NVIDIA: Copyrighted Books Are Just Statistical Correlations to Our AI Models
Over the past two years, AI developments have progressed at a rapid pace. This includes large language models, which are typically trained on a broad datasets of texts; the more, the better. When AI hit the mainstream, it became apparent that rightsholders are not always pleased that their works were used to train AI. This applies to photographers, artists, music companies, journalists, and authors, some of whom formed groups to file...
Billion Dollar Music Piracy Lawsuit Against Optimum is Over, Permanently
After filing copyright lawsuits against early peer-to-peer file sharing services and emerging mostly victorious, the global music industry found that any depressant effect, on pirate content availability and consumption, was insufficient. Content was soon being consumed by an expanding pool of internet users, and relentless demand was met being met by increased availability and supply. Since robust peer-to-peer networks had few issues...
ACE Shuts US-Based Pirate IPTV Services, Poor Security Costs $2m
Widening discussions on the seemingly limitless potential of AI suggest profound implications for most jobs in the future. Of those with the greatest chance of surviving the AI revolution, fighting crime online must be one of the stronger candidates. With piracy close to ubiquitous, work opportunities exist, to put it mildly. The realm of content protection may yet have an AI savior waiting in the wings, but until a model can...
Cox Asks Supreme Court to Protect Internet Subscribers from ‘Piracy Terminations’
Late 2019, Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, including Sony and Universal. Following a two-week trial, a Virginia jury held Cox liable for its pirating subscribers. The ISP failed to disconnect repeat infringers and was ordered to pay $1 billion in damages. Cox challenged the verdict through several routes and earlier this year booked a partial victory. The Fourth...
Kim Dotcom’s Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light By New Zealand
More than twelve years have passed since Megaupload became the prime target in a high-profile law enforcement operation, which led to the collapse of Kim Dotcom’s file-storage empire. While time moved on, the New Zealand-based ‘Internet personality’ was still waiting to hear whether he would be extradited to the United States where a criminal prosecution is pending. With the stakes this high, no legal resources are being spared. Many...
Two IPTV Pirates Sentenced to Prison But After 5 Years Questions Remain
People being arrested for pirate IPTV activities isn’t anything new, not in the UK or indeed anywhere else, but it is mentioned a lot more than before. The terminology currently used to describe offenders seems to have changed too. Last month it was reported that 40 illegal ‘IPTV operators’ were served with official warnings, some via an in-person visit by police and anti-piracy group FACT. For smaller players, subscription resellers,...
