Anti-Piracy Agency Credited With BitTorrent Victory, IPTV & Streaming Take on Both
With millions of monthly users, BitTorrent’s reign at the top of the file-sharing seemed unstoppable in 2007, but the French government had other plans. Presented to the Senate in June 2008, what would later become France’s Hadopi law envisioned a crackdown on peer-to-peer file-sharing via a ‘graduated response’ mechanism, with around eight million local BitTorrent users the primary targets. The Hadopi agency created to administer the...
Elon Musk Is Personally Undermining X’s Efforts to Curb Israel-Hamas War Disinformation
X’s Trust and Safety team says it’s working to remove false information related to the Israel-Hamas war. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is sharing conspiracies and chatting with QAnon promoters. Powered by WPeMatico
Google Makes Passkeys Default, Stepping Up Its Push to Kill Passwords
Google is making passkeys, the emerging passwordless login technology, the default option for users as it moves to make passwords “obsolete.” Powered by WPeMatico
RIAA Reports AI Vocal Cloning Site ‘Voicify’ to the U.S. Government
Over the past year, new artificial intelligence tools and services have been surfacing everywhere. This AI boom followed the success of ChatGPT and many people believe these recent developments are just the beginning. While entrepreneurs and the public at large are mostly focused on the new possibilities the technology offers, many copyright holders are focused on potential threats. This includes the music industry’s anti-piracy arm,...
Genshin Impact: Major Private Server Dev Faces DMCA Subpoenas
With over 60 million players every month, Genshin Impact is one of the greatest success stories in videogames. The game stepped over the 60 million threshold in March 2022, and just over a year later hit a record 66.5 million. Since August, however, interest in the game has declined. The situation is hardly catastrophic but from a second 66.5m peak two months ago, player numbers in September returned to levels last seen in March 2022....
