Private #Browserfenster verhindern keine Identifikation im Netz.

Die #IP-Adresse und das Browser-#Fingerprinting ermöglichen weiterhin das Benutzer-#Tracking.

Wer wirkliche #Anonymität sucht, sollte auf Tools wie den #TorBrowser setzen. Doch auch der schützt nicht vor allen Gefahren.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/was-bringt-der-incognito-modus-im-browser-100.html

"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Congress created to let the public challenge invalid patents without having to wage million-dollar court battles.

If left unchecked, this decision will shield bad patents from scrutiny, embolden patent trolls, and make it even easier for hedge funds and large corporations to weaponize weak patents against small businesses and developers."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder

Ubuntu App IP address #ip

https://askubuntu.com/q/1544126/612

Artificial intelligence companies are creating incredibly large scale denial of service situations on the infrastructure of Open Source Networks.

Now Network owners need to waste time on Finding ways of sending All These requests of the rogue AI insects to /dev/null

@altbot

#DDoS #DenialOfService #AI #LLM #KDE #crawler #programming #Alibaba #IP #FOSS #attack #OpenSource

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

Authors are humans.
Machines are tools.

‘In a landmark opinion over the copyrightability of works created by artificial intelligence, a (US) D.C. Circuit panel ruled on Tuesday that human authorship is required for copyright protection.’

https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-rules-ai-generated-work-ineligible-for-copyright/

US patent law requires inventors to be human, but allows #AI tools in the research process. A law professor explores how policymakers will need to balance personal ingenuity with AI assistance in shaping the future of #innovation: https://theconversation.com/when-humans-use-ai-to-earn-patents-who-is-doing-the-inventing-248216 #IP

"While books that come on audio CDs don't have DRM embedded in them, files downloaded from Audible or other for-pay sources often do. Audiobookshelf won't play books with DRM, which means you need a method of stripping that DRM out.

Unfortunately, here's where we run into a problem: removing DRM from your audiobooks is not universally legal. "In the US, the law against 'circumventing' effective DRM has no personal-use exemption. In Europe, it varies by country," explained the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Competition and IP Litigation Director Mitch Stoltz when Ars reached out for advice. "That's as silly as it sounds—stripping DRM from one’s own copy of an audiobook in order to listen to it privately through different software doesn’t threaten the author or publisher, except that it makes it harder for them to charge you twice for the same audiobook. It’s another example of how anti-circumvention laws interfere with consumers’ rights of ownership over the things they buy."

And that means you're kind of on your own for this step. Should you live in a jurisdiction where DRM removal from audiobooks for personal use is legal—which includes some but not all European countries—then sites like this one can assist in the process; for the rest of us, the only advice I can give is to simply proceed in a legal manner and use DRM-free audiobooks to start with."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/i-threw-away-audibles-app-and-now-i-self-host-my-audiobooks/

Massive expansion of Italy’s Piracy Shield underway despite growing criticism of its flaws

Walled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly-designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Italian Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to all of Google Drive for the entire country, and how malicious actors could similarly use that unchecked power to shut down critical […]

#agcom #audiovisual #blocking #ccia #computer #copyright #costs #critical #deIndex #dns #DNSs #domains #DSA #elisaGiomi #eu #film #football #google #IP #ISPs #italy #linear #network #piracyShield #reporters #serietv #singleMarket #tris #tv #vpns #wipo

https://walledculture.org/massive-expansion-of-italys-piracy-shield-underway-despite-growing-criticism-of-its-flaws/

France’s European affairs minister, Benjamin Haddad, said on Wednesday that the EU could “go further” in its response to the US tariffs: “If it came to a situation where we had to go further, digital services or intellectual property could be included,” he said. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/eu-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-with-26bn-countermeasures #trade #tariffs #IP #TRIPS #WTO #ecommerce #digitalservices

Anyone on the #fediverse have a recommendation for an #ip lawyer with public domain experience, preferably in #california or at least #US?

On the Brother printer "heel turn" report:

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-accused-of-locking-down-third-party-printer-ink-cartridges-via-firmware-updates-removing-older-firmware-versions-from-support-portals

To be real, they have been anti consumer for years now so this is nothing new.

From 2022:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

#printers #printer #DRM #IP

cc @pluralistic

"Flock Safety loves to crow about the thousands of local law enforcement agencies around the United States that have adopted its avian-themed automated license plate readers (ALPRs). But when a privacy activist launched a website to map out the exact locations of these pole-mounted devices, the company tried to clip his wings.

The company sent DeFlock.me and its creator Will Freeman a cease-and-desist letter, claiming that the project dilutes its trademark. Suffice it to say, and to lean into ornithological wordplay, the letter is birdcage liner.

Representing Freeman, EFF sent Flock Safety a letter rejecting the demand, pointing out that the grassroots project is well within its First Amendment rights."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/anti-surveillance-mapmaker-refuses-flock-safetys-cease-and-desist-demand

#Disenshittify, NOW!! We have a chance: #IP!!

"…thanks to internal memos published during last year's #monopoly trial against #Google, we know what they did. They made #search worse. They reduced the system's accuracy it so you had to search twice or more to get to the answer, thus doubling the number of queries, and doubling the number of #ads.

Meanwhile, Google entered into a secret, illegal collusive arrangement with #Facebook, codenamed #JediBlue, to rig the ad market, fixing prices so advertisers paid more and publishers got less." @pluralistic
#adtech
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/