It is said that those who don???t study history are doomed to repeat it. In the case of the copyright industry, they have learned that they can get new monopoly benefits and rent-seeker???s benefits every time there is a new technology, if they just complain loudly enough to the legislators.
Not so much deceit as typical incumbent NPV driven behaviour.
As a photographer, author, and copyright attorney, I’ve prepared and sent for myself and on my clients’ behalf many DMCA Take Down Notices. I also am always careful to honor the copyrights of others!
So you can imagine my surprise when I received an email from Go Daddy today stating that someone had reported that I had infringed his copyright. So Go Daddy took down my entire wildlife photography website normally located at www.vividwildlife.com! The most amazing thing is the infringer identified my photos as his (one of which placed in a national photo contest) and claimed that my website infringed my images!
So the struck eagle, stretch’d upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
View’d his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wing’d the shaft that quiver’d in his heart.
– Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809),
More footshooting here: Copyright Corruption Scandal Surrounds Anti-Piracy Campaign. These are the people we want do endow with further privileges to rule communication? Rhetorical.
If I told you that the DMCA notice system at Google alone was taking $500,000,000 a year out of the already beaten down global creative community, would you say that is such a staggering sum it can???t be right? I think you???ll find that number is actually a low estimate based on Google???s own figures. It makes a $100 million advance for licensing to Google Music look like chump change because it is.
Koha is the world’s first open source system for managing libraries (the books and periodical variety, that is), and one of the most successful. In the ten years since its first release, Koha has expanded from serving as the integrated library system (ILS) at a single public library in New Zealand to more than 1000 academic, public, and private libraries across the globe. But the past twelve months have been divisive for the Koha community, due to a familiar source of argument in open source: tensions between community developers, end users, and for-profit businesses seeking to monetize the code base. As usual, copyrights and trademarks are the legal sticks, but the real issue is sharing code contributions.
Sad
Antony Royal has been appointed director of 2degrees, following the resignation of Brian Leighs.
Royal is a trustee of Te Huarahi Tiki Trust and a director of its commercial arm the Hautaki Trust. The Trust was given a stake in 2degrees, partly in return for the radio spectrum it was allocated as part of a Treaty of Waitangi claim. In addition, it was recently disclosed that the Hautaki Trust has borrowed $2.6 million from 2degrees???s majority shareholder Trilogy International to maintain its stake in New Zealand???s third mobile operator.
Royal is also a member of Nga Pu Waea, the national Maori working group formed to advise on Maori interests and development opportunities in the governments broadband projects. Royal denies there is a conflict of interest in being a director of 2degrees and a member of Nga Pu Waea.
A laser shined from outside the body heats up one side of the power generation device allowing a temperature difference that creates a small voltage via the Seebeck effect. That small temperature change is then turned into energy to keep the device powered. The carbon nanotubes absorb heat very well and the implant for power would not need to be any larger than a half centimeter cubed. This could be one of the most life altering inventions for people depending on implanted battery powered devices to live in years.
Data caps, therefore, are a very crude and unfair tool when it comes to targeting potentially disruptive users. The correlation between real-time bandwidth usage and data downloaded over time is weak and the net cast by data caps captures users that cannot possibly be responsible for congestion. Furthermore, many users who are “as guilty” as the ones who are over cap (again, if there is such a thing as a disruptive user) are not captured by that same net.
In conclusion, we state that policies honestly implemented to reduce bandwidth usage during peak hours should be based on better understanding of real usage patterns and should only consider customers??? behavior during these hours; their behavior when the link isn???t loaded cannot possibly impact other users??? experience or increase aggregation costs. Furthermore, data caps as currently implemented may act as deterrents for all users at all times, but can also spur customers to look for fairer offerings in competitive markets.
Setting aside the questionable desirability of punishing any customer, these facts seem to suggest it’s much more about faux scarcity and margin than any of the transparent excuses and demonisation of some customers.
The relief granted by the court is extraordinary in its scope, and includes:
– an injunction against the defendants prohibiting them from using any Chanel marks or selling any Chanel products;
– an injunction against the top-level domain name registry, directing it to change the registrar of record for the domain names to GoDaddy (!);
– an injunction telling GoDaddy to change the DNS data for the domain names so the domain names resolve to a site where a copy of the case documents are hosted (servingnotice.com/sdv/index.html);
– authorization for Chanel to enter the domain names into “Google’s Webmaster Tools” and cancel any redirection of the domain names;
– an order requiring Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook, Google+, and Twitter to “de-index and/or remove [the domain names] from any search results pages.”
Chanel is required to post a bond in the amount of $20,000.
Unbe-fucking-lievable
The video shows the software logging Eckhart???s online search of ???hello world.??? That???s despite Eckhart using the HTTPS version of Google which is supposed to hide searches from those who would want to spy by intercepting the traffic between a user and Google.
Cringe as the video shows the software logging each number as Eckhart fingers the dialer.
???Every button you press in the dialer before you call,??? he says on the video, ???it already gets sent off to the IQ application.???
Way overboard.
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comScore Video Metrix service showed that 184 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in October for an average of 21.1 hours per viewer.Other notable findings from October 2011 include:
- 86.2 percent of the U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
- The duration of the average online content video was 5.5 minutes, while the average online video ad was 0.4 minutes.
- Video ads accounted for 14.9 percent of all videos viewed and 1.4 percent of all minutes spent viewing video online.
Wonder how many received this on a desktop PC.
Hamish MacEwan 