[ad_1] The plaintiffs argue that the IA has no legal rights to distribute the books, which it scans and uploads to its servers, via Open Library or the National Emergency Library. The plaintiffs go as far as charging the Archive with piracy. The lawsuit seeks a declaration that the IA is committing copyright infringement, injunctions […]
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Recommended Reading: The internet sleuths who caught the Astros cheating
[ad_1] How the internet helped crack the Astros’ sign-stealing caseJoon Lee,ESPN One of the biggest sports stories of the year has already broke, and it’s barely mid-January. If you haven’t heard, Major League Baseball determined the Houston Astros used various methods, including video feeds, to steal signs from the opposition during the team’s 2017 championship […]
Two men plead guilty to running large illegal streaming sites
[ad_1] Polo and Villarino will receive their sentences on March 13th and March 20th, respectively. The saga won’t be over for a while. The remaining six people charged over alleged roles in ISIA and Jetflicks will go to trial on February 3rd. However, it’s safe to say that the guilty pleas made it that much […]
Movie sanitizing service ordered to pay $62 million in piracy suit
[ad_1] A jury has ordered “family-friendly” movie service VidAngel to pay $62.4 million to Hollywood studios for pirating their content. Disney, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. sued the company over copyright infringement. VidAngel bought retail DVDs of mainstream movies and ripped the video file. It pulled out adult content, cursing, sex and violent aspects […]
La Liga fined €250k for using its app to catch illegal soccer streams
[ad_1] La Liga in a statement to El País (translated from Spanish) expressed disappointment in the decision and accused regulators of not properly understanding the technology involved. The soccer league argued that users were asked twice by the app for their consent to access their phone’s microphone, and did not store any actual audio from […]
Indian streaming giant broke Safari support to deal with security hole
[ad_1] The company publicly blamed “technical limitations” in Safari for the sudden lack of support, but the tipsters said this wasn’t the truth. They instead said that Hotstar fully intended on restoring Safari support once it had patched the flaw on its side, and the site appeared to have resumed working at the time we […]