dan tynan on Aug 12 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
Recent rulings against Real Networks and Microsoft reinforce a painful truth: The law can no longer keep up with technology.
dan tynan on Oct 08 2008 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
Don’t expect to be making legal copies of your DVDs any time soon. A judge has extended the order banning sales of the RealDVD copying software. Hollywood is happy, but are consumers getting a raw deal?
dan tynan on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Copyrights and wrongs, Crazyass cults, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
From Jon Newton at P2Pnet comes this report: A group apparently acting as a proxy for the Church (ahem) of Scientology has issued 4000 takedown notices to YouTube for any videos relating to CoS — including things like city commission meetings for the city of Clearwater, Florida (where CoS has its HQ).
To wit:
The Cult of [...]
