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Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube and Google gets Juicy
In one of the most unusual stories I have seen in a while, media and Internet titans Viacom and Google are sparring publicly. Earlier this week court documents revealed a YouTube cofounder consistently uploaded copyrighted material to the site to...
News From Oracle, RIM, Google, Apple, Twitter and More
TMC Had its Holiday party last night but that didn't stop an amazing amount of interesting news from happening in the last 12-18 hours or so. I've got lots of opinion and analysis to share on many of the happenings....
Apple Jailbreaking, Twitter and Toshiba News
For those of you in the US - please enjoy the long weekend - everyone else - enjoy the weekend - and feel free to call in sick Monday. Here are some news stories of interest: First off there is...
P2P Textbook Sharing
In my University days I often recall having new textbooks issued every few years and if students happened to be entering a class when the new textbook came out, we were all forced to buy the new edition as opposed...
Will Backing up Music Soon Be Illegal?
Some of you may remember that MP3.com was a dot-com era company allowing people to upload CDs they owned and then stream this music to various devices. It was a service ahead of its time and in fact Webot...
Judge Gives Google a Viacom Copyright Lawsuit Extension
Apparently sometimes even Google needs more time to search through documents. In fact, a judge has granted the search leader two more months to scan through 4.5 billion documents pertaining to a lawsuit with Viacom regarding copyright infringement relating to...
UK Threatens to turn off Web Access
Russell Shaw discusses the talks in the UK which center around three strikes and your out legislation which will turn off broadband connectivity to those people who are repeated infringing downloaders. What upsets Shaw most -- and I rarely see...
YouTube Relations as Political Barometer
I find recent YouTube news is a great way to see how countries look at technology and the internet. On the one hand a Japanese group feels YouTube must rein in copyright violations. The group goes on to say YouTube...
Will YouTube Have Any Files Left?
A good question to ask after today’s announcement that YouTube purged 30,000 copyrighted files is if any files will be left when all the copyrighted ones have been deleted?...
Paris Peeved at Google
Let’s face it, the French don’t like when their culture gets overrun by cultures from other countries such as let’s say those countries where people show a proclivity to wear cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats. Perhaps Chirac had a bad...
