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Viacom v Google: Threat to the Net -- or just Google?

Viacom v Google: Threat to the Net -- or just Google?I just want a good source of non copy righted material.Okay I said it once but I do need a good source of open source music I can use that doesn't cost 59.95 for a power point presentation to...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, DCMA, Viacom Inc., DMCA, Google Inc., U.S. Congress, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

You're Steve Jobs. What are you going to do about all these iPhone hacks?

You're Steve Jobs. What are you going to do about all these iPhone hacks?He should wait and see if this sell more I-PhonesMore I-Phone sales means more profits after all. If not then no real loss.RE: You're Steve Jobs. What are you going to do about all these iPhone hacks?Apple...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, DCMA, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, AT&T Corp., iPhone Hack, ATT

Discussion threads 2007-09-12

DRM: A personal story

Since this seems to be DRM Day at Between the Lines, allow me to present a short, personal story that highlights, at least for me, the evils of DRM and the DCMA. Last week, I prepared a story for this blog illustrating how to put shows from a TiVo...

Tags: DCMA, TiVo Inc., digital-rights management

Blog posts 2005-11-15

Additional Resources

Google to protect user identities, but not employees'

Google to protect user identities, but not employees'viacom may want to reign their lawyers inThere is a high potential for Viacom to piss off its customers. Sooner or later one of these DCMA/Copyright lawsuits will go too far and cause a decline in business for the rights holder that...

Tags: Corporate communications, Viacom Inc., user identity, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed

A leaked Pentagon report said Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense contractor, failed to "provide the requisite definition and discipline to properly plan and control complex, multi-billion dollar weapon systems acquisition programs." This allegation casts doubt on Lockheed's ability to manage large programs, including major IT...

Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., Pentagon, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, Productivity, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Investment, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-05

iPhone firmware 1.1.2 thwarts TIFF exploit

iPhone firmware 1.1.2 thwarts TIFF exploitI Don't Expect New FeaturesIt may be too early to figure the numbering scheme, but it looks to me as though a change in the z of a version x.y.z number means "security" changes. A change in the y may suggest new features (or feed...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, SECURITY, Patches, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, TIFF, firmware

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

Microsoft awarded patent for watermarking form of DRM. But can it really work?

Microsoft awarded patent for watermarking form of DRM. But can it really work?watermarking doesn't seem like an incredibly unreasonable compromise...I'm no fan of DRM by any means, but watermarking seems like the closest thing to a compromise we're gonna get. as long as:-the watermarking doesn't involve anything personally identifiable (an...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Nothing, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, watermark, media

Discussion threads 2007-09-11

GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRM

GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRMActually, it is the business ecosystem that forbids DRMMS doesn't want DRM on Linux. They allowed it on BSD Apple, so obviously coding to Linux is trivial. MS keeps bending over backward to be the platform of choice for all DRMed content and...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, GPLv3, software, GPL

Discussion threads 2007-07-30

GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRM

In our continuing series on the latest version of the world's most popular and least understood free/open source license, today we look at a controversial subject: Digital Rights Management DRM. My colleague David Berlind has another name for DRM: Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection CRAP.Disclaimer: This information was culled from...

Tags: Programming, Licenses, Linux, GPLv3 Myths, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-07-30

MySpace polices video copyright: Where is Google YouTube?

MySpace polices video copyright: Where is Google YouTube?Why Bow to the Digital MafiaMy Space fell flat like a carpet in front the criminal organisation MPAA. Hopefully google won't.If you want to clean up the Internet copyright mess, shutdown the the MPAA and jail for life the low life parasites who...

Tags: INTERNET, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate communications, Digital media, video, media source, YouTube Inc., Google Inc., media, MySpace

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

Why Google threatens Internet, not Viacom

Why Google threatens Internet, not ViacomI see your pointOne problem though. Youtube isn't in the business of distributing content. The people that use YouTube are. YouTube just offers a place to post video content, any content which can in include content that is not authorized to be there. Effectively YouTube...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., Internet

Discussion threads 2007-05-01

Google's YouTube is DMCA takedown culprit, NOT Viacom

Google's YouTube is DMCA takedown culprit, NOT ViacomShouldn't everyone obey the law?Sorry, you come off as a serious apologist in this article.Everyone should obey the law. As it is written, Google is obeying the law. I do think the DMCA is poorly written, and should be scrapped and...

Tags: Corporate communications, Blogging, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Viacom Inc., Google Inc., DMCA, YouTube Inc., video

Discussion threads 2007-04-25

Ding dong, the witch is dead

Ding dong, the witch is deadEliminate the RIAA periodThe RIAA if the cause of all those DRM/DMCA and other totally illegal laws. Outlaw DRM, shutdown the criminal gang that is the RIAA (and fine all the members for been part of a criminal gang, especialy Sony who is no longuer...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Peer to peer (P2P), Digital music, RIAA, music

Discussion threads 2007-04-03

Ding dong, the witch is dead

Music piracy was born in the early 1970s. The cassette tape recorder was new and the Dolby B encoding for reducing background hiss was even newer. The state of the art was long-playing records -- made of vinyl, LPs had their own shortcomings but when new they produced...

Tags: Government, Legal, General, DRM, Digital Restrictions Management, Apple

Blog posts 2007-04-03

DRM doesn't fix the problem

I just finishing reading Steve Jobs open letter, Thoughts on Music, and I couldnt agree more ...Assuming Jobs is correct that the music industry sells 20 billion DRM-free songs via CD every year compared to 2 billion via DRM, then the music industry argument that DRM protects their music from...

Tags: General, piracy, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2007-02-09

The Jobs' DRM fallout is mixed

The Jobs' DRM fallout is mixedDRM encumbered musicTo the music industry: I DO NOT buy DRM encumbered music. Period. You do whatever you think you need to with that information. I encourage everyone else to stop buying DRM encumbered music. And yes... I am a...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, CD, job, digital-rights management, music

Discussion threads 2007-02-09

'Electric Slide' on slippery DMCA slope

'Electric Slide' on slippery DMCA slopeWTF??Hey,Someone needs to Beeoch slap these moronsNot the dancers they need smacked for other reasons;). The DCMA just gets worse everyday and the things that people try and enforce it on.Just styooooopid.Give me a freakin' break buddy. How sad are you, whining that...

Tags: DMCA

Discussion threads 2007-02-05

A fist full of Linden dollars

A new software program doing the rounds within Second Life, threatened to render the games virtual currency worthless. CopyBot allows objects to be cloned at no cost - objects that would otherwise be exchanged for Linden dollars. Naturally, Second Life retailers werent happy, and protested to the games makers, Linden...

Tags: Second Life, DMCA, Linden Labs

Blog posts 2006-11-15

United States v. Google? The DOJ would be going after the wrong perp

United States v. Google? The DOJ would be going after the wrong perpRest assured, Apple's day is coming.And my bet is it won't be far off."convert" your apple songs to mp3sIf you have purchased the content legally through iTunes, and you belive in open standards, I don't see any moral...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Game players, Digital media, Digital music, Corporate law, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Zune, digital-rights management, Microsoft Xbox, Sony Corp., MP3, U.S. Department of Justice

Discussion threads 2006-10-12

Microsoft's solution to having its DRM hacked: sue

Microsoft's solution to having its DRM hacked: sueWrong PrecedentThe better example of precedent here is [i]Reimerdes[/i], the [i]2600 Magazine[/i] case, although neither really applies.My read is that Microsoft isn't trying to claim DMCA on this because the DMCA is strictly US law. Copyright, on the other hand, is easier...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, DMCA law, source code, DMCA, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-09-27