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FLVTO.biz Petitions SCOTUS To Hear Jurisdiction Argument In Stream-Ripping...

While the music industry’s war on stream-ripping sites — sites that have perfectly legitimate and legal uses — continues, it’s true that this is a war in which one side has almost universally...

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EU Court Backs Austrian Court, Says Local Libel Law Applies Everywhere In The...

Whole lot of people complaining about Section 230 at the moment. And it’s a whole lot of people who should know better. Do you want to become Europe? Because this is how you become Europe. In 2019, the...

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Appeals Court Rejects Clearview's Attempt To Dodge A State Lawsuit By Trying...

Clearview’s attempt to dodge a potential class-action lawsuit filed against it in Illinois has just been booted back to the Illinois court system by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Clearview —...

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Canada Strikes Again: Allows Lawsuit Against Twitter To Proceed Over Speech...

Canada, despite being our friendly neighbor to the north, has been known to have some not great laws regarding speech. Over the years, we’ve covered a few too many distressing lawsuits that attack...

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Canadian Serial Defamer Has Her Defamation Lawsuit Tossed By A US Federal Court

This kind of hubris can only be explained by massive self-delusion. It’s not pretty but at least the denouement is wholly justified. Last January, Kashmir Hill published an investigation that uncovered...

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The Weird Legal Posture Of Bounty Laws Strikes Again: Porn Age Verification...

A federal district judge in Louisiana dismissed a lawsuit challenging the state’s mandatory age verification statute in order to access adult content on the internet. The lawsuit was brought by the...

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Media Matters’ Very Strong Response To Elon Musk’s Very Dumb Lawsuit

Last fall, we detailed the many, many, many, many problems of Elon Musk’s absolutely bullshit ridiculous lawsuit against Media Matters. Again, if you don’t recall, Media Matters found some examples of...

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Texas Court Dismisses Ken Paxton’s Lawsuit Against Yelp For Accurately...

Last fall, we wrote about Yelp going to court in California to try to block Texas’s indicted and facing trial shortly Attorney General Ken Paxton from suing the company for using its speech to...

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Riot Games, Moonton Settle Copyright Dispute After 7 Years Of Drama

Nearly seven years ago, we discussed a copyright dispute between Riot Games and a Chinese game publisher, Moonton. At issue were mobile games published by Moonton, such as Mobile Legends, that sure...

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Elon Musk’s Ridiculous SLAPP Suit Gets Green Light from Partisan Judge

When it comes to Judge Reed O’Connor, the only thing more predictable than his partisan rulings is the Supreme Court overturning them. But that hasn’t stopped him from giving the green light to Elon...

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