It can be difficult keeping track of the various comings and goings in the games industry, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups.
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Jenna Owens | GameStop chief operating officer
Former Amazon director and general manager of distribution and multi-channel fulfillment Jenna Owens joined GameStop as chief operating officer.
For years, Owens served as director for various departments at Amazon. Her history within the tech industry also includes working at Google as well.
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An occasional TV Series with Thomas Myler
Remember Charlie’s Angels, the all-girl crime series on television about three girls from the Los Angeles Police Department who are rescued from humdrum meter-reading by one Charlie Townsend, wealthy head of an investigations company, and despatched to some series crime-fighting?
The opening narration was always the same: “Once upon a time there were three girls who went to the Police Academy and were each assigned very hazardous duties, but I took them away from all that and now they work for me. My name is Charlie.”
The US series, totalling 115 episodes, ran for five seasons, from 1976 to 1981 and on this side of the Atlantic from 1977 to 1982 on the ITV network.
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In the summer of 2020, a long-running case filed by several movie companies against Swedish ISP Telia was concluded in favor of the rights holders. The result was Sweden s first dynamic blocking injunction against The Pirate Bay and several other platforms. The law firm responsible for that victory has now been handed a prestigious industry award for its efforts.
Having largely given up on tackling individual file-sharers with direct legal action, the mainstream movie, TV, and music companies have been taking a different approach.
The theory is that if pirates can’t easily reach torrent and streaming platforms using their regular Internet connections, then that will eventually result in more sales from legal platforms. Rightsholders try to achieve this goal by taking internet service providers to court and attempting to convince a judge that they should block access to infringing sites to avoid liability.