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The M3U file format has been around for more than a quarter-century. In essence, it links to a streamable media file that can be loaded through media players.

In the early days, it was predominantly used to stream Internet radio though Winamp and other media players. While the format is still used for that today, M3U files have enjoyed a resurgence as a video streaming tool in recent years.

The M3U file format is content-neutral, but many people are using it to share IPTV streams, which are often redistributed without permission. Those who look hard enough can find access to pretty much any channel imaginable.

IPTV-org.github.io

One of the largest repositories of IPTV links is hosted through GitHub Pages. The site, iptv-org.github.io, has roughly a million monthly visits and lists more than 37,000 channels, many of which are streamable. Not all these streams are infringing, but some clearly are.

The maintainers of the site are aware of the potential copyright issues. However, they don’t see the links to M3U playlists as copyright infringements. Instead, they urge rightsholders to go after the providers that host these files.

“Note that linking does not directly infringe copyright because no copy is made on the site providing the link, and thus this is not a valid reason to send a DMCA notice to GitHub,” they explain.

This is an interesting take that could be worth defending in court. However, when torrent sites tried a similar defense in court, it failed, mainly because the infringing links are intentionally indexed, curated and categorized.

Warner Bros. Takedown

Warner Bros. already seems convinced that the links are infringing. A few days ago, the Hollywood studio sent a takedown notice to GitHub though its anti-piracy partner MarkScan, asking it to remove iptv-org.github.io in its entirety.

“Based on our investigation, we have determined that “iptv-org.github.io” is providing the Live TV channel of WBD illegally. This site is engaging in copyright piracy by providing unauthorized streams of digital content without the consent of the copyright owner,” the takedown notice reads.

The takedown notice asks GitHub to remove or disable access to the infringing links. However, before taking any action, the developer platform nudged the maintainers of the site, allowing then resolve the matter on their own accord.

Self-Administered Takedown

GitHub allowed the developers one business day to remedy the Warner Bros. complaint. In this case, that means removing all WBD content, including HBO, Cartoon Network, and several Discovery channels.

While the developers previously suggested that these types of DMCA takedowns should not be valid, they didn’t file a counter notice. Instead, they swiftly identified all Warner Bros. and Discovery channels, to remove these from the site within the deadline.

“Successfully merging a pull request may close this issue,” an internal note reads, after which dozens of links were indeed removed.

The self-administered takedown appears to have been too broad initially, as several links – presumably unrelated to Warner Bros. – were later restored. However, the swift action appears to have saved the site.

GitHub typically publishes DMCA takedown notices after it has fully processed a matter, which often means that sites or repositories are removed. However, “iptv-org.github.io” is fully operational at the time of writing, minus the Warner Bros. content.

Warner Bros. had its takedown notice honored, as the infringing channels are no longer linked. However, instead of simply taking down the entire site, it became a ‘precision’ takedown, merely focusing on the content that it was supposed to target.

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В этой статье мы разберём несколько важных идей, которые неоднократно применялись в задачах по алгебре на вступительных экзаменах в ШАД. Мы намеренно выбрали далеко не самые сложные задачи, ведь за гробовые задачи мало кто берётся на экзаменах в условиях ограниченного времени. Наша задача — обратить внимание на важные идеи линейной алгебры, знание которых составители нередко ожидают от поступающих. Зная эти идеи, решить задачи будет совсем легко. В противном случае придётся снова "изобретать велосипед" или искать какие-то обходные пути.

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Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (GdF), a law enforcement agency operating under the Ministry of Economy and Finance, has often been the source of some of the country’s most dramatic pirate IPTV news.

With a key focus on financial crime, GdF appears to adopt a ‘follow-the-money’ approach. Over several years, GdF claims to have taken down dozens of IPTV providers and resellers, denied scores of millions access to pirate services, and redirected the whole country’s internet traffic to identify pirates.

‘Signal Transmission Obscured’ For Over 1.3 Million Users

A new announcement claims that fresh GdF action running alongside Euro 2024 is responsible for over 1.3 million IPTV pirates having their viewing “blacked out.” In football-crazy Italy, that’s a significant claim.

“The soldiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Milan, coordinated by the local Public Prosecutor’s Office, conducted an important investigation to combat the phenomenon of audiovisual piracy, the so-called ‘IPTV’,” the statement reads.

“In conjunction with the 2024 European Football Championships, the Fiamme Gialle carried out 14 local and IT searches throughout the national territory against 13 suspects, residing in various Italian regions and abroad.”

The IT specialists from the Fiamme Gialle unit have been credited with a number of successful anti-IPTV operations since 2022; 6,500 IPTV pirates identified after accessing a police honeypot, action against 545 Telegram channels, and a more recent operation targeting a provider in Italy, for example.

GdF continues by noting that 13 of the suspects are “accused of managing illegal distribution networks of the major television schedules protected by copyright, illegally decrypting and redistributing the contents of the most important global television players via unauthorized IPTV platforms, causing significant economic damage to legitimate broadcasters.”

No Mention of Any Arrests, No Mention of Equipment Seizures

While it’s certainly possible that this operation led to arrests, details like that are typically present in deterrent messages issued by the authorities, especially in tandem with an event like Euro 2024. Towards the end of the statement, GdF says the investigation “concluded with the identification of 13 people” suspected of various crimes. An operation last December was reported in similar fashion.

A critical eye further reveals other noteworthy details, such as the Fiamme Gialle carrying out “14 local and IT searches” against suspects “residing in various Italian regions and abroad.” Exactly what an “IT search” amounts to is unclear but, if any searches took place physically, there’s zero mention of any hardware seizures, which are usually detailed down to the last thumb drive.

Massive Pirate IPTV Blackout

“The signal transmission was therefore obscured, preventing access to content for over 1.3 million users.” (GdF statement)

The most recent published study on IPTV consumption in Europe arrived in December 2023, so around 18 months ago. The Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) estimated that 2.5% of the Italian public accessed illicit IPTV services, around 1.14 million people in total.

Given that these figures relate to consumption in 2021, to obtain an estimate on consumption today, let’s generously double 1.14 million to 2.28 million, and completely ignore Italy’s massive Piracy Shield IPTV blocking program launched this year.

That leads to the conclusion that over half of all pirate IPTV consumers in Italy (1.3 million) had their supply cut off sometime during the last 10 days, since this operation ran “in conjunction” with Euro 2024.

The GdF announcement on X/Twitter currently has around 3,500 views; four people have posted a comment, one of which is an ad for a pirate IPTV service. That seems to be at odds with the number of people said to have been denied access to pirate IPTV services.

Google Trends data suggests more people were interested in the most popular search terms last November; Piracy Shield was expected to launch then, but didn’t. There was no blocking until February 2024; that caused a spike in engagement, but even that dropped off quickly.

Google Trends: Popular search terms

The red line depicting searches for IPTV is on the rise but the kind of apocalyptic event that sees half or more IPTV device users in the country having their service terminated would be a much steeper rise than that. The next few days will provide a clearer view of the data but at the time of writing, interest in ‘IPTV’ is roughly half the peak seen late August/early September 2023 in response to the passing of a new anti-piracy law.

“The investigations, conducted by a team of soldiers from the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Milan, highly qualified in combating computer crimes, coordinated by the local Public Prosecutor’s Office, arose from a complaint from SKY ITALIA,” the GdF statement continues.

The next few lines of detail are something rarely discussed in public, for reasons that will become immediately obvious.

The Suspects’ Operations Are ‘Completely Innovative’

“The suspects operated in a completely innovative way compared to the past, i.e. through the exfiltration of the decoding keys, necessary for the decryption and ‘unencrypted’ viewing of all the channels and television schedules of the main and most important broadcasters..” (GdF statement)

While pirates and others interested in encryption have no problem discussing the above in public, it’s interesting that the authorities and presumably Sky, which this directly affects, are mentioning this in public.

This is a reference to a major weakness in the security meant to protect content at Sky in Italy and other countries around Europe.

Mostly, but not exclusively, impacting the Widevine digital rights management (DRM) system owned by Google, a subscriber to legal IPTV services can extract encryption keys using certain software and ultimately obtain otherwise subscription services for free. Broadcasters have been aware of the problem for years and take action when tools appear in public, at least where they have the ability to take them down.

In respect of IPTV piracy, this raises two key issues. Firstly, while legal broadcasts are often obtained by capturing/recording video streams and rebroadcasting those to the public, this technique allows IPTV providers to capture a digital data stream directly from the source, i.e. the broadcasters’ content delivery networks (CDN).

A positive for broadcasters, in this scenario, is that since streams are rebroadcast from providers’ own servers, Italy’s Piracy Shield system is, in theory, capable of preventing any restreams reaching consumers.

A potentially more worrying issue is when people access this content directly, i.e. they use extracted keys to view the broadcasters’ streams directly from the broadcasters’ servers. If Piracy Shield attempted to block the source, not even legal customers would be able to access a service they actually pay for.

A positive for broadcasters in this scenario is a fairly high barrier to entry; the downside is that software and services to make this easier are becoming more accessible.

A self-hosted software package, to make one aspect of this process much more straightforward, has been attracting interest recently, but with the same and similar tools available via any web browser, it’s not difficult to see where this is headed.

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Прошло уже почти сто лет с начала спора Кейнса и Тинбергена относительно применения статистических методов в экономике. Точнее в том виде в котором их использовал Тинберген в своей книге. Этот спор продолжается их последователями и в данное время. И конечно продолжится в дальнейшем.

На всё разивитие экономической науки 20-21 веков спор двух гигантов экономической теории оказывает большое влияние. Это своего рода проблемы Гильберта в экономике.

Остановимся на одном пункте. В устойчивости экономических зависимостей. Тинберген составил линейную регрессию между экономическими величинами и считал их выполняющиемся в течение многих лет. Как делают это в физике.

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Following the example of the United States, the EU began publishing its very own piracy watchlist a few years ago.

The ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’ is compiled by the European Commission. Like its U.S equivalent, it relies on stakeholder groups to nominate problematic sites and services for inclusion.

New EU Piracy Watch List

The most recent version of the report was published in late 2022 and the EU is currently soliciting comments from stakeholders for the next release. As in previous years, the focus is on sites and services that are presumably operated from outside the European territory.

“The European Commission services request written contributions from stakeholders identifying online services and physical marketplaces that may fulfil the criteria to be included in the ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’,” the Commission writes.

Based on previous reports, we can expect that torrent sites, stream-rippers, and pirate streaming sites will make an appearance. The same applies to IPTV services, piracy apps, and bulletproof hosting providers.

Not All ‘Pirates’ are Equal

An overview of all sites and services listed in the latest ‘watchlist’ is available below. Many of these are classic pirate sites with anonymous operators. However, the list also includes companies that categorically deny the ‘piracy’ label and any bad intent often associated with it.

For example, tucked in between pirate portals such as Fmovies and The Pirate Bay, we find the Russian social media platform VK.com and the file-hosting service Mega. These services are run by corporations. They typically cooperate with rightsholders, unlike traditional ‘pirate’ sites.

To add more balance, the EU now specifically invites companies and services that appeared on the previous list, to share their views on the matter.

“Online service providers and physical marketplace operators appearing in the Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List of 2022 are also invited to submit written contributions in which they present the actions they have taken to address IP infringements on their services or while providing their services,” the Commission notes.

Mega Nuance

While The Pirate Bay is unlikely to submit a serious comment, Mega almost certainly will. When the New Zealand-based company was added to the watchlist in 2022, it wasn’t pleased at all.

At the time, Mega’s executive chairman Stephen Hall said he was disappointed the European Commission didn’t reach out to the company beforehand. If it did, Mega would’ve been happy to explain the measures they take to accommodate copyright holders.

“The inclusion of Mega on the watchlist lacks legitimacy and we refute their findings,” Hall informed TorrentFreak in 2022.

“Unfortunately, the Commission never contacted Mega for clarification or comment so they misunderstand Mega and misrepresent our operations. Mega had no opportunity to correct their misunderstandings,” he added.

Mega undeniably faces copyright challenges, as some users abuse the service to share pirated content. However, the company’s transparency report indicates that it isn’t sitting still; it removes millions of files in response to takedown notices, and has thrown out thousands of repeat infringers.

The company now has the chance to share these nuances with the European Commission, as the consultation is now live.

Mega and other stakeholders have until the 15th of August to submit their comments. The new edition of the ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’ is scheduled to be published in the second quarter of next year.

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Below is an overview of all the sites and services that were listed in the 2022 Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List.

Piracy Supporting Services
– 2embed.ru
– Fembed.com

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В сетевых беседах на тему истории обратил внимание, что заметная часть современников справедливо обвиняет Гитлера в нацизме, но при этом смутно себе представляет, что значит это слово. Для многих нацизм — просто затертый разговорный ярлык, и не важно, что он объясняет себя через себя же. «Они нацисты, потому что у них нацистская Германия, там нацизм, потому что они нацисты...»

При этом большинство сходится во мнении, что нацизм — это суть национализм (расизм). То есть геноцид, Холокост и идея превосходства немецкой расы над остальными. Это самое популярное определение, хотя мне (подозреваю, и вам) доводилось встречать шокирующие высказывания типа «мы победили нацистов потому что русские — самая сильная и лучшая нация». Или даже: «Гитлер был нацист, но так евреям и надо».
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ЧатГПТ-4 умеет работать с загруженными документами. Загрузил для интереса малоразборчивый рукописный документ (автобиографию моего прадеда, написанную им для какой-то надобности). У меня для вас две новости, хорошая и плохая:

1. ЧатГРТ4 умеет различать рукописный текст на русском языке!

2. Распознавать документы ему доверять нельзя пока совершенно: если он не может что-то распознать, то сочиняет полнейшие небылицы, пытаясь выдержать общий тон эпохи и стиль документа.

Понятно, что текст сложный, даже имя и год рождения распознать толком не удалось. Но далее включается поток сказок. Например, вместо «отец служил на водяной мельнице» он пишет «осиротел в 11 лет, остался на руках у тётки» — и так каждая фаза. А за «член ВКПб» даже обидно стало.

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Google started keeping track of all incoming DMCA takedown notices at the beginning of the last decade.

In the spring of 2012, Google formally launched its Transparency Report, sharing details on all copyright-related removal requests, including the targeted links and their senders.

In the years that followed, the DMCA takedown volume steadily increased. When it eventually hit a plateau a few years ago, we theorized that Google’s anti-piracy measures were paying off. However, pirates turned out to be stubborn and tricky to defeat.

9 Billion

Today, many pirate sites are well aware of Google’s demotion tactics and the relentless stream of takedown notices. In response, many switched to new domains or URL structures, which triggered a cat and mouse game with Google, as a bystander, yet at the center of it all.

Initially, it took several years before Google processed its billionth DMCA takedown notice, but the resurgence we’ve seen over the past year has broken all records.

Last August, Google reached the 7 billion milestone, just nine months after it received the 6-billionth takedown. In February, after just six months, the 8 billion mark was reached and today, four months onward, the totals exceed 9 billion.

New Players

It’s difficult to tell whether this increase will continue, as the figures are dominated by less than a handful of takedowns companies. This includes Link-Busters, which was averaging more than 200 million takedowns a month earlier this year.

Last year, however, adult entertainment company MG Premium, was the most prolific takedown sender. Recently, Link-Busters appears to have scaled down a bit, so a new player might have to emerge for records to be broken again.

Looking at the targeted sites, we see that some new names have appeared. This includes two domain names from shadow library search engine Anna’s Archive. These domain names are targeted by several major publishers, mainly through Link-Busters.

Subdomain Bonanza

Another new domain, currently in third place, is 123rutor.su. This site was flagged more than 100 million times in less than a year, almost exclusively by VGTRK, the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

The main 123rutor.su name is inaccessible, but the Rutor mirror has hundreds of subdomains, and it can add additional ones as required.

Many subdomains seem meaningless, such as b-eqdl.123rutor.su, 16-new-rutor.123rutor.su, and j-idso.123rutor.su. Others, including bruce-willis.123rutor.su and sylvester-stallone.123rutor.su, sound more familiar.

This strategy is understandably frustrating for rightsholders. By adding new subdomains, all previous takedown notices are moot, which results in a seemingly endless whack-a-mole.

Not Everything is Taken Down

Google only reports the totals for how many ‘pirate’ URLs rightsholders report to the company. Not all of these result in content being removed, as it also includes duplicates and URLs for which Google takes no action.

In addition, hundreds of millions of reported URLs have not been indexed by Google, so these naturally can’t be removed. Google puts these on a separate ‘blacklist’, which prevents them from being added to search results later on.

Overall, it’s safe to say that at the current rate, we’re likely to see the ten billionth takedown notice before the end of the year. Many more will likely follow in the years to come.

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