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YouTube Ripper Sends Cease and Desist to Google, Hoping to Stop DMCA Abuse

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Cease and Desist This activity has been a growing source of frustration for YTMP3.nu’s To put an end to the abuse, the YouTube ripper asked its lawyer to send a cease and desist and preservation demand to Google. According to YTMP3.nu, nu’s operator. According to the letter, YTMP3.nu

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Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Some Perspectives

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We are pleased to bring to you a guest post by Roshan Santhalia ruminating on the question of whether a cease-and-desist notice before instituting a trademark or copyright infringement suit should be issued or not. Cease and desist by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 He completed his B.A.

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VNest IPTV Faces US Piracy Lawsuit After Failing to Cease-and-Desist

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VNest’s sites were offline after the complaint was filed but archived copies show that monthly subscription packages were available for $20. Despite VNest TV’s operator being terribly exposed, at least one cease-and-desist notification sent by the plaintiffs went ignored. A one-year subscription cost $180.

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3 Count: Polar Thawing

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He has sent several cease and desist letters regarding the issue but Le Tegre have opted to file the lawsuit proactively, beating Mann to the legal punch. Instead, they argue that he copied them from black artists performing in the 1950s and 1960s.

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3 Count: Mortal Kopyright

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by the musician and, according to a copyright notice and a published cease and desist letter, it was used without permission. Discovery has filed a DMCA notice with the development platform GitHub over a leaked copy of the Mortal Kombat II source code. The video featured the song Still D.R.E.

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3 Count: That’s So Meta

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Next up today, Igor Bonifacic at Engadget reports that Meta, the parent company of both Facebook and Instagram, has filed a lawsuit against a website scraping service named Octopus alleging that it has enabled widespread scraping and copying of Instagram profiles. including sending him a cease and desist letter.

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Record Labels: ‘Hisses & Crackles’ Are No License to Copy & Digitize Old Records

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The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. The record labels were aware of this, they allege, as the RIAA sent a cease and desist letter on their behalf but took no further action at the time. The Great 78 Project is illegal,” they state.

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