Piracy Shield: Pirate IPTV Killer Goes Live, No Casualties to Report….Yet
When Italian lawmakers finally passed new law in the summer designed to crack down on pirate IPTV providers once and for all, powerful Serie A football clubs, broadcasters, and influential business associates, breathed a joint sigh of relief. The tools needed to avert the imminent destruction of Italian football had finally been enshrined in law following a massive lobbying and media campaign. Four years earlier, a similar ‘Piracy...
DNS Resolver Quad9 Wins Pirate Site Blocking Appeal Against Sony
In 2021 , Sony Music obtained an injunction that ordered DNS resolver Quad9 to block a popular pirate site. The injunction, issued by the District Court of Hamburg, required the Swiss DNS resolver to block access to a site that links to pirated music. The name of the targeted site initially remained a mystery, but we deduced that Canna.to was the target. That site was, not coincidentally, also targeted by a voluntary blocking...
Elijah Wood and Mike Tyson Cameo Videos Were Used in a Russian Disinformation Campaign
Videos featuring Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson, and Priscilla Presley have been edited to push anti-Ukraine disinformation, according to Microsoft researchers. Powered by WPeMatico
End-to-End Encrypted Instagram and Messenger Chats: Why It Took Meta 7 Years
Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right. Powered by WPeMatico
YouTube, Facebook, & TikTok Won’t Discuss Bad Takedowns? Get Over It, They’re Busy
Back in August we reported how Google had received requests to remove one billion allegedly-infringing links from its search results. A billion is a big number, especially when it refers to takedown demands received over a period of just nine months. A few days before we published that report, Google had just processed its seven billionth removal request, having reached six billion less than a year earlier. At the time of writing,...
