While Amazon and Ebay have been making efforts to put down loaded Kodi box sales in the recent past, the FCC is now asking for something a bit different. Some Kodi box are now displaying FCC logos, and you guessed it, the FCC is not good with that. Interestingly, the FCC has nothing to do with copyright infringement enforcement. Thanks @cageymaru.



FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly has written to the heads of Amazon and eBay with a request to eliminate sales of pirate media boxes which illegally display the FCC compliance logo. In a letter to Devin Wenig and Jeff Bezos, O’Rielly seeks the total removal of such devices, noting that their fraudulent labeling is exacerbated by the effect they have on the entertainment industries.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – FCC Looks to Amazon and Ebay for Help

Valve has removed the Active Shooter game from its Steam Store which we talked about here last week. As is reported by Variety, Valve had many more reasons to pull the title rather than just the social outrage du jour. Thanks @cageymaru.



“This developer and publisher is, in fact, a person calling himself Ata Berdiyev, who had previously been removed last fall when he was operating as ‘[bc]Interactive’ and ‘Elusive Team,'” Valve said. “Ata is a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation. His subsequent return under new business names was a fact that came to light as we investigated the controversy around his upcoming title. We are not going to do business with people who act like this towards our customers or Valve.”

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Valve Removes Active Shooter

The Russian Government went all crazy on Telegram Messenger back in April, blocking almost 2M IP addresses associates with its application. Now the Hacker News tells us that Russia’s Communications Regulator, Roskomnadzor, “has threatened Apple to face the consequences if the company does not remove secure messaging app Telegram from its App Store.” The report on the Russian Govt. site the article refers to is not reachable any longer. It will be interesting to see if this is true at all, and if so, what becomes of it. Apple has a history of telling the US Govt. to stuff it when it comes to its customers’ privacy, what will be Apple’s play in Russia?



So in an effort to entirely ban Telegram, state watchdog Roskomnadzor reportedly sent a legally binding letter to Apple asking it to remove the app from its Russian App Store and block it from sending push notifications to local users who have already downloaded the app.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Russia Hates Telegram on the Apple App Store