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StreamEast Domain Seizures: A Not-So-Cautionary Tale to Live Sports Pirate Platforms
By: Charlotte Golnik Recent studies show that the average American spent $552 on streaming subscriptions in 2023 with 44% facing cost increases. Many bypassed high costs, evidenced by the 141 billion visits to unauthorized streaming platforms (“pirate platforms”)....

AI Music: Fair Use or Theft?
By: Connor Green “Polka Face”, “Party in the CIA”, “White and Nerdy” are all parody songs written by “Weird Al” Yankovic, based on the popular songs “Poker Face”, “Party in the USA” and “Ridin’”. “Weird Al” has made millions by writing songs that are heavily based...

Data Scraping and its Crucial Role in Developing Artificial Intelligence
By: Gor Bagumyan Data scraping is a tool that companies have used for years in order to better develop their Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs and software. In its most basic form, it is the extraction of data from one source to another. This was originally done...