Saturday, 29 December 2012

STL Today
28 Dec 2012
In those terms, the DMCA looks like a failure ... The DMCA protected DRM by outlawing efforts to circumvent it (with a few exceptions) ... The DMCA makes it unlawful to circumvent certain DRM protection, but doing so on an item you’ve bought and want to keep in a different format for your own use — not to make multiple copies for sale — may not break the law....(size: 8.0Kb)
The News Tribune
26 Dec 2012
In those terms, the DMCA looks like a failure ... The DMCA protected DRM by outlawing efforts to circumvent it (with a few exceptions) ... The DMCA makes it unlawful to circumvent certain DRM protection, but doing so on an item you've bought and want to keep in a different format for your own use - not to make multiple copies for sale - may not break the law....(size: 8.1Kb)
Sacramento Bee
26 Dec 2012
In those terms, the DMCA looks like a failure ... The DMCA protected DRM by outlawing efforts to circumvent it (with a few exceptions) ... The DMCA makes it unlawful to circumvent certain DRM protection, but doing so on an item you've bought and want to keep in a different format for your own use - not to make multiple copies for sale - may not break the law....(size: 8.2Kb)
The Examiner
22 Dec 2012
Three Google executives have been exonerated after an Italian appeals court overturned a 2010 conviction which stated that they violated the privacy of an autistic Italian boy by allowing a video of him being bullied be posted on (now dead) Google Video (not YouTube) in 2006 ... From a high level, this is very similar to the "Safe Harbor" DMCA exemption that protects sites against copyrighted content that their users post. ....(size: 2.1Kb)
Houston Chronicle
22 Dec 2012
Saturday December 22, 2012 1.32 am PST by Husain Sumra. Microsoft has released a game tonight called Wordament for the iPhone. The game has been a popular Windows Phone game, but is now also available on iOS. Wordament was originally a side-project for two Windows Live employees that was later acquired and published by Microsoft Game Studios ... [Direct Link]. [ 80 comments ]. Tweet ... arn ... Privacy / DMCA contact / Affiliate and FTC Disclosure ... ....(size: 14.1Kb)
Crunch
21 Dec 2012
14 hours ago on iOS Blog. Zell Interactive's Joypad Game Controller was originally released in mid–2011. As a standalone app, it turned the iPhone into a wireless virtual controller for several Mac and iPad games ... 10 comments. 15 hours ago on iOS Blog. Last year, Signal Snowboards made a board with an embedded iPad to honor Steve Jobs ... 1 comments. 15 hours ago on Mac Blog ... Blogs ... Privacy / DMCA contact / Affiliate and FTC Disclosure ... ....(size: 7.3Kb)
Gizmodo
16 Dec 2012
Eric Limer - . Back in May when Google started publishing the takedown requests it received from copyright holders, the number was fairly high, roughly 250.000 a week. That’s as much as all of 2009. Now, it’s even higher. As of this month, that number has reached 2.5 million ... Even with that insane volume, Google has been able to keep up quite well so far ... copyright, dmca, google, takedowns, transparency report ... Comments ... UK....(size: 4.1Kb)
The Verge
15 Dec 2012
Use of Google's takedown tool for search results has grown tenfold in the past six months, the company reports ... Now, that number has jumped to over 2.5 million a week. That's a huge change, but not an unprecedented one, as requests have been increasing rapidly for the past several years ... Source Google Policy by the Numbers Related Items copyright transparency dmca takedown google search statistics Google. ....(size: 2.3Kb)
The Examiner
14 Dec 2012
In an action similar to what Universal Studios attempted to do regarding Battlestar Galactica roleplay in Second Life, CBS Studios has sent notification to Linden Lab©, parent company of Second Life©, and individual SL residents, a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C ... The DMCA letter sent via email to Linden Lab reads as follows. ... Enclosed for your information is the DMCA notice CBS submitted to Linden Research, Inc....(size: 14.4Kb)
Newsvine
14 Dec 2012
... report, allowing the public to see when DMCA takedown notices sent by copyright holders are false....(size: 0.5Kb)
The Verge
14 Dec 2012
Shona Brown, a longtime Google executive who currently runs the humanitarian-focused Google.org project, is moving on ... Among other things, she was behind Google's internal ticketing system and the way it dealt with DMCA takedown requests ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
Houston Chronicle
14 Dec 2012
Thursday December 13, 2012 7.02 am PST by Eric Slivka. Earlier this week, Russian security firm Dr. Web published a blog post announcing the discovery of a new OS X trojan horse known as "Trojan.SMSSend.3666". The malware masquerades as an installer for various software titles, but tricks users into signing up for subscriptions through their mobile devices ... [ 74 comments ]. Tweet ... LOL ... Privacy / DMCA contact / Affiliate and FTC Disclosure ... ....(size: 19.9Kb)