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Apple Using DMCA To Limit What iPod Users Can Do
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that Apple appears to be using the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to limit what iPod owners can do with their portable media players: At the heart of...
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YouTube Brings Back Silent Movies
YouTube is bringing back silent movies – by censoring at least some videos that make use of unauthorized copyrighted music. Here’s an example: Click here to view the embedded video. More examples here...
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Defense Atty Demands Retrial In Pirate Bay Case; Experts Question ‘Harm’ of...
Peter Althin, the attorney representing Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde, has called for a retrial, Swedish news site The Local revealed today. Swedish radio channel Sveriges Radio’s P3 news...
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Pirates Capture Trove of Swedish Votes, EU Parliamentary Seat
Campaigning for sweeping reform of copyright, privacy and patent laws, Sweden’s Pirate Party this weekend won enough votes in the country’s national elections to secure a seat (possibly two) in the...
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Chicago’s Horizon Realty Group Sues Woman For $50,000 Over A Tweet
Chicago’s Horizon Realty, a property management company, filed a $50,000 libel lawsuit Monday against a former tenant, Amanda Bonnen, over one of her alleged Twitter posts. Horizon argues that Bonnen...
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Why Amazon Is Getting Sued Over The Kindle
The Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s Corynne McSherry has published a blog post that explains why the group is taking part in a lawsuit against Amazon over the Kindle: Customers who shell out $300 for...
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Did YouTube Employees Upload Pirated Videos To Bump Up The Site’s Traffic?
Lawyers working on a $1 billion copyright lawsuit, filed by Viacom against Google’s YouTube, may have found evidence that YouTube employees uploaded pirated videos to the site, in order to bump up...
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TweetPhoto & Their Lawyers Discover A New Way To Look Ignorant On The Internet
We’ve seen a lot of ignorant new media moves over the last few years – but it looks like photosharing site TweetPhoto and their lawyers could be blazing a new trail. TweetPhoto, via their...
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EFF Wants Your Help To Beat The Bogus Podcasting Patent
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wants your help to beat a recently approved patent on podcasting that many feel is bogus. In July, Volomedia announced that it had been awarded a US patent on...
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TechCrunch Kills Off “CrunchPad” Tablet Project….Over Supplier Problems?
If you’ve been hoping for a touchscreen Internet tablet, it looks like you’re going to have to keep waiting. TechCrunch today announced that they were sending their much-hyped CrunchPad design to the...
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