‘Cheating’ Fortnite Kid Settles Copyright Lawsuit with Epic Games
More than three years ago, Epic Games decided to take several Fortnite cheaters to court, accusing them of copyright infringement. Pretty much all of these lawsuits have been settled but there is one that proved to be quite a challenge. One of the alleged cheaters, who was also accused of advertising and distributing the cheat via his YouTube channel, turned out to be a minor. The game publisher wasn’t aware of this when it filed the...
Major Labels Ask UK High Court to Block Stream-Ripping Sites
After years of battling peer-to-peer sharing carried out on networks including BitTorrent, the major record labels now view stream-ripping as the major piracy threat. Broadly speaking, stream-ripping is carried out in two ways – either by using tools such as youtube-dl (which allow users to rip content from YouTube directly to their machines) or via dedicated websites that simplify the process. Some of these sites have become...
