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The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a hybrid hearing that include both in-person and remote attendance on Tuesday, July 20, 2021,a t 10:30 a.m. This hearing will take place in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, as well as remotely using Cisco WebEx online video conferencing. The hearing is entitled, "Stopping Digital Thieves: The Growing Threat of Ransomware."  

Ad piracy study may contain ill-gotten booty A new study claims content-theft sites are hijacking the online ad business to the tune of $227 million annually. Mike Zaneis, SVP and general counsel for the IAB, says the concern is legitimate, but the numbers may be inflated. February 20, 2014 Are advertisers floating the boats of IP pirates with a quarter of a billion dollars in ill-gotten booty? That’s one way of interpreting a new report from the Digital Citizens Alliance released on Tuesday,...