Record Number of US File-Sharing Piracy Lawsuits
Two porn streaming businesses are responsible for lodging more than half of all copyright cases in the USA last year.
SMS Used to Hijack UK Celebrity Twitter Accounts
Some questioned the ethics and legality of the stunt, but it does raise the question of why Twitter still allows users to manage their accounts via SMS.
Top EU Lawyer Says Germany Cannot Enforce Net Copyright Law
The EU was not given proper notification of a German law that limits web quotations from press articles.
First Greek Net Blocking Orders Prove Ineffective
Greece is the latest country to discover that if you block a specific URL then pirates will simply move their site to a different URL.
Israeli Spyware Implicated in Khashoggi Murder
A confidant of the murdered Saudi is suing an Israeli business whose spyware was found on his phone.
EU Publishes Piracy Watchlist
US content delivery network Cloudflare is mentioned alongside obviously problematic endeavors like Popcorn Time and The Pirate Bay.
YouTube Lobbies Users about EU Upload Filters
YouTube’s #SaveYourInternet campaign is more about creating an ideal competitive environment for YouTube than protecting Europeans from robotic censorship.
Sky and BBC Tell EU to Protest Saudi TV Piracy
Though the beoutQ pirates began by restreaming content from Qatari TV, the European Commission may also complain about Saudi indifference to copyright abuse.
Court Orders Telia to Block The Pirate Bay
Telia will appeal an interim decision to block The Pirate Bay and other websites, saying “this is a matter of truly principal importance for us and for the Internet”.
Can Solid Bring ‘Balance’ to the Web?
Tim Berners-Lee intends to guide ‘the next stage of the web’ but his plan to encourage users to create networked personal data pods suffers from an excess of ambition.