Topic: digital rights management
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Industrial Sports Piracy: Building a Coordinated Defense
Sports piracy has evolved into a sophisticated, industrial-scale operation, causing over $28 billion in annual industry losses and demanding a proactive, technology-driven defense strategy. The widespread devaluation of media rights, brand dilution, and reduced investment in production threaten t...
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This Group Pays Bounties to Fix Devices, Even Illegally
Fulu, a nonprofit founded by right-to-repair advocates, runs a bounty program that pays individuals to bypass manufacturer-imposed restrictions like anti-repair locks or discontinued software support. The initiative aims to demonstrate the prevalence of these "unethical limitations" to policymake...
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AI's Free Web Scraping Era Ends With New Licensing Protocol
Major publishers and tech firms have introduced the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard to give content creators control and compensation when their work is used by AI systems. RSL replaces the simplistic robots.txt approach with enforceable, granular licensing terms, allowing publishers to sp...
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