Add Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) to the list of folks who complain YouTube is neither thorough or expedient in removing objectionable content from its servers, whether it be in violation of copyright or “good taste.”
If there was an Emmy Award for legislation production, NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker would surely win it. Last October he called upon Congress to pass a bill that would create a dedicated intellectual-property enforcement bureau and today it’s looking more and more like he’s going to get it.
This week members of the House [...]
If the Motion Picture Association of America is so intent on shuttering BitTorrent trackers, perhaps it should set its sites on the really big offenders, like say … Google. It’s going to have to sooner or later, because some day there won’t be any smaller operations left for it to sue.
If you lack the moral compass with which to determine ownership of digital music, Recording Industry Association of America president Cary “tough love” Sherman would like to provide you with one. Speaking at the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee’s State of the Net Conference in late January, Sherman suggested that rather than filtering the Internet [...]
The cheeky folks at the Pirate Bay may need a peg leg or two when Sweden’s legal sharks are done with them. A Swedish prosecutor filed charges today against the popular BitTorrent tracker’s proprietors, accusing them of “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws.“
“The operation of the Pirate Bay is financed through advertising revenues,” [...]
Digital music sales are soaring, but that hasn’t stopped the recording industry from continuing to spin its long-running woe-is-me tale of piracy and declining revenues.
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s 2008 Digital Music Report (PDF), global digital music sales rose to $2.9 billion in 2007, up from $2.1 billion in 2006.
Now that [...]
According to last year’s looking-ahead-to-the-year- to-come lists, 2007 was to be “a year of hyperdisruption for the technology industry.” It was to be “a year of carnage.” But it was also to be “a year of great happiness and multiple blessings.” Above all, 2007 was to be “a busy year for technology.” Which, as you’ll see below, is pretty much how it turned out. What follows is Digital Daily’s abridged guide to the year in tech news–a fond reminiscence of what was, and our First Annual Year-End List For Year-End List Haters.
Looks like Samba is the first beneficiary of the European Commission’s antitrust sanctions against Microsoft. To comply with the terms established by the EC’s 2004 antitrust ruling, the software giant has signed an agreement with Samba that will give the company the protocol documentation its developers need to make its open-source software inter-operate with Windows.
“Today [...]
Copy-protection vendor Macrovision’s decision to acquire Gemstar impressed investors about as much as one of the “Welcome Back, Kotter” reruns listed in Gemstar’s flagship magazine, TV Guide. Macrovision shares dropped 24%, to $19.66, and Gemstar lost 18%, to $4.91, on news of the $2.8 billion deal.
Seems the market’s not too keen on Macrovision spending that [...]
A $9,250 per-song fine might seem an excessive punishment for illegally sharing music for no personal gain, but it’s really not. According to the U.S. Justice Department, anyway.
The DOJ says the $222,000 in damages awarded to the Recording Industry Association of America in the Virgin Records America et al. v. Thomas copyright-infringement case is constitutional. [...]
Auction Action: Confirming the expected, Google announced today that it would indeed apply to bid for wireless spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission auction in January. … Facebook Gets a $60 Million Infusion… Hong Kong mogul Li Ka-shing has invested $60 million in Facebook. … Rise and Fall of Motorola Magnate: Ed Zander, CEO of the electronics manufacturer whose mojo with the Razr cellphone brought the company big gains, is resigning.
Well, look at that. AT&T’s actually figured out a way to turn the bad press over its cozy relationship with the National Security Agency into a product endorsement: offer a surveillance service to owners of small- and medium-size businesses.
Today the NSA-preferred telecom announced AT&T Remote Monitor, a package of IP video cameras and environmental sensors [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
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.
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
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