Archive for 2011/04/02

Long-simmering legal feud between game maker Silicon Knights and Gears of War developer Epic Games may be reaching its boiling point—and a court room

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

Unreal

http://kotaku.com/#!5787462/this-is-going-to-be-epic-too-human-creators-gear-up-for-legal-war-with-shooter-giant

Sony Online Entertainment has made deep cuts to its organisation

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness

http://www.develop-online.net/news/37409/SOE-long-as-cuts-come-205-fired-3-studios-dead

Music Unlimited, Sony’s cloud based music subscription service currently available on the PlayStation 3, will be available on the PlayStation Portable 2, codenamed the Next Generation Portable

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

And it will be available on the PlayStation Portable “in a matter of weeks”, Sony confirmed to Eurogamer

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-31-music-unlimited-confirmed-for-psp2

The digitization of comics through tablets and smartphones proved to attract more casual consumers who are less familiar with comics. Thus, digital channels eventually tap into a wider audience then paper copies only

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/nc/home/blog-post/2011/04/01/digital-innovation-in-the-comic-industry.html

The digital album ‘Songs for Japan’, recorded by various artists following the devastating natural disaster in Japan, is one of the most successful digital albums to date

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports

‘Songs for Japan’ features Justin Timberlake, Sade, Bruce Springsteen, U2, John Lennon, Foo Fighters, Kings Of Leon and Adele

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/nc/home/blog-post/2011/04/02/charity-album-songs-for-japan-is-an-instant-hit-in-the-download-charts.html

Tech companies “normalizing relations” with DC is a bad, bad idea, because when you get into the lobbying game, inevitably, you become focused on using politics to limit others, rather than on your own ability to innovate

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110329/03002713671/does-it-really-make-sense-silicon-valley-companies-to-make-friends-dc.shtml

YouTube’s Reply In Viacom Case Demolishes Each Of Viacom’s Key Arguments

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110401/02080513719/youtubes-reply-viacom-case-demolishes-each-viacoms-key-arguments.shtml

Movie Studios Add Another Window: The $30 Dollar Rental

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110401/03121213728/movie-studios-add-another-window-30-dollar-rental.shtml

Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too?

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Legislation

The copyright industry sometimes complains that the Internet is a lawless land and that the same laws and rights that apply offline should apply online as well. In this, I could not agree more

http://torrentfreak.com/why-is-it-rocket-science-that-laws-should-apply-online-too-110402/

President of the French Pirate Party Paul Da Silva has revealed an interesting exploit he discovered on the Hadopi site

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness

It took the Pirate Party President just 10 minutes to find an XSS vulnerability that replaced the Hadopi search engine with that of The Pirate Bay

http://torrentfreak.com/exploit-turns-anti-piracy-agency-site-into-the-pirate-bay-110401/

TV Site Sued For Linking To Completely Legal Videos

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

http://torrentfreak.com/tv-site-sued-for-linking-to-completely-legal-videos-110402/

A number of TV networks are unhappy with Time Warner for launching its live TV iPad app earlier this month because they don’t feel the company has the appropriate rights. Fox has now sent a cease and desist letter to Time Warner, and more are likely to follow

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness, Litigation, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2011/03/fox-gearing-up-for-fight-with-time-warner-over-ipad-tv-streaming.ars

Hundreds of thousands of pages have been modified to include malicious scripting in the wake of SQL injection attacks on an enormous scale

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/03/massive-sql-injection-attack-making-the-rounds694k-urls-so-far.ars

Why the US needs to blacklist, censor pirate websites

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Public Policy, Stats / reports

Piracy runs rampant on the Internet, but Daniel Castro says it doesn’t have to be this way. He wants the US government to start creating a blacklist of Internet sites; once approved by a judge, each site would be cut off from American Internet users at the Domain Name System (DNS) level, where readable locations like “arstechnica.com” are turned into numerical IP addresses. US-based credit card companies would be forbidden from doing any business with the site, and US-based advertising networks couldn’t serve ads to the site.

If my site was taken down illegally by the federal government, I would complain very loudly. And we haven’t heard that from the ones who were taken down. I think they know they were engaging in illegal activity, and some people have said they’ve stopped.

Castro, a senior analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), coauthored a 2009 paper on Internet piracy (PDF) that included many of the ideas that found their way into COICA.

Much more: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/why-the-us-needs-to-censor-pirate-websites.ars

A new lawsuit claims to have evidence from high-level Clearwire managers that the company intentionally sold service to people who weren’t covered in order to maximize revenue on early termination fees

Posted: 2011/04/02 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/clearwire-accused-of-overextending-coverage-to-lure-customers.ars