Due to a recent judge ruling, google will be forced to turn over every record of ever video watched by youtube users, including user’s names, and IP addresses to viacom.
I feel it is Google's responsibility to refuse to turn over data to this overly-broad request. Appeals must be sought and the scope limited. Even though the case should be dismissed based on the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions it looks like…
“The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious than the 2006 AOL Search debacle.” - well this sucks.
I feel violated. I have enjoyed You Tube. I have infringed, yet those infringed upon get’s one of the world’s great value propositions, which is, acknowledgement and attention, and that ‘word of’ spreads…
The RIAA’s extensive campaign against filesharing has drawn in a lot of individuals, but college campuses have remained a major target of the content owners’ legal threats. It’s pretty clear that there’s significant expertise with filesharing on college campuses, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this expertise has been put to use with other
Textbook Torrents (catchphrase: "because you can't torrent beer") is one of the sites mentioned in a report by The Chronicle of Higher Education, and its administrators clearly view themselves as providing a…
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A jury has convicted EliteTorrents admin Daniel Dove of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement. Since the MPAA supplied much of the evidence for the case (saving law enforcement time and labor), both parties are likely to continue “collaborating” to take file sharers down.
According to the DoJ, the jury was presented with evidence that Dove was in charge of a small group (known as the "Uploaders"), recruiting members with high-speed Internet connections to seed illegal content to the…
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A federal judge is awarding Tanya Andersen, who defeated the Recording Industry Association of America’s file sharing lawsuit, $108,000 in legal fees to compensate for defending herself against the RIAA. This marks the second time that a target of the RIAA who beat a lawsuit was awarded attorney’s fees.
It's about time. The record industry is screwing the musicians out of their money on one side of the coin and the rights of the end user on the other. And the RIAA is in bed with the labels. They are a bunch of whore mongers living on the…
The legal threats section of The Pirate Bay is where record labels, movie companies, software house and general anti-pirates have their complaints posted after the staff on the site have ridiculed them. A new set of complaints has appeared in the last few days - some of the most cringe-worthy ever.
You’re a hoot, that’s what you are
I want to hug you in a non-sexual way and tell you that you make my heart burst of joy and cuddle up like a cute little cookie monster and ask for more milk…. and btw, to…
The recording industry and U.S. radio companies have squared off for decades about whether AM and FM radio broadcasters should pay royalties to singers, musicians and their labels. But now the debate is getting meaner as the recording industry seeks new income avenues in the wake of wanton peer-to-peer piracy and declining CD sales.
Will this be the last straw? RIAA seems to be trying very very hard to kill off the traditional music industry and make iTunes/ online music the default music medium. How much longer before Apple or Nokia starts buying a few small music labels and…
The Motion Picture Association of America tells the judge in the Jammie Thomas case that making a song available on a P2P network should count as infringement; proving that actual distribution took place is “often very difficult” and even “impossible.”
At the time of the Jammie Thomas trial, Thomas was found liable for $9,250 in damages per song for a collection of 24 songs that she made available online, for a total of $222,000 in total damages. Since there was no direct way to know if anyone…
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation weighed in this week on the Jammie Thomas file-swapping case, where the judge has asked for public comment on whether just making a file available for download on a P2P network should count as copyright infringement. In its filing, the EFF goes for the jugular and shows that the RIAA’s entire approach is wrong.
Using this method, the RIAA would need to sue someone, take a look at the music on their computer, then try to convince a judge that at least some of this was reproduced without authorization or a fair use defense. The EFF suggests…
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Today Google Inc. launched a Canadian version of its voice-recognition local search phone service GOOG-411. Canada becomes the first country outside the U.S. to gain access to the service.
Much like a movie theatre search service, it asks for the user's city and province, then what they are searching for. A request for “pizza” made from the Globe and Mail newsroom in downtown Toronto yielded eight responses, and the…
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Only a few weeks ago, a University of Washington study showed showed how inaccurate the MPAA and RIAAs evidence gathering techniques are. Now, instead of improving their pirate chasing tactics, the MPAA simply claims they dont need any evidence to bankrupt alleged? copyright infringers.
The fact that the MPAA can now practically do anything they want is totally pointless and crazy… that can’t be let going, they could sue anyone for uploading whatever they say, just to get their cash, because they are too dumb…
The AP’s getting played in their own game.
Well I think the old press is just on the verge of being supplanted by the blogosphere. I find more info that is not AP than is. As others have noted much of their material is originated elsewhere. I regularly am quoted by local media but have yet…
youre tuning in late to the Canadian copyright reform debate, the Appropriation Art Coalition has created a free comic book that it says will get you up to speed on the issue
As for the IT angle on this issue, shortly after the introduction of Bill C-61, IT security professionals began expressing their concerns over anti-TPM circumvention legislation and its impact security research projects. Brian OHiggins,…
