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- Apple hits Psystar with DMCA charges
- Court papers reveal that the day before Thanksgiving Apple added new charges to the five-month old federal lawsuit against mac-clone maker Psystar. The new charges claim that Psystar, along with ten John Does, violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA by bypassing copy-protection mechanisms used by Apple to protect Mac...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DMCA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Copyrighted Works, Defendant, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
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- Google Book Settlement revised; Open Book Alliance pans it as mere 'nip and tuck'
- Orphan worksShould become non-copyrighted after 4 years without a known rights owner. PERIOD!
- Tags: alliance, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-14
- Google offers 20GB online storage for price of a latte
- Or get 25GBfor free with SkyDrive from Microsoft.ThanksI did not know about purchasing added space for Gmail and Picasa. Good to know and yes I do have a ton of photos :)Re: Or get 25GBNice! I'll take the 25GB for free, with a latte.Perhaps an idea for Mr Andrew Nusca...
- Tags: E-mail, Google Inc., SkyDrive, latte, storage
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Free the Orphans: Are we being played for fools in Google Books play?
- Give me a BreakGoogle paid to digitize those books. Google paid to setup the storage and bandwidth infrastructure to host the books, and google made an agreement with the authors to be able to publish those books. If anyone else would like to do the same thing they...
- Tags: Google Inc., agreement, orphan
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- 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
- Give Google a break!
- soooo over googlegoogle has joined microsoft and apple on the dark side.i stopped using google after they ceased being a search engine and became a money factory. security, privacy and ownership issues shouldn't be played out in court after the fact, they should be delt with in the board room...
- Tags: COMPANIES, Google Inc., copyright law
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Protools Session Timbaland - Apologize 1.3 (Windows)
- Protools session series files containing Timbaland - Apologize. The full file pack contains a lot of sessions with the making progress, with markers showing what is happening in the session with tips and tricks. If you are a professional or a beginner protools user, either way it is a fine...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Session, Digistormers, Tracks, Patches
- Software downloads 2009-09-09
- EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech
- Better that it is entirely unavailablethan to make it available to anyone who cares to search for it. I have seen nowhere that the Google project will prevent any other source from digitizing books, or from keeping them in print. This is quite possibly THE stupidest argument I have heard...
- Tags: Google Inc., American Civil Liberties Union, privacy, Google Book, Vegas, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Amazon: Congress, not Google, should make digital book policy
- In its stinging rebuke PDF of the Google Books settlement, Amazon lays out the full, horrendous ramifications of the deal: it rewrites copyright law, creates a monopoly in perpetutity, short circuits debate on the issue and takes the matter out of Congress' hands. Here's the major points...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Congress, Amazon.com Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Google vs. Bing: The global battle
- Huh, just 67.5%??I thought it would have been like 80-90% by now.Mr Dignan uses flawed statistics, the market is actually much more skewedAccording to Hitwise, who claims to have bigger and more unbiased samples, was Google's market share up at impressive 74%, i.e. ~14 times bigger than Bing, 4.5 times...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bing, global battle
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Google Books sued by a pig, cat and dog
- LosersThis just underlines how pathetic these lawsuit-hungry companies are in hoping to cash in on what Google has created. They couldn't come up with a business model to monetize these works so they sue someone who has figured it out.Anti-capitalism at its best.4 legs good; 2 legs betterRight, Amazon?Bunch of...
- Tags: Strategy, Litigation, KARMA, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Archive.org, Google Book
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Can Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon help scuttle Google's book settlement?
- Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon are reportedly joining the Internet Archive and other non-profit groups to dismantle Google's book settlement with publishers and authors. According to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and others, the group of tech giants and library groups will be co-led by Gary...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Settlement, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- 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
- Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it
- I have mentioned a few times before my somewhat controversial view on Internet piracy - the end-user downloading (and uploading, to some extent) of mostly videos, music files, software - and the issues which surround it. As this generation of students are the forerunners of the technological age, born into...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., RIAA, Licence, RapidShare, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Judge nixes fair use defense in Tennenbaum filesharing case
- In a last-minute knockout punch, delivered just hours before the latest high-profile RIAA case was scheduled to start, Judge Nancy Gertner denied a fair use defense to Joel Tenenbaum, Ars Technica reports. Tenenbaum had sought to present his fair use theory to the jury but the judge...
- Tags: Defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, Peer To Peer (P2P), Team Management, Internet, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistake
- Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistakePerfect! The reason I will NEVER buy, use, or recommend a Kindle......or its equivalent, in easy-to-swallow, poison-pill form.Thanks so much for this story.Huh?Why wrong?If you as the end consumer, buy stolen goods, you don't get to keep them!So I'm guessing you are protesting the...
- Tags: E-books, Viruses and worms, Jeff Bezos, Orwellian, Amazon.com Inc., refund
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Miracle Type 9.2.7 (Windows)
- Miracle Type offers a unique advantage over other typing software because it teaches you where the letters are on the keyboard in Just One Hour. This means that you can move on to becoming proficient sooner than with any other typing software. Miracle Type uses 'Mnemonics (another word for memory...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Mnemonics, Miracle Type, Keyboards, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals, Management
- Software downloads 2009-07-22
- Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books
- Amazon uses 1984 to free e-booksDangerous gambleThey'll get harmonization. But likely to the US level through ACTARE: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books"In this case the monopoly is copyright, which extends practically to infinity in the U.S., thanks to the Walt Disney Co., but is held to a reasonable length...
- Tags: Corporate communications, E-books, probation, e-book, video, Amazon.com Inc., monitor, software
- Discussion threads 2009-07-19
- Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdict
- Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdictShe sure did ask for it.By sharing copyright protected songs. She should stop trying to blame the RIAA for her predicament. Regardless of the appropriateness or not of the $1.9M award two juries have found her guilty of willful infringement. Own up to it and take...
- Tags: Litigation, Digital media, RIAA, Thomas-Rasset
- Discussion threads 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
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