Bitcoin Options Traders Bet the Price of BTC Can Touch $36K by December
This past weekend, data shows the most active bitcoin options contracts were calls for $28k, $32k, and $36k by the year’s end. This means a number of options traders are betting the price of bitcoin will exceed the all-time high (ATH) the decentralized currency touched in December 2017. On September 14, researchers from the data analytics firm Skew.com tweeted about an unusual number of call options for December 2020 that are well...
Dutch Government Did Not Induce Online Piracy, Appeals Court Rules
The Netherlands has long been a relatively safe haven for pirating consumers. Downloading movies without permission, regardless of the source, was not punishable by law according to Government officials. This eventually changed in 2014 when the European Court of Justice ruled that this tolerant stance was not in accordance with EU law. As a result, the Dutch Government quickly outlawed downloading from unauthorized sources. Despite...
EU Advocate General: Inline Content Embedding Requires Copyright Holder Permission
Websites that produce and publish their own content usually have little to worry about under copyright law but for those that utilize content originally published elsewhere, life is more complicated. In a few rare cases, copyright disputes cannot be immediately settled by local courts in the EU so they are referred to the region’s top court, the EU Court of Justice, for clarification. This was the case with a dispute involving...
Mulan is the Most Torrented Movie of The Week – 09/14/20
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have two new entries in the list. Disney’s action drama “Mulan” crushed all competition and is the most downloaded title this week, by far. At the time of...
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