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- Google's Viacom response: An army of lawyers cut and paste
- Google's Viacom response: An army of lawyers cut and pasteNever been sued, have you?The Viacom complaint was a long one, and the way things work is that anything that Google doesn't deny is deemed admitted. Any defenses that they intend to raise have to be raised in their response...
- Tags: Viacom Inc., DMCA, doctrine, YouTube Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-01
- Google's Viacom response: An army of lawyers cut and paste
- How many lawyers does it take to cut and paste "deny allegations" a few hundred times? Thats the most interesting question raised by Googles response to Viacoms $1 billion copyright suit over videos posted on YouTube see Techmeme discussion. ...
- Tags: General, Google, Hollywood on Demand, Web Technology, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Separating "consumer rights" from copyright
- Separating "consumer rights" from copyright"The encouragement of economic goods"I don't think you pursued your headline thought far enough John.Consumer "rights" (read [i]power[/i]) are a force in society that is only growing by the day. Legislation and laws most often follow the practices and attitudes of society rather than lead them.The...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media, first sale, doctrine
- Discussion threads 2005-07-08
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- 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
- 'Handicapped access' hits the Web
- 'Handicapped access' hits the WebADA compliance could be a muzzle on Internet speechAs a blogger, I can see how the Americans with Disabilities Act could be used as a punitive yardstick set so that people without the resources of a major corporation (i.e., bloggers as opposed to news organizations) could...
- Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), INTERNET, Blogging, Channel management, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds
- Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds.....Can we say DUH! It has been pointed out time and time again that the Bush administration has absolutely no respect for the Constitution nor do they care to adhere to the laws they create. The "we are above the law" mentality and the...
- Tags: preservation standard, Email preservation standard, e-mail, General Accounting Office, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Summer reading for kids
- Summer reading for kidsIn the beginningI think one has to start earlier with this. I am a programmer, my wife is running an e-business and our TV is unplugged, we watch some thing on the PC but that's it. We have one child of the age of 17 Months and...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, Greek Mythology, Iliad
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube (and its users)
- EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube and its usersViacom's Data DragnetIt seems to me that their is no justification for allowing this data dragnet.Whether dynamic or static, IP addresses can be traced back to many of the original users through data from Internet service providers. The Whitter article cited...
- Tags: Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc., IP address
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- OK, folks...if you want Windows it's going to be Vista
- OK, folks...if you want Windows it's going to be VistaGlad you understood.Schools are normally hard up for money and they can't afford to waste a lot of time or money because everybody expects them to have unlimited amounts of both and they are highly accountable to the public. They also...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Ok Folks, WINDOWS IT IS, Windows IT, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?
- Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?just a technicality......but this isn't law in Canada, yet. It's just a bill at this point. Carry on...it will never beThis farce of a bill is the single most anti-consumer thing i ever saw in Canada.You can copy legally own media...
- Tags: Digital media, Consumer electronics, DVD, northern DMCA, IS Canada, new Copyright Law, DMCA, copyright law
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Microsoft opens philosophical can of worms with Live Search Cashback
- Talk is bubbling up across the blogosphere, Gillmor Gang and Techmeme daily about social graph personal information. This may be among the most important discussions and topics of our time. How the "social mesh" works out now will affect our lives and businesses for a long time. It may even...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Data, Agreement, Commerce, Microsoft Corp., Worm, Data Portability, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claims
- Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claimsGlass houses...MS knows their code contains infringed upon IP. They aren't going to open a can of worms that would require them to open source their OS under one of the GPL's.Open source has nothing to worry about.Just close you're...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Network technology, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., patent claim, Put Up, IP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- A U.S military botnet in the works
- Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?Yes butThis is a constant refrain. The short termism we see dominates the way tech companies behave.. It's dark side is what happens when companies get over awed eg i2. I'm glad so many of the newbies are not looking for exits...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, sway, technology sector, shareholder, stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- If my kid doesn't like Linux now...
- If my kid doesn't like Linux now...So if you buy your kid a Chevyand he demands a Hummer, do you cave in?Because the XP machine was, surprisingly, rampant with malware.Just what you want, a virtual machine running tons of virtual malware, virtual spamware, spyware, and probably botted. So, if...
- Tags: Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Linux Now, gOS Rocket-E, Linux, old laptop, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Can Apple stop Psystar from selling Mac clone?
- To hear Psystar tell it, they can install MacOS on their own hardware, despits Apple's end user license agreement to the contrary, because said EULA is an illegal "monopoly." "What if Honda said that, after you buy their car, you could only drive it on...
- Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, EULA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Indonesia blocks access to YouTube over anti-Koran film
- Indonesia blocks access to YouTube over anti-Koran filmjust read the KoranYou don't need a film to tell you that it promotes violence, just read it:) Several good violent lines have been posted out of sections of the Koran, it's their holy book after all, kill all the infidels! :)censor IndonesiaOh...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, Koran, anti-Koran, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Hooray! Blu-ray BD+ hacked!
- The good folks at SlySoft announced last week that they'd broken the BD+ copy protection scheme: With today's release of version 6.4.0.0 of AnyDVD HD it is now also possible to make backup security copies of Blu-ray discs protected with BD+. Cool....
- Tags: Hollywood, Blu-ray, Copy Protection, SlySoft, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
- Medical lawsuits may soon be a thing of the past
- Whenever I discuss rising medical costs here, at least one commenter often several will chime in and blame the lawyers. If we just didn't have all those nasty lawsuits... Well you may get your wish. In a case called Riegel vs. Medtronic,...
- Tags: Wyeth, Lawsuit, FDA, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Microsoft opens Pandora's box on online services, betting convenience is the killer app
- Microsoft opens Pandora's box on online services, betting convenience is the killer appTop-down or bottom-up?[i]And they way this is set up, it’s almost as if Microsoft has given up on competing for individuals, students, SOHOs, and perhaps businesses of less than 50 people. It’s almost as if they don;t think...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Pandora
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
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