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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

Additional Resources

Software makers may sue eBay

Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...

Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Britain moves against illegal file sharing

CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...

Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-TWHAT???So they let the app slide for two years until they launch their own competing version that proves to be a fraction as popular, THEN they go after these guys cuz their own app can't cut it?I call bullspit!If it was a rights infringement, they should have...

Tags: Games, Scrabble-Scrabulous, Facebook, patent, game

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...

Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-25

10 essential gadgets for students

I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...

Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-25

DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality

DTrace and the Linux bunker mentalityBecause it is the Linux way Paul1) Take something good and copy it badly.2) Never, ever listen to anyone offering advice regarding usability [i]"Linux ain't no Fisher Price OS"[/i] etc.3) Spend more time arguing on the mailing lists, than actually developing and bug-testing.RE: DTrace and...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, DTrace, SCO Group Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Facebook sues German 'clone'

Facebook sues German 'clone'Facebook owes me moneyUhh, how can you sue over the way you organize a page? If this turns out to be valid then Facebook owes me a ton of cash. I had the title of my webpage located at the top of the page...

Tags: Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Prohibition 2.0

Sunday's installment of To the Best of Our Knowledge features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down...

Tags: Criminal, Larry Lessig, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-21

'Rogue admin' thought he was protecting network and city

'Rogue admin' thought he was protecting network and citysome network admins are just crazyI had a temp job at a major firm once, back when Win98 was standard. I decided to change the wallpaper on my computer once, using an image that was located on a network share to which...

Tags: NETWORKING, administrator, network

Discussion threads 2008-07-20

Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices

Mom, EFF fight back over take-down noticesIf Universal wins, America is doomedUniversal absolutely must not win this. It is the thin end of a [i]very[/i] dangerous wedge - will we be allowed to sing along to our ipods in the street, or in family videos? What about humming the tunes...

Tags: EFF fight back, RIAA, member company, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2008-07-20

Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices

This is what I imagine: some technoslaves or computer software constantly peruses YouTube looking for infringements. It finds them and the music companies send YT an almost daily list of take-down notices per the DMCA. YouTube takes down. Problem being everything gets taken down...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Takedown, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Apple is not the real enemy of open source

Apple is not the real enemy of open sourceGodwin's Law is now in effectGodwin's law: whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress.Loser.Apple is the official NAZI PARTY of Open Source.Where is http://opendarwin.com? It's GONE.Apple SUPPORTED the whole OSx86 project, then THEY reneged- There...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Digital media, Godwin, Apple Inc., open source, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Apple is not the real enemy of open source

Apple embraces DRMs, and any other restrictions the copyright industries want. This is at the heart of its power. Its alliance with the copyright industries has brought Apple from the brink of irrelevance to dominance of the handheld Internet and gadget markets in this decade. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Digital-rights Management, Industry, Apple Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Open Source, Linux, Strategy, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-18

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystar

The potential fallout from Apple vs. Psystaranticompetitive argumentThe problem with the anticompetitive argument is that the company engaging in the activity has to command a substantial share of the overall market. Apple doesn't even have 8% of the market. Also, Psystar never even tried to license Apple's intellectual...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Psystar, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Open source should support Apple over Psystar

Open source should support Apple over PsystarYou're offBSD and GPL are licensesEULA is a contractRE: Open source should support Apple over PsystarDon't get into this argument. "License not Contract" is a magical phrase used by Open Source 'backers' who want to rationalize the idea that using someone's code without permission...

Tags: EULA, open source, Apple Inc., GPL, Joomla

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bail

Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m baildarn!I'd like to copyright some of my network admin work too! some of it is a classic that competes with Mozart's best work, while there have been another moments more, um, sex-pistols-like.RE: Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bailwow!COPYRIGHT??? ...

Tags: NETWORKING, network administration, jail, network

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Beatles music saved from public domain!

Beatles music saved from public domain!To us Texas bumkins ....To us backwards Texas bumkins this reads like:"California saves beaches from public access!"It is all about GREED!Next someone will figure out how to tax ourdecendents for out death.It's about money.If there is a nickel to be made out of something, the...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Beatles, Mickey Mouse, public domain

Discussion threads 2008-07-17