Japan vs. Manga Piracy: $800m Losses & 100 New Pirate Sites in One MonthAndy Maxwell, 08 Aug 11:13 AM Last month, Japan-based anti-piracy group Auth
 | Last month, Japan-based anti-piracy group Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ) ran a newspaper advertising campaign in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France. Its launch on July 17 was declared "Manga Day" and its purpose was to raise awareness of manga piracy by thanking those who pay for comics, rather than attacking those who do not pay. The ad below ran in the New York Times, with variants making an appearance in La Repubblica, El Pais, and Le Monde. Most anti-piracy campaigns focus on negatives in the hope that fear overwhelms pirates to the extent they feel happier buying. ABJ's campaign tries a different approach, one that has enjoyed success in Japan. By showing appreciation towards people who pay ("Thank you for reading official versions") it's hoped that positivity will be better received and ultimately have a more lasting effect among manga's continuously expanding fan base. A Mountain to Climb The world-famous news publications mentioned above have faced considerable c...Read More | To the average internet user, DNS translates a domain into an IP address to make browsing as simple and unintrusive as possible. Under the hood, DNS does just that and for the majority of people online, that's good enough. For those who work with DNS and understand how incredibly important (and beautiful) it is, the idea that DNS is something to be tampered with, so that the system effectively tells lies, steps over the line. Yet, thanks to the global site-blocking drive, DNS servers all around the world, in dozens of countries, constantly lie to those who use them. Site-blocking programs dictate that, when ISP-operated DNS servers are asked to return the IP addresses for tens of thousands of 'pirate' domains, the IP addresses returned by those DNS servers (if any IP addresses are returned at all) will not be the correct ones. This means that the user cannot access the domain; not by this route at least. Public DNS – Mostly Tamper-Free Since most blocking measures are implemented b...Read More | The Artificial Intelligence boom promises unparalleled progress but, in reality, it's still early days. As startups and established tech giants explore their options, semiconductors are selling like hot cakes, while seemingly mundane data archives are suddenly portrayed as digital gold. Chips and data are the oil of the AI-revolution and a quick glance at Nvidia's stock chart shows that business is going well. At the same time, some rightsholders such as Reddit and Getty Images are making deals to license their 'data', although that's still relatively rare in the AI space. Many AI companies have simply been training their models on data scraped or downloaded from online resources, often without explicit permission. This has triggered many lawsuits and complaints, with new ones appearing in court dockets on pretty much a weekly basis. Music Companies vs. Anthropic In one of these lawsuits, music publishers including Concord and Universal sued AI startup Anthropic. In a complaint fi...Read More |
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