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DMCA takedown forces Google to remove links to Pirate Bay

Bravo...How is it logical that a DMCA takedown forces Google to remove links to a website when a DMCA takedown can only be used to remove CONTENT not LINKS to content(IE: Pirate Bay is not owned by google nor it is hosted by google).What's next? DMCA takedown on all DNS...

Tags: Digital media, DMCA takedown, DMCA, Google Inc., takedown

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

YouTube: No special DMCA policies for candidates

McCain wants YouTube to give special handling to DMCA takedown notices regarding political campaigns. Today, YouTube gave the campaign the cold shoulder. It seems McCain has run afoul of copyright holders more than once, with the use of news clips from CBS and Fox. McCain is probably right that their...

Tags: YouTube Inc., DMCA, McCain, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman, Takedown, John McCain, Piracy, Intellectual Property, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Research & Development

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices

This is what I imagine: some technoslaves or computer software constantly peruses YouTube looking for infringements. It finds them and the music companies send YT an almost daily list of take-down notices per the DMCA. YouTube takes down. Problem being everything gets taken down...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Takedown, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-20

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News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

DMCA takedown forces Google to remove links to Pirate Bay

Even though I'm linking to it right here, the Pirate Bay's home page has a PageRank of zero. Google still links to other sites on thepiratebay.org, but not the home page. It's almost like putting a lock on the front door and...

Tags: Google Inc., DMCA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-10-02

Does Twitter's malware link filter really work?

Today, researchers from F-Secure stumbled upon a long-anticipated feature in Twitter's fight against malicious abuse of its service - a malware URL filter preventing automatically registered or compromised legitimate accounts from tweeting known malicious links. Whenever a Twitter user is attempting to post a link to a...

Tags: Malware, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-03

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

Apple is being accused of stifling free speech; again

In November 2008 Virginia-based OdioWorks, operator of BluWiki a non-commercial wiki that promises publishing without censorship, received a takedown notice from Apple demanding that it remove user postings about how to “write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Apple iPod, DMCA, Apple Inc., Hash, Digital Media, Digital Music, Wiki, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-28

EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use

EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair useyou tube?You Tube is so yesterday.They are blowing themselves up right along with the corporation rent seekers.RE: EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use"A way for people to get this taken seriously is to boycott YouTube in favor...

Tags: You-Tube, fair use, YouTube Inc., von Lohmann, Lohmann, DMCA, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

EFF's von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use

I passed Jason's post about getting DMCA'd by Warner Music onto Fred von Lohmann at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. You'll recall that Jason and his wife put up on Vimeo a reunion slideshow with several tracks of music and that Warner Music Group promptly filed a DMCA take-down notice. Fred's...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, YouTube Inc., DMCA, Warner Music Group Corp., Fred, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Warner Music Group: All your memories belong to us

I would consider myself to be a law-abiding citizen and as a writer, someone who has respect for copyright laws, particularly as it applies to the written word and major works of media, such as music, television shows and movies. So I completely understand why a...

Tags: Memory, Video, Warner Music Group Corp., Music, Material, Vimeo, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-02

AT&T is first ISP to bully music pirates for RIAA

updates below It looks like the Recording Industry Association of America has deputized its first Internet Service Provider to police the Internet for music pirates. CNET reports that AT&T is the the first to team with the RIAA following reports in December that the...

Tags: Comcast Corp., RIAA, Internet Service Provider, AT&T Corp., Piracy, Music Pirate, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation

Apple recently sent a "cease and desist" email to bluwiki demanding the removal of postings by users who are trying to figure out how to write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone and iPod touch. According to the EFF: Apple doesn't...

Tags: Apple iPod, DMCA, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-02

What does the spam ISP shutdown really mean?

It has been over a week since the takedown of an ISP responsible for directing a large portion of Internet's spam. While many groups immediately hailed a massive drop in spam, the true story was more nuanced. Everyone, save the spammers, hates spam, and this story...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Cyberthreats, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Spam, Security, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBC

The point is to actually make fair use  -- fair and creative use -- use of someone's professionally produced content, if you're going to post a video online. The executive vice president and general counsel of NBC Universal, Rick Cotton, this afternoon said that 99 percent of...

Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing, NBC Universal Inc., Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Video, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Spam rates massively down on shutdown of rogue ISP

Several major news outlets are reporting that the shutdown of a rogue ISP in the Bay Area has lead to a massive drop in the global amount of spam. While this is "good thing", this event is not an end of spam, nor is it even the beginning of...

Tags: Shutdown, Spammer, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Lack of phishing attacks data sharing puts $300M at stake annually

Lack of phishing attacks data sharing puts $300M at stake annuallyA Contrary Perspective On Data SharingI completely agree that speed is the critical matter in taking down phishing sites. Unfortunately, I respectfully have to differ with Moore, Clayton and Danchev's suggested method for improving those times. Their prescription is...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, phishing, take-down company, data sharing

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

McCain to YouTube: Respect fair use (at least for pols)

YouTube's speedy response to DMCA take-down notices has been the subject of lawsuits â€" notably Stephanie Lenz, who with the EFF sued when YouTube deleted her video of her kid rockin' out to a Prince song. Now John McCain has a problem with YouTube take-downs. In a...

Tags: YouTube Inc., John McCain, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-14

As the Net Churns: Fast-Flux Botnet Observations

While botnets themselves provide a rich platform for financial gain for the botnet master, the use of infected hosts as webservers can provide an additional botnet use. Botnet herders often use fast-flux DNS techniques to host unwanted or illegal content within a botnet. These techniques change the mapping of domain...

Tags: Technique, Bot, University Of Mannheim, Productivity, Domain Names, Web Servers, Internet

White papers 2008-09-05