MPA Wins Piracy Battle, US Court Orders PrimeWire to Shut Down
Last December, Paramount, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Disney and Netflix sued PrimeWire, one of the most recognizable pirate streaming sites of the last decade. To stop PrimeWire...
Piracy Poses Concern as Netflix Subscribers Drop for the First Time
As the first major legal streaming service on the Internet, Netflix paved the way for a streaming revolution. The company started competing with piracy from the...
MPA Signs New Anti-Piracy Deal Committing to “Rolling Site-Blocking Regime”
Despite the absence of any similar coordinated scheme in the United States, Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros. regularly criticize countries for not implementing...
85 ‘Pirate’ IPTV Apps Reported as Illegal But Most (If Any) Carry No Content
Over the past several weeks, numerous rightsholders have filed submissions to the European Commission hoping that sites and services will be added to the upcoming ‘Counterfeit...
DuckDuckGo ‘Restores’ Pirate Sites and Points to Bing as Culprit
It’s not a secret that Google and Bing are tweaking their search results to accommodate copyright holders. However, it was a surprise to see that pirate...
Europe seals a deal on tighter rules for digital services
In the small hours local time, European Union lawmakers secured a provisional deal on a landmark update to rules for digital services operating in the region...
Alphabet-owned Intrinsic is acquiring fellow robotic software firm Vicarious
Alphabet X-birthed Intrinsic made its big debut last September. The subsidiary looks to buck its parent company’s somewhat spotty robotics record with a software-first approach. Specifically,...
15 carbon removal projects score $1M each in climate Xprize milestone
A multi-year, $100 million Xprize competition for startups trying to remove or reverse carbon emissions has its first crop of big winners. Though the bulk of...
Block Head Jack Dorsey tells us what we already knew
Jack Dorsey, the Twitter co-founder and current Block CEO, is no longer the payments firm’s “chief executive officer.” Instead, the executive is choosing to call himself...
Daily Crunch: Twitter to allow developers to build third-party apps
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