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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.

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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. “As this report shows, malicious actors dangle free content as ‘bait’ to lure users to be victimized. In addition, nearly 80% of the researched sites served at least some malware ads.

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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.