Copyright Holders Intervene to Support Canadian Pirate Site Blocks in Court
Two years ago, Canadian broadcasting giants Groupe TVA, Bell, and Rogers took the relatively small pirate IPTV service GoldTV to court. What started as a simple copyright lawsuit soon became much more than that. With the pirate service failing to respond in court, the rightsholders requested an injunction to require local ISPs to block several related domain names. This request met pushback from some ISPs but to no avail. Late 2018,...
Torrent Site 1337x Bans ‘YTS’ For Handing User Data to Movie Companies (Updated)
For many seasoned BitTorrent users, 1337x.to is a familiar name. The site has been around for more than a decade and is generally known for its lively community. Over the years 1337x has steadily climbed through the ranks. It is currently the third most-visited torrent site, trailing only behind The Pirate Bay and YTS.mx. 1337x Bans YTS Uploads While there is generally not much competition between public torrent sites, 1337x’s...
Publishers File European Commission Complaint Against Google For Hosting ‘Piracy Apps’
Google Play and Apple’s App Store host millions of apps that serve the vast majority of hand-held devices in operation today. Most of these software tools cause no problems for rightsholders but some either directly infringe the rights of copyright holders or enable users to do the same. In response to legitimate copyright complaints, these apps are removed, but for several rightsholders in Russia, not enough is being done....
Solving the AIOps, DevOps, and ITSM conundrum
The recent mad rush to scale to remote work may prove to be a key chapter in DevOps and AIOps evolution. This need for rapid, widescale change is creating a real conundrum concerning AIOps, DevOps, and ITSM, as organizations seek the best monitoring and incident response solution for their now distributed enterprises. The key question both the DevOps and IT service management (ITSM) communities need to answer is how quickly they can...
3 ways a legal team can enable open source
I am an open source lawyer for Red Hat. One important part of my job is to provide information to other companies, including their in-house counsel, about how Red Hat builds enterprise-class products with a completely open source development model and answering their questions about open source licensing in general. read more Powered by...
