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DENVER, Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On February 2, 2024, IBCAP member DISH Network L.L.C. received a settlement payment of $3,000,000, resolving its lawsuit against Datacamp Limited, a U.K.-based company providing global content delivery network (CDN) services under the name CDN77 and dedicated servers and network services under the name Datapacket. The IBCAP-coordinated lawsuit, filed in February 2022 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, asserted claims against Datacamp for contributory and vicarious copyright infringement for allowing continued use of the Datacamp services by 11 different pirate services.

The complaint alleged that Datacamp received nearly 400 notices of infringement from IBCAP but did little to stop the pirate services…

Apple settled a class-action lawsuit this week that accused Apple of misrepresenting the way subscriptions to third-party apps worked with Family Sharing.

As part of the settlement, Apple has agreed to pay out $25 million to people who participated in a Family Sharing group with at least one other member who also had a subscription to the app through the App Store between June 21, 2015, and January 30, 2019.

The issue lies in how Family Sharing subscriptions were shared. Family Sharing is advertised to allow participants to share subscriptions; however, Apple also allows developers to opt out of allowing families to share subscriptions to its apps, which resulted in the lawsuit.

While Apple chose to settle, it denies that it made any misleading misrepresentations about the Family…

The U.S. Justice Department’s new Civil-Cyber Fraud Initiative announced its first settlement last month in a novel action that brought false claims allegations over infosec failures against, notably, a sole proprietor. The case, which resulted in a nearly $300,000 penalty for the Florida-based web hosting company Jelly Bean Communications Design and its one full-time employee, suggests that the federal government’s clampdown on cybersecurity lapses and misdeeds will spare no offenders, irrespective of size.  
 
The Jelly Bean settlement also underscores the government’s wide array of mechanisms to enforce cybersecurity violations and misrepresentations. It resolves civil charges under the False Claim Act (FCA) for Jelly Bean’s failure to provide HIPAA-compliant website…