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Cloudflare is fast becoming a monopolist, and according to this action, they are complicit piracy and associated harms "LaLiga says that, if people have website issues, they should blame Cloudflare – ... because it won’t be backing down anytime soon." torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-a... ©️

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Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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stop buying the AI hype. AI isn’t here to “democratize creativity”, it’s here to monetize your creativity for someone else’s gain www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-hou...

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Cloudflare is fast becoming a monopolist, and according to this action, they are complicit piracy and associated harms "LaLiga says that, if people have website issues, they should blame Cloudflare – ... because it won’t be backing down anytime soon." torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-a... ©️

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In a new post by our COO @eileenbramlet.bsky.social, she writes, "As #AI continues to shape our world, the voices of whistleblowers remind us that ethical responsibility should go hand in hand with technological progress." Learn more by reading Eileen's blog: copyrightalliance.org/ai-whistlebl...

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Birkenstock created the cache; copycats riff on that. ©️ "Birkenstock said in a statement that it "continues its fight against copycats with undiminished vigour" by exhausting "all legal means to defend itself against imitations." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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AG to investigate China's Deepseek for "stealing data of US citizens" This is not Cold War. This is Scroll War.

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US Attorney General says Deepseek; ""steals the data of our citizens." OpenAI is not known for adherence to licencing and respecting intellectual property! #AIArmsRace #Ai

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Netopia Spotlight ep.7 - Detlef Eckert "Why is Europe still dependent on external tech after decades of digital policy? Eckert explores Digital Policies + Insights on regulation, productivity, and entrepreneurship. #DigitalPolicy vimeo.com/manage/video...

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#StarterPack emphasis on platforms, competition law, digital rights, tech regulation, press freedom, market dominance, surviellance capitalism, and tech landscape within EU (Copyright Directive, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Fairness Act, GDPR & AI Act). bsky.app/starter-pack...

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"Digital video piracy costs the US economy at least $29.2 billion a year and 230,00 0 jobs. Piracy also harms consumers, who are 30 times more likely to be exposed to phishing, malware, scams and spam " copyrightalliance.org/judicial-blo... #Copyright #AntiPiracy #ForeignPiracy #SiteBlocking

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Happy Birthday to YouTube! Let's relive a few of your not-so-fine moments... #Adpocalypse (2017-2019) #LoganPaul Suicide Forest (2018) #Elsagate (2017-2018) #COPPA Fine (2019) #Content ID & #Copyright Abuse Momo Challenge Hoax (2019) YouTube Rewind 2018 Backlash

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One of the many things covered in my paper on AI and Copyright (arxiv.org/abs/2403.14653) is that there is a right way to acquire books for training, and a wrong way. Meta started doing it the right way, but then switched to the wrong way. techcrunch.com/2025/02/14/c...

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The EU’s digital chief, Henna Virkkunen, insists that easing AI regulations is all about attracting investment—not a reaction to US Big Tech or Trump. #AI #TechPolicy #Europe #Innovation #Regulation www.ft.com/content/fde5...

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Let Them Use AdTech — Amazon’s Next Move to Control Online Retail / via Open Markets www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

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"Digital video piracy costs the US economy at least $29.2 billion a year and 230,00 0 jobs. Piracy also harms consumers, who are 30 times more likely to be exposed to phishing, malware, scams and spam " copyrightalliance.org/judicial-blo... #Copyright #AntiPiracy #ForeignPiracy #SiteBlocking

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Record Labels Target 20 ISPs in Pursuit of BitTorrent Pirates and Damages torrentfreak.com/record-label...

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"A more self-assured science and technology policy would ask harder questions of each new tech trend, those who promote them..."

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ChatGPT is now more than two years old. If this really is the transformative technology of our age, shouldn’t we have seen more use cases by now? The mass displacement of human workers? Or even actual profits for AI companies? sciencebusiness.net/viewpoint/ai...

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@concierge.hollowaykeanho.com have you added us to the various SPs? Can't see the account in many of them - will reciprocate. Also your DMs are closed, did you mean that?

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Can YouTube dictate the terms? "“We have made a series of fair offers to continue our long-standing relationship with Google’s YouTube TV, providing subscribers access to the full array of Paramount’s entertainment, news and sports programming,”" advanced-television.com/2025/02/13/p...

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EU ditches plan to regulate tech patents, AI liability, online privacy www.reuters.com/technology/e...

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Fantastic starter pack for EU Policy, Politics, and Current Affairs PLS SHARE bsky.app/profile/neto... #TechRegulation #DigitalRights#MarketDominance #SurveillanceCapitalism #PressFreedom #CompetitionLaw #EURegulation #CopyrightDirective #DSA #DMA #GDPR #AIAct #DigitalFairness #TechPolicy

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PIRACY COSTING STREAMERS "According to 2024 research, nearly 3.6 million illegal streamers in the UK fell victim to viruses, fraud, or personal data theft—while almost 1 million have had money stolen directly as a result." advanced-television.com/2025/02/11/r...

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“Reducing the information density of teaser elements on paywalled articles and offering discounts may help newspapers increase their online subscriber numbers,”

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PIRACY COSTING STREAMERS "According to 2024 research, nearly 3.6 million illegal streamers in the UK fell victim to viruses, fraud, or personal data theft—while almost 1 million have had money stolen directly as a result." advanced-television.com/2025/02/11/r...

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No mention of protecting plurality of cultural content or minority language film and tv as the Commission launches evaluation on geo-blocking within the single market. single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/commiss...

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A mere conduit? Not a publisher? Or Broadcaster? “From elections to the Olympics to Coachella to the Super Bowl and the Cricket World Cup, the world’s biggest moments play out on #YouTube,” advanced-television.com/2025/02/11/y...

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www.theguardian.com/technology/2... UK copyright law consultation ‘fixed’ in favour of AI firms, peer says #techcoup

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Meta to run roughshod over privacy provisions #eudatap #privacy Memo: Meta's privacy teams will have less authority to delay product launches and Meta will review prior decisions, as some practices have become risk-averse." www.theinformation.com/articles/met...

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Tech Giants Plan Massive $320 Billion AI Spend for 2025 www.pymnts.com/artificial-i...

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Parents suing TikTok over children's deaths say it 'has no compassion' #platformaccountability www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Quenching AI's Thirst typical data centre can use between 11 million and 19 million litres of water per day, roughly the same as a town of 30,000 to 50,000 people."" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Plurality of culture and language fuels TV & Film exports advanced-television.com/2025/02/04/r... #film #tv #publishing #media #EuropeanWorks | #EUContent | #TVBroadcasting | #MediaRegulation | #ContentQuota | #AudiovisualPolicy #AVMS #audiovisual

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Detlef Eckert, author of "40 Years of European Digital Policies: Forgotten Lessons," reflects on the EU's digital policy evolution. Eckert advocates for a forward-looking approach to digital policymaking. www.netopia.eu/netopia-spot... #DigitalPolicy #EUInnovation #Tech

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Illegal, illicit, and counterfeit goods of questionable quality and sustainability for the main part.

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"We should be clear, when we are talking about data here, we actually mean human creators' life works," bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Detlef Eckert, author of "40 Years of European Digital Policies: Forgotten Lessons," reflects on the EU's digital policy evolution. Eckert advocates for a forward-looking approach to digital policymaking. www.netopia.eu/netopia-spot... #DigitalPolicy #EUInnovation #Tech