Outgoing Republican Representative Darrell Issa has introduced legislation that would let copyright holders secure court orders forcing internet providers, domain name resolvers, and VPN services to block access to foreign piracy websites. The bill follows similar site-blocking proposals from other lawmakers backed by the Motion Picture Association, and comes after Issa signaled his intent at a June 30 hearing.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-17
YouTuber and right-to-repair advocate Louis Rossmann is touring the US with his nonprofit Fulu, holding events that push to repeal Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bans bypassing manufacturer-imposed digital locks on devices. The San Jose stop drew about 80 attendees and featured panels from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a university repair workshop, and Fisker vehicle owners fighting to keep their cars running. Fulu also pays bounties to people willing to break digital locks on hardware, even risking legal consequences.
wired.com
· 2026-09-17
Denuvo has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against an unidentified hacker known as 'voices38,' accusing them of circumventing its Anti-Tamper protection in at least 26 titles, including Hogwarts Legacy, Black Myth: Wukong, Resident Evil Requiem, and Doom: The Dark Ages. Since Denuvo doesn't hold copyrights to these games, the suit relies on the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules rather than copyright infringement claims, seeking damages and an injunction against further tampering.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-16
Microsoft, acting through TracerAI, has withdrawn its DMCA takedown notice that accused the open-source voxel game Luanti of infringing Minecraft's copyright. The Luanti app has been reinstated on Google Play immediately, without needing to wait out the standard counter-notice period, signaling Microsoft has abandoned the case entirely.
blog.luanti.org
· 2026-09-09
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and GTA III are once again playable directly in a web browser, this time hosted on a site called Quenq, after an earlier browser port on DOS Zone was pulled following a DMCA claim from Take-Two. The new version still carries DOS Zone branding in its pause menu, supports keyboard, controller and touchscreen input, and includes a save/mod manager plus adjustable frame rate, running smoothly past 100 FPS on desktop and working instantly on mobile devices like the OnePlus 12.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-07
Nitter, the open-source alternative front-end for Twitter/X, now has more publicly working instances than it did before a series of takedowns hit the project. New volunteer-run instances have come online, alongside guidance for operators on securing session tokens and handling DMCA and other legal complaints.
codeberg.org
· 2026-09-05
Nintendo submitted seven DMCA complaints in a single day that led GitHub to remove more than 400 repositories tied to Switch emulation, including the Suyu project's entire 311-repo network and forks of the defunct Yuzu and Skyline emulators. Nintendo justified the takedowns by citing prior legal wins, including its case against Yuzu developer Tropic Haze and a lawsuit against a streamer who broadcast pirated games.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-08-24
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