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Unofficial M3U8 Playlists For Pluto TV, Samsung & Plex, Shut Down By Warner

TorrentFreak

Free advertising-supported streaming television services, such as market leader Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, and Samsung TV Plus, offer a traditional linear TV viewing experience, via an app, at zero cost to the consumer. website but no mention of any copyrighted works. Or at least that used to be the case. Or maybe not.

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Piracy Advertising Researchers Fall Victim to Ransomware Attacks

TorrentFreak

ering them ‘free content,’ including the latest movies, music, and television shows. They found that less than 10% of these sites linked to malicious content, which includes the less severe “potentially unwanted software.” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Why the Online News Act is a Bad Solution to a Real Problem, Part Six: CBC Eligibility Harms News Competition and Its Public Interest Mandate

Michael Geist

The approach has huge implications: it means there are no standards for news organizations, it could lead to foreign services forum shopping into the Canadian system, it may exclude legitimate, smaller Canadian organizations who don’t meet the employee threshold, and it opens the door to television and radio broadcasters.