SlyckVideos - Remember the Episode 1 Hype? We Got You Covered - Nov 13, 2015 - Slyck breaks down the four major theories around the new Start Wars, The Force Awakens movie: 1) Hype for Episode 1 was just as impressive, so be warned, 2) To what extent, if any, are Finn and Rey force sensitive, 3) Who is Rey crying over?, and 4) Has Luke turned to the Dark Side?
SlyckVideos - Jailbreaking and You: What do the new DMCA exemptions mean? - Nov 5, 2015 - The Librarian of Congress issued 9 new rules that expanded, renewed, or created new exemptions to the DMCA. These exemptions establish the framework where circumventions can be made to digital copyright protection.
A long-running argument about an American legal organisation’s desire to ‘clarify, modernise, and otherwise improve’ copyright legislation in the US is making headlines again. ... (more)
For almost a decade, an anti-piracy group in Greece has been trying to bring the elusive operator of pirate sites to justice.
EPOE protects the rights of entertainment industry companies ... (more)
Europol says its latest piracy takedown netted three arrests and more than 30,000 website takedowns.
The operation was part of an 18-country joint effort involving the European police ... (more)
Many registrars and registries don’t like the idea of acting as “content police.” Instead, they prefer these matters to be handled through the courts instead. This is one of the ... (more)
One Briton and a Thai national have pleaded guilty to infringing the Premier League’s copyright in Thailand and have paid significant damages totalling THB15million (about £385,000), ... (more)
Increasingly, people are canceling their expensive cable subscriptions, opting to use cheaper Internet TV instead.
While there are plenty of legal options available, there’s also ... (more)
Straker Translations, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:STG), will provide its artificial intelligence-driven localised translation services to major US TV production ... (more)
A government panel has approved a plan to limit the scope for what constitutes illegal downloads of all copyrighted works -- including manga, computer games and literary writings -- ... (more)
It wasn't that long ago when Australians complained we were sick of paying north of $100 per month so we could watch everything on Foxtel. We imagined the arrival of Netflix would open ... (more)
Pro Music Rights LLC, a public performance rights organization, headquartered in Naples, Florida, representing approximately 2,000,000 musical works, has filed a lawsuit against Spotify ... (more)
Relying upon the work of Cory Doctorow, this paper argues that Australia’s copyright regime for site-blocking and search-filtering poses a threat to consumer rights, competition policy, ... (more)
Earlier this year, several major music companies sued Charter Communications, one of the largest Internet providers in the US with 22 million subscribers.
Helped by the RIAA, Capitol ... (more)
Websites offering pirated content can inflict tremendous damage on copyright holders, but due to the simplicity of sharing digital content in today's high-speed, always-connected online ... (more)
Talon White, 29, reproduced and distributed thousands of copyrighted movies and television shows beginning in 2013, according to court documents.
He set up websites that hosted the ... (more)
Eurojust, Europol and the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA), representing the industry of protected audiovisual content, have joined forces to improve the sharing of expertise ... (more)
Senator Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Jerrold Nadler today introduced the Ask Musicians for Music Act (AM-FM), which aims to revise existing copyright law for radio stations and musicians.
Under ... (more)
A number of shifts in the movie industry have altered the theater-going experience in recent years. From the rise of streaming to the reliance on Chinese markets to the emergence of ... (more)
Internet provider Cox Communications can't argue that it had "no knowledge" of the hundreds of thousands of piracy notices it received, a Virginia federal court ruled. The ruling is ... (more)
Many of these accounts are now being offered for free on hacking forums, or available for sale for prices varying from $3 to $11, a ZDNet investigation has discovered.
The Disney ... (more)
The U.S. Supreme Court has jumped into a titanic copyright battle between Oracle Corp. and Google LLC with both barrels.
The high court granted Friday Google’s petition for certiorari—leaving ... (more)
The Canadian Federal Court has dismissed a motion from Voltage Pictures to go after alleged BitTorrent pirates through a reverse class action lawsuit. The case in question started in ... (more)
The background to the latest round of exchanges about the bill comes after the US trade representative (USTR) responded to a complaint filed six months ago on behalf of large US entertainment ... (more)
US internet service provider Charter Communications has told a court that if it is held liable for vicarious infringement simply because it advertised its high net speeds, the floodgates ... (more)
“A new European Union copyright law and recent decisions from the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of California suggest that what was once thought to be non-infringing ... (more)
As hackable as Alexa, Jeep Cherokees and credit card services are over a public Internet not designed for security, the networked gadgetries enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) ... (more)
American Films, Inc. (Pink Sheets: AMFL) strengthen its position to assist Hollywood fight online piracy and copyright infringement through its recent acquisition of Maker Data Services ... (more)
Regular Internet providers are being put under increasing pressure for not doing enough to curb copyright infringement.
Music rights company BMG got the ball rolling a few years ... (more)
From its relatively basic and humble roots back in the 1990s, Internet-based distribution of copyright-infringing content underwent a renaissance at the turn of the century.
Peer-to-peer ... (more)
Not satisfied with online sales alone, business partners Hisham Alshaikhli and Laith Alqaraghuli opened a storefront in El Cajon to sell the latest craze in pirated media: set-top boxes ... (more)
On May 1, 2019, Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed into law what is generally known as the Sovereign Internet law. It came into effect on November 1, 2019, and is ostensibly designed ... (more)