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Italy's new anti-piracy law could bring swift justice to IPTV streamers and users

TechSpot

A new law was recently passed by the Italian parliament without a hitch, and the Authority for Communications Guarantees has now approved the rules highlighting its new powers. AGCOM's deliberation (680/13/CONS) is the agency's main "rule book" regarding online copyright. The changes approved by both chambers of the Italian parliament.

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An ed-tech specialist spoke out about remote testing software — and now he’s being sued

The Verge

Proctorio was suing him for tweeting the videos, as well as a screenshot of its website — the company claimed he’d infringed its copyright and distributed confidential material. But as critics are discovering, the law is giving Proctorio an unexpected advantage, allowing the company to shut down criticisms by appealing to copyright law. +.

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

But keep in mind that illegal activities like torrenting copyrighted material, buying prohibited goods, and hacking are still illegal even with a VPN. Let's not get too brazen, here.

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Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law

Ars Technica

Italy is using its Piracy Shield law to go after Google, with a court ordering the Internet giant to immediately begin poisoning its public DNS servers. Regardless, Italy's communication regulator praises the ruling and hopes to continue sticking it to international tech firms.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Twitter faces a $250 million lawsuit filed by major music publishers The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), representing 17 publishers, listed 1,700 songs for which it sent multiple copyright violation notices to Twitter. The publishers’ organization said in the filing that it is seeking fines of up to $150,000 for each violation.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

April 12, 2023 Italy gives OpenAI to-do list for lifting ChatGPT suspension order Italy’s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month — when it said it suspected the AI chatbot service was in breach of the EU’s GSPR and ordered the U.S.

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Google says its European 'experiment' shows news is worthless to its ad business

Engadget

European copyright law says the company must pay publishers for using snippets from articles, and Google will likely use the data to try to kneecap news outlets' negotiating leverage. "During But the "public experiment" was hardly done for scientific curiosity. percent drop in usage. . "The percent drop in usage.

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