[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] DMCA-Circumventing Cheat Maker Uses DMCA to Take Down Cracked Copy

Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com

Copyright law exists so that creators of all kinds can enjoy the fruits of their labor.

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[Link] Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub

Read: 21/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Thousands of Firefox cookie databases containing sensitive data are available on request from GitHub repositories, data potentially usable for hijacking authenticated sessions. These cookies.sqlite databases normally reside in the Firefox profiles folder.

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[Link] GitHub Pulls Site and Repo of Pirate Proxy Service ‘Unblockit’ Offline

Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

GitHub has removed the repository and the mirror website of Unblockit, a proxy service that allows people to access blocked sites. The developer platform says that the content in question was removed for violating its terms of service, which was confirmed by a follow-up investigation.

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