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David

French Piracy Blocking Order Goes Global, DNS Service Quad9 Vows to Fight

https://torrentfreak.com/french-piracy-blocking-order-goes-global-dns-service-quad9-vows-to-fight-241212/

In an ongoing escalation of its fight against online sports piracy, media giant Canal+ secured court orders compelling DNS providers Quad9 and Vercara to block access to pirate streaming sites in France. Quad9 says that it's determined to appeal what it sees as an absurd application of copyright law. For now, however, it will block the targeted domain names globally.

#piracy #vpn #vpns #quad9 (9.9.9.9) #vercara #france #canal-plus #dns

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Revenue effects of #Denuvo digital rights management on #PC video #games

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952124002532

• Denuvo #DRM protects total revenue from piracy by a mean of 15% and a median of 20%.
• #Piracy causes mean total revenue to decrease by 20% when Denuvo is cracked quickly.
• Piracy causes zero mean total revenue loss when Denuvo survives for 12 weeks or more.
• The characteristics of a #game cannot explain its likelihood of being cracked.

First of all DRM is not digital rights management, it is digital restrictions management for the #gamer. Often DRM is making performance and installing problems.
It's important to know that DRM must be payed but makes a game #experience worse. DRM costs #money, #energy, #performance, patches and #support but without any positive effect for the consumer.

The question now is: are these costs higher or lower 20% of lost consumer licenses?

#capitalism #profit #entertainment #news #copy #economy #Problem #study #finance #copyright

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David

Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it

Some Libgen links can’t be reached after broad takedown order.

On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn't be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called "one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions" ever issued by a US court.

As the time this was posted, this page loads. https://libgen.is/
So does http://libgen.st/
http://libgen.rs/ no longer resolves to an IP address.
https://singlelogin.re/ also still loads. This is Z Library.

#academic-papers #academic-publishing #libgen #library-genesis #piracy #library #shadow-library #free-access #open-access #elsevier #research #academic-research #zlib #z-library #sci-hub #scholarly-journals

also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_Open_Access_Manifesto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICanHazPDF

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#Microsoft offers legal #protection for #AI #copyright infringement challenges

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/microsoft-offers-legal-protection-for-ai-copyright-infringement-challenges/

Microsoft's #announcement comes as generative AI tools like #ChatGPT have raised concerns about reproducing copyrighted material without proper attribution. Microsoft has heavily invested in AI through products like #GitHub #Copilot and #Bing Chat that can generate original code, text, and images on demand. Its AI models have gained these capabilities by scraping publicly available data off of the #Internet without seeking express #permission from copyright holders.

Now we know what #PirateBay made wrong:

They were not a multi million startup with a global company as a sponsor. So what they did was #piracy. But if #ChatGPT copies the whole internet it's a business model.

#news #law #business #economy #politics #copy

Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges

"Some customers are concerned about the risk of IP infringement claims," says Microsoft.

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#Pirate Sites #Worldwide Face Emerging, Perpetual #Threat of Domain Seizures

source: https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-sites-worldwide-face-emerging-perpetual-threat-of-domain-name-seizures-240109/

What we’re able to show today is that at least one #domain #registrar in the United States has suspended domain names under the instructions of the High #Court of #Delhi. The suspensions are part of a dynamic+ injunction issued in India last year, to protect the rights of several #Hollywood studios and #Netflix, ostensibly in #India.

#copyright #piracy #streaming #entertainment #internet #law #news

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"If buying isn't owning, #piracy isn't stealing"

Source: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

Last week, #Playstation owners who'd bought (or "bought") Warner TV shows got messages telling them that #Warner had walked away from its deal to sell videos through the Playstation store, and so all the videos they'd paid for were going to be deleted forever. They wouldn't even get refunds (to be clear, refunds would also be #bullshit – when I was a bookseller, I didn't get to break into your house and steal the books I'd sold you, not even if I left some cash on your kitchen table).

So the entertainment industry thinks copying is like stealing but deleting bought licenses from the customer is not stealing because it's normal business? It's a mad world.

#customer #Sony #problem #business #economy #entertainment #license #digital #owner #content #service #fail #news #justice #politics #drm

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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

by Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/

As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":\
https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n

I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:\
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WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.\
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Wired didn't take me up on this suggestion.

Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:\
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https://mamot.fr/@q3k@hackerspace.pl/111528162905209453 \
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Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:\
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https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

#drm #playstation #wired #hewlett-packard #printer-ink #ownership #piracy #copying #enshitification #right-to-repair #reverse-engineering #rentiers #ip #intellectual-property

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Farhad 🆓🇵🇸 ☮️Now

The United States acknowledged Friday that it seized a shipment containing nearly a million barrels of Iranian oil earlier this year.

According to the US Department of Justice, the oil is “the subject of a civil forfeiture action” after the shipping company that operated the vessel carrying the oil pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate US sanctions.

PS. For months people called it for spreading Iranian propaganda when I shared news about this, I wonder if any of them will come out and apologize.
#Iran #politics #us #piracy
🔗https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/8/us-confirms-seizing-iranian-oil-cargo-earlier-this-year

US confirms seizing Iranian oil cargo earlier this year

The Biden administration says it is seeking civil forfeiture of nearly one million barrels of seized Iranian oil.

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