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- Watch out, RIAA's set a precedent
- Watch out, RIAA's set a precedentDownloading?You're doing the same thing the RIAA is doing when you say that "the downloading and sharing of copyrighted material is illegal." Actually, the sharing of copyrighted material is illegal, the downloading is not. Obviously the RIAA would like to blur this distinction...
- Tags: Digital media, court case, RIAA, copyrighted data, Copyright-Infringement
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- YouTube plays to Google's strengths and interests alike
- There has been no shortage of reportage concerning the official transfer of YouTubes copyright concerns to the Googleplex. See, e.g.: BBC News, Googles copyright nightmareThe Globe and Mail, At YouTube, a copyright conundrum continuesCNET, YouTube may add to Googles copyright worriesBut perhaps more than any other company in existence,...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Google Inc., YouTube
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
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- Could royalty rate hike force Apple to reconsider variable pricing?
- Could royalty rate hike force Apple to reconsider variable pricing?I hope Apple stands pat.Apple makes money on the players, not so much the music. The can update the firmware to support Microsoft's or other vendors DRM, if needed, and keep selling them.We can live without iTunes. I use...
- Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., variable pricing, pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD
- There's another legal showdown brewing between Hollywood and the techies. RealNetworks and the motion picture studios are headed off to court over RealDVD, just-released software that allows users to rip their personal DVD collections into a PC or portable hard drive. Yeah, just like everyone's been doing with music CDs...
- Tags: Rip, CD, Video, MP3, Apple iTunes, Music, RealDVD, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Student Technology Day: how to start a start-up
- Andy McLoughlin spoke a little while ago about how he started up his own web start-up, Huddle.net, from a simple idea in a pub to a fully working business and enterprise collaboration suite. It's a large network of hosted workspaces; yet another project management and team collaboration service based on...
- Tags: Inspiration, Family, Huddle.net, Collaboration, Groupware, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveaway
- Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveawayRE: Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveawayOdd way to grow share by limiting the number of people who can join. You're assuming that you need to pay them to search with you a dangerous precedent and by limiting...
- Tags: SEARCH, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, search engine, Microsoft Tries, giveaway, searcher, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- FBI searches Kernell apt., roommates subpoenaed
- FBI searches Kernell apt., roommates subpoenaedI have yet to see a single ........ Official Business Email published! Not One. Quit spreading the liberal talking points that she used her private Email for official business until you ca produce a single shred of proof!subpoenaeI think its funny they subpoenae...
- Tags: Federal government, Gwen Moore, Kernell, FBI, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Tech will suffer from financial meltdown
- Tech will suffer from financial meltdownOne thing that could be done......would be for the federal government to sell Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and any other firms it "acquires" back to the public once they stabilize would allow the taxpayers to get at least some of their money back. In...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Financial services, financial, financial meltdown
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Might Ubuntu and Firefox part ways because of the dreaded EULA?
- Might Ubuntu and Firefox part ways because of the dreaded EULA?Let Mozilla put the EULA on their start pageIf they want it, they can host it.Increasing awareness is not always a good thingCancer, for instance.I'm in the "it's no big deal" camp.We're talking about trademark usage here, not use of...
- Tags: Web browsers, EULA, Mozilla Firefox, Ubuntu, Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Apple store down... more iPod details surface (updated)
- Apple store down... more iPod details surface updatedIs this really news worth creating a blog about?Seriously.Nope! NT**Yes it is, the iPod and Apple in general is exciting. Zune is boooorrringNT.The iPod is yesterday's newsTried a Zune at all Donnieboy, or are you living the high life in the Apple RDF?Perhaps....
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Store, Microsoft Zune
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- OEM licensing confusion starts at Microsoft.com
- OEM licensing confusion starts at Microsoft.comKind ofone of the reasons MS can cut Dell or large OEMs such a price cut is the OS is tied to the hardware. It lives and dies there, so obsolescence and the next sale of course is built into the hardware. So...
- Tags: Operating systems, OEM, Windows 7 Home, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- The importance of the Veoh decision
- The importance of the Veoh decisionThe problem is "appropriate steps".The question is, how thoroughly does a store-and-serve operation have to police what it's storing?In this case, removing something shown to be violating copyright on notification is sufficient. And that's reasonable.The problem is the situation when there are millions of...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Tools & Techniques, Veoh
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- The importance of the Veoh decision
- Needless to say, Google's lawyers are happy. They now have a precedent to hit Viacom over the head with. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Antipiracy, DMCA, Safe Harbor, Video, Veoh, Corporate Communications, Piracy, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- It must be a rough day in Cupertino
- It must be a rough day in Cupertinonot having an issuesettings>general>passcode lock on>require passcode immediatelyRE: It must be a rough day in CupertinoThe lawsuit over Psystar has a precedent, in favor of Psystar.Remember that there was a lawsuit like this against Data General some years back, alleging illegal tying because...
- Tags: Apple Inc., RDOS, rough day, Psystar
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit?
- Somewhere in the news coverage of Psystar's countersuit against Apple today, I was reminded of the car analogy I use to help friends and family understand how to buy a computer. Under the hood of a car, everything is the same. There's an engine, transmission, battery and...
- Tags: Car, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practices
- Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practicesCan Apple mention the original IBM PC/Compaq cloning incident?Whoops, I mean Psystar. Apple would be hanging a noose around its own neck if they brought up that ye olde lawsuit into court...Never mind "Apple hardware" is off-the-shelf PC hardware too, even their OS...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Desktops, Psystar, Apple Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Phoenix Technologies, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ring
- Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringI have many waysthere are many ways of dealing with these peoplewithout death being the punishment, they'd wish they were dead.RE: Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringThey should take everyone of them out and hang them. Don't let their neck snap but let them down...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue you
- Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue youLitigious Theft. Where does it end?People/Companies like mosquitos, stealing a living by sucking the life blood of others. HEY the internet was my idea, you all owe me billions of dollars. They need to get in line behind...
- Tags: Litigation, database, patent, GraphOn, prior art, software patent, settlement, Google Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- MBTA published checksum info in court filings
- MBTA published checksum info in court filingsWho is MBTA?Admittedly, I could probably look it up, but it really should be one of the first things you mention in your article.The important question is TRO, not PROThe spectre of a permanent restraining order is a red herring. The immediate harm...
- Tags: SECURITY, MBTA, TRO, court filing, filing
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Defcon's over but MBTA wants gag order to remain
- With negotiations between the EFF-represented MIT students and the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority over a temporary restraining order at a standstill, the MBTA will go to court Thursday to ask for an extension of the temporary restraining order issued against the students this weekend. The current order expires Aug. 19....
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Defcon, MBTA, Free Trade, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
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