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Safe Harbor 1.0.1 (Mobile)

This clone of Binary Arts' "Stormy Seas" puzzle game includes 40 puzzles and their solutions. Solve them by sliding wave bars to the sides and moving "boats" in any direction until you are able to get the pointed or red boat safely into the harbor at the bottom. Features include...

Tags: Boat, Mobile, Safe Harbor, Eric House, Web Browsers, Games, Internet, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Pirate Bay verdict dismissed safe harbors, comparison with Google

Pirate Bay verdict dismissed safe harbors, comparison with GooglePropaganda always trumps truthYes, TPB openly ridiculed the asshats from the US that sent them DMCA takedowns. This was, of course, turned into a major point against them, and that was accomplished far easier than it should have been.Naturally, the Propaganda...

Tags: Google Inc., TPB, DMCA, Safe Harbor

Discussion threads 2009-05-02

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

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

Additional Resources

'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

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

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

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

HITRUST to seek government certification authority

HITRUST to seek government certification authorityHITRUST - More Than Another System CertificationThank you, Dana, for helping bring clarity to these important issues. HITRUST believes that establishing trust in our healthcare system is critical for the successful adoption of electronic health records and other health information systems. Toward this end there...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, E-health, Quality, HiTrust, health care

Discussion threads 2009-07-25

Apple???s Q3 2009: best non-holiday quarter in company history

Apple???s Q3 2009: best non-holiday quarter in company historyOh, my.It appears that quite a few "Laptop Hunters" (maybe those who weren't paid off by Microsoft) have been hunting for non-PCs.Wow! Is it ever quiet in here! It will be interesting...to compare these results to those of the BloatFarm. Unlike...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Ad, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., netbook, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Judge puts kibosh on YouTube copyright damages dogpile

Judge puts kibosh on YouTube copyright damages dogpileMuch hangs in the balanceCongress has tried to protect service providers with two laws: Section 512 of the DMCA which provides "safe harbor" for providers from users who upload copyright content; and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which again, provides...

Tags: YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

IRS eyes taxing your work mobile phone

Is that work issued BlackBerry really a taxable "fringe benefit?" The IRS seems to think so and is looking for ways to improve compliance of a tax that has been on the books for two decades. Get ready for a potential bookkeeping nightmare. The...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Internal Revenue Service, Journal, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Cellular Phones, Financial Planning, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-12

The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy

By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...

Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion

Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billionWindows ROI vs. Open SourceThis makes me wonder how people think theywould be out of business UNLESS they useWindows.$9 BILLION DOLLARS, this puts companies OUTbusiness and customers who are furious withservices that are rendered unavailable dueto insecure software......Tell me again, how does running Windows bring...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Patches, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, Conficker, economic cost, virus, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, piracy

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Are netbooks really junky?

Are netbooks really junky?To be blunt..... yes, Netbooks are JunkyIn regards to the hardware and capabilities that are in them. I am sorry, but 6 hours of battery life is NOT enough for me to leave out the ability to play non-hardcore games, i.e. RealArcade, GameHouse and Reflexive games.These things...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Workday update: deep not wide

I've just come off an update briefing with Workday along with fellow Irregulars Susan Scrupski, Jason Corsello and David Terrar. Now on Update 7, due to be rolled out over the summer, Workday is going deep rather than wide. That means functionality may not seem that...

Tags: Workday, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Planning, Marketing, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-26

Pwn2Own trifecta: Hacker exploits IE8, Firefox, Safari

Pwn2Own trifecta: Hacker exploits IE8, Firefox, SafariUgly, just ugly!These guys walks in and out of our machines as they please. No OS and no browser is secure. A determined attacker *will* succeed.Anyone still doubts that the reason that most exploits hits Windows is market share? I'm mildly shocked that it...

Tags: Web browsers, Hacking, Operating systems, SECURITY, takeaway, Web browser, hacker, Apple Safari, IE8, Chrome, Apple Mac OS X, operating system, Linux, Pwn2Own, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

SAP snags Coghead

SAP has acquired the assets of Coghead minus any of its customers following Coghead's demise. As Rafe Needleman says over at CNet, this paves the way for others to swoop in and sweep up stranded customers although there is some doubt whether this will work. I received a 'safe harbor'...

Tags: SAP AG, Coghead, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Firewalls, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Networking, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-19

Lessig, Colbert in Copyright Smackdown

Lessig, Colbert in Copyright SmackdownLessig is a moronWhat a moron.RE: Lessig, Colbert in Copyright SmackdownHa! (I've loved Stephen Colbert since STRANGERS) I do agree that the current commercial/copyright system is dated and must adapt somehow to the new "authoring capabilities" provided by digital technologies today. But not in the...

Tags: Sales strategy, Digital media, Strategy, SmackDown, Colbert

Discussion threads 2009-01-10

News to know: IE exploit; Windows Live; Crowdsourcing; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Windows Live drops the ball on support Mary Jo Foley: Will the Microsoft Live Search turmoil ever end? Gizmodo: The Definitive Coast-to-Coast...

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Microsoft Windows Live, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Macworld Expo, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-18