In brief Hachette Book Group and Cengage Group asked a California federal court on Thursday to intervene in a class action accusing Google of copyright infringement in AI training. The publishers allege Google downloaded their books from pirate sites, including Z-Library and OceanofPDF,

In brief Hachette Book Group and Cengage Group asked a California federal court on Thursday to intervene in a class action accusing Google of copyright infringement in AI training. The publishers allege Google downloaded their books from pirate sites, including Z-Library and OceanofPDF,

European Union efforts to mandate scanning of private messages have been blocked again, marking another setback for the bloc’s proposed Chat Control legislation, and another win for digital rights activists. German digital rights activist and Pirate Party Germany politician Patrick Breyer wrote in

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A Canadian hacker, accused of stealing $65M from Indexed Finance and KyberSwap through crypto price manipulation and smart contract exploitation, is currently on the run. He views himself as a crypto "pirate."

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According to the US media Pirate Wires, the business competition between the US prediction market Polymarket and its competitor Kalshi seems to have gone beyond Compliance issues. Kalshi funded KOLs to imply that its competitor Polymarket and CEO Shayne Coplan are engaged in illegal activities and paid for social media accounts to incite a covert PR campaign. Although the core of the FBI investigation is whether Polymarket operates as an unlicensed exchange, these allegations may reveal the struggle between the two companies for dominance in the prediction market.

German police said the seizure was the largest in the country's history. German authorities successfully confiscated 50,000 Bitcoin, worth $2.17 billion, from a pirate website in mid-January, according to a January 30 statement by the Saxony State Police. The seizure relates to an ongoing investigation into the unauthorized commercial exploitation of copyrighted works under the Copyright Act and subsequent commercial Money Laundering. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and an IT company with undisclosed information from Munich are working together in an investigation. According to authorities, two unnamed suspects have been identified, including a 40-year-old German man and a 37-year-old

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