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- Universal sues MySpace for copyright violations
- Universal sues MySpace for copyright violationsMake the criminals payYou steal, you pay the price.Out of touch[i]MySpace provides an extraordinary promotion platform for artists--from major labels to independent acts[/i]Exactly, except the music industry can seem to get past its business model of the past 40 years. Myspace is a great...
- Tags: Corporate communications, E-mail providers, Advertising & Promotion, MySpace, copyright violation
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- Feds convict warez pirate
- Feds convict warez pirateNow convict a few thousand more and all will be fine...Give this scumbag the Max 15 years AND make him pay restitution, plus legal costs for prosecution, plus incarceration costs, and seize any assets he had to pay for the above. Then convict another couple thousand scumbags...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Warez, copyright violation, piracy
- Discussion threads 2004-12-28
- Critics say Kazaa can stop copyright violations
- Critics say Kazaa can stop copyright violationsHilariousIf someone puts a copy of "God Bless America" into an encrypted RAR container, and then uploads it with a slightly different name, they claim some filter can spot it???Yeah, right.Kazaa too busy try to stop Kazaa Lite ++from being found on the web...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Cyberthreats, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Kazaa, P2P, copyright violation, spyware
- Discussion threads 2004-01-14
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- 'Smoking gun' emails in Viacom-YouTube case
- Is this a smoking gun in the Viacom-YouTube suit? News.com's Greg Sandoval reports that evidence has surfaced that may undercut YouTube's argument that it has safe harbor protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act: Internal YouTube e-mails indicate that YouTube managers knew and discussed the existence of...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Justice Dept. devastates Google Books settlement, as the parties rush to the back rooms
- As long as it doesn't "belong" to GoogleHow about, let Google spend the time and money and then turn everything over to the Library of Congress or possibly the Smithsonian, etc. so that anyone can access it freely.Bet Google would not care for that idea much. After all, they...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Google Inc., government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Veoh wins copyright suit, brightening YouTube's future
- Let us hope that this ruling is, indeed,taken 'very seriously' - it certainly deserves to be !...HenriRE: Veoh wins copyright suit, brightening YouTube's futurei think it's a win for everyone. you can go to the library and check these things out anyway. where's the crime?only if your selling there material...
- Tags: Veoh, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Stop Google Books: World literature is not just another dataset
- Big brother 2.0Nothing like 1 source stop for Big Brother, whats next Obama monitoring network...:(http://www.scroogle.org/The alternativesThe alternatives are:1. Government run scanning program2. Other private run scanning program3. NothingWhat do you all propose?Google uses Open Sourcebut does not wish to participate in being Open Source.Google is happy for us to share...
- Tags: Quality, Strategy, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Examine the patent that made selling Microsoft Word a crime
- counter productiveIsn't XML meant to provide a standard format for storing and transferring data? This lawsuit will just make other companies more cautious about using XML which will basically negate any attempt to make XML a standard. In my opinion, i4i never should have received a patent on...
- Tags: KARMA, Microsoft Word, patent, XML, I4i, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model
- RE: Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood Just shows you who the government actually works for.So what's new? [NT].broken systemWe have a broken judicial system that repeatedly favors the rich and the powerful at the expense of the citizens.Judge acknowledges system is brokenNo mavericks in the court,....
- Tags: Strategy, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, business model, agreement, MPAA, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- FSF petitions against Amazon's Big Brother attitude
- FSF petitions against Amazon's Big Brother attitudeDRM or no DRM Amazon chose the wrong ...... path when they removed books from the libraries of those who had purchased those books. If Amazon mistakenly distributed books for which it had no right to do so, the proper action would have...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-08-04
- Kindle draws fire at Arizona State
- Kindle draws fire at Arizona StateRidiculous liberalismHas any blind student even indicated an interest in the course? Has the school offered to provide braille copies or text-to-speech technology? This sounds like a non-problem that people are trying to turn into a problem to advocate a misguided political agenda. When I...
- Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Arizona State, Americans with Disabilities Act
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- $1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset says
- While an appeal is likely in the cards, the motion Jammie Thomas-Rasset's lawyers filed today was a request for new trial PDF or for the judge to alter the jury's "shocking" $1.9 million award. Thomas-Rasset's lawyers argued that (1) the jury's verdict of $80,000 per infringed...
- Tags: Lawyer, Jury, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, MediaSentry, Remittitur, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Can open source police open source?
- Can open source police open source?we need an international lawthat will allow the governments to go afer the GPL violators and use the proceeds to reimburse the authors.*sigh*There's plenty of people who are "here today, gone tomorrow" ripping off all sorts of code, be it open source or proprietary, not...
- Tags: UNIX, GPL, open source, BSD
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- 'Insane' $1.9 million verdict could prove RIAA's downfall
- So Jammie Thomas-Rasset is a thief - a willful copyright infringer - who uploaded 24 songs to the Internet. At least, the jury in her second trial so found in delivering a $1.9 million verdict: $80,000 per song. Under the law the jury...
- Tags: Damage, RIAA, Public Relations, Government, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- ISP spying begins in UK, as Universal, Virgin ink a deal
- ISP spying begins in UK, as Universal, Virgin ink a dealYou say words are importantFrom the article you linked to [i]In return, Virgin Media, the British cable television and broadband provider, agreed to take steps to reduce piracy on its network, something that other broadband providers have resisted.The measures could...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Virgin, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- ISP spying begins in UK, as Universal, Virgin ink a deal
- In a first-of-its-kind deal, Universal and Virgin Media have agreed on a U.K. plan that makes Universal's entire catalog available - DRM-free - for a monthly subscription price, while Virgin will take a more active role in identifying unauthorized downloading of the label's music, The New York Times reports. ...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Monthly Subscription, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Piracy, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- US developer: China's Green Dam steals our code
- This Green Dam story just keeps getting weirder. First, China issues this mandate that all new PCs will have to have software called Green Dam-Youth Escort preinstalled. It's claimed the software is just a porn filter, even though China runs the powerful Great Firewall of China, already. ...
- Tags: Software, China, Developer, Solid Oak, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-13
- Court says Pirate Bay judge not biased
- Court says Pirate Bay judge not biasedbullcrap Its the same thing if a judge here was a member of the nra and was judging in a case again a gun manufacturer. What a load of crap Is there a point?Biased or not doesn't change what Pirate Bay has...
- Tags: Pirate Bay, supreme
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- What does it mean that we surprised that Windows 7 is so good?
- What does it mean that we surprised that Windows 7 is so good?No, Vista will go down in history as another Window ME. Your argument that Vista did not really SUUUCK because Windows 7 is based on Vista, and Windows 7 is really good, does not fly. Average users do...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7 IS, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegal
- Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegalproof reader anyone?Richard , what does the following mean?"since anyone searching on the word will the sponsored links of her competitors at the top of Google results page, The New York Times reports."Any chance of me working as your proof reader?RE: Class...
- Tags: Sales strategy, sales, Google Inc., class action
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
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