Posts Tagged with ‘dmca’

Remember playing the "telephone game" as a child? You'd stand in a line or sit in a circle and pass messages from one person to the next, whispering into an ear. At the end of the line, the message was usually so garbled from the first person as to be unrecognizable from what it began as. So goes the tech blogosphere these days.
News moves at a fast and furious pace, with each blogger trying to jump on the latest news [...]

The legal standing of much of Web 2.0 is based on the U.S. concept of safe harbor, which essentially means that no web site operator can be held accountable for anything posted on their site by the users. I'm no lawyer, and turned to an excellent breakdown of what safe harbor is and what laws ensure it from Eric Goldberg, Assistant Professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law, which he gave in an interview with ION Connection:
47 USC [...]

You have to hand it to brokep and rest of The Pirate Bay. Juggling raids, location shifts, development plans, and lots else, the team behind the most brazen (and arguably most chivalrous) anti-Big-Media effort known and celebrated by millions upon millions across the seven seas is using what little free time it has to converse about such delicious things as its plans to continue searching for a solitary spot that it can call its own. With the help of a [...]

Say what one will about The Pirate Bay. There?s something to be said about the operation?s audacity in the face of massive opposition by regulatory (industry-backed, to boot) bodies like the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
Despite repeated demands to filter out the illegal from its servers, The Pirate Bay has almost never ceased to provide a venue in which Netizens from around the world can share content (both copyrighted [...]

The plot thickens every day in the battle between various entities and the tag team of Google and YouTube. The yesterday's news is that NBC Universal has taken sides with Viacom in their piracy lawsuit. This lawsuit, and the most recent one by the English Premier Soccer League we reported on a couple of days ago, may signal the end for "questionably" legal content submission not only on YouTube but anywhere the U.S court has jurisdiction or influence. The weighing in of [...]

Two months ago, a big disturbance was detected in the world of online media. Viacom, an old media giant, stated that it was suing Google, a company also worth billions upon billions of dollars, for allowing copyright infringement to go unchecked on the $1.65 billion dollar video site it picked up. For the most part, Google’s response has been muted, and there have only been vague notices as to deliberations behind closed doors.
At the close of April, however, Larry, Sergey, [...]

Police forces worldwide have never really been… accepted. They carry those polished batons around, they always appear to square their shoulders, as if they’re a different breed. Sometimes they do very commendable acts. More often they give us tickets. They do stupid things as well. Here’s a case in point.
EU commission wishes to bring looseness of Internet video regulation in check. In short, they want to clamp down on us YouTube crazies. They think we’re hoodlums in dire need of [...]