Russia’s telecoms watchdog ‘Roskomnadzor’ has sent a letter to Instagram demanding that the company removes its copyright restrictions on posts that feature the national anthem. The Government organization hints at systematic and purposeful blocking by Western social networks, which was widely picked up by local media. Reality appears to be less nefarious, however. From: TF, […]

Huge scanlation platform MangaDex says that following a hack in March, its database is now confirmed as being “in the wild”. With usernames, email addresses and IP address data now potentially public knowledge, users are being assured that the site is doing all it can to mitigate the breach, including by working with prominent data […]

Miami University student and security researcher Erik Johnson has filed a lawsuit against software company Proctorio, which used DMCA notices to remove several critical tweets. Johnson asked the court to declare that publishing code excerpts to document critique is fair use. Meanwhile, Proctario should pay damages for misusing the DMCA process. From: TF, for the […]

A few weeks ago, several movie companies sued a widely used Popcorn Time fork, as well as VPN.ht. When the app’s official website disappeared a few days later most people assumed that the developers had decided to throw in the towel. However, this early conclusion is unwarranted. While there are internal struggles, Popcorn Time plans […]

Pirate sites are considered a threat by the majority of today’s legal streaming platforms but at least one can say it directly benefited from them. According to a former key member of Hulu’s marketing team, the launch of Hulu Plus saw pirate sites given an option – either find themselves sued or plaster their sites […]