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For years, fraudsters have abused copyright takedown notices to dupe Google into removing websites from its search engine. But now the company is trying to fight back. 

On Monday, Google filed a lawsuit against two scammers based in Vietnam, who allegedly filed numerous false copyright takedowns with the company that targeted over 117,000 URLs. 

“These fraudulent claims resulted in removal of over 100,000 businesses’ websites, costing them millions of dollars and thousands of hours in lost employee time,” Google says in a blog post.

The alleged scammers, Nguyen Van Duc and Pham Van Thien, exploited a Google system that businesses and people can use to report copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Google will then take down the URL hosting the…

Decentralized web hosting offers a unique method that moves away from the typical dependence on centralized servers for website and content hosting. It avoids the conventional system of confining data and files to a sole server or a few clustered servers.  

Instead, decentralized web hosting disseminates these pieces of information across a broad network of linked computers. While traditional web hosting involves storing data on servers owned and managed by a select few companies, the decentralized web hosting approach scatters data across a vast network of cooperative computers, termed nodes. These nodes jointly cater to content delivery, thereby revolutionizing the established norms of web hosting. 

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A PSYCHIATRIST who helped run a dark web site dedicated to the sexual abuse of children has been jailed for six years.

National Crime Agency officers identified Dr Kabir Garg, 33, as one of the moderators of a site called The Annex, which had around 90,000 members worldwide and saw hundreds of links to child abuse material shared every day.

Officers arrested Garg at his flat in Lewisham, London in November 2022 as part of a coordinated operation with international partners, at a time when the site was open on his laptop with Garg logged into his moderator account.

Members accessed The Annex using Tor, a dark web browser which is estimated to have 1.4 million global users.

A NHS junior doctor has been jailed for his role in running a dark web chat site that hosted indecent images of children.

Kabir Garg, 33, of Station Road, Lewisham, held an account on a dark website which allows users to share links to indecent images of children and provides message boards to discuss them.

“Moderators” of the site actively encourage users to interact, rewarding them with additional access and benefits.

Today, at Woolwich Crown Court, Garg was jailed for six years.

Between May 2021 and November 2022, Garg, who worked as a psychiatrist for the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, facilitated the sexual exploitation of children by acting as a moderator of the site.

He oversaw the smooth running of the site – enforcing rules, providing users with access to…

Stan Grant, the award-winning Indigenous host of the ABC’s Q+A, is stepping down, citing exhaustion from the torrent of racist abuse to which he has been subjected on social media, especially in the wake of his contribution to the public broadcaster’s coverage of the coronation of King Charles III.

“Racism is a crime. Racism is violence. And I have had enough,” Grant writes in a lengthy piece published Friday on ABC websites, explaining his decision to quit the flagship show.

Grant, a 59-year-old Wiradjuri man from the Griffith region in NSW and a triple Walkley Award winner, has been the sole host of Q+A since August last year. Before that he had been one of three hosts – alongside Virginia Trioli and…