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Each week, hosting platforms, third-party services and search engines receive millions of requests to remove copyrighted content; according to experts in information security audits, this is how rights holders of multiple forms of content try to protect themselves from anyone who tries to distribute their property in illegitimate ways. Some of the most important online […]
On Monday 27 March 2019, the European Parliament passed the controversial EU copyright law. However, two clauses within the law, namely Article 13 and 11, are the cause of concern for millions of internet users in the EU. What is Article 13? Article 13 will enforce strict copyright measures over companies like YouTube, Facebook, and Google. […]
Google receives tonnes of requests from copyright holders daily for removing infringing content. The company then analyzes the received requests and removes the content that violates copyright claims. The number of DMCA notices received by Google has increased manifold over time. As reported by TorrentFreak, content creators have asked Google to remove over four billion pirate links till date. Whenever Google removes links from […]
Google has appealed to the Supreme Court to review the long-running legal trial with Oracle, where the latter is suing Google for copying Oracle’s Java language to create the Android operating system. The case dates back to 2010 when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java. After the acquisition, the new owners of the language sued Google for $8.8 […]
Short Bytes: People download pirated software, movies, music, games, ebooks, etc. because they don’t want to pay for they content they want to consume, or it’s too costly. The “free tag” is not the only reason people indulge themselves in copyright infringement. There might be other reasons which compel them obtains things illegally from the […]
Short Bytes: Copyright holders running after pirates is not a new tune to our ears. Google, the biggest search engine provider on the planet, publishes regular reports of their fight against removing pirated content. They’ve managed to blank out around 523 million links from Google Search this year and will continue to remove more of […]
Image: Wtamu.edu Short Bytes: A report published by Mathew Sag claims that the number of people sued for illegal file sharing in the US has decreased by 84% since the year 2010. The report includes statistics from the year 1994 till 2015, featuring numerical data for trademark, patent and copyright lawsuits filed in the 20-year […]
Short Bytes: In a recent interview with the VICE, Peter Sunde, co-founder, and ex-spokesperson for The Pirate Bay expressed his thoughts and said “I have given up”. He does not find himself capable enough to continue the fight against capitalism and centralisation of power prevailing in the recent years. Peter Sunde aka brokep expressed his […]
Short Bytes: A new study has surfaced which claims the yearly earnings to the pirates to be around $70 million/year. Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) commissioned RiskIQ to conduct the study out of a sample of 800 pirate websites. The dusts from the unabating tussle between the pirates and the copyright holders is still befouling the […]
The torrent pirates that keep hurting the million-dollar movie studios by uploading the data using their torrent clients are their biggest enemies of movie industry. To keep an eye on such activities, probably movie studios have some kind of system to scan for their movies on torrent. They collect these links and submit them to […]