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Kakao Reveals Anti-Piracy Successes, Legal Action Against Major Manga Sites

TorrentFreak

P.CoK Anti-Piracy Whitepaper Vol.5 “P.CoK conducted various interviews with copyright industry stakeholders such as national governments, copyright agencies, content providers (CPs), investigative agencies, and creators.”

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Google Search Takedown Requests Rush to 8 Billion at Record Pace

TorrentFreak

This is generally good, but copyright holders are not happy with all content that can be discovered. For the first time, outsiders were able to see the URLs copyright holders targeted and in what quantity. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Comeso currently averages around 1.2

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Report Urges Cloudflare to Terminate Accounts of Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. There’s no question that death threats are in a league of their own, but copyright holders would also like to see more cooperation from Cloudflare. Corsearch is no stranger to copyright issues.

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Pirate Site Owners Must Surrender, Informants Get Five-Figure Reward

TorrentFreak

Source: P.CoK Anti-Piracy Whitepaper Vol.4 From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. In Kakao’s latest report covering June to December 2023 ( pdf ) , the company said its anti-piracy team had removed over 7.4 million pieces of pirated content and over 201 million links to pirated content.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

COPYRIGHT " The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men " said Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction. Miramax seems to be doing the same thing in its lawsuit against Tarantino for allegedly infringing on its copyrights to the film and the NFTs involved. Apple, Nokia v.

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Navigating the Future: Blockchain Solutions for IP Challenges

Intepat

One such event is the “Blockchain Whitepaper for IP Ecosystems,” held in 2021. Before this, WIPO conducted a webinar in 2020 specifically dedicated to discussing the findings and insights outlined in the “Blockchain Whitepaper” and organised a Standards Workshop on Blockchain in 2019.

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The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary

TorrentFreak

Initially, various takedown messages from copyright holders were met with mocking responses, but the legal pressure became a heavy burden. There was no official whitepaper for these PirateTokens, but the torrent site envisioned the ‘coin’ being used to access VIP content or donate to uploaders.