Archive for June, 2011

MPA Chief Senator Chris Dodd pays visit to Dutch State Secretary Fred Teeven

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Legislation, New Business Models, Public Policy

Senator Dodd feels that the upcoming legislation in The Netherlands can function as an example to the other European Union Member States as the Dutch government plans to introduce:

1. A ban on downloading from an illegal source;

2. Site blocking by Internet Service Providers;

3. More legal downloading initiatives (new business models) for consumers.

Dutch language news article: http://www.powned.tv/nieuws/tech/2011/06/hollywood_blij_met_teeven.html

Previously:

Dutch State Secretary Fred Teeven: “Copyright contract law must strike a balance between the interests of creators and copyright holders. The preliminary draft by the previous government was a little too much in disadvantage of publishers and producers”
http://vrritti.com/2011/06/24/dutch-state-secretary-fred-teeven-copyright-contract-law-must-strike-a-balance-between-the-interests-of-creators-and-copyright-holders-the-preliminary-draft-by-the-previous-government-was-a-little/  and http://vrritti.com/2011/04/11/dutch-government-to-prohibit-downloading-from-an-illegal-source/

Draft OECD Statement Calls for Broadband ISPs to Police Internet Copyright

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policy

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/29/draft-oecd-statement-calls-for-broadband-isps-to-police-internet-copyright.html

BSkyB ( Sky Broadband ) and BT have succeeded in forcing a campaign website (www.stopthebroadbandcon.org), which had been run by their arch rival Virgin Media UK, off the internet

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Blocking, Litigation

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/29/uk-asa-bans-stop-the-broadband-con-campaign-website-from-virgin-media.html

Civilizing the ‘Net: ISPs told to play copyright cop

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Education / Awareness

A major Internet conference ended today in Paris with the publication of an official “Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy-Making”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/civilized-high-level-global-conference-wants-isps-to-play-copyright-cophigh-level-global-conference-wants-isps-to-play-copyright-cop.ars

FarmVille creator Zynga plans $2bn IPO this week

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/29/farmville-creator-zynga-ipo

Swedish telecom giant Ericsson sees copyright abuse as the underlying cause of the piracy problem

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Copyright, Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-symptom-not-problem-110629/

Following file-sharing complaints filed earlier this year, a Finnish court has now issued orders for the ISPs of three subscribers to disconnect them from the Internet

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence

http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-isps-to-disconnect-file-sharers-110629/

Google+, the attempt to unify everything

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/google-plus/

Mortal Kombat reveals for-pay future of fighting game DLC

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/mortal-kombat-reveals-for-pay-future-of-fighting-game-dlc.ars

Paramount Pictures’ lawyers sent me a cease and desist letter for a model I uploaded, and told me to take it down. It was a replica white funky cube shaped object from their new movie. I complied. I don’t want to sit in a courtroom for the rest of the year. I am no longer offering these for sale, and am complying with Paramount’s demands

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

Paramount Cease and Desist Targets 3D Printer ‘Pirate’

http://torrentfreak.com/paramount-cease-and-desist-targets-3d-printer-pirate-110628/

ISP Survey: Three Strikes Won’t Deter Pirates

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Three Strikes

http://torrentfreak.com/isp-survey-three-strikes-wont-deter-pirates-110628/

Attorney-General at Dutch Supreme Court: “Taking away someone’s virtual property should be regarded as theft. Virtual goods can represent an economic value”

Posted: 2011/06/29 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Future Developments?, Jurisprudence, Litigation, Tech Evolution

13-year-old steals virtual Runescape amulet

Dutch language news article: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2551245/diefstal-virtuele-goederen-strafbaar.html

Google turns over user data in 94% of US demands – Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft? Who knows?

Posted: 2011/06/28 in Education / Awareness, Google, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/google_user_data_subpoenas/

French search engine seeks multi-million euro damages from Google

Posted: 2011/06/28 in Education / Awareness, Google, Litigation

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/28/1plusv_sues_google/

FrostWire announces that it will leave Gnutella entirely and focus on BitTorrent instead. This decision may very well signal the end of the once-mighty Gnutella network

Posted: 2011/06/28 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://torrentfreak.com/frostwire-kills-gnutella-to-go-all-bittorrent-110627/

Though there are several reasons digital gaming has grown in popularity as of late, the sheer number of places people can access games nowadays is integral to its growth

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20074676-17/digital-gamers-nearing-hard-core-in-time-playing/

Google gets most requests for user data from U.S.

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness, Google, Stats / reports

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20074661-93/google-gets-most-requests-for-user-data-from-u.s/

Microsoft to test white-space spectrum for wireless – Consortium test this week will investigate how unused TV spectrum could be tapped for new wireless broadband networks, according a Financial Times report

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20074527-94/microsoft-to-test-white-space-spectrum-for-wireless/

See also:

UPD Microsoft and BT Trial White Space Wireless Broadband Tech in Cambridge UK
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/27/microsoft-and-bt-to-trial-white-space-wireless-broadband-tech-in-cambridge-uk.html

“We want to improve accountability and make sure that the public are able to make informed judgements about the decisions made on their behalf. So if taxpayers’ money is being spent on speed cameras then it is right that information about their effectiveness is available to the public.”

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/dft_speed_camera_data_publish/

Why ISPs Becoming Hollywood Enforcers Won’t Actually Solve Hollywood’s Problem

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness

Senator Leahy Praises US Gov’t Censorship Of Websites As ICE Takes Another Victory Lap

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110622/23544914820/senator-leahy-praises-us-govt-censorship-websites-as-ice-takes-another-victory-lap.shtml

Rhode Island is pushing forward with a broadly written law (for the children, of course!), which would let police get names and other identifying information from service providers for online speech that they find to be “offensive” or harassing, without requiring that it go through a judge for a warrant first

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Legislation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110620/12050914769/rhode-island-says-police-can-decloak-anonymous-people-online-if-they-find-them-offensive.shtml

Attempt At Dutch ISP Filtering Results In Net Neutrality Law

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Legislation, Net Neutrality, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110624/03121714838/as-predicted-attempt-dutch-isp-filtering-results-net-neutrality-law.shtml

Telstra Having Second Thoughts Over Censorship Plan; Fears Reprisals From Hactivists

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/01175214853/telstra-having-second-thoughts-over-censorship-plan-fears-reprisals-hactivists.shtml

Prince: “We made money [online] before piracy was real crazy. Nobody’s making money now except phone companies, Apple and Google. I’m supposed to go to the White House to talk about copyright protection. It’s like the gold rush out there. Or a carjacking. There’s no boundaries.”

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110624/12140014847/prince-digital-music-has-different-impact-your-brain.shtml

Turntable.fm Blocked To All Non-US Users

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Blocking, Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110626/22420014868/that-didnt-take-long-turntablefm-blocked-to-all-non-us-users.shtml

Facebook crept past Microsoft in the UK for the first time last month, when it became more popular than every other site surfed in the country with the exception of web kingpin Google

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/facebook_750_million_overtakes_microsoft_in_uk/

PS3 hacker Hotz accepts job at Facebook

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness

Chronic-Dev Team member Joshua Hill reportedly found out about Hotz’s unexpected career move after the hacker backed out of an upcoming iPad 2 hacking challenge because of his status as an employee of the social network

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/hotz_joins_facebook/

Groupon faces multitude of legal headaches in US

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/groupon_legal_issues/

Russian payment processing boss held over DDoS-for-hire plot

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/chronopay_arrests/

LulzSec calls it quits, claims 50 days of mayhem was all it wanted

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/06/lulzsec-calls-it-quits-claims-50-days-of-mayhem-was-all-it-wanted.ars

MPA are back at the High Court again as they attempt to force BT to use their child abuse filter to block Newzbin2

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Litigation

http://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-force-isp-to-use-child-abuse-filter-against-file-sharing-site-110627/

See also

Film Industry Takes UK ISP BT to Court in Effort to Block a Newsgroup Website
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/27/film-industry-takes-uk-isp-bt-to-court-in-effort-to-block-a-newsgroup-website.html

Google has pulled one of the most popular torrent download managers from the Android Market because of policy violations

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/google-boots-transdroid-torrent-manager-from-android-market-110626/

MPAA want Hotfile to hand over just about every piece of data the company holds, from the IP addresses of uploaders and downloaders to the company’s source code

Posted: 2011/06/27 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://torrentfreak.com/hotfile-battles-mpaa-over-private-user-data-disclosure-110625/

High tech investors slam Hollywood, blast Internet censorship bill – dozens of prominent high-tech entrepreneurs and investors signed a letter urging members of Congress to reject the PROTECT IP Act

Posted: 2011/06/25 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy

“We think PIPA will ultimately put American innovators and investors at a clear disadvantage in the global economy,” the letter states. It praises section 512 of the DMCA, which gives online service providers a “safe harbor” from copyright liability if they promptly remove infringing materials. They warn that the PROTECT IP Act will upset the “delicate balance” embodied in this provision.

Congress should not chill investment and reduce incentives to work on private sector solutions. Instead, we encourage Congress to focus on making it easier to license works and bring new, innovative services to market.

Sincerely,

Marc Andreessen, Andreessen Horowitz
Brady Bohrmann,  Avalon Ventures
John Borthwick,  Betaworks
Mike Brown, Jr.,  AOL Ventures
Brad Burnham,  Union Square Ventures
Jeffrey Bussgang,  Flybridge Capital Partners
John Buttrick,  Union Square Ventures
Randy Castleman,  Court Square Ventures
Tony Conrad, True Ventures
Ron Conway,  SV Angel
Chris Dixon,  Founder Collective
Bill Draper,  Draper Richards
Esther Dyson,  EDventure Holdings
Roger Ehrenberg,  IA Ventures
Brad Feld,  Foundry Group
Peter Fenton,  Benchmark Capital
Ron Fisher,  Softbank Capital
Chris Fralic,  First Round Capital
David Frankel,  Founder Collective
Ric Fulop,  North Bridge
Brad Gillespie,  IA Ventures
Allen “Pete” Grum,  Rand Capital
Chip Hazard,  Flybridge Capital Partners
Rick Heitzmann,  FirstMark Capital
Eric Hippeau,  Lerer Ventures
Reid Hoffman,  Greylock Partners
Ben Horowitz,  Andreessen Horowitz
Rob Hutter, Learn Capital
Mark Jacobsen,  OATV
Amish Jani,  First Mark Capital
Brian Kempner,  First Mark Capital
Vinod Khosla,  Khosla Ventures
Josh Kopelman,  First Round Capital
David Lee,  SV Angel
Lawrence Lenihan, FirstMark Capital
Kenneth Lerer,  Lerer Ventures
Jordan Levy,  Softbank Capital
Greg Mauro, Learn Capital
Jason Mendelson,  Foundry Group
R. Ann Miura-Ko,  Floodgate
Howard Morgan,  First Round Capital
John O’Farrell,  Andreessen Horowitz
Tim O’Reilly,  OATV
David Pakman,  Venrock
Eric Paley,  Founder Collective
Alan Patricof,  Greycroft Partners
Danny Rimer,  Index Ventures
Neil Rimer,  Index Ventures
Bryce Roberts,  OATV
Bijan Sabet,  Spark Capital
David Sze,  Greylock Partners
Andrew Weissman,  Betaworks
Albert Wenger,  Union Square Ventures
Eric Wiesen, RRE Ventures
Fred Wilson,  Union Square Ventures

More: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/high-tech-investors-blast-internet-censorship-billhigh-tech-investors-slam-hollywood-blast-internet-censorship-bill.ars

See also: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14CkX3zDyAxShrqUqEkewtUCjvvFdciIbKjC18_eUHkg/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CNHr3I4L&ndplr=1&pli=1

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