DMCA Notice Targeting ‘Bypass Paywalls Clean’ Isn’t The Thing to Get Angry About
If the vision for the creation of the web included a day one feature that could restrict access to content, people working on their own specialist topics, catering to their own niche audiences, would’ve happily pressed the button. A hundred or a thousand thriving communities, small utopias in their own right, with no connection to each other, would’ve been seen as a feature, not the failure of the internet we otherwise see today. The...
AI-Startup Launches Ever-Expanding Library of Free Stock Photos and Music
Over the past year-and-a-half, artificial intelligence has been enjoying its mainstream breakthrough. The instant success of ChatGPT and other AI-based tools and services kick-started what many believe is a new revolution. By now it is clear that AI offers endless possibilities. While there’s no shortage of new avenues to pursue, most applications rely on input or work from users. That’s fine for the tech-savvy, but some prefer...
Block Innovation By Supporting the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act
In his 1962 book, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke noted that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” At the dawn of the 80s, when computers thrived on a single kilobyte of RAM, any enthusiast with access to Clarke’s book would’ve read his words, gazed at the 1,024 bytes of available RAM, and envisioned a galaxy of opportunity....
Google Delisted Thousands of ‘Music Piracy’ Domains in Response to UK Blocking Orders
For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid. This remnant of the SOPA defeat drove copyright holders to focus on blocking efforts in other countries instead. Those challenging times are now more than a decade old, and momentum is shifting. After more than forty countries around the world instituted site-blocking measures, U.S. lawmakers may be more receptive to revisiting the...
‘Pirated’ TikTok Clips Help to Promote TV Series, Research Finds
The debate over whether copyright infringement cannibalizes legitimate media consumption has been dragging on for several decades now. The issue has been researched extensively with both positive and negative effects being reported, varying based on the type of content and the ‘piracy’ source, among other variables. By now, most experts would agree that watching a new blockbuster on a pirate streaming site isn’t going to magically...
BREIN Battled ISPs For Years; They’re United Against Pirate IPTV Services
Way back in 2010, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN embarked on a mission to have The Pirate Bay blocked in the Netherlands. Ziggo, the country’s largest ISP, had been asked to implement a DNS and IP address blockade but when BREIN’s overtures were declined, legal action ensued. Ziggo was subsequently joined by XS4ALL, a rival ISP which also opposed site-blocking measures. After The Court of The Hague decided that blocking all customers...
