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YouTube appears to be breaking DMCA law, experts say
YouTube cites DMCA when taking down content but doesn’t follow DMCA conventions.
First of its kind: Australian man charged for “revenge porn”
This is the first person to be charged with such an offense in the country.
YouTube quietly removes “Broadcast Yourself” motto from its official blog
It’s the latest sign that YouTube no longer cares about the independent content creators that helped grow its platform.
Profreehost suspends a developer’s account just for hosting an open source torrent software
“Torrents and torrent related content is strictly prohibited on our service.”
The public removal of Instagram’s likes will hurt “influencers” and make Facebook more money
Advertisers will rely more on Facebook’s official ads instead of paying influencers directly.
Journalism institute tries to get 29 Conservative news websites blacklisted
Breitbart, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Washington Examiner are among those named as “unreliable,”
Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer reaction videos targeted with false YouTube copyright claims
Reaction videos should be protected under fair use but a number of music labels have filed bogus claims against YouTube creators reacting to the trailer, even when no trailer audio was used.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki suggests that trade offs which impact innocent creators are necessary
She says that YouTube’s past decisions to mass disable comments and block content that didn’t actually violate the community guidelines were necessary trade offs.
The Creative Commons search engine is now live
Nonprofit organization Creative Commons publicly launched its search engine today, which allows you to search the commons’ archive of free content available in the public domain under the Creative Commons licenses. Currently, the search engine indexes millions of CC-licensed images. The search
A 75-year-old-man is suffering from anxiety after being accused of hardcore porn piracy
The trolls harvest IPs from BitTorrent swarms, and then turn to courts who force ISPs to hand over real life identities of subscribers
TVCatchup is down and it might be down for good
It appears as though TVCatchup app and streaming service is permanently shut down.
Professor says he lost his job after pushing back against students having to pay to submit their own homework through new online textbook systems
It would seem though that the digital homework systems are here to stay. The advantage for the publishers is evident, as this would be the end of the used-books market.