France’s New Strategy For Tackling Online Piracy Presented in New Bill
For more than a decade, French anti-piracy agency Hadopi had made headlines in its quest to reduce illicit sharing on…
Cloudflare Doubts DMCA Takedown Company’s Fake Employee and Special Bots
Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years.…
New York City Kills COVID Rule That Led to Repeated School Closings Despite No Evidence of Outbreaks
by Eric Umansky ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories…
Intimidation of Brazil’s enviro scientists, academics, officials on upswing
At the end of March 2021, Larissa Mies Bombardi, a lecturer in geography at Brazil’s University of São Paulo (USP),…
“NYPD Files” Wins Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting
by ProPublica ProPublica’s series “The NYPD Files,” which uncovered abuse and impunity inside the New York Police Department, won the…
Red flag: Predatory European ships help push Indian Ocean tuna to the brink
Until Jan 9, 2014, the Playa de Anzoras, a 2,200-ton tuna fishing vessel named for a beach in Spain, built in Spain…
Podcast: Though humanity exceeds key ‘planetary boundaries’ there are many solutions
Today we discuss Planetary Boundaries, nine environmental systems identified by scientists as essential to Earth’s ability to sustain life and…
Captive lions kept in ‘stressful conditions’ create perfect recipe for disease, experts say
In 2019, animal welfare inspectors visited Pienika Farm, a captive-lion facility in the North West province of South Africa. They…
When Births Go Horribly Wrong, Florida Protects Doctors and Forces Families to Pay the Price
by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign…
Jetflicks Defendant Knew Pirate Site Was Illegal, Threatened to Report Founder to MPAA
In August 2019, eight men were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to violate criminal copyright law by running…