How the rising prices of streaming services are driving users to pirate websites with a ~90% profit margin that bring in ~$2B per year in ads and subscriptions
Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees. Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood's New Vil...
A look at music streaming fraud, including bot farms and pirates relabeling musicians' work to steal revenue; Beatdapp estimates fraud costs musicians $2B/year
relabeling others' music as your own to get streaming revenue from it—featuring @VolokhC's own David Post (as a subject of the fraud, not the author of the article). https://www.nytimes.com/... [image...
A look at the flood of near-identical YouTube obituary videos, in which men read obituaries scraped from authorized publishers like funeral homes and newspapers
If you Google someone who recently died, you might see a flood of near-identical videos of men reading obits. Here's why. X: @pearlriverflow , @waterslicer , @mattsreynolds1 , @nicklucchesi , and @kn...
How a US Navy task force is using AI to police the waters of the Gulf of Oman for pirates, a glimpse of increasingly capable autonomous systems transforming war
Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence … Twitter: @willknight . Forums: r/artificial Twitter: Will Knig...
Experts express concerns over hackers commandeering ship controls, including automated steering and propulsion systems, despite some efforts to rectify issues
In February 2019, a large container ship sailing for New York identified a cyber intrusion on board that startled the US Coast Guard. Tweets: @zschneeweiss , @jimpethokoukis , and @joshuasteinman Twee...
Malaysia passes a bill to imprison illegal streaming pirates, primarily those involved in the provision or facilitation of illegal streams, for up to 20 years
Malaysia's House of Representatives has passed amendments to copyright law that will boost the country's deterrent …
Five major education publishers sue Shopify for $500M+ for failing to remove listings and stores that sell pirated textbooks and other content
Textbook pirates are selling stolen learning materials on the platform, according to a lawsuit — Five major publishers have sued Shopify …
Spotify has now removed 42 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, offering no explanations for the removals
Spotify is continuing to remove episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience as part of their $100 million exclusive relationship, with more nixed shows discovered this week. Tweets: @kantrowitz and @theamazi...
Apple TV+ joins the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the MPAA's anti-piracy coalition, as Apple commits to protecting its original content
the ‘premier anti-piracy force’ Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog : Apple TV+ Joins Anti-Piracy Coalition to Protect Content from Pirates Tweets: Charles H. Rivkin / @charlierivkin : Apple TV+ is helpin...
Regardless of Epic's chances in court, every decision Apple makes favoring itself, and not society in general, is an invitation to scrutinize its power
I write a weekly newsletter around tech and media, picking the 10-20 pieces … Surur / MSPoweruser : F.lux accuses Apple of strong-arming them, just like Epic Tweets: Sam Bowman / @s8mb : What Epic is ...