2054, Part V: From Tokyo With Love
“Had this all been contrived? Had his life become a game in which everyone knew the rules but him?” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel. Powered by...
City Council Unwittingly Approves Pirate IPTV Scheme and Documents Everything
From the very beginning and from every possible angle, this story makes almost no sense. But it will, eventually. By chance, when trying to track down a document a few weeks ago, a .pdf file with ‘IPTV’ in the description suddenly stood out in Google search results. Interesting things can appear by pure luck but, on first view, the document seemed quite mundane. Sporting a maple leaf in the top left corner and text on the right...
Appeals Court Hears RIAA and Yout in ‘High Stakes’ Stream-ripper Case
At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest YouTube rippers took the unprecedented step of taking the music industry to court. Yout.com’s Johnathan Nader had grown tired of the bombardment of DMCA takedown requests and allegedly defamatory claims. In response, he sued the RIAA, asking the federal court in Connecticut to declare his service non-infringing. The RIAA and others were asking Google to remove so-called...
