[Link] RIAA Discards EFF’s YouTube-DL Letter, Notes That it ‘Regularly Sides With Infringers’

Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com

YouTube rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com are contesting Magistrate Judge Buchanan's recommendation to award $82 million in piracy damages to the RIAA. The YouTube-rippers cited a letter where the EFF defends the non-infringing nature of the youtube-dl software.

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[Link] Record Labels Still Want to Know if Piracy Trial Jurors Read TorrentFreak

Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com

The piracy liability trial between several major record labels and Internet provider Grande is about to begin. To rule out conflicts, both sides submitted an updated series of questions for the jury selection.

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[Link] Big changes coming to Chrome may kill ad blockers

Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com

In a recent blog post, Chrome extensions and web store product manager David Li announced that extensions to Google's browser built using the Manifest V2 specification will no longer be accepted on the web store as of January 17, 2022.

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[Link] EU Parliament Committee Adopts Digital Services Act

Read: 10/10/2021 torrentfreak.com

The EU's plans to modernize copyright law in Europe are moving ahead. The Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) has just adopted a draft of the new Digital Services Act.

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[Link] FTC Orders Spyware Vendor to Stop Business

Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com

The FTC has banned a stalkerware vendor called SpyFone and its CEO Scott Zuckerman from working in the surveillance business, the agency said in an announcement on Wednesday.

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