At the end of June, Microsoft announced the closure of its esports streaming service, Mixer. Since Microsoft’s acquisition and rebranding of Beam in 2016, Mixer had a polarizing and brief existence. Despite a technologically impressive service and a community of dedicated streamers and viewers, Mixer’s viewership numbers never put more than a modest dent in
Updated: June 30, 2020 If you run a website that hosts user-generated content, or are yourself a user of social media or a cloud-based storage service, you have likely heard of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, codified as 17 U.S.C. §512. The DMCA is the federal law that expanded the ability to enforce copyright to
Your social media posts may have a bigger impact than you realize, especially if you have a case pending in court – even if your account is set to “Private”. In the case of Forman v. Henkin in 2018, the highest Court in New York State established that normal discovery rules apply to social media,
Business is diverted from successful websites every day. Anyone can register a name, or any variation of an existing name, for a small fee. There are few checks and balances with registration of a domain name, so anyone can register and even domains obviously similar to yours may be approved without question. Registration doesn’t require
Bitcoin has been making national headlines. Supporters of the trending peer-to-peer cryptocurrency continue to sing praises of its benefits, while critics have highlighted a number of problems that have plagued the Bitcoin movement. Since its inception in 2009, businesses have been on the fence about whether to accept Bitcoin as payment for their goods or
The White House has announced three new executive orders in its ongoing effort to shore up the U.S. patent system. “Patent trolls”—also known as patent assertion entities (“PAEs”) or non-practicing entities (“NPEs”)—are giving inventors and business owners headaches. President Barack Obama, hoping for help from Congress and the courts, wants to improve the patent system
One month after the Washington, D.C. federal appeals court struck down FCC net neutrality rules, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has announced that the Commission will not appeal the decision. Following the Verizon v. FCC ruling, companies are feeling the immediate impact of Internet providers restricting the flow of their online information. While the FCC gears
New forms of virtual currency, such as Bitcoin, continue to garner attention. Bitcoin began to rise in popularity, presumably to some extent, because it is not currently restricted by the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. Due in part to this lack of regulation, the rate of fraud and online scheming seems to be extremely
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