Serie A Legal Action Claims Cloudflare Helps Pirates Evade Piracy ShieldAndy Maxwell, 28 May 09:09 AM During the first week of April 2024, the CEO o
 | During the first week of April 2024, the CEO of top Italian football league Serie A was brimming with confidence. Luigi De Siervo said that Piracy Shield, Italy's brand new anti-piracy blocking system, was having such an effect that "No pirate can sleep peacefully." Those who doubted its capabilities, he implied, should note what Serie A investigators were seeing on pirate Telegram channels after the system's launch; 'excitement' apparently, but of what kind wasn't made clear. Piracy Shield Had an Exciting First Two Months It's certainly possible that when AGCOM finally admitted that weeks earlier Cloudflare had indeed been blocked in error, that may have caused a little excitement. Maybe Piracy Shield code leaking online helped to get pulses racing too, or perhaps a third party site, publishing blocking data that the authorities should've published, but did not, could be somewhat responsible? It's not out of the question that the figures released in the first week of April played...Read More | Thus far, chip giant NVIDIA has been the main financial beneficiary of the Artificial Intelligence boom. The company published its latest quarterly results last week, reporting $26 billion in revenue; a 340% increase compared to two years ago. The staggering revenue numbers over the past year have significantly raised the value of the company, which is now worth more than all public companies in Germany combined. At the same time, however, the AI revolution presents the semiconductor giant with new legal challenges. NVIDIA Faces Copyright Infringement Claims Earlier this year, several authors sued NVIDIA over alleged copyright infringement. The class action lawsuit claims that the company's AI models were trained on copyrighted works taken from the 'pirate' site Bibliotik. Since this happened without permission, the rightsholders demand compensation. This lawsuit doesn't exist in isolation. Previously, authors and other rightsholders filed similar cases against OpenAI, Google, Met...Read More |
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