Putin Confirms Digital Ruble Integration in Russia’s Federal Budget
Russia is set to integrate its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital ruble, into its federal budget system starting next year, with nationwide adoption targeted by July 1, 2025, President Vladimir Putin announced at the 15th VTB Russia Calling! Investment Forum. Highlighting ongoing efforts to enhance business efficiency, Putin emphasized the development of infrastructure […] Powered by...
Apple Stealth Piracy App Trio, Combined Age 215 Years, Face $18.5m Damages Claim
Apple’s position on obviously infringing movie and TV show streaming apps is that they’re not allowed on the App Store, period. Hoping to reach a massive but restricted audience, so-called ‘stealth piracy’ apps employ trickery to circumvent Apple’s vetting process. Over the past couple of years, stealth apps have made the headlines on a number of occasions and even attracted the attention of an Expert Group at the EU Intellectual...
Japan Plans AI Pilot Program to Fight Manga & Anime Piracy
With the arms race between pirate sites and rightsholders showing no obvious signs of cooling down, the online piracy landscape is becoming increasingly complex. The existing toolbox of legal measures, such as action against domain names, site-blocking, search engine penalties, even whole-site deindexing, has led to the emergence of a new breed of shape-shifting, measure-evading, pirate sites. Seemingly able to rebrand almost at will,...
MP3.to Successfully Challenges Music Industry’s ‘False’ DMCA Circumvention Takedown
In recent years, music industry groups have become increasingly concerned by tools that allow users to download MP3s from online streaming services, including YouTube. These so-called ‘stream-rippers’ violate the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision; they argue. This position resulted in thousands of circumvention takedown requests, which prompted Google to remove millions of stream-ripper URLs from its search engine. These removals...
