copyright infringement
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Google Sues Hackers Capitalising on AI Hype With Alleged Bard Scams
Ads for fake versions of Google’s generative AI tool, Bard, are showing up on Facebook to steal social media accounts of U.S. small businesses, according to a lawsuit from Google filed Monday. The phony Facebook ads ask users to download Bard, but the AI doesn’t need to be downloaded – it’s a completely web-based product.…
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Three Arrested After Disney Brings the Hammer Down on Club Penguin’s Most Popular Knockoff
Fans of Club Penguin were elated when the shuttered Disney game was resurrected as Club Penguin Rewritten — a fan-made recreation of the popular original. This week, though, their digital dreams were dashed once again when three people were arrested in connection with the site’s shuttering for allegedly distributing copyrighted material.
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Apple TV+ Reportedly Struggling to Control Digital Piracy ????
While it’s no secret that Apple executives sit up in their sierra blue ivory tower and count their guilders as the most profitable company in the world, the company’s streaming arm, Apple TV+, is relatively new and has yet to see the same staggering returns other parts of the company have long enjoyed. That’s maybe…
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YouTube Updates Its Three-Strikes Policy — But Not The One You’re Mad About
Making bullshit copyright claims to get content removed from YouTube remains a tried-and-true way to screw with creators, which is why the company’s plan to overhaul its “three-strikes” policy sounds like the much-needed improvement users have been asking for. But confusingly, YouTube’s new policy update has absolutely nothing to do with copyright.