However, that would likely require additional legislation and won’t be an option for some time. The new voluntary one will involve rightsholders making a complaint to the country’s intellectual property office, which will verify the complaint, and will then forward the requests to the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), which will then forward it to ISPs through a set of agreed-upon protocols.Īs comparatively streamlined as this process is, parties involved see an opportunity to further speed along the process by eliminating the NTC from the process and have complaints go straight from the intellectual property office to ISPs. What this plan does is divide up the country’s site blocking regime into two systems, the first is a court-ordered one involving injunctions and the second is a voluntary arrangement between ISPs and the government. Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the Philippines government has reached a deal with local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on an approach that it hopes will more effectively block suspected pirate websites by reducing the time it takes to execute a block to just two hours. 2: Philippines Government & ISPs Reach Agreement to Rapidly Block Pirate Sites
That tweet has been retweeted more than 13,000 times and has received more than 70,000 likes.Īdobe, for their part, has not commented on the controversy though other fans have taken to social media to complain about Adobe’s billing practices including additional charges and confusion about whether they are on a monthly contract or an annual one. The original post came from Twitter user that included a screenshot of him attempting to cancel his Adobe Creative Cloud and being hit with a $291.45 cancellation fee.
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter 1: $291 Adobe Cancelation Fee Sees Twitter Users Argue it’s ‘Morally Correct’ to Pirate Softwareįirst off today, Aatif Sulleyman at Newsweek reports that Adobe has caused a social media backlash after a user shared a screenshot of a $291 cancellation fee for his Adobe Creative Cloud account and that has many users saying it is “morally correct” to pirate Adobe’s software.
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