Mediagazer: UK High Court orders ISPs to block access to 32 more piracy sites, including Demonoid, Isohunt and more (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

4:55 PM ET, November 28, 2014

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Guidelines Published By European Regulators — Europe's Article 29 Working Party, the body comprised of data protection representatives from individual Member States of the European Union, has now published guidelines on the implementation of the so-called 'right …

Discussion: Gigaom

John Glenday / The Drum:

Bing begins implementation of ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling — Bing has become the latest search engine to abide by the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ whereby search engine removal requests must be considered from users. — The ruling was made by the Court of Justice of the European Union on 13 May …

Discussion: The Next Web

Reuters:

Content recommendation company Outbrain files confidentially for an IPO, seeks a $1B valuation — Advertising company Outbrain files for possible Nasdaq listing -WSJ — Advertising company Outbrain Inc filed confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, @rafat, @raju and @jeffjarvis

Pocket Blog:

Apple's new phones taking screen time from iPads; iPhone 6+ owners open 65% more articles and videos than those with smaller phones — iPhone 6 Plus users watch 40% more videos in Pocket than iPhone 5/5S owners, and use tablets 31% less during the week — Every day, millions of articles …

Discussion: Business Insider, @amirk, @valaafshar, PandoDaily, MacRumors, The Next Web, Gigaom, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and MacStories

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Cox Communications Sued For Not Disconnecting Pirates — Since February 2013, five U.S. Internet providers have been sending so-called ‘Copyright Alerts’ to subscribers who use BitTorrent to pirate movies, TV-shows and music. — AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, Telecompaper, bizjournals, Wall Street Journal and SlashGear

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

UK High Court orders ISPs to block access to 32 more piracy sites, including Demonoid, Isohunt and more — UK Piracy Blocklist Expands With Demonoid, Isohunt, IPTorrents and More — The list of websites that are blocked in the UK for facilitating copyright infringement is getting longer and longer.

Michelle Castillo / Adweek:

BitTorrent Goes Legit With Its First Original Web Series — Peer-to-peer file sharing platform BitTorrent wants to change what the public thinks it does. Instead of being associated with all the illegal TV shows, movies and illicit content it can store, the tech company wants to be seen as a provider of premium legal content.

Discussion: TBI Vision, Tubefilter and Guardian

Nisar Mahmood / The News International, Pakistan:

University of Peshawar opens a trauma center in Pakistan to help journalists with PTSD — Establishment of Competence & Trauma Centre for Journalists hailed — PESHAWAR: The Competence and Trauma Centre for Journalists at the University of Peshawar (UoP) would prove a source of relief …

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New York Times:

A raid by US troops in Yemen sought to rescue an American journalist being held hostage by Al Qaeda — Rescuers in Yemen Sought American, Officials Say — WASHINGTON — An American journalist held hostage in a remote part of eastern Yemen by Al Qaeda's affiliate there was one of the main targets …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Newspaper Association of America finds 166M adults accessed digital newspaper content in October, up 17% over previous year — Newspapers see new peak in digital audience — U.S. newspapers' digital audience has hit a new peak, according to data being touted today by the Newspaper Association of America.

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Netflix Sues a Former Exec — Now Yahoo's CIO — For Allegedly Collecting Kickbacks — Netflix says a former executive collected kickbacks from vendors he helped connect to the streaming video company. — Now Netflix is suing its former employee, who is currently Yahoo's chief information officer.

Discussion: Tech Times and Business Insider

David Meyer / Gigaom:

EU Parliament calls on Commission to consider Google break-up — As expected, the European Parliament has passed a resolution that calls on the European Commission to consider a break-up of Google as a potential solution to its dominance in the European search market.