Law on dan.heskett

Cybersecurity CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware Victims

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:30:00 -0400

“In one example, Pinhasi made a ransom payment of about $8,200 but charged the client about $150,000.”

French Court's Site-Blocking Orders Drive Quad9 Out Of France

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:35:00 -0400

“Quad9 says it is facing about 20 other lawsuits in France seeking similar blocking orders.”

Judge Allows Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Subpoenas to Identify Gay-Torrents Users

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:15:00 -0400

“FlavaWorks can also request the most recent IP address that was used to access each account, covering the period from January 2025 onward.”

Streamed, the Live Sports Engine Behind Many Pirate Sites, Shuts Down

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:17:00 -0400

“None of the sites Streamed services host live content themselves; all traffic flows through Streamed as the PaaS”

Anti-Circumvention Laws Raise the Cost of Knowledge

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:14:00 -0400

“Without tools that can look at the web at scale, many kinds of research are simply impossible today.”

Meta Pitches AI Sports Piracy Detector in Notorious Markets Rebuttal

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:45:00 -0400

“Based on the prediction results, we can proactively remove this content in real time, before it gains a significant audience, and without a rights holder ever having to intervene.”

Framing the News: Anti-Piracy Press Release Turned a 2016 Raid Into a 2026 Story

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:10:00 -0400

“After some digging, we can now confirm that this case isn’t recent at all.”

DNS Resolver Quad9 Will Leave France After Court Orders Piracy Blocking Penalty

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:27:00 -0400

“Quad9, however, hasn’t blocked a single domain, as it also confirmed in a statement submitted to the court.”

Two States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access. Here's What To Do Next

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:18:00 -0400

“But people in Georgia and Florida can no longer count on court injunctions to protect their access to the web.”

Adversarial interoperability is a team sport

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:28:00 -0400

“But the real, meaty examples of enshittification can’t be addressed on an individual level – they require systemic fixes.”

Victory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is Unlawful

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:45:00 -0400

“However, OPM should still clean up the cybersecurity mess it created.”

AI Firms Should Answer For What Their Models Say, On The Same Terms As Everyone Else

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:40:00 -0400

“A chatbot does not “intend” to do anything, even if it talks as though it does.”

'We Didn't Do This Perfectly': American Fork Police Chief's Understatement Now Anchors A Civil Rights Lawsuit By Reckless Ben's Helpers

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400

“There seemed to be a pervasive belief among the AFPD that they could effectively scare the young people straight by detaining and threatening them, which is not how policing is supposed to work.”

Judge Orders Meta to Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna's Archive and LibGen

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:59:00 -0400

“The interrogatory asks about all decisionmakers, so if a decision was made by a team, everyone involved has to be named.”

He Waited Nine Years in Prison for His Lawyer to File a Single Brief. In This State, There's No Rule Against It.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:58:00 -0400

“O’Neal is still fighting his case, now with a new court-appointed lawyer.”

Chinese Court Jails Aiyifan Operator, U.S. Judge Won't Transfer Pirate Site's Domains

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:52:00 -0400

“Aiyifan never appeared in court, and none of its operators were named as defendants.”

Sling TV Drops Innovative Streaming 'Day Passes' After Disney, Warner Bros Sued

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:45:00 -0400

“It’s an unfortunate end to a rare bit of actual industry creativity.”

Court Approves 'voices38' Subpoenas After Denuvo Drops Payment and Login Data Requests

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:43:00 -0400

“Denuvo argued that IP addresses may be its only reliable route to the defendant, since platforms collect little verified information at sign-up.”

We're Asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to End Warrantless ALPR Searches

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:10:00 -0400

“Law enforcement entities throughout Wisconsin collect, store, share, and aggregate this ALPR data.”

As Federal Court Rules ALPRs are Mass Surveillance, EFF Gets Disappointing Ruling

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0400

“Networked ALPRs are not individual streetlight cameras.”

RIAA Flags Anna's Archive and AI Voice Cloner to U.S. Government

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:50:00 -0400

“The annual review doesn’t make any legal findings.”

VPNs and Cloudflare Escape beIN's €10,000-a-Day Piracy Blocking Penalties

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:14:00 -0400

“the intermediaries must make a reasonable effort to block the sites, but they don’t have to guarantee the outcome”

Game Industry Asks U.S. to Flag Denuvo Cracker 'voices38' as Notorious Piracy Threat

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:15:00 -0400

“Each crack therefore unlocks an entire downstream market for an unauthorized copy of that title.”

How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:00 -0400

“EA killed off Ultima in 2000, and it has languished since, despite an ardent fandom.”

Alabama's TikTok Settlement Comes With An Affiliate Program For Getting Other AGs To Go After TikTok

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:12:00 -0400

“The agreement sets up multiple “funds” that are wholly dependent on other state AGs coming to similar settlements.”

Colorado Woman Sues Flock After Cameras Used in False Package Theft Accusation

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:05:00 -0400

“The scariest part is what happened to me can happen to anyone.”

Pirate Streaming Portal Series.ly Has Domain Suspended, Rebrand Surfaces

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:38:00 -0400

“Our position is that complaints about those video files should be directed at the services that host or distribute them,”

Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:24:00 -0400

“MonsterCloud allegedly charged customers far more than the ransoms it paid.”

Denuvo Asks Court to Unmask Game Cracker 'voices38', Reveals Crypto Transactions

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:19:00 -0400

“For now, Denuvo does not know who it is suing.”

Pirate App MovieBox Passes 300 Million Downloads as Rightsholders Alert EU

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:59:00 -0400

“MovieBox has been closely linked to the Transsion / Transsnet ecosystem.”

Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill's Name

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:56:00 -0400

“It is about making an entire website inaccessible for everyone trying to visit it.”

Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:07:00 -0400

“To date, Cloudflare has not blocked content through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver.”

Warner/Chappell Sinks Lindsay Ellis' Two-Hour Cruise Video Over A Few Seconds Of Karaoke

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:10:00 -0400

“That is… not how any of this is supposed to work.”

Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:45:00 -0400

“The decision to label a website as a ‘foreign piracy site’ can happen without the accused site even showing up in court to defend itself.”

DNS Resolver Quad9 Rejects French Piracy Blocks, Weighs Exit as beIN Seeks Up to €580K a Day

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:40:00 -0400

“If the court grants beIN’s request, Quad9 will have to take action to avoid millions of euros in fines per week.”

Court Agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:50:00 -0400

“Aylo is correct that the statute, as amended, now essentially imposes strict liability for entities like it when it comes to determining the location of its websites’ users.”

Alleged Kemo IPTV Operator Faces Criminal Prosecution in Dubai Following ACE Complaint

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:42:00 -0400

“These companies are all members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and, when we asked, the anti-piracy coalition confirmed its involvement.”

Utah man sues Candace Owens, alleging false links to Charlie Kirk assassination

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:32:00 -0400

“The documented presence in the crowd at the precise moment the stairwell photographs were taken rendered it physically impossible for Hild to be the individual depicted.”

Victory! California Appeals Court Refuses to Revive Surveillance Tech CEO's Meritless Lawsuit Against Journalist

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:48:00 -0400

“The First Amendment protects Poulson’s publications.”

LaLiga Wants Major VPNs on EU Piracy Watch List Over Affiliate Marketing

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:45:00 -0400

“This request is based not on the provision of VPN services as such, but on the commercial exploitation and active promotion of their ability to circumvent court-ordered blocking measures.”

IFPI Wants Open Source YouTube Downloader yt-dlp on EU Piracy Watch List

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:20:00 -0400

“Its open-source nature, extensive developer community and its widespread distribution results in the tool being difficult to contain and/or remove.”

Florida Invokes Extinction Fears in Legal Bid To Halt OpenAI Development

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:14:00 -0400

“It is only by the grace of the Almighty that one of Defendants’ AI agents hasn’t compromised a water supply or shut down a power grid – yet.”

Apple owes Taction $5.7B after losing haptic feedback IP trial

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:36:00 -0400

“Apple does not use Taction’s technology, and we will appeal.”

Unified U.S. Site Blocking Bill Targets ISPs and DNS Resolvers But Spares VPNs

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:32:00 -0400

“The bill’s definition of a service provider explicitly excludes ‘an entity that exclusively provides virtual private network services or similar service that encrypt and route user traffic through intermediary servers.’”

Nintendo Wins $4.5 Million Judgment Against r/SwitchPirates Mod 'Archbox'

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:25:00 -0400

“Williams’ egregious infringement activities merit substantial punishment here.”

Pirate Site Must Face Chinese Streaming Giant Tencent in U.S. Court, Judge Rules

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:04:00 -0400

“Olevod’s websites include full-length copies of Tencent content, including the Tencent Exclusive Shows.”

U.S. Site Blocking Bill Adds VPNs to the List of Blocking Intermediaries

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:30:00 -0400

“The term ‘service provider’ includes providers of broadband internet access services, providers of domain name resolution services, and virtual private networks, but excludes root nameserver operators and top level domain registries.”

California AG Rob Bonta Caves, Paramount Merger To Proceed With Flimsy Conditions

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:29:00 -0400

“These minor concessions are largely unenforceable behavioral remedies that Bonta had previously denounced, and in some cases promise less than the two companies are already doing.”

D.C. Circuit Must Vacate a Drone Flight Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:28:00 -0400

“The FAA issued a flight restriction for drones that had effectively criminalized the recording of Department of Homeland Security officers, including immigration agents from ICE and CBP.”

Accused Impostor in Private Tracker Lawsuit Driven by Revenge, Defense Says

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:02:00 -0400

“Any sanctions award would be uncollectible unless the court first establishes who the plaintiff actually is.”