TikTok users @wellonyc and @stephon23, who each do a version of the “Letter of the Day” series. Screenshots taken from their respective TikTok feeds. Caribbean people are well-known for using humour as a means of social commentary and processing serious issues. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with many regional territories having strict safety measures in place — including … Read More
Protestors in Tyre, Southern Lebanon, cheering to a female singer during a demonstration against government corruption and austerity measures on October 22, 2019. Credit: RomanDeckert via Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0. Editor’s note: This article is part of UPROAR, a Small Media initiative that is urging governments to address digital rights challenges at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). As new protests erupt in Lebanon, … Read More
The VidAngel story seemingly ended in late 2017 when it declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But the bad news wasn’t over for the streaming service, which promised to edit all of the dirty bits out of other people’s films. This week a federal jury in California ordered the Provo, Utah-based startup to pay $62.4 million to studios over copyright infringement. That … Read More
Nintendo Shuts Down Super Mario Bros Battle Royale Earlier this week we reported how a free-to-play battle royale game based on the original Super Mario Bros. had appeared online and that, in terms of a fan made game, was amazingly fun. Allowing 99 players to simultaneously play a level, the objective was simple. Be the last Mario standing! Following an … Read More
A wave of DMCA notices sent from a company without an obvious web presence have targeted, among other things, the homepages of dozens of adult-focused sites. Google appears to have responded by delisting the main pages of several affected platforms. Larger ones, such as YouPorn and xHamster, seem to have got a free pass. Google receives millions of notices requesting … Read More
Anime News Network responded to YouTuber Hero Hei’s claim that he won the DMCA Strike dispute against Anime News Network. Hero Hei had taken to Twitter to announce he had won his dispute with Anime News Network. Not only did he announce he had won the dispute on Twitter, but he also did a live stream indicating his streaming ability … Read More
– For the first time in 15 years, a DMCA subpoena is signed off by a US court clerk. – The Hawaii district court has accepted the arguments of an experienced attorney. – Verizon will now have to give away the identities of 20 of their customers who are allegedly pirates. A DMCA subpoena submitted by the rightsholders of the … Read More
– The RIAA goes against yet another YouTube ripping service. – The website is still up and running, but it will likely go offline soon. – RIAA solidifies their case by providing three file hosting URLs in their letters. The RIAA continues its campaign against piracy with a set of new DMCA subpoenas that target the operators behind Y2Mate.com. This … Read More
The beginning of 2016 passed very quickly for us. We have prepared a brief report of the work made by us for the first quarter of 2016. We have identified the main tasks that were accomplished during the first quarter and publish them for public access. Fashion world scandal Representatives of BIJULES have resorted to EAPIP with a request for … Read More