Microsoft’s renewed antipiracy push isn’t currying much favor among PC users running pirated software. In China, a nation where 82 percent of all software is unlicensed, many are lambasting the company over its Windows Genuine Advantage program, which blackens the desktop backgrounds of PCs running unlicensed copies of Windows and pesters their owners with constant warning messages.
What do you get when you cross a cowboy, a construction worker, a biker, a soldier, an American Indian and a police officer? Why, the Village People, of course. But throw in a Web Sheriff and you’ve got a lawsuit: The aging disco group has teamed up with the U.K.-based antipiracy outfit to sue [...]
Google’s apparently finished “educating users about copyright law” and has moved on to the far more important business of making sure not to run afoul of it. After a year of delays and excuses, the company this morning uncrated an antipiracy system for its YouTube video-sharing site.
Nothing like an alarmist study to get Washington lawmakers worked up into a pro-legislation lather. Which is exactly what NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker gave them at an antipiracy summit hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today.
Citing an Institute for Policy Innovation study that estimates that copyright-industry piracy costs the U.S. economy $58 [...]
Google’s video content verification system is starting to make Godot look punctual.
Since it was first promised, the technology’s release date has been slipping almost as badly as that of Windows Vista. End of 2006. Early 2007. And then, this past April, “within weeks.” “We are very close to turning it on,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt [...]
UPDATE
Torrent-users can be forgiven their umbrage today over MediaDefender’s MiiVi video site. After all, an online video service owned and operated by a leading anti-piracy solutions provider would seem to have HONEY-POT written all over it. Especially given promotional text like this:
Get MiiVi now! Click here to start downloading your favorite videos now! Our [...]
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12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
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1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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