Pirates Are Increasingly ‘Going Legal’ in France
France has been fighting on the anti-piracy enforcement frontline for more than a decade now. The country was the first to introduce a graduated response system, Hadopi, where Internet subscribers risked losing their Internet connections if they were caught sharing torrents repeatedly. Today this approach is no longer as effective as it once was. The bulk of all online piracy has moved from P2P downloading to streaming, which...
Dish Sues New York Stores For Selling Pirate Streaming Boxes
American satellite and broadcast provider Dish Network is continuing its legal battles against alleged pirate streaming services. The company previously filed a lawsuit against the people behind TVAddons and the ZemTV Kodi addon, but it’s fighting on more fronts too. The largest success thus far was its case against “Shava TV,” which was filed back in 2015. Last year this resulted in a $25,650,000 judgment in favor...
Latest Denuvo Anti-Piracy Protection Falls, Cracker ‘Voksi’ On Fire
After protecting Assassins Creed Origin for the previous several months, earlier this year version 4.9 of the infamous Denuvo anti-tamper system was defeated by Italian cracking group CPY. While all cracks of the tough and continuously developing Denuvo system are welcomed by pirate consumers, this one was particularly sweet, having also defeated Ubisoft’s decision to use VMProtect technology on top. Soon after, Bulgarian...
Quantum computing funding, an alliance for open source smart cities, and more news
In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at funding for open source quantum computing, an alliance for open source smart cities, and more. read...
