn’t taken its foot off the gas, filing numerous lawsuits in local courts in an effort to shut at least some of them down. DISH seems to pick its targets wisely, enjoying success in many of not all of its lawsuits. This week the company added another victory to its collection...

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US Copyright Office’s DMCA Tweaks Trigger ‘Internet Disconnection’ Concerns
May30

US Copyright Office’s DMCA Tweaks Trigger ‘Internet Disconnection’ Concerns

After several years of public consultations and stakeholder meetings, the US Copyright Office issued its review of the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions. The report doesn’t propose any major overhauls of the DMCA. Instead, it aims to fine-tune some parts, to better balance the interests of copyright holders and online service providers (OSPs). More drastic suggestions were put on the backburner. Those include pirate site...

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How open standards guide us in a world of change
May30

How open standards guide us in a world of change

As I write this article in my home office in Beaverton, Oregon, a Portland suburb, I’m relying (and reflecting) on years of work that went into standards like TCP/IP, HTTP, NTP, XMPP, SAML, and many others, as well as open source implementations of these standards from organizations such as the Apache Software Foundation. The combination of these standards and technologies is literally saving lives, as many of us are able to...

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