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Five Years Ago This week in 2019, the biggest copyright trolls were facing some issues in court and trying new strategies, while the Sons of Confederate Veterans were sued over a bogus DMCA takedow ...

We're still waiting for the lawsuit in Japan between Nintendo, The Pokémon Co., and Pocketpair to get rolling, but that doesn't keep the dispute out of the news. The patent lawsuit, its ...

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At some point, I'll have time to write more thoroughly about how the wonderful and supportive Bluesky community effectively willed One Billion Users over the funding threshold, but it's quite amazi ...

A second appeals court has now said that Section 230 doesn't protect Salesforce, the online software giant, from being held liable for sex trafficking, because Backpage used Salesforce's software.

It often seems that when people have no good ideas or, indeed, any ideas at all, the next thing out of their mouths is "maybe some AI?" It's not that AI can't be useful. It ...

We've been warning for years that the UK's Online Safety Act would be a disaster for the open internet. Its supporters accused us of exaggerating, or "shilling" for Big Tech ...

For many many years, experts have warned about massive longstanding flaws in Signaling System 7 (SS7, or Common Channel Signaling System 7), a series of protocols hackers can exploit to t ...

I'll preface this post by saying a part of me hates writing posts like this. We recently talked about a trademark lawsuit brought by KFC against Church's Chicken centered on Church̵ ...

The perennial attempts to widen the reach of copyright in the pursuit of yet more revenue is something that is to be expected from companies. After all, maximizing profits is basically what compani ...