Cloudflare doesn't block pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in France, only through its CDN. The Paris Judicial Court has now accepted that stance, rejecting Canal+'s reque...

The vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.

A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt ran through the catalog of horrors that make up the EU’s new Copyright Directive proposals, pointing out that they would be a general disaster in their current…

The two competing pirate site-blocking bills that were introduced in Congress recently take different approached. While Rep. Darrell Issa's ACPA targets VPNs and provides broad liability protections t...

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

Bombay HC Nagpur grants acquitted man “right to be forgotten,” ordering SC, HC and trial court records to mask his name as “ABC” in public digital files.

The record labels sued Vimeo for user-caused copyright infringement in 2009. The case is still ongoing in 2026. How old is this lawsuit? If it were a person, it would be GenZ and thus older than every...

VPN providers with over 100,000 American users could be ordered to block pirate sites under the bill Rep. Darrell Issa introduced last week.

Recently, several creators have approached SFLC.in with similar complaints- where their accounts are held ransom to scammers who file false copyright strikes on their content and demand money to cease...

A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc.

Stray Kids is one of the biggest bands in today's music industry and a solo track from member Han needed just days to go from YouTube exclusive to bootleg releases on Apple Music and TikTok.

I have mostly stayed away from the whole saga surrounding the drip-drip leaks of Grand Theft Auto 6 content prior to the big reveal on Netflix because, frankly, I am quite wary of giving companies the kind of guerilla marketing wins that sometimes look like this sort of thing. That being said, I really don't...

Unpacking the Meta ruling — how big is it, really?

A federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that copyright holders can issue online takedown notices based on a subjective belief of copyright infringement, even when that belief is unreasonable and

[I have so many Section 230 cases backlogged in my blogging queue, but this one is jumping the queue because of its comparative novelty.] This is a defamation case between a professor and a student in...

Hired hands in an underground takedown market are charging up to $5,000 to scrub reporting from social media by filing fake copyright claims.

Over the past two years, Belgium's anti-piracy blocklist has grown past 1,500 domains. This week the government's anti-piracy department expanded its effort, ordering domain registrars and a registry ...

Through the Motion Picture Association, anti-piracy coalition ACE has requested two DMCA subpoenas at California federal courts.

Earlier this year, one of the smartest internet rights people around, Heather Burns, suggested the "Darnella Test" regarding any kind of "kid safety" rule online. It's named after Darnella Frazier. You might not recognize her name, but you've seen her work. She was the 17-year-old who was walking to the corner shop when she happened...

Doxxing is the deliberate disclosure of personal information in order to bully, harass, intimidate, or instigate a chain of harms against someone. It's a tricky thing to protect against when the jerk ...

Ukraine says Russia is deliberately attacking its culture, after strikes on publishers and churches.

A study that staged more than 50,000 conversations with AI chatbots found that they will help users role-play or write stories about their suicide or death.

Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.

The case involves articles about a criminal charge that was dropped, which the individual said caused direct harm, including social stigma, lost job opportunities and physical assault.

Brazil's new internet intermediary liability regime is underway. The implementation of changes established by the Supreme Court includes notice and takedown mechanisms and duty of care obligations. Ca...

In a welcome win for free expression, France’s top court has struck down the country’s legislation that banned social media use for people under 15 years old, which had been scheduled to take effect i...

Statuant sur deux saisines parlementaires, le Conseil constitutionnel censure l’article 1er de la loi qui prévoyait d’interdire l’accès des mineurs de moins de 15 ans aux services de réseaux sociaux e...

New documents filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles appear to show that Ms. Wilson, the actress, was heavily involved in disparaging Amanda Ghost, a producer on her movie, “The Deb.”

Australia passed legislation on Thursday that will force tech giants to pay millions of dollars in levies if they fail ​to strike commercial deals with local media outlets for news ‌on their platforms...

A copyright law written to stop piracy was used to pull press coverage of short seller research out of Google. We traced the filing history behind it.

In response to a high-profile GTA 6 leak, Take-Two has requested broad DMCA subpoenas, also targeting YouTube and X.

Nintendo has filed seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub in a single day, wiping out more than 400 Switch emulator repos.

People-search tool ClarityCheck left database containing more than 9M image files exposed.

Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.

Roblox is first platform to submit to independent audits under the Online Safety Act.

A whole host of products and wellness retreats promise to cleanse you of the virtual residue.

Nintendo has filed seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub in a single day, wiping out more than 400 Switch emulator repos.

Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, a...

Police departments have powerful tools to track how officers use Flock’s license-plate cameras. But across the country, agencies often don’t perform oversight, leaving potential abuse to be uncovered ...

Fourteen days after a Travis County judge signed, motherless.com dropped out of the .com zone file for every person on earth, most of whom have never heard of Travis County.

A California federal court has ordered YouTube to unmask three popular South Korean creators of anime recap channels.