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UPDATE-170 PIRATE LINKS LATER, GOOGLE STILL PROTECTS GOOGLE DRIVE PIRATE ACCOUNT

This is an update to my post from last week.  Google has now removed the 31 additional pirate URLs I reported.  The total removed (since April) is 170.  Some of the titles removed include re-uploaded...

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GOOGLE IGNORES THE LAW, YET NO ONE IN WASHINGTON SEEMS TO CARE

GOOGLE LOOKS THE OTHER WAY AS PIRACY REPEAT OFFENDERS CONTINUE TO FLOURISH ON GOOGLE DRIVE I wrote a piece recently about Google’s failure to punish “repeat offenders” on its Google Drive platform so I...

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YouTube’s Content ID Easily Fooled

Doing the job, but not a very good job When people talk about effective ways to mitigate the impact of online piracy, YouTube's Content ID is often used as an example of what works. Unfortunately,...

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Piracy’s scofflaws – All roads lead through Cloudflare?

The DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) was signed into law nearly 20 years ago….yet here we are today, same old tired law but with an online ecosystem vastly different from what existed 2 decades...

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Women working behind the scenes remain the exception in Hollywood

Two reports show that 2018 did not bring the progress many hoped to see Hollywood is known for making sequels, but unfortunately there’s one refrain that grows increasingly stale with each passing...

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EU Goes Where Others Fear to Tread on Copyright Reform

Excellent news out of the European Union, as contentious copyright reform directive (Copyright in the Digital Single Market) was recently approved by the European Council. While the agreement still has...

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YouTube continues to profit off the pain of others.

YouTube is a money machine for Google. While actual numbers are hard to come by, it’s estimated that the online video hub brings in upwards of $15 billion annually.With that much money at stake, it’s...

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Lumen database (still) keeps pirate links alive…and now has a helper

I’ve written about the Lumen, formerly “chilling effects” DMCA database in the past and how it “makes a mockery of the DMCA.” I’ve also pointed out that the site provides a repository for links to to...

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EU Moves Copyright into 21st Century while USA prefers to remain in the 20th

Unlike their counterparts in the U.S. who seem content with a creaky DMCA law more than 2 decades old, members of the European Council passed a directive to move copyright law into the digital age: The...

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Google tricks search users to redirect Amazon Smile charity donations

Google takes users on a crooked path to another charity that apparently pays for placement Amazon.com offers its users a small way to give back to a favorite charity by using the Amazon Smile portal...

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