Commodity Strategist Warns US Economy Heading Toward ‘Severe Deflationary Recession’
Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior commodity strategist, Mike McGlone, has warned that the U.S. economy is “heading towards a severe deflationary recession,” emphasizing that the Federal Reserve is still tightening. “Typically, when you have commodities collapsing at this velocity in the past, the Fed has already been easing, and they’re still vigilant against that,” he cautioned. Strategist Says We’re ‘Heading Towards a Severe...
Operation Anime: Full Scale of Anti-Piracy Crackdown Revealed in Japan
An announcement by the Brazilian government in February revealed that “the two biggest digital anime pirate sites” in Brazil had been “taken down” in Operation 404 offshoot, ‘Operation Anime’. The Ministry of Justice and Public Security said the objective was to “repress crimes committed against intellectual property” on the internet; more specifically, piracy of Japanese cartoons, better known as anime. The Ministry of Justice...
YouTube Ripper Sends Cease and Desist to Google, Hoping to Stop DMCA Abuse
The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down. It is a powerful tool that takes millions of URLs and links offline every day. In most cases, this happens for a good reason, but some takedown efforts are questionable. DMCA Takedown Abuse In recent years there have been numerous examples of clear abuse and impersonations, as revealed through Google’s transparency...
Nintendo’s War With 1Fichier is Not Over – But Could Be For $0.00
When a company like Nintendo puts out a press release, the entire world pays attention. This week was no different. Nintendo has been locked in a legal battle with French file-hosting service 1fichier for the past five years. The basic facts don’t appear to be in dispute; Nintendo informed 1fichier that it had found pirated copies of its games on the service, but 1fichier refused to take them down. Nintendo responded with legal action...
The future of the sharing business model
The future of the sharing business model Ron McFarland Fri, 04/21/2023 – 03:00 Younger generations prioritize experiences over assets and quality over quantity in many areas of life, and technology has evolved to help fulfill their desires. That’s the position of Arun Sundararajan in his book The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism. According to Sundararajan, these young people do...
