Enlarge (credit: Bungie ) Bungie slammed YouTube’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) process in a lawsuit against 10 John Doe defendants accused of sending fraudulent takedown notices against Destiny 2 videos. “Doe Defendants were able to do this because of a hole in YouTube’s DMCA-process security, which allows any person to claim to be representing […]
Enlarge / Feel free to repair this PS3 disc drive. (credit: Getty Images | sydmsix) The librarian of Congress has provided a new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will let people repair optical drives on video game consoles. The new rule will also let users perform “diagnosis, maintenance, and repair” of other […]
Enlarge / Your at-home entertainment studio. (credit: Ella Don ) Dozens of movie production companies sued LiquidVPN this year over the VPN provider’s marketing efforts that could be perceived as promoting piracy. These companies, which are now seeking $10 million in damages, claim that the “no log” policy associated with LiquidVPN is not a valid […]
u/NateNate60 received this (heavily redacted) DMCA infringement warning. We don’t have email headers, so we can’t 100% verify it actually came from Comcast. [credit: u/NateNate60 ] This week, Redditor u/NateNate60 got a nasty surprise in his inbox—a DMCA infringement warning from his ISP, Comcast Xfinity. The notice warned him that Comcast had “received a notification […]
Shots from the reverse-engineered version of Grand Theft Auto III showing off the graphical improvements over the 2002 original. [credit: RockStar Games ] The reverse-engineered source code for the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City is back online today, months after it was originally posted and then quickly taken down via […]
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Activision lawyers diving into action to issue copyright notices for leaked footage. Activision is using DMCA takedown requests to try to suppress leaked footage of a new Call of Duty: Warzone map that hit the Internet yesterday. Copies of the leaked footage, which comes as part of a celebrity-filled promotional […]
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Sega lawyers coming for SteamDB… Here at Ars Technica, we’ve covered plenty of examples of somewhat overzealous uses of DMCA takedown notices, to say the least. But Sega’s latest takedown request, for an innocuous page on a Steam data-tracking site, might take the cake. As SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik shared […]
Enlarge / Just some of the iDevice types that Corellium didn’t break one law—but may still have broken another—by emulating. (credit: Kristin Lee | Getty Images) Security firm Corellium, which develops software that researchers can use to analyze Apple products, has been handed a partial victory in Apple’s lawsuit against it, as a judge ruled […]
Expand / / Awkward Thanksgiving portrait, next-gen console variant. (charge: Sam Machkovech) Kyle Wiens is the cofounder and CEO of both iFixit, an internet repair community and components merchant globally famous for its open resource fix guides and merchandise teardowns. There are not enough game consoles on the planet for our forthcoming locked-down holidayseason. Superior […]
Expand / / Fortunately you can not hear this picture –it could lead to a DMCA attack if you can. (charge: Epic Games) Epic Games and Twitch are warning streamers who broadcast throughout Fortnite‘s season-ending Marvel-crossover”Nexus War” event the night they could want to substitute their VOD clips to prevent the possibility of DMCA copyright […]