> According to the information of the newspaper Kommersant, Rambler Group demands through the court to “stop the spread of pirated broadcasts” and to recover a record 180 billion rubles. (about $ 2.9 billion) from the world's largest streaming service Twitch. Yulianna Tabastaeva, a representative of Twitch in court, announced that the requirements of the Rambler Group, in addition to paying compensation, also include a complete blocking of the Twitch service for users in Russia.
We are fully into the state/corporate/mafia extortion and authoritarian phase of the internet and technology.
I miss the old internet that was anti-authoritarian and still growing creating value.
The internet and technology around it has peaked, value creation phases nearly complete, value extraction phase underway.
Next step a breakup of the worldwide united internet union and more value extraction along borders and corporate tribes requiring bribes.
This is not about 'authoritarian control' whatever that might mean, it's "just" about copyright enforcement - specifically, media rights over English Premier League matches, of all things. Claims that some comparatively-trivial copyright violation accounts for "billions of dollars" in economic impact are nothing new.
It's Rambler Rampage week! First, Nginx, now Twitch. By Friday I expect them to call a FSB raid on Yandex offices for taking their share of internet search market in early 00s.
(Edit: the following was written as the post linked to some source which was Google Translated)
Reading to the end, the title is as on HN is wrong (edited and it doesn't include the last update). The last paragraph there is now:
"Updating publication # 3: According to TASS, Mikhail Gershkovich, sports project manager at Rambler Group, said: “At the moment, negotiations are ongoing with Twitch to sign a settlement agreement. The service gave us the tools to combat pirated broadcasts, and now we are only talking about compensation for damage caused from August to November 2019. "It turns out that the sum of the claims in the Rambler Group lawsuit was proposed by an external attorney in charge of the case. “The amount is technical and the maximum possible, it will be clarified,” concluded Gershkovich."
www.reuters.com ? It loads for me in both Firefox and Chrome on Android. The SSL labs report looks good, in particular it includes good trust chains for all browsers/operating systems. What IP does it resolve to for you? Is it possible you're being MITMed? What certificate is being presented to you?
Hey look, the same guys who went after nginx. This just tells me all those sanctions on Russian billionaires is working and they're looking for an avenue to strike back at the West.
Normally, companies would go after the users committing the copyright infringement, not the platform. This is just a money-grab. Similar to how they went after NGINX.
I wouldn't link this with nginx pursue. Rambler is very big company (something like Yahoo in Russian) and in this case claim looks reasonable. Off course amount looks shocking high, but as it was mentioned it's maximum possible and likely at the end it will be 1000 times smaller. It's kind of red marker for Twitch to react faster, nothing else.
[+] [-] drawkbox|6 years ago|reply
We are fully into the state/corporate/mafia extortion and authoritarian phase of the internet and technology.
I miss the old internet that was anti-authoritarian and still growing creating value.
The internet and technology around it has peaked, value creation phases nearly complete, value extraction phase underway.
Next step a breakup of the worldwide united internet union and more value extraction along borders and corporate tribes requiring bribes.
[+] [-] zozbot234|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] glandium|6 years ago|reply
And even Google is playing this game, cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21800968
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[+] [-] drawkbox|6 years ago|reply
Looks like this may be a policy either at the oligopoly/oligarch, corporate or authoritarian state level.
I'd argue that twice is already a pattern.
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Reading to the end, the title is as on HN is wrong (edited and it doesn't include the last update). The last paragraph there is now:
"Updating publication # 3: According to TASS, Mikhail Gershkovich, sports project manager at Rambler Group, said: “At the moment, negotiations are ongoing with Twitch to sign a settlement agreement. The service gave us the tools to combat pirated broadcasts, and now we are only talking about compensation for damage caused from August to November 2019. "It turns out that the sum of the claims in the Rambler Group lawsuit was proposed by an external attorney in charge of the case. “The amount is technical and the maximum possible, it will be clarified,” concluded Gershkovich."
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https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.reuters.c...
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