What are the legal restrictions on extracting audio from a virtual instrument...
This question was inspired by https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/113826/is-there-a-way-to-decode-triton-m1-vst-pcm-samplesSuppose a user purchases a license for virtual instrument plugin to make...
View ArticlePenalising DMCA requests
There are stories that Twitter is closing Twitter accounts of people filing DMCA requests against other Twitter users, including what looks like perfectly legitimate requests by photographers.Is that...
View ArticleDigidyne v. Data General: how does this not legally protect Apple macOS...
I was just reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_RDOS#Antitrust_lawsuit which discusses Digidyne v. Data General:When Data General introduced the Data General Nova, a company called...
View ArticleIs it against the DMCA to use the recent implementation of the Windows XP's...
The Windows XP's product activation encryption algorithm has recently been "cracked", and a software implementation that emulates the telephone activation question / response procedure is available....
View ArticleIs it legal for a website to require registration in order to submit a DMCA?
This is about one of the big file sharing websites that currently has 30+ links to my original content. I sent them an official DMCA, they replied to make a registration on their website and use their...
View ArticleIs it legal to circumvent DVD CSS to create a backup for private use in...
There are two issues at play here. The first is that, in 2006, it was deemed legal to make a backup of a "cinematograph film" for private and domestic use in an amendment to the Copyright Act. You can...
View ArticleIs creating and selling "cheats" or "hacks" for games illegal?
I sell game hacks for a living, but wanted to learn more about the laws regarding what I do.Most of you probably haven't heard of this, but there are people like me who reverse engineer games, and make...
View ArticleDoes the DMCA takedown procedure apply if the original work is not online?
I am referring to this situation: document B is alleged to infringe the copyright of document A.Document B is hosted online (as I believe is necessary for the DMCA to apply).Document A, the original...
View ArticleWhat exactly is DRM circumvention, as opposed to legitimate use?
DRM only makes media useless if it cannot be decrypted. What makes it legal for my commercially made DVD player to decrypt a disc, but not for libdvdcss to do it? DVDs don't have labels saying that use...
View ArticleWorkloads on Flux Cloud, who is accountable / responsible for any kind of...
I recently stumbled across the https://runonflux.io platform which promises to host decentralized web applications by distributing the workload among many individual locations / distributed nodes."The...
View ArticleHELP!!! Court order for a DMCA counter notice [closed]
I was reposting someone's AI pictures without permission and Twitter removed them so I filled a counter notice saying it's AI.The next day I got this email from Twitter. What does it mean and what...
View ArticleIf a user posts illegal content on a service hosted by an entity, who is liable?
Suppose a user posts problematic content on a service hosted by an entity (a hobbyist or a small business). The content is stored in databases provided by the entity. This entity may be storing these...
View ArticleWhat is the legal situation with sharing social media login details?
There is vaguely newsworthy drama in WordPress land, with the relevant point that organisers of community-organized events have been ordered by the WordPress developer/trademark owner share their login...
View ArticleCopyright of user-generated content
My partner and I created a pre-employment testing website. Users come to our site, pick and choose questions they like from our library and then invite their candidates to take the test.We (owners of...
View ArticleIs linking to illegal free-movie streaming websites itself copyright...
(Site hosted in Canada)Would a website containing a list of links to free-movie websites be considered illegal? The "free movie websites" are hosting copyrighted movies without permission.Note, the...
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