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US Supreme Court declines to hear Thinking Out Loud case, Together creators hit back at lawsuit and music publishers pause lawsuit against X.

I'd likely stick with xenon because that's the Codename for the #Xbox360 and if I use that as a short architecture handle it's pretty certsin people won't confuse it with ppc64 or anything else.

So "OS/1337 for Xenon" because I'd not count on #Microsoft (who also own #GitHub) to not #DMCA anything that violates their #Trademarks on Xbox and Xbox 360 and avoiding any "confusion" that they could argue "it's misrepresented as an officially licensed / endorsed product" is one way to be left alone.

📬 EU gegen Sport-Piraterie: 30 Minuten bis zur Zensur?
#Kommentar #Netzpolitik #DigitalServicesAct #DMCA #EchtzeitSperren #EUGesetzgebung #IPTV #LiveSportpiraterie #TurboTakedowns https://sc.tarnkappe.info/877ef1

Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/apple-australians-youre-too-stupid-choose-your-own-apps

#TradeAgreementsandDigitalRights #Competition #DMCA #DRM

Mastodon.social will update its terms of service on July 1, 2025. Key changes include banning unauthorized data scraping, increasing the minimum age to 16, and clarifying content ownership and licensing.

#Mastodon, #Update, #TermsOfService, #DataScrapingProhibition, #UserContentRights, #MinimumAgeRequirement, #LegalInformation, #DMCA, #Disputes, #Arbitration, #ProhibitedUses, #AccountTermination

Piracy Giant Mangajikan’s “Website Closed” After 185m Visits in May Alone

https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-giant-mangajikans-website-closed-after-185m-visits-in-may-alone-250613/

#Anti-Piracy #mangajikan #Shueisha #Manga #DMCA

Pirate Sites’ Takedown Compliance Beats YouTube, Facebook, TikTok

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-sites-takedown-compliance-beats-youtube-facebook-tiktok-250611/

#takedownnotice #Anti-Piracy #japan #CODA #DMCA

@Aknorals the #sarcasm is strong in this one.

I think a false #DMCA #takedown should get lawyers disbarred instead and banned from practising...

@ryanc #DMCA it!

#NotLegalAdvice

"Janyce Boynton spent time using these faulty communications techniques with nonverbal autistic children. One day, she realized that the technique she was using — facilitated communication, where a facilitator helps guide a student’s hands as they type — was so deeply flawed that she had subconsciously manufactured false allegations of abuse against a child’s innocent parents. In the decades since, she has dedicated herself to helping expose autism pseudoscience and help steer people towards more legitimate forms of communication.

It’s not a surprise then that Boynton has been critical of The Telepathy Tapes. On a YouTube channel dedicate to debunking autism pseudoscience, Boynton used part of one video that Dickens posted featuring a boy named Akhil spelling out messages with his mother. Boynton highlighted the video to show how Akhil’s mother can cue him about what letter to tap — which can risk robbing him of his voice in the process, as he is not typing out his thoughts but hers.

That was when the producers of The Telepathy Tapes issued a copyright complaint against the channel, resulting in YouTube delivering a copyright strike.

But the complaint was oddly sloppy.
(...)
Boynton teamed up with a California attorney named Pamela Koslyn to fight back, arguing to YouTube that the use of the clip falls under fair use. YouTube stated that The Telepathy Tapes had 10 days to sue in federal court for copyright infringement; if they didn’t, the content would be restored. The strike was removed and the video is back up on Boynton’s channel."

https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/the-telepathy-tapes-turns-to-censorship

#YouTube #Censorship #Copyright #DMCA #Science #PseudoScience

#ISP settles with record labels that demanded mass termination of Internet users

Internet service provider #FrontierCommunications agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by major record labels that demanded mass disconnections of broadband users accused of #piracy.
#copyright #dmca #riaa #recordlabels

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/isp-settles-with-record-labels-that-demanded-mass-termination-of-internet-users/

@cryptadamist @briankrebs

https://www.spam.org/ip?ip=142.171.25.14

Told ya.

#DMCA is #Axact. So is #ICANN

Watch your countries crumble from within. Good lesson for all of you to learn, honestly.

Can't say that I would want to save anyone.

@cryptadamist @briankrebs

There is #Axact again. Fake #DMCA takedowns against anyone who fights Axact.

https://pk.linkedin.com/in/muhammad-bilal-586a61a4

This university is fake. Breeding ground for scammers:
https://pk.linkedin.com/school/allama-iqbal-open-university/

#JASTA - Fentanyl terrorism.

THE BLOODY #PIRATE MANIFESTO
"No #ads. No #VIP. #No god. Just seed.

Welcome to the Age of Monetized #Piracy.

Where “#free” comes with cookies,
Where “#anonymous” means “newsletter,”
Where every #pirate flag has a price tag sewn in.

You wanted to sail the high seas
They sold you a lifeboat subscription with #ads.

🦷 RULE #1:
If you make money off #piracy you are the #Navy.

#TARGETS:

Ad-plastered “free streaming” sites
→ You click "Play", they load 9 #JavaScript #miners and your ex’s #Facebook ad.
→ Solution: #Kill their #revenue. #uBlock, #TamperMonkey, Empty.gif carpet #bombing.

VIP #Pirate #Accounts
→ They sell stolen #Netflix access like it’s a f***ing bottle service.
→ Solution: #Leak it. #Fork it. #Burn it.

#Darknet Pirate Resellers
→ "Premium Ebook Packs - Only $29 #BTC"
→ Solution: #Doxx. #Spoof. #Blacklist.
(They sell what should be holy. Purify with fire.)

#FAKE #LIBRARIES ARE NOT #LIBERATION.

"#PDF download" — 9 popups later, your #RAM is crying.
"Buy 3 #EPUBs, get 1 free" — you just colonized knowledge.
"#DMCA takedown coming 😭" cry #harder, #bitch.

#Archive it. #Mirror it. #Share it. Don't sell it.

REAL #PIRATES DON’T RUN #ADS.

They #seed.

They #encrypt.

They #disappear.

Every time you monetize piracy, an #FTP server #dies in a basement.

THE #FINAL #RULE:

“If your #piracy has a #profit model,
then our #piracy will include you.”

#Ads? Nuked.
#Subscriptions? Hijacked.
#Privacy policies? Weaponized.

You are not a user. You are a bullet.

“You wanted #torrent #freedom.
They gave you streaming #debt.”
Now take it back. With #fire.

—

#realpiratesburneachother

THE INCREDIBLE REASON HOUSE STATION LIVE CHANGED SERVERS
Or a survival guide for e-businesses facing bans or legal disputes with a platform

For nearly two years, we watched our entire platform become invisible. Not because of bad content, policy violations, or lack of effort... but because of a silent algorithmic shadowban. We had no warnings, no appeals, and no answers. Worse: under YouTube’s terms of service, any legal dispute must be handled in a U.S. court (even if you're based in France and pay taxes there). This is how global platforms sidestep national laws... and why creators are left legally unprotected in their own countries.
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PART ONE – WHEN A SHADOWBAN SHUTS DOWN YOUR BUSINESS
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Two years ago, we left Dedibox, a French hosting company we judged incapable of meeting even our most basic expectations in terms of customer service. In a field as critical as data hosting, the professionalism of the technical support team cannot be optional... it must be the company's showcase, the reassuring human face you turn to when something goes wrong. This pursuit of reliability led us to GoDaddy, based in Arizona, whose configuration tools, WordPress diagnostics, interface design, and especially their technically skilled support team had earned our trust... far beyond the empty promises of typical commercial discourse. But everything collapsed suddenly, swept away by a digital catastrophe we didn’t see coming. A brutal, invisible blow: the shadowban. House Station Live was ghosted (to use the terminology of our virtual assistant, GPT). Disappeared from search results, ignored by YouTube recommendations, erased from the Android Play Store. For eighteen months, despite heavy investments and extensive testing in formats, lengths, languages, thumbnails, titles, even hosts, nothing changed. Every video was locked between 20 and 30 views. We were trapped in that narrow range, with no human contact, no way to file a complaint, and no hope of improvement.

Facing this algorithmic wall, we made the only logical decision: open an investigation and build a legal case. Not to prove a “perfect crime” but to demonstrate that even the most opaque algorithms leave traces. During this inquiry, we came across a particularly disturbing fact: according to YouTube’s terms of use, any dispute must be brought before a U.S. judge. It doesn’t matter that you are based in France, targeting a French audience, or that French law requires foreign companies to have a legal presence in the country... Google circumvents this by distinguishing between headquarters, local offices, and legal jurisdiction. The result is clear: you are automatically excluded from the protection of your own legal system. This system is so airtight that very few individuals or businesses attempt legal action against Google. The GAFAM is protected by a lethal triad: algorithmic opacity, extraterritorial legal shielding, and the complicity of a U.S. government that views tech giants as national pride (even strategic weapons in the global information war). While France leaves its citizens exposed and helpless against digital abuse, the United States has conquered the Internet on a global scale by imposing its law as if it were sovereign territory.

To illustrate just how absurd and dangerous this has become, let’s take the example of music licensing. Every month, House Station Live pays royalties to SACEM, the French government’s music rights agency. In return, we are legally authorized to broadcast commercial works, provided we submit monthly playlists so that royalties can be fairly distributed to artists. In theory, everything is legal and in order. But the United States has its own system: the DMCA. And if you stream House Station Live through any platform based in the U.S. (like GoDaddy, YouTube, etc.), you are automatically subject to U.S. law, even if your legal entity is based in France. France, in turn, declares itself incompetent in such cases because the “crime scene” is legally located on American soil, where the servers are hosted. So the SACEM fee we pay offers zero protection, neither domestically nor abroad... where we’re treated like pirates. Imagine buying a product from a foreign website: you pay the foreign VAT, a currency conversion fee, and then the French customs tax. Three layers of taxation. A 30 € item ends up costing you 150 €. That’s digital over-taxation. And the same applies to our royalties.

Worse still, the U.S. considers you to be operating on their soil the moment your server is physically located there... regardless of where you are based, where your company is registered, or what contracts you’ve signed with your local rights agencies. Even if your SACEM contract is supposedly international, it offers you no protection in this skewed legal context. The U.S. has simply annexed the Internet, claimed it as their jurisdiction, and imposed their extraterritorial laws on the rest of the world (without any international mandate or global consent).
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#Shadowban #Censorship #YouTube #DMCA #DigitalRights #FrenchTech #AlgorithmBias #GoogleAbuse #PlatformAbuse #Justice

End digital locks! Repeal DMCA1201 and everything like it. It should not be illegal to reverse engineer, modify or preserve things you own just because some company put a half-assed digital lock on it so easy middle schoolers routinely teach each other to break it.

#righttorepair #dmca #drm #section1201

@molly0xfff https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/114582465529208373