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Today, President Trump held a news conference to announce that the FDA has granted an Emergency Use Authorization for the treatment of COVID-19 cases using blood plasma from those formerly infected. The move comes despite significant uncertainty regarding just how effective this treatment is, and comes just days after Trump attacked the FDA for delaying its work as part of a plot to sabotage his re-election.
Plasma is the liquid portion of the blood, which (among other things) contains antibodies. It has been used to treat other infections, as some antibodies can be capable of neutralizing the infecting pathogen—binding to the bacteria or virus in a way that prevents it from entering cells. Early studies have indicated that it's relatively common for those who have had a SARS-CoV-2 infection to generate antibodies that can neutralize the virus in lab tests, although the antibody response to the virus is also highly variable.
In the absence of any effective treatments, people started testing this "convalescent plasma" as early as March, and testing has been expanded as the pool of post-infected individuals has continued to grow. But so far, the evidence has been mixed. One of the largest studies, led by researchers at the Mayo Clinic and including over 35,000 patients, did see an effect, but it was a very mild one: mortality dropped from 11.9 percent in people who received plasma four days or more after starting treatment, compared with 8.7 percent if treatment was started earlier than that. But, critically, the study lacked a control group, leaving its authors talking about "signatures of efficacy," rather than actual evidence of efficacy.
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European football organization UEFA takes piracy very seriously. The company uses a wide variety of anti-piracy strategies, which include sending DMCA notices to Google. While most reported URLs are indeed problematic, a recent request is clearly too broad, as it requests the removal of pages published by Virgin Media, Best Buy and DIRECTV.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Like many other sports organizations, UEFA is gravely concerned about the continued rise of online streaming piracy.
Pirate IPTV and streaming services, in particular, are seen as a direct threat. One that has to be promptly dealt with.
Just how seriously UEFA takes this issue became apparent earlier this month, when the organization announced a new tender for anti-piracy services. This potential multi-million dollar contract revealed UEFA’s multi-faceted anti-piracy plans.
The prospective partner is expected to help with takedowns of live streams, investigating piracy apps, and helping out with blocking orders. However, plain old DMCA takedown notices to third-party intermediaries such as Google are also covered. This prompted us to take a look at UEFA’s current anti-piracy partners.
According to Google’s Transparency Report, the organization works with NetResult, MarkMonitor and Pointer Brand Protection. Together, these have flagged tens of thousands of URLs, most of which indeed point to infringing material.
The most flagged domains are gfycat.com and footballia.net, which apparently hosted pirated images and clips. However, the websites of pirate IPTV services are targeted as well. This is where things went horribly wrong recently.
When looking through Google’s report we found a notice NetResult sent on behalf of UEFA. The notice claims to target “illegal IPTV services” that share “UEFA audio-visual content without permission.”
And indeed, it lists nearly a thousand fishy-looking IPTV vendors but also some premium brands that are not infringing at all.
The takedown notice includes the official shop page from the British telco Virgin Media, for example, as well a channel listing from the American broadcast provider DIRECTV.
UEFA also singles out a search for “android TV box” on the site of retailer Best Buy, Brightcove’s streaming service Play TV, the Disney-owned media company Star TV, and a customer help page from UK broadcaster Sky.
We haven’t researched all reported domains in detail, so there may be more errors. For example, this site that sells CBD and other hemp products doesn’t appear to infringe on any UEFA content, but another domain with a similar name may be problematic.
When UEFA released its anti-piracy tender the organization specifically said that it wants to minimize ‘false positives.’ However, these examples show that there is still some progress to be made.
These occasional errors can have serious consequences as Google might remove these pages from its search results. In this case, however, the search engine caught the mistakes before they were processed.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
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