The judge ruled that Yahoo is liable for contributory infringement, copyright infringement facilitation, if Yahoo! doesn’t remove search results after it has been notified of privacy violations. Each of the major search engines has had processes in place for years which enable copyright holders to notify the engines of infringement. However, in this court ruling, the search engine becomes a party to the infringement apparently from the moment the notification is submitted.
Archive for 2011/04/04
Rome court to Yahoo!: you’re responsible for piracy occurring on sites in search results
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, JurisprudenceDot-Mil Cyber Security Spending: Now Extra FUBAR
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Network Security, Public Policy
The Beautiful Decay of New York’s Greatest Abandoned Movie Theater
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Education / AwarenessWiMax-2, which also goes by WirelessMAN-Advanced and 802.16m, has been approved by the IEEE. Unlike LTE and HSPA+, it’s acknowledged by the ITU as real 4G
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionThe standard potentially could offer downstream speeds of more than 300Mbps
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/True-4G-Standard-WiMax2-Approved-by-IEEE-429398/
Massive Breach at Epsilon Compromises Customer Lists of Major Brands
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionEpsilon sends over 40 billion emails annually and counts over 2,500 clients, including 7 of the Fortune 10 to build and host their customer databases.
http://www.securityweek.com/massive-breach-epsilon-compromises-customer-lists-major-brands
The European Commission, which is urging governments on the Continent to consider using open-source software to make their computer systems more compatible, is negotiating with Microsoft to extend its use of the proprietary Windows operating system on 36,000 government computers
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyYour corrupt business practices are indicative of a corporate philosophy that would deny consumers the right to use products they have paid for, and rightfully own, in the manner of their choosing
Major browser makers are beginning to revisit how they handle Web authentication after last month’s breach that allowed a hacker to impersonate sites including Google.com, Yahoo.com, and Skype.com
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech EvolutionWith Netflix’s content supply starting to appear in jeopardy, word leaked to The Wall Street Journal that the company was about to close a $100 million deal for 700 movies from Miramax
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionWhile Netflix has enjoyed a close relationship in the past with indies–any film company that isn’t one of the six major Hollywood studios–some smaller producers are asking the same question being raised at the majors: is Netflix friend or foe?
Google kicks off the Larry Page era: 5 challenges ahead
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business ModelsSaudi Airlines has been caught showing pirated film during a flight
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Education / AwarenessKillers 2010 BDRiP AC3 XViD-ILOVE
http://torrentfreak.com/saudi-airlines-shows-pirated-film-to-passengers-110403/
We’ve seen the entertainment industry flip out and kill innovative products like a DVD juke box that makes digital copies of your DVDs so that you can access and watch them more easily. Over in the UK, apparently they’re also killing similar things for CDs
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsThe privacy group that filed a key complaint against Google Buzz with the Federal Trade Commission now protests that it was left out of the $8.5 million common fund class action settlement to which Google has agreed, along with seven other relevant privacy groups
Posted: 2011/04/04 in Education / Awareness, Google, Jurisprudence, Litigation, Privacy / Data Protectionhttp://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/04/google-settles-over-buzz-but-who-gets-the-cash.ars
Groups that did benefit from the funds included the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Brookings Institution
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/01/epic_downplays_google_buzz_money_grab/
