Posts Tagged with ‘copyright’

It should be unstated by now that websites and media groups will never be free of torment from record labels and music protection groups.  In fact, I hardly give a moment's notice to "news" about some website or college student coming under prosecution from the RIAA or one of its many cronies. 
I am, however, keenly interested when a social network or media site comes under fire for user-created content.   Today I read that popular social network Hi5 is [...]

Since last November, Comcast's efforts to free up valuable bandwidth among its users by banning and preventing access to BitTorrent traffic has proved about as successful as the RIAA reign of terror on the realm of P2P sharing.
BitTorrent is here to stay and, judging from the outcome of the Napster drama from as far back as 1999, fighting the progression of such a popular protocol will only result in wasted dollars and an eventual service allowing legal file sharing for [...]

Odds are, if you are on Facebook, you've played at least part of a game of Scrabulous, a virtual duplicate of the popular board game Scrabble® that currently resides on a list of the top 10 applications installed on Facebook.
I've played several games, most with my Profy colleage Leslie Poston, but from the first moment I saw it, I wondered how long it would be until I saw a takedown notice. Scrabulous is not licensed in any way, shape, or [...]

The man has amassed quite a solid following over the years he’s been working his axe. His purple axe. Whether he’s marketed himself as someone with a name or someone with a mere emblem, he’s been a popular presence in the world of sonic spectacles. Who is he? Why, Prince, of course.
Yes, an individual (more than) occasionally confused with that crazy plastic man at Neverland, Prince has proven over the years quite consistently to be a serious contender in the [...]

Back in July, amidst the controversy of copyright lawsuits, Google hinted at the development of a video recognition technology for YouTube that would help the curb the posting of copyrighted material onto the video community.
Originally planned for a September release, the antipiracy tool has finally made its way onto YouTube, according to Webware.
This new tool, however, is not a completely automated process and, without the help of content owners, may not be able to catch 100% of the copyright [...]

By now you’ve likely all heard of the MediaDefender-MiiVi debacle. It has to do with MiiVi, a site once thought to be one of your average peer-to-peer channels, home to both legal and illicit linking, but recently discovered to be a front run by MediaDefender, an “establishment” now known to be operated under the auspices of Big Media. Knowing this, you’ve likely now judged those in their respective ivory towers as no-good [expletive], whose underhanded (and possibly illegal, if one [...]

Sooner or later I will end up suing YouTube I just know it, but in the mean time pop star Prince is next in line. The music artist plans to sue YouTube and other major Web sites for copyright infringement for using his music. According to Prince YouTube cannot claim that they have no control over what is submitted to their site. YouTube filters porn and other questionable or illegal submissions and Prince's representatives contend that the video site "creatively" turns [...]

Dailymotion, once a newsmaker solely for its hand in the illicit proliferation of copyrighted content, has in recent months (or is it years?) made great headway to cast the image of its former self aside and put its best, non-illegal foot forward, using its records of viewer numbers, among other figures, to attract legitimate licensing deals and to secure very significant sums of funding.
The company revealed this last Friday, August 31, that in its second round of VC solicitations [...]

Big business is not a big fan of the BitTorrent protocol and its growth. BitTorrent essentially builds upon the P2P architecture but blurs legal lines even more, which has led to bandwidth limitations by ISPs, and legal action (PDF) from the MPAA.
With that said, it should come as no surprise that TorrentSpy, a popular torrent search directory, has now begun to block all searches originating from within the United States.
The service was named in the February 2006 lawsuit by [...]