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Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model

RE: Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood Just shows you who the government actually works for.So what's new?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

Google 'safe harbor': 'Nice' way to do business?

“Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems?”Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School, takes exception with “part-time copyright theorist Mark Cuban”:When Google bought YouTube, the conventional wisdom—expressed in op-eds, newspaper articles, and scary editorial cartoons—was that they'd also bought themselves a whole heap of copyright trouble. The New York Times used...

Tags: YouTube Inc., YouTube

Blog posts 2006-10-27

EFF on Zune: Risk of DRM/DMCA checkmate no longer a risk. It's reality

By way of Cory Doctorow, comes a pointer to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's take on Microsoft's new Zune: a brand that has broken ranks with the Redmond-based company's previous digital rights management DRM strategy that attempted to establish an ecosystem of compatibility (under the name "PlaysForSure") between content...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Digital Millenium, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, Microsoft Zune, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-09-18

Additional Resources

Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?

The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

'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

Sony loses bid to force royalties out of webcaster

On the hunt for money to beef up their rapidly deteriorating industry, the Big Four record labels sued LAUNCH, owned by Yahoo, and currently operated by CBS Radio CBS also owns ZDNet. Their gripe: LAUNCH lets users create channels by genre and skip songs they don't like. This, they claimed,...

Tags: Sony Corp., Predictability, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-24

Pirate Bay verdict dismissed safe harbors, comparison with Google

Two of the interesting tidbits from Ars Technica's review of the Pirate Bay verdict were of particular interest to me: the comparison of Pirate Bay to Google and the question of Safe Harbors. It's certainly true that Google has pointers a plenty to illegal torrents, so why...

Tags: Google Inc., Safe Harbor, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-02

Wiki sues Apple over DMCA claims

Last year, Apple lawyers contacted OdioWorks, the operator of BluWiki.com, claiming that certain user postings violated the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and copyright law. Apple threatened to sue Odioworks if the documents weren't removed and OdioWorks complied. Now, with the assistance of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, OdioWorks...

Tags: DMCA, Apple Inc., OdioWorks, Wiki, E-mail, Digital Media, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Apple adds DMCA charge to Psystar suit

It appears that Apple is trying to put the final nail in Psystar's coffin, asking the court to accept an amended complaint against the Mac clone maker to add a charge of violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to a long list of allegations, including trademark infringement, breach of...

Tags: Complaint, DMCA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Productivity, Operating Systems, Digital Media, Software, Apple Mac OS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Updated: Restraining order against RealDVD stands

Update: BetaNews reports the injunction is in place until Nov. 17. And they point out the impact of an extended injunction can be substantial. In Real's case, however, this is just one more product; not having it doesn't fundamentally interrupt the business model. Or does it? I recall when the...

Tags: Rights-management, Violation, Copy Protection, Robert Moore, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

TRO hearing today on RealDVD

Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...

Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Another setback for university P2P

Last week, a federal judge dismissed the University of Oregon's arguments that the RIAA's attempts to obtain information on student file sharers was unduly burdensome. According to Ars Technica, the judge also ruled that the school did not receive protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, since none of...

Tags: P2P, University, RIAA, Litigation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Business Operations, Internet, Security, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-01

RealDVD: A walk through the complaint

Here's my read of the MPAA complaint in Universal v Real PDF. The MPAA's complaint against Real over its RealDVD rip-and-view product has only two causes of action. One is a Digital Millenium Copyright Act claim; the other is a state law breach of contract claim. ...

Tags: MPAA, RealDVD, Real, CSS, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Studio, Real trade lawsuits over RealDVD

U.S. movie studios sued Real Networks in federal court today, alleging that Real's RealDVD product violates the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and breaches Real's contract with the DVD Copy Control Association. Read the MPAA's complaint. The move follows Real's release of the software today,...

Tags: MPAA, Lawsuit, Movie, RealDVD, DVD, CSS, Public Relations, Consumer Electronics, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Muxtape has RIAA problems

The roll-your-own radio site Muxtape has temporarily closed down due to some "legal kinks" with the RIAA, Cnet's Webware blog points out. EFF's Fred von Lohmann addressed sites like Muxtape in a News.com article, saying that in theory they should be protected by...

Tags: RIAA, Radio, Muxtape, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-19

AT

ATGood questions but a couple of points ...Regarding:"Funny thing is, says law prof Tim Wu, AT&T spent six years lobbying for the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which freed them from the responsibility for monitoring,"The DMCA didn't really "free them for monitoring", it gave them an excuse to. Further ...Most...

Tags: Network technology, Web, Comcast Corp., intellectual property, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-18

AT&T ready to become Internet cop

So Comcast says it is not blocking but slowing certain kinds of traffic in order to preserve the viability of its network. As a cable provider, Comcast is much better able to offer downstream bandwidth than upstream, therefore mostly what it blocks is upstream peer-to-peer traffic, primarily BitTorrent. ...

Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., AT&T Corp., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Perfect 10 v. CCBill: "direct financial benefit" means infringing material must draw users, says Ninth Circuit

Late last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals came out with an important decision, Perfect 10 v. CCBill PDF, that required it to interpret and apply both the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — two of the most important U.S. provisions...

Tags: Video, User generated content, Social networking, Live Web, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright

Blog posts 2007-04-13

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

Google vs. Viacom: Will Michael Kwun eat his DMCA words?

Google vs. Viacom: Will Michael Kwun eat his DMCA words?Google modus operandi"... via a Google-centric media business model that commercially exploits content produced by others, but does not compensate the content producers or owners for the Google for-profit use of their content."Totally agree.Important distinctionHi Donna,An important distinction between the two...

Tags: Michael Kwun, DMCA, Google Inc., Viacom Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-30