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Why We're Blacking Out Sites: PIPA and SOPA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). Copyright hawks like Rupert Murdoch and the MPAA have attacked this movement as being for piracy, against jobs, and dangerous. But, we're not for piracy.

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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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Club Penguin Online shuts down after receiving copyright claim from Disney

The Verge

Club Penguin Online, one of the largest Club Penguin fan servers, shut down Friday after The Walt Disney Company issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice earlier this week. According to BBC , a London man involved with the server was arrested on suspicion of child pornography. In all honestly, it isn’t worth it”.

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

TechSpot

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. It was back in 2019 when Nintendo filed a lawsuit against RomUniverse.

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US copyright groups push for internet site blocking to combat piracy

TechSpot

TorrentFreak reports that when it came to new measures, site blocking was heavily pushed as an effective remedy that the US has been lacking. The symposium brought together prosecutors, industry representatives, and anti-piracy experts to discuss the latest piracy trends and potential solutions. Read Entire Article

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Instagram says sites need photographers? permission to embed posts

The Verge

A different judge previously determined that Instagram could sublicense photographs to sites that embed its posts, protecting the site Mashable from a lawsuit. And the site forbids embedding content in a way that “violates any rights of any person,” including “intellectual property rights.”.

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Nintendo is complaining about a ROM store owner they sued missing a $50 payment

TechSpot

In 2019, Nintendo sued Storman as the owner of RomUniverse, a site they purported was illegally distributing copyrighted Nintendo games. The California Federal Court ultimately awarded Nintendo $35,000 for each of their 49 games available on the site and an extra $400,000 in trademark damages. Storman chose to represent himself.

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