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ROM site owner owes Nintendo $2.15 million after representing himself in piracy lawsuit

TechSpot

It was back in 2019 when Nintendo filed a lawsuit against RomUniverse. The Japanese gaming giant was seeking millions of dollars for copyright and trademark infringement from a site that was reportedly offering memberships for $30 per year, which allowed users to download an unlimited number of ROMs with higher.

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Watch Your Content: Protecting Your Website Against Copyright Infringement

Byte Technology

So it’s little surprise that the massive proliferation of online resources has spawned a major problem: protecting website content from copyright infringement in the form of plagiarism or outright theft. Or having a writer steal a column from your blog and present it as their own work on their own site.

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Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case

The Verge

Publishers are unhappy about their content being distributed for free and argue that the site infringes on their copyright. In December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society filed a suit with the Delhi High Court, asking Indian internet service providers to block Sci-Hub and similar site Libgen.

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Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club

The Verge

But Yuga Labs owns the copyright on its ape images, and PAYC and PHAYC have were booted from OpenSea apparently for violating its rules against copyright infringement. But there’s very little legal precedent surrounding NFTs at all, let alone their copyright implications specifically.

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New ‘felony streaming’ measure is aimed at piracy services, not Twitch streamers

The Verge

Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. However, this bill is narrowly tailored and avoids criminalizing users, who may do nothing more than click on a link, or upload a file. Copyright is messy.

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Lame spams of the day: messages from key.com

Robert Weiner

This site lists them as malware delivery devices but doesn't elaborate on the threat. The attached file contains the encrypted message that you have received. To read the encrypted message, complete the following steps: - Double-click the encrypted message file attachment to download the file to your computer.

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Twitch streamers are getting DMCA takedown notices (again)

The Verge

First, Twitch is telling streamers that some of their content has been identified as violating copyright and that instead of letting streamers file counterclaims, it’s deleting the content; second, the company is telling streamers it’s giving them warnings, as opposed to outright copyright strikes.

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