Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results
comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew Curran / @andrewcurr...
Q&A with Harvard law professor and Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig on AI's impact on social media and free speech, copyright use, TikTok, and more
After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you'd think about AI and TikTok … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . LinkedIn: Andrei Nicolae Cuta , Rick Lane , and Paul ...
iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown: a redesigned frame helps with replacing the back glass, a tetraprism periscope lens, software lockdown makes repairs hard, and more
as long as Apple is the one fixing it Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider : iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown reveals few internal changes, digs at repairability Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : iFixit posts t...
Open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is not coming to Steam; its developers deny that Nintendo sent a DMCA but cite its “long-held stance on emulation”
Reddit's DMCA removals have surged in recent years, from 4,352 in 2017 to 665,898 in 2021; 80%+ of takedown requests were denied in 2016 vs ~27% in 2021
Introduction — The mission of Reddit is to bring community … Tweets: @torrentfreak : Reddit's DMCA Removals Surged 15,000% in Five Years https://torrentfreak.com/...
Twitch replaced the audio for Metallica's “For Whom The Bell Tolls” with folk music during the band's BlizzCon livestream, presumably to avoid a DMCA notice
The Twitch Gaming stream gave us this beautiful moment — Despite its later-than-usual timing and going completely virtual …
How supporters of Black Lives Matter have used tactics such as hijacking hashtags and filing DMCA complaints to protect protesters and derail racist rhetoric
Aja Romano / Vox : Tweets: @voxdotcom Tweets: @voxdotcom : Supporters of Black Lives Matter are weaponizing tweets, posts, and hashtags to spread information, protect protesters, and derail racist rh...
After using DMCA notice to remove iOS 9 “iBoot” code leak on GitHub, Apple says “the security of our products doesn't depend on the secrecy of our source code”
Alfred Ng / CNET :
HBO security contractor says hackers stole “thousands of internal documents” in addition to episodes and have leaked personal info of a senior HBO executive
KIND OF WORK: — Unspecified DSLreports : HBO Hacked, Shows, Executive Data Released Selena Larson / CNNMoney : HBO says full email system likely not compromised in data breach Sara Fischer / Axios :...
Farmers seek DMCA exemption to modify or repair high-tech proprietary agriculture equipment that is making DIY repairs impossible
New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers — A central Illinois corn farmer, on top of his combine, is silhouetted against the setting sun in Pleasant Plains, Illinois on Sept. 27, 2014...