Joel fought back…. with Styrofoam?
dan tynan on Jul 31 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
File swapper Joel Tenenbaum fought the law, and the law won. Now a jury must decide how much he owes the RIAA.
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Whose Tube is it, anyway?
dan tynan on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Video, Web 2.0
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
Frankly, I thought Viacom’s $1 billion law suit against YouTube was dead. YouTube has been kicking people off its site left and right for posting copyrighted material, even if they didn’t always deserve it. And Viacom had started allowing its best material — like South [...]
YouTube, copyrights, and copy wrongs
dan tynan on May 14 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Video, Web 2.0
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
The longer I stay in this business, the more I think I should have listened to my mother and become a copyright attorney. Don’t get me wrong — I love digging for dirt and punishing the technologically wicked, but just think of the employment opportunities. [...]
