tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74784833090825740012012-02-09T19:12:04.252-08:00A resource for those interested in the interaction between the law and the rise of internet television.devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.comBlogger1311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-42699974365208216492012-01-31T16:43:00.000-08:002012-01-31T16:43:00.060-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/27/acta_protests_in_poland/">Polish lawmakers don Guy Fawkes masks to protest ACTA</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/27/eu_signs_acta/">Most EU states sign away internet rights, ratify ACTA treaty</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/january-/anti-piracy-code-of-practice-for-search-engines-proposed-by-rights-holder-representatives/">Anti-piracy code of practice for search engines proposed by rights holder representatives</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mega-aftermath-upheaval-in-pirate-warez-land-120128/">Mega Aftermath: Upheaval In Pirate Warez Land</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/01/27/145919516/other-file-sharing-sites-were-not-megaupload">Other File-Sharing Sites: 'We're Not Megaupload'</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/13/uk_student_extradition_piracy/">UK student faces extradition to US after piracy case ruling</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/13/bbc_iplayer_archive_paywall_maybe/">BBC mulls iPlayer fees for archives, repeats</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/january-/emi-takes-irish-government-to-court-over-website-blocking-delays/"> EMI takes Irish Government to court over website blocking delays</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/january-/government-urged-to-introduce-digital-economy-act-anti-file-sharing-code/">Government urged to introduce Digital Economy Act anti-file-sharing code</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/white-house-speaks-out-against-sopapipa-sort-of-120114/">White House Speaks Out Against SOPA/PIPA, Sort Of…</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/01/12/145099987/a-war-to-watch-youtube-takes-on-television"> A War To Watch: YouTube Takes On Television </a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/05/vint_cerf_internet_not_right/">Vint Cerf: 'The internet is not a human right'</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/05/file_sharing_sweden_kopimism_religion/">Official: File-sharing is a religion... in Sweden</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/04/study_piracy_legal_alternative/">Study finds piracy withering against legal alternatives</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/how-sopa-can-kill-reddit-and-many-other-us-sites-120103/">How SOPA Can Kill Reddit and Many Other US Sites</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-4269997436520821649?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-24411614402720477482011-12-31T18:23:00.000-08:002012-01-05T16:45:44.366-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/december/irish-isp-ordered-to-stop-using-three-strikes-system-against-illegal-file-sharers/"> Irish ISP ordered to stop using 'three strikes' system against illegal file-sharers</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/december/council-of-ministers-backs-eu-signing-of-acta/">Council of Ministers backs EU signing of ACTA</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/december/facilitating-website-piracy-can-lead-ad-networks-to-be-liable-for-infringement-us-court-says/">Facilitating website piracy can lead ad networks to be liable for infringement, US court says</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/december/uks-first-intellectual-property-attache-to-begin-work-in-china-this-week/">UK's first intellectual property attaché to begin work in China this week</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/wikipedia-mulls-total-blackout-to-oppose-sopa-111212/">Wikipedia Mulls Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-regime-vs-civil-liberties-111211/"> Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143386730/online-video-sites-go-pro-and-get-original">Online Video Sites Go Pro And Get Original</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2441161440272047748?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-44398865026138019122011-11-30T18:13:00.000-08:002011-12-01T06:21:47.792-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 62px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/november/courts-cannot-force-isps-into-broad-filtering-and-monitoring-for-copyright-infringing-traffic-ecj-rules/"> Courts cannot force ISPs into broad filtering and monitoring for copyright-infringing traffic, ECJ rules</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/grooveshark-prepares-to-unmask-anonymous-whistleblower-111130/">Grooveshark Prepares To Unmask Anonymous ‘Whistleblower’</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-4439886502613801912?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-42131287332529445962011-10-31T15:11:00.000-07:002011-10-31T15:11:00.444-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-lobbies-lawmakers-against-protect-ip-act-110915/">RapidShare Lobbies Lawmakers Against PROTECT IP Act</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/15/search_companies_and_isps_may_be_asked_by_gov_to_tackle_copyright_infringement/">Hunt: Online file-sharing is a 'direct assault on freedoms'</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/06/gove_asks_ofcom_not_to_give_alleged_infringers_of_copyright_the_general_right_to_appeal/">Gov removes 'general appeal' rights for accused freetards</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05/google_copyright_update/">Google in freetard-friendly copyright infringement update</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/russian-minister-youtube-and-google-should-be-shut-down-for-copyright-infringement-110906/">Russian Minister: YouTube and Google Should Be Shut Down For Copyright Infringement</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-4130079079682900018?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-28506759573174560892011-08-01T15:54:00.000-07:002011-09-04T15:18:29.829-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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You're suing the wrong people</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/18/robert_levine_freeride_interview/">Free Ride: Disney, Fela Kuti and Google's war on copyright</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/03/government-scraps-filesharing-sites-block">Government scraps plan to block illegal filesharing websites</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/03/lawyers_fined_file_sharing/">Two solicitors fined and suspended for file-sharer letters</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12128"> Government broadly backs Hargreaves recommendations to change IP frameworks</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12126"> US Court order could force online DVD distributor to shut down</a></li><li><span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);" class=" down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Link" class="gl_link" border="0" /></span></span></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2850675957317456089?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-49580562611944089282011-07-31T17:42:00.000-07:002011-08-26T05:52:24.177-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 59px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <br /></div> <br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12117"> High Court forces BT to block links to pirate site</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12118"> Star Wars helmets did not infringe copyright because they are not art, Supreme Court rules</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12116"> Clippings ruling could derail much online publishing, says expert</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12115"> Clippings services users must have licence or infringe newspapers' copyright, says court</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-launches-movie-download-sites-as-declaration-of-war-110729/">Pirate Party Launches Movie Download Sites As “Declaration of War”</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/fox-will-boost-u-s-tv-show-piracy-110728/">Fox Will Boost U.S. TV-Show Piracy</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/138698872/wal-mart-dives-into-video-streaming">Wal-Mart Dives Into Video Streaming</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12104"> Music rights body wants 'traffic light' indications of infringing material in search results</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/amd-dell-and-youtube-team-up-to-stream-major-concerts/53047">AMD, Dell and YouTube team up to stream major concerts</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/judge-pirate-party-name-ban-decision-stands-110722/">Judge: Pirate Party Name-Ban Decision Stands</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12097"> Internet disconnection breaches free expression rights, says co-operation body</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12096"> High Court asks ECJ if streaming service breaks copyright laws</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12089"> French copyright enforcers unable to keep up with complaints, reports claim</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12088"> Yahoo! does not have to delete copyright-infringing search results Italian court rules</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12079"> UK investment in IP-protected assets reached £65bn by 2008, research finds</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/netflix-nbc-universal-renew-contract-more-shows-for-streaming/52381">Netflix, NBC Universal renew contract; more shows for streaming</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/googles-anti-piracy-filter-110712/"> Google’s Anti-Piracy Filter Is Quite Effective</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/isps-academics-and-citizens-oppose-eu-anti-piracy-legislation-110711/">ISPs, Academics and Citizens Oppose EU Anti-Piracy Legislation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12058">Legal protection should only be given to artists who sign up for copyright exchange, says musicians' rights campaigner</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12056"> US could use extradition agreement to force UK copyright infringing suspects to face trial in the US, media reports say</a></li></ol> <span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);" class=" down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Link" class="gl_link" border="0" /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-4958056261194408928?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-5693163218407749212011-06-30T23:34:00.000-07:002011-07-05T05:41:56.421-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-red-flag-act-of-1865-110626/">The Red Flag Act of 1865</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-chairman-eric-schmidt-web-censorship-is-on-the-march/3049">Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Web censorship is on the march</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-12030"> Leaked proposals detail copyright holders' website blocking code plans</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2011/jun/22/yahoo-carol-bartz-hulu">Yahoo: Can a bid for Hulu revive the ailing internet giant?</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/ireland-set-to-force-isps-to-disconnect-pirates-110621/">Ireland Set To Force ISPs To Disconnect Pirates</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/10/hollywood-3d-profits-jeffrey-katzenberg">Hollywood to blame for slide in 3D profits, says DreamWorks boss</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jun/10/google-new-york-times">Reporters to get author pages with Google markup</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/google-expands-piracy-related-keyword-filter-110607/">Google Expands Piracy-Related Keyword Filter</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-569316321840774921?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-37323500249119367552011-05-31T17:10:00.000-07:002011-06-10T11:34:45.095-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/23/digital_music_exchange/">Hargreaves' Digital Copyright Exchange will never happen</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/24/eu_copyright_blueprint/">Competition Czar weighs into copyright, trademarks</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/23/great_firewall_of_china_founder_shoeing/">Architect of Great Firewall of China 'takes shoe to face'</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/tmg/">France Halts ‘Three Strikes’ IP-Address Collection After Data Leak</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/zediva-countersues-mpaa/">Streaming Movie Service Zediva Countersues MPAA</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/01/adams_arrests_favour_to_distributors/">Wikileaks: Canadian piracy arrests were favor to movie biz man</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/03/why-poor-countries-lead-world-piracy">Why poor countries lead the world in piracy</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-not-a-person-bittorrent-case-judge-says-110503/">IP-Address Is Not a Person, BitTorrent Case Judge Says</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3732350024911936755?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-3953807851178473622011-04-30T22:16:00.000-07:002011-05-03T05:13:09.525-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/28/youtube_vodlaunch/">YouTube to launch paid video-on-demand service</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11885"> UK Digital Economy Act complies with EU law, judge rules</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/feds-anti-piracy-message/">ICE Uses Seized Domains for Best Anti-Piracy Video Ever</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11869">Belgian ISP does not have to filter out copyright-infringing traffic, says ECJ advisor</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/04/08/135218143/u-s-eyes-global-internet-freedoms">U.S. Eyes Global Internet Freedoms</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2011/04/11/135316299/beyond-cute-babies-how-to-make-money-on-youtube">Beyond Cute Babies: How To Make Money On YouTube</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/07/bit_torrent_plays_nice/">BitTorrent plays nice with content</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/07/google_youtube_commissioned_content/">Google plans cheapo YouTube programs</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/08/time-waner-viacom-ipad-streaming">Time Warner and Viacom go to court over iPad streaming row</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/tenenbaum-appeal/">Feds, RIAA Ask $22,500 in Damages Per Song</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/border-search/">Appeals Court Strengthens Warrantless Searches at Border</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/04/08/135218143/u-s-eyes-global-internet-freedoms">U.S. Eyes Global Internet Freedoms</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/nude-nuns/">Studio Suing BitTorrent Pirates Does Not Own the Movie, Records Show</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-395380785117847362?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-71118474741790304272011-03-31T20:10:00.000-07:002011-04-02T10:15:56.931-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/24/judge_slaps_music_biz/">Judge to music industry: 'Worth trillions? Forget it'</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11835">US court derails Google book-scan plans</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/russia-refuses-to-recognize-pirate-party-because-of-its-name-110323/">Russia Refuses to Recognize Pirate Party, Because of Its Name</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-copyright-monopoly-is-a-limitation-of-property-rights-110320/">The Copyright Monopoly Is a Limitation of Property Rights</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/17/download_data_versus_piracy_claims/">Download data versus piracy claims: the figures don’t add up</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/google_review_google_speaks/">Google's copyright review: Google lays down the Google law</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-was-fourth-for-online-video-in-february-2011/930">Facebook was fourth for online video in February 2011</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/paramount-pictures-partner-with-bittorrent-release-movie-110317/">Paramount Pictures Partner With BitTorrent Release Movie</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/white-house-streaming-should-be-a-felony-wiretap-infringers-110316/">White House: Streaming Should Be a Felony, Wiretap Infringers</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/03/14/134538106/competition-for-online-video-content-heats-up">Competition For Online Video Content Heats Up</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/following-afact-v-iinet-internet-industry-formulates-copyright-code-of-conduct-110311/">Following AFACT v iiNet, Internet Industry Formulates Copyright Code of Conduct</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/game-changing-study-puts-piracy-in-perspective-110311/">Game Changing Study Puts Piracy in Perspective</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/5-reasons-why-the-us-domain-seizures-are-unconstitutional-110312/">5 Reasons Why the US Domain Seizures Are Unconstitutional </a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/09/google_france_copyright_fine/">Google guilty of copyright wrong</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/fox-dmca-takedowns-demand-google-to-remove-fox-dmca-takedowns-110307/">Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/supreme-court-recopyright/">Supreme Court Deciding Whether Congress May Copyright Public Domain Works</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/turkey_google_blogger_ban/">Turkey bans Google Blogger over pirated football feeds</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/visa_mastercard_ifpi_pirate_squeeze/">Credit card squeeze looms for pirate music sites</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7111847474179030427?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-33662277121911286612011-02-28T17:51:00.000-08:002011-03-06T08:10:35.290-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 63px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/25/google_youtube_movie_subscription_service_says_report/">Google prepping YouTube movie service for UK, says report</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/23/ask-hadley-television-internet-f-murray-abraham-journalism">The real winner at the Oscars this year</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/19/radiohead_releases_album_early/">Radiohead surprises fans with early online album release</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/17/orphan_works_revives_noble_savage/">Update copyright law for pre-industrial era, says law professor</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/google-gets-involved-in-bittorrent-search-engine-lawsuit-110220/">Google Gets Involved in BitTorrent Search Engine Lawsuit</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/hotfile-goes-to-war-against-copyright-infringers-110219/">Hotfile Goes To War Against Copyright Infringers</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/02/16/133814642/googles-travel-deal-faces-regulatory-turbulence">Google's Travel Deal Faces Regulatory Turbulence</a></li><li><span><span><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/nothing-new-under-the-copyright-eclipsed-sun-110218/">nNothing New Under The Copyright-Eclipsed Sun</a></span></span></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-labels-spain-and-canada-as-piracy-havens-110217/">RIAA Labels Spain and Canada As Piracy Havens</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/eighteen-domains-seized/">Feds Seize 18 More Domains in Piracy Crackdown</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3366227712191128661?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-86262152499944791092011-01-31T18:31:00.000-08:002011-02-05T10:32:24.584-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 59px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/25/andrew_crossley_acs_law_case_withdrawal/">ACS:Law turns back on file-sharer court case</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11742"> Government lays ISP copyright notification plans before Parliament</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11741"> Academics urge EU bodies to reject ACTA</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/google-starts-censoring-bittorrent-rapidshare-and-more-110126/">Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/riaa-lawyer-solicitor-general/">Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11729">Net neutrality fundamental to fairness, says BBC boss</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/do-you-prefer-copyright-or-the-right-to-talk-in-private-110121/">Do You Prefer Copyright or the Right to Talk in Private?</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-horrors-and-the-music-industrys-twisted-reality-110120/">Piracy Horrors and The Music Industry’s Twisted Reality</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11709"> Europe and America host most IP-infringing sites, claims consultancy</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/why-young-people-pirate-pssst-its-not-just-about-money/7581">Why young people pirate (Pssst: It's not just about money)</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/10/eu_sages_want_berne_amended/">EU wants to erect opt-in hurdle for creators</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/more-music-sold-than-ever-before-despite-piracy-110110/">More Music Sold Than Ever Before, Despite Piracy</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/07/online_regulation_in_australia_may_not_go_though/">Oz net filter jams up with smut, may be pulled out altogether</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/07/ec_isp_ip_infringement/">EU law not tough enough for online piracy, says Brussels</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/09/robert-mccrum-copyright-law-kindle">Copyright comes a cropper in the digital age</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11703"> European Commission may compel ISPs to combat users' IP infringement</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-wins-appeal-against-atari-110106/">RapidShare’s Measures Against Piracy Are Sufficient, Court Rules</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/operation-in-our-sites-paperwork-shows-perils-linking-to-movies-110104/">Operation in Our Sites Paperwork Shows Perils of Linking To Movies</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-8626215249994479109?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-5534730860800562832010-12-31T18:26:00.000-08:002011-01-02T17:31:33.350-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 58px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/images-see-youtubes-new-experimental-homepage/7455?tag=mantle_skin;content">Images: See YouTube's new 'experimental homepage'</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/takedown-notices/">Porn Site Says Revealing Takedown Notices Infringe Copyright</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/payup-troll/">EFF Demands Copyright Troll Pay for Suing Democratic Underground</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/isp-3-strikes-anti-piracy-strategy-rewarded-by-big-four-music-service-101208/">ISP 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Strategy Rewarded By Big Four Music Service</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/wikileaks-cable-shows-us-involvement-in-swedish-anti-piracy-efforts-101207/">Wikileaks Cable Shows US Involvement in Swedish Anti-Piracy Efforts</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/03/google_vows_to_better_protect_copyright/">Google in 'better' copyright protection vow</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/viacom-copyright-youtube/">Viacom Says YouTube Ruling Will ‘Completely Destroy’ Copyright</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/bbc-iplayer-international-subscription-service-first-headed-to-ipad/20420">BBC iPlayer international subscription service first headed to iPad</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-gets-150000-euro-copyright-infringement-fine-101201/">RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/01/apple_3d_patent/">Apple patents glasses-free, multi-viewer 3D</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/netflix-strikes-deal-to-stream-first-run-movies-elbows-in-on-the-pay-tv-release-window/42249">Netflix strikes deal to stream first-run movies, elbows in on the pay TV release window</a></li></ol><br />And finally - for the last post of 2010 here's the <a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/12/29/132437600/Top-10-YouTube-Videos-For-2010">Top 10 YouTube Videos For 2010</a> as compiled by NPR. Happy New Year!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-553473086080056283?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-77761881621624227082010-11-30T18:02:00.000-08:002010-12-01T06:23:20.632-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/innocent/">Supreme Court Won’t Hear RIAA File Sharing Case</a></li><li><a href="http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/26/grilli3d_stereo_3d_for_ipad_iphone/">Start-up pitches low-cost no-glasses 3D for iPad</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/youtube_french_royalty_collectors/">YouTube shakes hands with French artists</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/eu_backs_acta/">EU Parliament backs ACTA with few reservations</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/25/india_movie_piracy_arrests/">Indian piracy arrests bother Bollywood BitTorrenters</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-appeal-verdict-101126/">The Pirate Bay Appeal Verdict: Guilty Again</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/dutch-artist-unions-call-government-to-legalize-file-sharing-101124/">Dutch Artist Unions Call Government to Legalize File-Sharing</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/no-ghostriding-allowed-on-armys-sfw-youtube/">No Ghostriding Allowed on Army’s SFW YouTube</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/19/content_available_server_jurisdiction/">Content 'made available' in jurisdiction where server is located</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/nov/19/free-online-content">The real cost of free: a response</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/18/google_france_books/">Google signs French book deal</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/18/harry-potter-deathly-hallows-leak">Harry Potter studio to investigate Deathly Hallows leak</a></li><li><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/business/article_df2ac0f0-b04d-5fd9-ac33-511ccd4197a5.html">Google takes indirect jab at China over Internet limits </a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-gadgeteer/hulu-plus-now-available-on-roku-boxes-for-799-per-month/4130?tag=mantle_skin;content">Hulu Plus now available on Roku boxes for $7.99 per month</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/16/acta_final_draft/">ACTA draft falls from skies</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/usenet-community-not-guilty-of-copyright-infringement-101116/">Usenet Community Not Guilty Of Copyright Infringement</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/irish-government-wants-file-sharing-compromise-or-legislation-will-follow-101115/">Irish Government Wants File-Sharing Compromise, or Legislation Will Follow</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hulu-ceo-new-ad-innovations-offer-more-choice-to-tv-watchers/41659?tag=mantle_skin;content">Hulu CEO: New ad innovations offer more choice to TV watchers</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/man-fined-for-publishing-links-to-legal-sports-broadcast-101111/">Man Fined For Publishing Links To Legal Sports Broadcast</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/european-commissioner-lambasts-copyright-middlemen-101110/">European Commissioner Lambasts ‘Copyright Middlemen’</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11529"> Government announces new IP law review</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/06/google-david-cameron-copyright">The government shouldn't hang on Google's every word</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/web-decries-infringement/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Cooks Source</span> Copyright Infringement Becomes an Internet Meme</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131096343">Cable Subscribers Flee, But Is Internet To Blame?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/08/eu_kroes_copyright_speech/">EC lobs grenades at copyright's Ancien Régime</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11532"> Lessig calls on WIPO to lead copyright reform</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/home-theater/time-warner-ceo-new-movies-to-your-living-room-for-50-by-mid-2011/4280">Time Warner CEO: New movies to your living room for $50 by mid-2011</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/04/jammie_thomas_third_time_unlucky/">World's dumbest file-sharer guilty for third time</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/04/obscene_publications_private_chat/">'Pervy' private chat case springs back into life</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/04/google-flag-up-terror-videos">Google needs to flag up terror videos</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/youtube-yanks-jihadi-videos-marginally-inconveniencing-terror-wannabes/">YouTube Yanks Jihadi Videos; Terror Wannabes Mildly Inconvenienced</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/03/turkey_youtube_unban/">Testy Turkey re-blocks YouTube over naughty hotel romp clip</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/nov/03/web-safety-schools-bloxx">Web filtering, the Scottish startup and the wrath of UK teenagers</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-tool-for-cinemas-will-recognize-emotions-101102/">Anti-Piracy Tool For Cinemas Will Recognize Emotions</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/11/02/130997071/-an-anonymous-offline-peer-to-peer-file-sharing-network-in-public-space">"An Anonymous, Offline, Peer To Peer File-Sharing Network In Public Space"</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/01/riaa_anon_ddos/">RIAA and Anonymous sites <span style="font-style: italic;">both</span> downed by DDoS assaults</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/01/google_adsense_piracy/">Hollywood ruling sends piracy chill through Google</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/01/hurley_leaves_youtube_turkey_unbans/">YouTube founder quits</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/nov/02/bbc-vicky-spengler-tv-developer">BBC Builders: Vicky Spengler prototypes the future of TV </a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7776188162162422708?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-19318281159988022142010-10-31T19:21:00.000-07:002010-11-01T07:30:56.789-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/article_f36964fa-dfc8-11df-80f3-00127992bc8b.html">Online TV spats mean fewer free shows on Web</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/limewire-loses-court-battle-with-riaa-shuts-down-101026/">LimeWire Shuts Down After Losing Court Battle With The RIAA</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11506"> German court sets file sharing damages at €15, not €300</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/oct/29/limewire-alternatives">LimeWire: will users turn to legal alternatives?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/29/youtube-chad-hurley-step-down">YouTube's Chad Hurley to step down as chief executive</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/acta-treaty-or-accord/">Scholars Say International Property Accord Needs Senate Approval</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/dmca-righthaven-loophole/">The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/home-theater/broadcast-networks-blocking-google-tvs-access-to-shows-on-their-websites/4224">Broadcast networks blocking Google TV's access to shows on their Websites</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-letter-exposes-sarkozys-repressive-anti-piracy-agenda-101022/">Leaked Letter Exposes Sarkozy’s Repressive Anti-Piracy Agenda</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/22/emmanuel_nimley_appeal_fact/">Cinema iPhone pirate escapes jail in test case appeal</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/21/google-identify-youtube-cyber-bullies">Google must name YouTube cyber bullies</a></li><li><a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/10/19/pirates-in-the-sky-filesharers-want-to-build-weather-balloon-hosted-download-site/">Pirates In The Sky: Filesharers Want To Build Weather-Balloon-Hosted Download Site</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/18/choruss_no_more/">Legal P2P venture fails</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/news/google-to-digitize-dead-sea-scrolls/476700">Google to digitize Dead Sea Scrolls</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/19/artistic_nudity_allowed_on_youtube/">YouTube clasps naked dancer to bosom</a></li><li><a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1011/irma.html">Record companies lose illegal download case</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/11/harry-hill-internet-tv">Harry Hill takes his comedy online</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/01/righthaven_counter_suit/">EFF backs political site's Righthaven counter-suit</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1931828115998802214?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-64584486227309685572010-10-20T06:37:00.000-07:002010-10-20T07:22:59.863-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lqdn.fr/ACTA" title="Attack ACTA now!"><img src="http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/images/4/43/Acta_attacks_100x165.png" alt="Attack ACTA now!" /></a><br /></div><br />The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (A.C.T.A.) is a proposed multilateral treaty that aims to standardize the enforcement of intellectual property rights.<br /><br />One of the key points of contention with the treaty is the level of secrecy that the talks are conducted under, and the lack of input from what the European Commission terms "civil society"[1]. According to the factsheet distributed on behalf of one of the A.C.T.A. negotiating parties, the agreement will not negatively impact individual's fundamental freedoms, or result in the harassment of consumers [2].<br /><br />Dan Bull represents the anti-A.C.T.A. point of view in his own style below [3]:<br /><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/elUwRb4DroU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/elUwRb4DroU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><br />While the methods of negotiation could be improved, it is desirable that something as amorphous as intellectual property rights enforcement is approached at the level of international cooperation. The major benefit of any kind of agreement such as A.C.T.A. is a perhaps a quantum of certainty that the law is sorely lacking right now, which would benefit both rights holders and content users alike.<br /><br />Footnotes<br />1. <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/trade/creating-opportunities/trade-topics/intellectual-property/anti-counterfeiting/">http://ec.europa.eu/trade/creating-opportunities/trade-topics/intellectual-property/anti-counterfeiting/</a><br />2. <a href="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2009/january/tradoc_142040.pdf">http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2009/january/tradoc_142040.pdf</a><br />3. <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-death-of-acta-101019/">The Death of ACTA</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-6458448622730968557?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-57102669801947533672010-09-30T19:14:00.000-07:002010-10-04T07:20:55.260-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/23/blockbuster_chap_11/">Blockbuster winds itself into Chapter 11</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/23/eu_copyright_law/">EU Parliament calls for pan-EU copyright law</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11400"> Spanish court clears YouTube of copyright liability for uploaded videos</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/acslaw-anti-piracy-law-firm-torn-apart-by-leaked-emails-100925/">ACS:Law Anti-Piracy Law Firm Torn Apart By Leaked Emails</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/supreme-court-riaa/">Supreme Court Eyeing RIAA ‘Innocent Infringer’ Case</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/justice-department-piracy/">Bill Would Give Justice Department Power to Shutter Piracy Sites Worldwide</a><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/pirate-party-crashes/">Swedish Pirate Party Runs Aground in Election</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-5710266980194753367?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-64601561100686580042010-09-23T16:25:00.000-07:002010-10-04T06:48:25.028-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/funny-pictures-pirate-cat-grimaces.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 361px; height: 328px;" src="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/funny-pictures-pirate-cat-grimaces.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-6460156110068658004?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-64706245473170373772010-09-13T16:22:00.000-07:002010-10-04T06:48:46.299-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i44.tinypic.com/21462c6.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 507px;" src="http://i44.tinypic.com/21462c6.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-6470624547317037377?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-50276404254432158292010-09-03T16:20:00.000-07:002010-09-03T16:20:00.296-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://politiclolz.com/files/2009/09/20090919-Talk-Like-a-Pirate-Day-Obama-Appoints-Internet-Piracy-Czar.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 416px; height: 277px;" src="http://politiclolz.com/files/2009/09/20090919-Talk-Like-a-Pirate-Day-Obama-Appoints-Internet-Piracy-Czar.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-5027640425443215829?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-70366567064596572142010-08-31T18:27:00.000-07:002010-09-03T10:33:38.102-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/20/google_aus_censorship/">Prudish Google slammed for Aussie censorship</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/internet-piracy-paranoia-and-the-new-award-winning-thriller-100821/">Internet Piracy Paranoia and the New Award Winning Thriller</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/18/streaming_music_piracy/">Spotify-style streaming beats piracy, boosts sales - survey</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/18/pirates_wikileaks/">Wikileaks clambers aboard Pirate Party network</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/18/itv-player-playstation-3">ITV Player to go on PlayStation 3</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-promotion-says-ceo-of-porn-multinational-100818/">Piracy Is Promotion, Says CEO of Porn Multinational</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/what-would-god-say-about-file-sharing-100815/">What Would God Say About File-Sharing?</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/tv-station-hosts-pirated-copy-of-fringe-100813/">TV Station Hosts Pirated Copy Of Fringe</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/02/afact_appeals_iinet_bittorrent_copyright_rulling/">Hollywood claims Aussie ISP promoted BitTorrent use</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-11275">Perfect 10 served invalid DMCA notices on Google, says court</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-ramps-up-to-invade-swedish-politics-100802/">Pirate Party Ramps Up To Invade Swedish Politics</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7036656706459657214?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-599294446639403822010-08-30T16:17:00.000-07:002010-08-30T16:17:00.509-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blog.beatpick.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/steal_this_comicpng.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 392px; height: 369px;" src="http://blog.beatpick.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/steal_this_comicpng.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-59929444663940382?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-64574244949534435742010-08-25T16:13:00.000-07:002010-08-25T16:13:00.591-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1010.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 432px; height: 349px;" src="http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1010.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<br />Check out other funny comics from the <a href="http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/index.html">Joy of Tech</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-6457424494953443574?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-57122057304923301452010-08-23T17:12:00.000-07:002010-08-23T17:13:01.779-07:00<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W0quDfpfRUQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W0quDfpfRUQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-5712205730492330145?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-54774048312367611162010-08-20T16:08:00.000-07:002010-08-23T16:45:43.978-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3756/artsharingfz4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 378px; height: 418px;" src="http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3756/artsharingfz4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy! (It's an update to Funny Picture # 1)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-5477404831236761116?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-21309351318777133412010-08-15T16:01:00.000-07:002010-08-15T16:01:00.912-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/8558/pirates11726773_6f2fb6c3c1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 418px; height: 334px;" src="http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/8558/pirates11726773_6f2fb6c3c1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2130935131877713341?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-34241792552815204022010-08-05T08:53:00.000-07:002010-08-05T08:53:00.342-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/042406/inside-the-riaa.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 448px;" src="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/042406/inside-the-riaa.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3424179255281520402?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-45738606827156388972010-07-31T21:39:00.000-07:002010-08-04T06:27:24.539-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><h1></h1><ol><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/worlds-first-pirate-internet-provider-launches-in-sweden-100720/">World’s First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/youtube-finally-turning-corner-in-online-video-advertising-potential/36802">YouTube finally turning corner in online video advertising potential</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jul/12/despicable-me-iphone-app">The in-cinema iPhone app? Dial M for multiplex madness</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/jul/12/prince-itunes">Prince's war with iTunes plays into the hands of illegal filesharers</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/riaa-verdict-gutted/">Judge Guts Whopping RIAA File Sharing Verdict</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/09/australia_firewall_delay/">Australia unbans the internet</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/09/google-china-licence-renewal">China confirms Google licence renewal</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jul/08/youtube-leanback-video-television">Internet television - to the living room?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/07/ridley-scott-crowdsource-documentary-youtube">Ridley Scott to crowdsource documentary via YouTube</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/05/prince_internet/">'The internet's completely over', declares petulant Prince</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/college-students-face-file-sharing-penalties-under-new-rules/5470">College students face file sharing penalties under new rules</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/paywalled-news-will-lose-vital-student-numbers/5462">Paywalled news will lose vital student numbers</a></li><li><a href="http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/popcrush/97613984.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUec80yOiLU47cQUU">US seizes pirate movie websites</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/01/us_movie_piracy_crackdown/">US authorities shutdown websites accused of movie piracy</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/fed-busted-movie-site-informed-of-investigation-months-ago-100701/">Fed-Busted Movie Site Informed Of Investigation Months Ago</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/bittorrent-lawsuits/">Court to Consider Breaking Up Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jul/01/finland-broadband-digital-economy-act-repeal">Finns get a right to broadband – can we repeal the Digital Economy Act?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2010/jul/01/clay-shirky-television-vs-internet">Hey, Clay Shirky – TV is just as valuable as the net</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-4573860682715638897?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-49551859884040035362010-07-31T08:51:00.000-07:002010-08-04T06:24:33.729-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ozini.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/download_car.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 240px;" src="http://www.ozini.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/download_car.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-4955185988404003536?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-90959604785390810412010-07-22T15:55:00.000-07:002010-07-22T15:55:00.174-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.schadenfreude.net/2009/06/irony6.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 95px;" src="http://media.schadenfreude.net/2009/06/irony6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.sparkytimes.com/archives/573/nbc-to-combat-internet-piracy-with-shitty-programming/">NBC to combat Internet piracy with unwatchable programming</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/kid-rock-starves-to-death,342/">Kid Rock Starves To Death</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zug.com/live?func=view_thread&amp;thread_id=33342"><span class="ArticleTitle">Prank Phone Call to the RIAA</span></a></li><li><a href="http://www.zug.com/pranks/riaa/">The RIAA Prank</a></li><li><a href="http://www.cracked.com/funny-2153-riaa/">RIAA by Cracked</a></li><li><a href="http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i43268">Very Elderly Woman Arrested For Copyright Piracy</a></li><li><a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_18513_5-insane-file-sharing-panics-from-before-internet.html">5 Insane File Sharing Panics from Before the Internet</a></li><li><a href="http://www.cracked.com/funny-4003-the-pirate-bay/">The Pirate Bay by Cracked</a></li></ol>But the true irony is found below at the Register - enjoy!<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/08/pirate_bay_hacked/"><br />Hacker swipes details of 4m Pirate Bay users</a><br /><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-9095960478539081041?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-26076995646984080402010-07-18T14:18:00.000-07:002010-07-18T14:18:01.026-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wrotemeamanual.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/lobbyist_money.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 98px; height: 147px;" src="http://wrotemeamanual.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/lobbyist_money.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Big media content producers have a lot of money (Disney has a <a href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=DIS">market value</a> of $65 Billion), and they have a real interest in protecting that money, so it should come as no surprise that if they can influence legislation in their favour then they will do it. With that in mind, check out Wired's article highlighting a new website that tracks political contributions and the legislation that it is tied to.<br /><br />Hollywood, Big Software and Coal Miners Pros at Timely Political Donations<br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/maplight/">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2607699564698408040?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-78722108682995707832010-07-15T08:50:00.000-07:002010-07-16T06:16:01.373-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/piracy_eco_friendly.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 334px;" src="http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/piracy_eco_friendly.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7872210868299570783?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-54146840555577692072010-07-14T23:33:00.000-07:002010-07-14T23:33:00.946-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/03/463px-Piratpartiet.svg.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 123px;" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/03/463px-Piratpartiet.svg.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br />German Pirate Party MP charged in child porn case<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/german_mp_tauss_charged_over_child_prn/">LINK</a>)<br /><br />Flash mobs at German airports (34 pics)<br />(<a href="http://acidcow.com/pics/6614-flash-mobs-at-german-airports-30-pics.html">LINK</a>)<br /><br />Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Swedish Parliament<br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-to-run-tpb-from-parliament-010702/">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-5414684055557769207?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-57776449566538593642010-07-12T23:17:00.000-07:002010-07-06T10:45:10.105-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://its.ucsc.edu/security_awareness/Images/firewall.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="http://its.ucsc.edu/security_awareness/Images/firewall.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />An Overview</span><br /><br />Controversial Cyber Laws Around The World<br />(<a href="http://blog.sherweb.com/controversial-cyber-laws-around-the-world/">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Land of Oz</span><br /><br />Oz government sites floored in firewall protests<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/10/oz_filtering_protest/">LINK</a>)<br />Minister: BitTorrent Will Not Be Blocked By Aussie Filter<br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/minister-bittorrent-will-not-be-blocked-by-aussie-filter-090917/http://torrentfreak.com/minister-bittorrent-will-not-be-blocked-by-aussie-filter-090917/">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fortress Europa</span><br /><br />France passes three-strikes bill<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/15/france_hadopi_passes_lower_house/">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Humble Opinions</span><br /><br />New web filter laws questioned by top child abuse cop<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ceop_iwf/">LINK</a>)<br />Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?<br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=2799">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meanwhile in Asia</span><br /><br />China secretly requires real names to post comments<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5369">LINK</a>)<br />Japanese mobile operators shout 'Avast' at piracy<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/07/japanese_networks/">LINK</a>)<br />Pakistan blocks YouTube website<br />(<a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0520/youtube.html">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-5777644956653859364?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-67987747861384665382010-07-07T23:09:00.000-07:002010-07-07T23:09:00.195-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/law/357c/001/projects/jsieman/googlebooksearch.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 56px;" src="http://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/law/357c/001/projects/jsieman/googlebooksearch.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><h2></h2><br />Google-fixated EC chiefs ask Europe to revise copyright law<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/07/eu_google_books_hearings/">LINK</a>)<br /><br />Net watchdog inserts self in Googlebooks pact<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/04/epic_googlebooks_intervention/">LINK</a>)<br />EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5384">LINK</a>)<br /><br />Authors Guild calls Amazon 'hypocritical'<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5375">LINK</a>)<br />Amazon Scoffs at Google’s Offer to Share Book Search Sales<br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/amazon-google-book-search-sales/">LINK</a>)<br /><br />Give Google a break!<br />(<a href="http://education.zdnet.com/?p=3053">LINK</a>)<br /><br />Before Google Books, we took on-demand publishing to the streets<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5445">LINK</a>)<br /><br />DIY Book Scanners Turn Your Books Into Bytes<br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/diy-book-scanner/">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-6798774786138466538?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-28729870935202869682010-07-06T07:34:00.000-07:002010-07-06T07:44:15.977-07:00From last night's Colbert Report here is Stephen's interview with Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation - topics included Hitler and Fair Use (seriously!). Enjoy!<br /><br /><table style='font:11px arial; color:#333; background-color:#f5f5f5' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='360' height='353'><tbody><tr style='background-color:#e5e5e5' valign='middle'><td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.colbertnation.com'>The Colbert Report</a></td><td style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align:right; font-weight:bold;'>Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c</td></tr><tr style='height:14px;' valign='middle'><td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/340745/july-05-2010/electronic-frontier-foundation---cindy-cohn'>Electronic Frontier Foundation - Cindy Cohn</a></td></tr><tr style='height:14px; background-color:#353535' valign='middle'><td colspan='2' style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; width:360px; overflow:hidden; text-align:right'><a target='_blank' style='color:#96deff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.colbertnation.com/'>www.colbertnation.com</a></td></tr><tr valign='middle'><td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'><embed style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:340745' width='360' height='301' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed></td></tr><tr style='height:18px;' valign='middle'><td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'><table style='margin:0px; text-align:center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%' height='100%'><tr valign='middle'><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/'>Colbert Report Full Episodes</a></td><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.indecisionforever.com'>Political Humor</a></td><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.colbertnation.com/video/tag/Fox+News'>Fox News</a></td></tr></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2872987093520286968?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-22870430721165161602010-07-01T09:45:00.001-07:002010-07-01T10:00:58.604-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yxCRFa2o5V4/TCzIkAf_SAI/AAAAAAAAABw/93av0eVfXHY/s1600/blog+post.bmp"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 569px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yxCRFa2o5V4/TCzIkAf_SAI/AAAAAAAAABw/93av0eVfXHY/s400/blog+post.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488982566792808450" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Old Blog Poll Result</span><br /><br />The consensus from readers of the I-TV Law Blog seems to be in favour of amending existing laws to accommodate for the rise in internet television.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Blog Poll</span><br /><br />July's poll is inspired by the poll currently running on the St. Louis Post Dispatch's website (<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/talk-of-the-day/article_c3ca197e-805f-11df-8de9-00127992bc8b.html">LINK</a>), specifically relating to Hulu<br /><br />So the question here is: Would you pay to watch internet television?<br /><br />Results at the end of the month.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2287043072116516160?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-71521321950032773512010-07-01T08:48:00.000-07:002010-07-01T09:27:44.781-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/2000/Internet-Pirate--2107.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 410px; height: 445px;" src="http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/2000/Internet-Pirate--2107.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7152132195003277351?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-92216806552429396562010-06-30T08:28:00.000-07:002010-06-30T08:43:11.252-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/30/hulu_plus_premium_content/">Hulu to charge $10 for iPad and Playstation 3 TV</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/29/google_china_internet_licence/">China threatens Google's internet licence over HK redirect</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/youtube-html5-does-not-yet-meet-all-of-our-needs/8809">YouTube: HTML5 "does not yet meet all of our needs"</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/29/google-china">Google tries new approach in China</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/25/pakistan-vet-websites-blasphemy">Pakistan to vet websites for blasphemy</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/23/youtube-wins-viacom-lawsuit">YouTube fights off $1bn lawsuit from Viacom</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jun/24/england-world-cup-2010-streaming-internet">England World Cup match drives dramatic rise in web streaming</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/30/uk-internet-users">UK internet audience rises by 1.9 million over last year</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/jun/29/web-savvy-lawyers-gain-online">Web-savvy lawyers stand to gain online</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/damaging-to-culture-online-library-smashed-by-police-100630/">“Damaging To Culture”, Online Library Smashed By Police</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-theft-clean-and-simple-us-vice-president-says-100622/">‘Piracy Is Theft, Clean and Simple’ US Vice President Says</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-kills-reward-program-over-piracy-concerns-100620/">RapidShare Kills Reward Program Over Piracy Concerns</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/ascap-assails-free-culture-digital-rights-groups/">ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/copyright-czar-report/">Copyright Czar Backs IP Enforcement, ‘Fair Use’</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/filesharing-groundhog-day/">First RIAA File Sharing Trial Morphs Into Groundhog Day</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-9221680655242939656?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-90665544926760861992010-06-15T20:46:00.000-07:002010-06-30T08:59:10.651-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.venganza.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/trends.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 269px;" src="http://www.venganza.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/trends.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-9066554492676086199?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-71845657678498714752010-05-31T20:00:00.000-07:002010-06-30T08:25:08.678-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 59px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/31/pakistan-lifts-facebook-ban">Pakistan lifts Facebook ban but 'blasphemous' pages stay hidden</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/31/twitter-censoring-flotilla-questions">Did Twitter censor the #flotilla hashtag following the Israel attack?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/may/31/paywalls-pay-per-click-advertising">Pay-per-click is the new online paradigm</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/may/16/traditional-djs-survive-internet-radio-revolution">Traditional DJs 'will survive internet radio revolution'</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/08/1">The Technology newsbucket: Hollywood can disable your TV, plus Twitter, Yahoo, Apple and other stories</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/irma-strongarms-mobile-isps-to-disconnect-file-sharers-100528/">IRMA Strongarms Mobile ISPs To Disconnect File-Sharers</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-worries-about-pirating-u-s-soldiers-in-iraq-100515/">MPAA Worries About Pirating U.S. Soldiers in Iraq</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/uk-pirates-allowed-to-vote-in-costumes-100506/">UK Pirates Allowed to Vote in Costumes</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/carroll/how-microsoft-loses-the-tv-space/1953">How Microsoft loses the TV space</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/news/mpaa-riaa-release-most-notorious-sites/425519">MPAA, RIAA release most 'notorious' sites</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7184565767849871475?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-38298953352363044272010-05-10T22:59:00.000-07:002010-05-07T11:05:13.416-07:00<a href="http://www.marriedtothesea.com/011210/record-wishes.gif"><img style="WIDTH: 297px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 424px" alt="" src="http://www.marriedtothesea.com/011210/record-wishes.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><div>Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3829895335236304427?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-19439431430333195282010-05-10T18:41:00.000-07:002010-06-30T15:47:46.405-07:00Check out this series of Hulu commercials (unfortunately embedding has been disabled so just click through the links)<br /><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.hulu.com/internal/confidential/the-initiative-chapter-1%20">The Initiative Chapter 1</a></li><li><a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/58579/hulu-tv-ads-elizas-a-doll#s-p1-sr-i0">Eliza's a Doll</a></li><li><a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/62807/hulu-tv-ads-seths-giggity-goo#s-p1-sr-i0">Seth's Giggity Goo</a></li><li><a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/70859/hulu-tv-ads-the-leary-mission%20">The Leary Mission</a></li><li><a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/73509/hulu-tv-ads-alecs-number-2%20">Alec's Number 2</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1943943143033319528?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-9728922085658127042010-05-07T22:56:00.000-07:002010-05-07T22:56:00.145-07:00<a href="http://jischinger.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/pirate-key.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 192px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 204px" alt="" src="http://jischinger.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/pirate-key.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-972892208565812704?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-77231703069265748172010-04-30T19:49:00.000-07:002010-06-30T07:54:39.363-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 59px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/15/gao_spanks_piracy_exaggerators/">US gov cries foul on MPAA piracy claims</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10922">France can control inheritance of IP right, says EU court</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/students-all-your-intellectual-property-belong-to-us/4648">Students: All your intellectual property belong to us</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/news/viacom-google-used-piracy-to-coerce-content-owners/413989">Viacom: Google used piracy to coerce content owners</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/11/youtube-web-video-stars">How YouTube made superstars out of everyday people</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/acslaw-anti-piracy-hunt-takes-toll-on-legal-profession-100415/">ACS:Law Anti-Piracy Hunt Takes Toll On Legal Profession</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/liam-gallagher-hates-rock-stars-moaning-about-piracy-100414/">Liam Gallagher Hates Rock Stars Moaning about Piracy</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7723170306926574817?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-30827677065279248262010-04-10T18:37:00.000-07:002010-06-30T15:38:42.543-07:00<object width="448" height="376" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" id="ordie_player_109"><param name="movie" value="http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="key=109" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed width="448" height="376" flashvars="key=109" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" src="http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf" name="ordie_player_109" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><div style="text-align:left;font-size:x-small;margin-top:0;width:448px;"><a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/109/online-piracy-psa-from-awkward-pictures" title="from Awkward Pictures and ChrisDarnell">Online Piracy PSA</a> - watch more <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/" title="on Funny or Die">funny videos</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3082767706527924826?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-42405617741115723702010-03-31T19:38:00.000-07:002010-06-30T07:49:19.058-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/19/streaming-video-online-privacy">Where does privacy fit in the online video revolution?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/22/video-clips-parliament">Ban on broadcasting parliamentary clips on YouTube could be lifted</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/public-figures-protest-digital-economy-bill-in-open-letter-100320/">Public Figures Protest Digital Economy Bill in Open Letter</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/terminate-copyright-scofflaws/">ACTA Draft: No Internet for Copyright Scofflaws</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/10/mobile_youtube_banner_ads/">Google flips switch on mobile YouTube banner ads</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/china_says_google_to_bear_consequences_if_censoring_stops/">China warns Google over uncensored search threat</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/new_zealand_internet_filter/">NZ internet filter goes live - gov forgets to tell public</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/president-obama-discusses-three-strikes-anti-piracy-law-100311/">President Obama Discusses Three Strikes Anti-Piracy Law</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-rises-in-france-despite-three-strikes-law-100609/">Piracy Rises In France Despite Three Strikes Law</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/dutch-pirate-party-joins-election-race-100308/">Dutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/05/youtube_opens_auto_captions_to_everyone/">YouTube: Auto-captions for everyone</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/04/realnetworks_settles_with_hollywood_realdvd/">Real Networks rolls over to Hollywood</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/03/mandybill_injunctions_libdem_ok/">LibDems back copyright takedowns</a></li><li><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10810">YouTube threatened by changes to Digital Economy Bill</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/05/digital-economy-bill-pushed-through">Digital economy bill likely to be pushed through before election</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/05/filesharing-allegations">Law firm investigated over claims that it bullied alleged filesharers</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-4240561774111572370?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-14797731852552629072010-02-28T21:42:00.000-08:002010-06-30T07:38:13.037-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/25/digital-copyright-british-library">Is copyright getting in the way of us preserving our history?</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-ordered-to-proactively-filter-book-titles-100224/">RapidShare Ordered To Proactively Filter Book Titles</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/23/mandelson-decide-internet-suspension">Mandelson could decide length of internet suspensions for filesharers</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/new-zealand-introduces-file-sharing-amendment-bill-100223/">New Zealand Introduces File-Sharing Amendment Bill</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-killing-the-movie-industry-greed-is-100222/">Piracy Isn’t Killing The Movie Industry, Greed Is</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/feds-can-search-seize-p2p-files-without-warrant/">Feds Can Search, Seize P2P Files Without Warrant</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/11/google-deletes-music-blogs">Google shuts down music blogs without warning</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/16/google_yahoo_australia_firewall/">Google and Yahoo! join Oz protests</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/redbox-warner-bros-cut-deal-end-lawsuit/30837">Redbox, Warner Bros. cut deal, end lawsuit</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/17/france_ip_law/">France leapfrogs past Australia in Big Brother stakes</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/illicit-file-sharing-and-streaming-of-tv-shows-increases-100217/">Illicit File-Sharing and Streaming of TV Shows Increases</a></li><li><a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0224/google.html">Google executives convicted for autism video</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/keith-urban-gets-all-confused-about-support-for-downloading-100202/">Keith Urban Gets All Confused About Support For Downloading</a></li><li><a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/02/05/sony_3d_classic_conversion/">Sony to revamp movie classics for 3D era</a></li><li><a href="http://education.zdnet.com/?p=3611">If Google Books deal is anticompetitive then DOJ is anti-knowledge</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/05/digital-economy-bill">Opposition to digital economy bill grows</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/lg-shows-how-to-play-pirated-movies-on-tv-100205/">LG Shows How To Play Pirated Movies On TV</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/ink-the-movie-that-blew-up-on-bittorrent-100205/">‘Ink’ – The Movie That Blew Up On BitTorrent</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/oscar-pirates-fewer-films-leak-online-this-year-100204/">Oscar Pirates, Fewer Films Leak Online This Year</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/movie-studios-lose-landmark-case-against-aussie-isp-100204/">Movie Studios Lose Landmark Case Against Aussie ISP</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/police-arrest-several-in-file-sharing-swoop-102003/">Police Arrest Several In File-Sharing Swoop</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/newzbin-usenet-indexing-trial-day-one-100202/">Newzbin Usenet Indexing Trial: Day One</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/authors-guild-to-riaa-or-not-to-riaa/">Authors Guild: ‘To RIAA or Not to RIAA’</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/from-dont-be-evil-to-spy-on-everyone/">‘Don’t Be Evil,’ Meet ‘Spy on Everyone’: How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/riaa-slam-site/">Anti-RIAA Site Folds</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1479773185255262907?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-36198355146814675562010-02-11T14:46:00.000-08:002010-02-11T16:23:57.628-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/listen_to_yourself.png"><img style="width: 381px; cursor: pointer; height: 424px;" alt="" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/listen_to_yourself.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<br /><br />Funny webcomics from <a href="http://xkcd.com/481/">xkcd</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3619835514681467556?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-84043798238622783062010-02-09T14:40:00.000-08:002010-02-11T16:26:02.224-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://acidcow.com/pics/20100106/whats_changed_05.jpg"><img style="width: 397px; cursor: pointer; height: 217px;" alt="" src="http://acidcow.com/pics/20100106/whats_changed_05.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<br /><br />Other things that have changed in <a href="http://acidcow.com/pics/6547-whats-changed-this-decade.html">the last decade</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-8404379823862278306?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-47109534332937791962010-02-07T22:33:00.000-08:002010-02-09T12:27:55.199-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/funny-graphs-downloading-illegally.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 382px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 215px" alt="" src="http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/funny-graphs-downloading-illegally.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-4710953433293779196?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-16577029540086904992010-02-05T22:31:00.000-08:002010-02-06T08:52:58.530-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/home-taping-is-killing-record-industry-profits-500x313.jpg"><img style="width: 382px; cursor: pointer; height: 239px;" alt="" src="http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/home-taping-is-killing-record-industry-profits-500x313.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1657702954008690499?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-28873187684642007942010-02-03T22:23:00.000-08:002010-02-06T08:52:04.016-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2517/4017284096_60d99a9b2b.jpg"><img style="width: 358px; cursor: pointer; height: 141px;" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2517/4017284096_60d99a9b2b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2887318768464200794?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-15636314020208717632010-02-01T22:21:00.000-08:002010-02-01T22:21:00.299-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://nbnl.globalwhelming.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/riaa-8-400x328.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 328px" alt="" src="http://nbnl.globalwhelming.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/riaa-8-400x328.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1563631402020871763?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-22308077394573194132010-01-31T22:28:00.000-08:002010-02-06T09:33:15.803-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 187px; height: 57px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><ol><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/baidu_victory/">Baidu gets out of jail free</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/28/australian_censors/">Aussie censor balks at bijou boobs</a></li><li><a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/01/28/sky_3d_launch_conf/">Sky 3D to launch in April</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jan/27/virgin-media-monitor-music-piracy">Virgin Media to monitor music piracy</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/26/copyright-cory-doctorow">Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/neutralize-uk-file-sharing-legal-threats-join-talktalk-100129/">Neutralize UK File-Sharing Legal Threats – Join TalkTalk</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/3-strikes-coming-to-the-united-states-via-the-back-door-100128/">3 Strikes Coming To The United States Via The Back Door?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/settlement-rejected-in-shocking-riaa-file-sharing-verdict/">Settlement Rejected in ‘Shocking’ RIAA File Sharing Verdict</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/medical-student-piratey/">Med Student Turns to Test-Prep Piracy</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/21/youtube_hulu_pay_schemes/">YouTube and Hulu dabble in for-pay vids</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/21/acta_lammy/">MPs frozen out of super-secret copyright talks</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/21/music-industry-piracy-hits-sales">Piracy continues to cripple music industry as sales fall 10%</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-killing-music-radioheads-guitarist-says-100124/"> ‘Piracy Isn’t Killing Music’ Radiohead’s Guitarist Says</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-the-music-industrys-most-valuable-customers-100122/">Pirates Are The Music Industry’s Most Valuable Customers</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/us-military-bittorrent-users-targeted-by-mpaariaa-100118/">US Military BitTorrent Users Targeted By MPAA/RIAA</a></li><li><a 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linking</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/music-sales-increase-in-sweden-for-first-time-since-2000-100117/">Music Sales Increase In Sweden For First Time Since 2000</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/second-pirate-mep-still-not-in-office-100115/">Europe’s Second Pirate MP Still Not in Office</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/china-wired-censorship">China Blocks Wired.com With ‘Great Firewall’ - Updated</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/07/ces-3d-concerts-sony">CES 2010: Sony to bring 3D concerts live to the living room</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/09/spain_proposes_website_shut_down_law_jan_010/">Spain seeks fast track for pirate site shutdowns</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/08/copyright_levy/">Tech vendors turn to Brussels as copyright levy talks fold</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/07/oink_admin_court/">Prosecutors claim BitTorrent admin had $300K</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/07/france_report_suggests_google_tax/">France floats Google music-and-movie tax</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/baidu_to_launch_video_channel/">Baidu launches (legal) online video company</a></li><li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=10909">Netflix imposes 28-day waiting period on Warner Bros. films</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/prove-piracy-losses-says-digital-economy-bill-amendment-100107/">Prove Piracy Losses Says Digital Economy Bill Amendment</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/furious-copyright-holder-harasses-torrent-site-admins-100106/">Furious Copyright Holder Harasses Torrent Site Admins</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/senator-demands-details/">Senator Demands IP Treaty Details</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/web-censor-hack/">Web Censor Seeks $2.2 Billion for China Hack</a></li><li><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/riaa-verdict-is-unreasonable/">$675,000 RIAA File Sharing Verdict Is ‘Unreasonable’</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/bono_brings_file_sharer_wrath/">Bono accuses ISPs of 'reverse Robin Hooding' over piracy</a></li><li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=29015">Stay away, Washington; Let "TV Everywhere" grow, evolve</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/jan/04/usa-internet-media">USA: Internet media continue to evolve, old media flirt with extinction</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jan/04/australia-internet-censorship-game">Australian internet censorship - at last, the game version</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/record-label-stops-signing-artists-because-of-piracy-100104/">Record Label Stops Signing Artists Because of Piracy</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/money-expert-industry-should-compete-with-music-piracy-100104/">Money Expert: Industry Should Compete With Music Piracy</a></li><li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/six-ways-file-sharers-will-neutralize-3-strikes-100102/">Six Ways File-Sharers Will Neutralize 3 Strikes</a></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2230807739457319413?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-71084744393507670022010-01-30T22:18:00.000-08:002010-01-31T09:14:29.060-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.southdacola.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/internets.jpg"><img style="width: 394px; cursor: pointer; height: 973px;" alt="" src="http://www.southdacola.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/internets.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7108474439350767002?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-4716606726533626912010-01-28T22:18:00.000-08:002010-01-29T15:36:00.678-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://condoriano.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/riaa.jpg"><img style="width: 369px; cursor: pointer; height: 254px;" alt="" src="http://condoriano.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/riaa.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-471660672653362691?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-61714532690656971482010-01-26T22:15:00.000-08:002010-01-26T22:15:00.204-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uQNqg2QJZPQ/SZJkJ_GsSaI/AAAAAAAAABQ/2LHusEq73S4/s400/piracy2.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 284px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uQNqg2QJZPQ/SZJkJ_GsSaI/AAAAAAAAABQ/2LHusEq73S4/s400/piracy2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-6171453269065697148?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-73175540041932565502010-01-24T23:01:00.000-08:002010-01-24T23:01:00.797-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://themule.info/files/imagecache/articleimage/files/article/downloadingCartoon.gif"><img style="WIDTH: 351px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 378px" alt="" src="http://themule.info/files/imagecache/articleimage/files/article/downloadingCartoon.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7317554004193256550?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-21880033406649252882010-01-24T18:36:00.002-08:002010-07-06T14:29:44.038-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://onethirtybpm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/oink-shut-down.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 106px;" src="http://onethirtybpm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/oink-shut-down.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/everything-you-need-to-refute-a-file-sharing-legal-threat-100114/">Everything You Need To Refute a File-Sharing Legal Threat</a><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/oink-admin-pink-palace-never-abused-copyrights-100113/"><br />OiNK Admin: Pink Palace Never Abused Copyrights</a><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/15/oink_verdict/"><br />UK BitTorrent admin acquitted on fraud charge</a><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/music-industry-set-for-civil-action-against-oink-100121/"><br />Music Industry Set For Civil Action Against OiNK</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2188003340664925288?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-75155370526768272562010-01-24T18:36:00.001-08:002010-07-06T14:27:33.358-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://nexus404.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads2/2010/01/Google-China-Conflict-300x300.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="http://nexus404.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads2/2010/01/Google-China-Conflict-300x300.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10663">Google performs human rights U-turn, threatens China exit</a><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/14/google_china_reaction/"><br />China silent on Google, welcomes compliant internet firms</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/jan/12/google-could-be-granted-copyright-immunity"><br />Google could be granted copyright immunity in UK law</a><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/google-censorship-china/"><br />Google to Stop Censoring Search Results in China After Hack Attack</a><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/18/google_germany/"><br />Microsoft, German publishers hit Google with anti-trust suits</a><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/18/yahoo_response_google_china_hack/"><br />Yahoo!'s Chinese affiliate disowns parent for siding with Google</a><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/15/us_google_china/"><br />US will complain to China about Google hacking</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/18/china-google-cyber-attack"><br />Google investigates China staff over cyber attack</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/22/china-warns-us-internet-freedom"><br />China hits back at US over internet censorship</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/25/bill-gates-web-censorship-china"><br />Web censorship in China? Not a problem, says Bill Gates</a><br /><a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0110/google.html">Google apologises to Chinese writers</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7515537052676827256?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-22987151493447879562010-01-22T22:59:00.000-08:002010-01-23T17:27:19.364-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M4gmkWHvn00/Sr4uQxFGhaI/AAAAAAAAALM/s8qe5zldW4M/s400/comic2-390.png"><img style="width: 402px; cursor: pointer; height: 269px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M4gmkWHvn00/Sr4uQxFGhaI/AAAAAAAAALM/s8qe5zldW4M/s400/comic2-390.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2298715149344787956?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-2497592511300406872010-01-20T22:57:00.000-08:002010-01-22T13:06:25.223-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://techvibe.co.il/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/internet-piracy.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 395px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 293px" alt="" src="http://techvibe.co.il/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/internet-piracy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-249759251130040687?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-32842195297403088422010-01-18T22:56:00.000-08:002010-01-18T22:56:00.262-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mmt/lowres/mmtn168l.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 308px" alt="" src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mmt/lowres/mmtn168l.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3284219529740308842?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-90747301334613663722010-01-16T22:53:00.000-08:002010-01-16T22:53:00.283-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://medias.cafebabel.com/8122/thumb/355/-/online-music-copyright-and-illegal-downloads-in-berlin-download-internet-piracy-gradual-response-three.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 353px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 480px" alt="" src="http://medias.cafebabel.com/8122/thumb/355/-/online-music-copyright-and-illegal-downloads-in-berlin-download-internet-piracy-gradual-response-three.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-9074730133461366372?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-7844025677025263792010-01-14T22:52:00.000-08:002010-01-15T06:12:23.629-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dixiworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/record-industry-vs-internet-piracy.jpg"><img style="width: 386px; cursor: pointer; height: 302px;" alt="" src="http://www.dixiworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/record-industry-vs-internet-piracy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-784402567702526379?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-19143961836127199762010-01-12T22:50:00.000-08:002010-01-13T11:29:13.721-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.freakingnews.com/Pictures/3/Music-Piracy.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 344px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 352px" alt="" src="http://www.freakingnews.com/Pictures/3/Music-Piracy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1914396183612719976?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-16914858267498364782010-01-10T22:46:00.000-08:002010-01-11T08:12:31.165-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mozy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/physical-storage-vs-digital-storage.png"><img style="WIDTH: 386px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 3335px" alt="" src="http://mozy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/physical-storage-vs-digital-storage.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1691485826749836478?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-32757388110849102472010-01-08T10:41:00.000-08:002010-01-09T09:05:01.990-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i28.tinypic.com/2m7xd85.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 345px; height: 270px;" src="http://i28.tinypic.com/2m7xd85.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Here's the first funny copyright/piracy picture in what will be a regular feature on this blog. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3275738811084910247?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-71698044948322225172010-01-01T09:12:00.000-08:002010-01-02T09:23:37.254-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.widgetslab.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/happy-new-year-2009.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 91px;" src="http://www.widgetslab.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/happy-new-year-2009.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />This blog has now been in operation for one year. What began as an attempt to remain industry current on all the developments in the law relating to internet television has now become more of an outlet for my thoughts on the things that most interest me about the amazing developments that the internet has brought. Whether these developments are wonderful (new worlds of entertainment) or terrible (the increase in governmental desire to censor and control) they are always compelling. My new year's resolution will be to be a better poster here.<br /><br />For this first post of the new year, nay the new decade, I have decided to post a link to an article on TorrentFreak. It lists the top 10 most pirated TV-shows of 2009. Enjoy!<br /><br />LINK<br /><br /><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-tv-shows-of-2009-091231/">torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-tv-shows-of-2009-091231/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7169804494832222517?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-75543329521193537112009-12-11T06:06:00.000-08:002010-01-02T09:10:02.847-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Top Gear tops iPlayer hit list</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/24/iplayer_ratings/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Apple angling to transform TV?</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/apple_in_tv_talks/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">China moves closer to a smut-free internet</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/china_white_list/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Closeted lesbian sues Netflix for privacy invasion</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/21/netflix_privacy_flap/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vatican awards self 'unique copyright' on Pope</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/21/vatican_copyright/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Expert claims file-sharing Bill could give Government control of the internet</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10613">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Website archives to be fast-tracked</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/27/libraries-internet">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The BBC's digital rights plans will wreak havoc on open source software</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/22/bbc-drm-cory-doctorow">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Piracy Surcharge Set To Force 40,000 Households Offline</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BitTorrent Sites May Be Censored in Italy</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-sites-may-be-censored-in-italy-091227/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UK Lawyers Drop “Non-Viable” File-Sharing Cases</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/uk-lawyers-drop-non-viable-file-sharing-cases-091226/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">isoHunt Loses US Lawsuit Against Movie Studios</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-loses-us-lawsuit-against-movie-studios-091224/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jamie Cullum Admits to Being an Ethical Music Pirate</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/jamie-cullum-admits-to-being-an-ethical-music-pirate-091223/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama Sides With Blind in Copyright-Treaty Debate</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/obama-blind-treaty/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">It's the end of TV as we know it</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/29/canvas/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vevo to strip content from YouTube API</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/31/vevo_youtube_api_muziic/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google and MS sued over links to file-sharing site</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/09/blue_destiny_suit_against_google_and_microsoft/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Almost half of counterfeit buyers progress to real thing, says study</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10595">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lobbyist: Canada cans copyright deal in exchange for U.S. dropping Buy America</span> (<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=6442">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BBC and British Library to take joint approach to building digital archive</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/11/bbc-british-library-digital-archives">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Streaming will never stop downloading</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/08/music-streaming-cory-doctorow">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Digital Economy Bill: Lords Want To Stamp Out Piracy Chasers</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/digital-economy-bill-lords-want-to-stamp-out-piracy-chasers-091208/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anti-Piracy Group Wants To Ban You From Talking About Usenet</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfit-wants-ban-on-usenet-talk-091210/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pirate Party MEP Proposes ‘Internet Bill of Rights’</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-mep-proposes-internet-bill-of-rights-091209/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pirate Bay Allowed To Take Bias Claims To Supreme Court</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-allowed-to-take-bias-claims-to-supreme-court-091209/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/chinese-authorities-shut-down-bittorrent-sites-091207/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Record Labels Face $6 Billion Damages for Pirating Artists</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-face-60-billion-damages-for-pirating-artists-091207/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">‘Missed Opportunity’ In File Sharing Case? Don’t Believe It</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/nesson-2/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Report: U.S. Fears Public Scrutiny Would Scuttle IP Treaty Talks — Update</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/feds-fear-acta-scrutiny/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Feds Prosecuting More Counterfeiters, IP Pirates</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/federal-counterfeiting-prosecutions/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MPAA Teaches How to Detect and Report Bogus DVDs</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/mpaa-counterfeit-dvd/">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7554332952119353711?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-33336873703830904862009-11-30T22:33:00.000-08:002010-01-02T09:11:49.317-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 62px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Net disconnection requires involvement of judge, says Commissioner </span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10549">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Law firm interested in hearing from banned Xbox Live gamers </span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=6264">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why do people keep buying CDs? </span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/30/cd_still_not_dead_yet_why/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">EU waits for wise men to deliver digi-books plan </span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/30/books_eu_plan/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YouTube to promote its full-length TV shows with press and bus ads </span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/27/youtube-full-length-tv-shows">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anti-Piracy Outfits Demand Cash Without Proof </span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfits-demand-cash-without-proof-091129/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mandelson Gets His Own Digital Economy Bill Protest Song </span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mandelson-gets-his-own-digital-economy-bill-protest-song-091127/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes ‘Legal’ </span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-deletes-all-infringing-torrents-and-goes-legal-091126/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">AFACT v iiNet: Epic BitTorrent Copyright Case Concludes </span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/afact-v-iinet-epic-bittorrent-copyright-case-concludes-091126/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">30,000 Internet Users to Receive File-Sharing Cash Demands </span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/30000-internet-users-to-receive-file-sharing-cash-demands-091125/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">File-sharer disconnection law published to continuing opposition</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10544">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sweden sees music sales soar after crackdown on filesharing</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/23/sweden-music-sales-filesharing-crackdown">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama criticises internet censorship at meeting in China</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/16/barack-obama-criticises-internet-censorship-china">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lady Gaga Earns Slightly More From Spotify Than Piracy</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/lady-gaga-earns-slightly-more-from-spotify-than-piracy-091121/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/mpaa-acta-letter/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Filesharing laws to hit websites and newsgroups too</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/digital_economy_bill/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?</span><br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=6244">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Military Video System Is Like YouTube With Artillery</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/military-video-system-is-like-youtube-with-artillery/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google adds automatic captions to YouTube</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/youtube_auto_caption/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YouTube is profitable, says YouTube and Google founding investor</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10536">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Government confirms plan to disconnect alleged file-sharers</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10538">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mandelson seeks to amend copyright law in new crackdown on filesharing</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/19/mandelson-copyright-filesharing-murdoch-google">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YouTube launches UK TV section with more than 60 partners</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/19/youtube-uk-full-length-shows">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is Xbox Live ban the ultimate answer to piracy?</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/nov/19/games">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YouTube Direct service to link citizen reporters and news organisations</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/16/digital-media-youtube-direct-local-news">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pirate Bay Ship Hijackers Let Logo Hostage Go</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-ship-hijackers-let-logo-hostage-go-091118/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MC Hammer: STOP… The Music Piracy Crackdown</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mc-hammer-stop-the-music-piracy-crackdown-091116/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leaked Documents Reveal Anti-Piracy Cash Operation</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-documents-reveal-anti-piracy-cash-operation-091115/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Czar Vote Heads to Full Senate</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/copyright-czar-vote-heading-to-full-senate/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot Act</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/patriot-act">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Judge Sides With RIAA in ‘Sham’ Litigation Class Action</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/judge-sides-with-riaa-in-sham-litigation-class-action/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">China heralds success of iPhone TV</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/11/iphone_china/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UK.gov denies innocent will be hit by filesharing regime</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/simon_filesharing/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anti-Piracy Group Responds to Media, Not DRM Breaker</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-responds-to-media-not-drm-breaker-091107/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Game Developer Promotes Game on Torrent Sites</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/game-developer-promotes-game-on-torrent-sites-091106/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/policy-laundering/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MPAA Wants Congress to ‘Encourage’ 3 Strikes, Filtering</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/mpaa-filtering">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YouTube tests skippable pre-roll ads</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/11/youtube_tests_skippable_preroll_ads/">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3333687370383090486?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-49978681661813246732009-11-22T15:24:00.000-08:002010-06-25T10:42:43.180-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.engr.uky.edu/solarcar/sites/default/files/Twitter_256x256.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 124px;" src="http://www.engr.uky.edu/solarcar/sites/default/files/Twitter_256x256.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />It's always nice to see that people out there are paying attention to this fledgling enterprise! Here are some of the people and posts that are attracting attention:<br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/moviepiracy/status/4512234751">http://twitter.com/moviepiracy/status/4512234751<br /></a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/moviepiracy">http://twitter.com/moviepiracy<br /></a><br /><a href="http://friendfeed.com/davisfreeberg/f0890ad7/internet-television-law-blog-fm-im-not">http://friendfeed.com/davisfreeberg/f0890ad7/internet-television-law-blog-fm-im-not<br /></a><br /><a href="http://friendfeed.com/davisfreeberg">http://friendfeed.com/davisfreeberg</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-4997868166181324673?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-18563088754711351052009-11-05T18:36:00.000-08:002010-06-25T10:45:39.297-07:00...or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.oclc.org/de/de/enews/2008/images/google_book_search_b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 158px; height: 119px;" src="http://www.oclc.org/de/de/enews/2008/images/google_book_search_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><br />The Google Book Project has been controversial since it first began in October, 2004. My intention with this post, my last guest blawging here, is to give a very brief synopsis of the issues that are causing such consternation and to point out some of the more interesting arguments that are being presented. If it seems that I am in anyway biased towards Google that's because I am, I'd love to work in Google's legal department, and I love it when stuff is free (I have a long held belief that if you're paying for anything online then you're being robbed). Also, in 2007, while I was a student in University College Cork, I authored a paper entitled "Don't Be Evil - The Google 'Book Search' Project". The paper dealt with an examination of Google's "Book Search" Project and whether it would pass a "fair use" copyright test. I was pretty proud of my work, and it was even shortlisted for the prestigious Matheson Ormsby Prentice Undergraduate Prize in Information Technology Law. As a result, I have tried to keep an eye on the Project.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Issue</span><br /><br />The primary issue that has everyone talking in recent months is Google's controversial deal to scan and digitize in copyright, but out of print works, including "orphan" works, i.e. works where it is almost impossible to identify the copyright holder(1). This has lead to investigations by the US government over their concern about the possibility of a Google monopoly over "orphan" works, and also generated a great deal of consternation amongst Google's rivals: Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Arguments</span><br /><br />Those against the deal argue that Google will have an inordinate amount of control over an enormous volume of information and that what is needed is strict regulation of this kind of activity(2). While those in favour of the deal are keen to point out that if Google has the resources and the capability to save "orphan" works then it should, even if the motivation is profit(3).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion</span><br /><br />As I stated in the conclusion to my paper, "After all, as George Orwell wrote: “Who controls the past controls the future”, and Google could be said to be going a long way towards this end... Similarly it could be seen as creating the need for more responsibility from corporations such as Google, who are now effectively acting as the stewards of information for the public. But these worries might well be unfounded seeing as Google believes, at least informally, in the phrase: “Don’t be evil”.<br /><br />Today, I would argue that more regulation is never a good thing (most governments aren't able to use the regulations already in place, let alone cluttering up the law libraries with even more). However, keeping a watchful eye on Google should be encouraged, and when I look at the debate that the deal has created I admit to smiling a little, because if Google does become evil in the future then thanks to the internet everyone is going to know about it.<br /><br />You can find a copy of my paper <a href="http://devalera01.googlepages.com/">HERE</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Footnotes</span><br /><br />(1) "Orphan" Works, Wikipedia Entry, <span style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170);">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works</span><br />(2) <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/google_book_research_corpus/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/google_book_research_corpus/</a><br />(3) <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23506">http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23506</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1856308875471135105?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-6102431183113410682009-11-01T14:17:00.000-08:002010-07-08T16:43:54.058-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i46/BigBucksBernie/FlyAfrica%20Photos/ZS-SBKovertheAtlanticOceanJune2000.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 120px;" src="http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i46/BigBucksBernie/FlyAfrica%20Photos/ZS-SBKovertheAtlanticOceanJune2000.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><em></em><br /><em></em></div><em><span style="font-size:85%;">“The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.”(1)</span></em></div><p>If a police officer were to come to your house and ask to come in and conduct a search without a warrant most people, assured of their rights from watching copious amounts of Law and Order, would flatly refuse and then call their attorney.</p><p>The same would go for your workplace or the locked trunk of your car. But what then about your cell phone or your laptop?</p><p>Imagine the upset and confusion that must have arisen when Bush came up with this doozy(2). Now your laptop, which for many people is not just a piece of hardware, but is instead a portable office, a diary, a shopping mall and a cinema to name but a few, is no longer a place where you could assume that you had an expectation of privacy. Shocking and disappointing as this was for me (an admitted foreigner) and my perception of the USA's proud tradition of civil liberties, more shocking still was the news that Obama was in favour of the new rules with a few minor adjustments.</p><p>If you fly as often as I do, my argument is very simple; I spend a lot of time on my laptop, and I do very many private things on my laptop (check e-mail, search for any random thing that pops into my head) then I should surely have a legitimate expectation of privacy which is not outweighed by issues of national security. Unfortunately, airport authorities need not even have any suspicion of wrongdoing to prompt the search. Granted airports have been traditionally exempt from constitutional protections (<a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2008/10/aclu-23-of-us-population-lives-in-constitution-free-zone.ars">SCARY</a>), but it's an interesting thought that even though you are carrying around your entire life, from trade secret business documents to medical records, on your computer, the law does not recognise these important possibilities. </p><p>I know many people will cry: "Who cares? It's only an issue if you have something to hide. I don't do anything illegal on my laptop." My reply, as always, is this: who draws the line, and who's to say that what is perfectly legal today won't be illegal tomorrow. As this very policy proves.</p><p style="font-weight: bold;">Footnote</p><p>(1) <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_privacy_and_dignity_of_our_citizens-are-being/330279.html">http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_privacy_and_dignity_of_our_citizens-are-being/330279.html</a></p><p>(2) Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5312">LINK</a>) </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-610243118311341068?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-81762957525962797782009-10-31T10:07:00.000-07:002009-11-22T09:49:18.359-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Aussie censor wants power to ban iPhone apps</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/22/iphone_apps_ban/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Music Pirates are Immoral Cheapskates, Or Are They?</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/music-pirates-are-immoral-cheapskates-or-are-they-091021/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright Threats Against Compulsive Singer Withdrawn</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-threats-against-compulsive-singer-withdrawn-091021/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Special Interests See ‘Classified’ Copyright Treaty; You Can’t</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/specialinterests-peek-at-copyrighttreaty/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Universities in hot water over students' peer-to-peer sharing</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=3168">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Warner Says Harry Potter Dinner Infringes Copyright</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/warner-says-harry-potter-dinner-infringes-copyright-091026/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Culture minister confirms court oversight for UK disconnections</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10479">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anti Piracy Laws and Lawsuits Fail to Change Social Norms</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-laws-and-lawsuits-fail-to-change-social-norms-091027/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sony CEO Pleads Poverty But The Movie Industry is Loaded</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/sony-ceo-pleads-poverty-but-the-movie-industry-is-loaded-091027/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A billion streamed videos per day, $0 in bandwidth costs</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1581">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TV Boss Set To Drop A File-Sharing Bomb On Digital Britain</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/tv-boss-set-to-drop-a-file-sharing-bomb-on-digital-britain-091018/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MPAA Fires Three Anti Piracy Bosses</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-fires-three-anti-piracy-bosses-091017/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Parliamentary Comms Group Says ‘No’ to UK 3-Strikes</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/parliamentary-comms-group-says-no-to-uk-3-strikes-091017/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leading UK Cinema Implements MPAA Laptop Ban</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/leading-uk-cinema-implements-mpaa-laptop-ban-091016/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">70% of British Public Oppose Disconnecting File-Sharers</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/70-of-british-public-oppose-disconnecting-file-sharers-091019/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Apple unbans banned 3G TV app</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/19/eyetv_apple/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pirate Bay appeal slips into next year</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/19/pirate_bay_appeal_postponed/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BBC Trust boots 'Open iPlayer' plans into touch</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/20/bbc_trust_rejects_iplayer_federation/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">EU will consider new copyright exception for book scanning projects</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10462">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">China's new strategy puts intellectual property first</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10472">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lily Allen exits Twitter, bins BlackBerry</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/22/luddite_allen/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Home Office backs down on net censorship laws</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/home_office_iwf_legislation/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Motown legend's message for the Pirate Party</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/lamont_dozier/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Landmark ISP piracy case could kick thousands offline</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/australian_court_isp_piracy/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Judge rebukes copyright enforcer in ringtone case</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/ascap_loses_ringtone_case/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YouTube signs landmark deal to screen Channel 4 shows</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/15/youtube-channel-4-google-deal">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google takes on Amazon with book downloads</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/15/google-editions">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pirate Bay Takes Bias Claims to Supreme Court</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-takes-bias-claims-to-supreme-court-091016/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">AFACT v iiNet: Day 8 – Anti-Piracy Evidence Lacking</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/afact-v-iinet-day-8-anti-piracy-evidence-lacking-091015/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">RIAA and MPAA Can’t Stop BitTorrent, Study Finds</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-and-mpaa-cant-stop-bittorrent-study-finds-091014/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alleged Pirate Walks Free Under New Anti-Piracy Law</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/alleged-pirates-walk-free-under-swedens-new-anti-piracy-law-091014/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Labour MP: Disconnecting File-Sharers is Futile</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/labour-mp-calls-disconnecting-file-sharers-futile-091014/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">P2P Site Coalition to Help Indie Filmmakers</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/p2p-site-coalition-to-help-indie-filmmakers-091013/">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-8176295752596279778?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-10403553164887240772009-10-26T18:31:00.000-07:002010-01-02T09:30:52.460-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://z.about.com/d/top40/1/0/l/H/lilyallen.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://z.about.com/d/top40/1/0/l/H/lilyallen.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />What is the world coming to? Musicians everywhere are putting down their microphones/lip synching devices and squaring off against one another over the issue of punishing file sharers.<br /><br />Following talk in <a href="http://internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com/2009/03/current-trend-of-isp-censorship.html"><u><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">Europe</span></u></a> of disconnecting persistent file sharers from the internet, several artists, including Annie Lennox and Tom Jones, formed a group known as the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) and began to publicly oppose the major record labels' desire to punish individuals.(1) A rather brave move you would think and one that should have all major stakeholders (big labels, artists, government and consumers) reassessing their positions. In fact, in an ideal world this could have been the spark that ignited a flame of copyright reform.<br /><br />Then along came James Blunt, whose soppy music and watery vocals would be enough to put out the Sun, and decided to throw in his two cents.(2) So now the debate has been obscured almost completely by the preening of various pro-Industry singers.<br /><br />Lily Allen, the popular singer of "The Fear" and "Not Fair", showed her true colors when she piped in with a condemnation of file sharers, by plagiarising someone else's opinion!(3)<br /><br />Essentially, the arguments on either side can be broken down into: Pro-Industry - every illegal download is equal to a lost sale and must be stopped at all costs because if no one ever paid then there's be no music by your favorite artist to listen to. Anti-Industry - the labels are being stubborn, downloads can do wonders for an artist when it comes to word of mouth publicity and severe punishment by the government of individuals just isn't groovy.<br /><br />While the music world is divided today I'm sure that they'll all be best of friends again when it comes Christmas time and the world is looking for the next Charity Number One single. Until then, the final word has to go to <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/a-brilliant-open-letter-song-to-lily-allen-on-piracy-090926/"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Dan Bull</span></u></a>. Watch the video. Amazing, something I would be willing to pay for online!<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HL9-esIM2CY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HL9-esIM2CY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><div><strong>Footnotes</strong></div><br /><div>(1) <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/21/musicindustry-internetipos"><u><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);">http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/21/musicindustry-internetipos</span></u></a></div> <div>(2) James Blunt: Disconnecting Music Pirates is “Critical”<br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/james-blunt-disconnecting-music-pirates-is-critical-090921/"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">LINK</span></u></a>)<br />(3) File-Sharing Heroine Lilly Allen is a Copyright Hypocrite<br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-heroine-lilly-allen-is-a-copyright-hypocrite-090921/"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">LINK</span></u></a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE - this post (originally found </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/09/massive-tools-become-industry-tools.html">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">) was picked up on Blawg Review </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://solopracticeuniversity.com/2009/10/04/blawg-review-232-world-teachers-appreciation-day-2009/">#232</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1040355316488724077?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-80841666921171137532009-10-18T14:40:00.000-07:002010-06-25T10:50:29.810-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/images/set3/BlockbusterLogo.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 145px;" src="http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/images/set3/BlockbusterLogo.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'd like to discuss a news story that particularly annoys me. The story proclaims that Blockbuster is to close as many as 960 of its stores in the US as a means of streamlining their operations. That's up to 960 stores worth of employees that are going to be unemployed.<br /></div><br />The reason that I am so irate is that the biggest reason for the closures is bad business management. The board of Blockbuster can't just blame their failures on the lousy economy. Sure they've been hit, but what happened to escapist industries supposedly thriving during a recession. Instead Blockbuster is limping along. The real reason for their poor performance is that they have clung to a traditional business model for too long and only attempted to jump on the bandwagon of new ideas when they had already passed them by. <div><br />I am of course talking the rise of internet television, and mail-DVD renting services, i.e. Netflix, DVD vending machines, e.g. Redbox and on Demand cable television services. Numerous other companies providing services that Blockbuster should have been in a prime position to come up with years in advance. How did Blockbuster miss all of these opportunities? Why aren't they coming up with something new/better, not just carbon copying the aformentioned other companies' ideas?<br /></div> This is indicative of a wider failing of traditional industries to refuse to progress with the times, e.g. the copyright industry's unwillingness to welcome advances in technology. And the results speak for themselves.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />Blockbuster to close up to 960 stores<br /><p>(<a href="http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2009/09/14/daily50.html?ed=2009-09-16&amp;ana=e_du_pub"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">LINK</span></u></a>)</p> <span class="fullpost">(*Quote from Johnny <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i-m_not_blockbuster_boy/209772.html"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Depp</span></u></a>) </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-8084166692117113753?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-10069648788310637302009-10-16T17:05:00.000-07:002010-06-25T10:53:46.456-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Japanese_Road_sign_%28Y_shaped_intersection%29.svg/470px-Japanese_Road_sign_%28Y_shaped_intersection%29.svg.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 173px; height: 173px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Japanese_Road_sign_%28Y_shaped_intersection%29.svg/470px-Japanese_Road_sign_%28Y_shaped_intersection%29.svg.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div class="article-content"><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">“The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.”(1)</span></div> <p>For my first post I would like to shed some light on the topic of internet piracy. It is a topic that is surrounded by much controversy and misinformation and so this discussion may prove useful to people who would like to know, just how serious the "problem" of piracy is.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE WHO</span><br /><br />"Pirate" is a very subjective word. For some it conjurs up romantic images of adventure on the open seas, for others it means blood-thirsty criminality. The copyright industry has made very skillful use of the word in applying it to people who download music/film/tv via the internet. However, calling a teenager who sits in front of a computer and clicks on a mouse a pirate is ludicrous when you consider that an accurate definition of a pirate is "A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor"(2). The fact is that the whole copyright regime is predicated on using words in non-traditional ways. The word "theft" is another example, defined as "the felonious taking and removing of personal property"(3), and yet the copyright industry insists that theft of copyright needs neither a taking nor a removing (the original digital copy never leaves its server).<br /><br />Regardless, subverting words is popular amongst lobbyists whose job it is to see that legislation enacted is favorable to their position. The system of government in the USA is designed for this to be the case. However, I would argue that the copyright industry may be going too far in their attempts to protect their rights, to the extent that blatant lies are being told.<br /><br />One particular example is the recent news (<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/04/sabip_7m_stat_sponsored_by_bpi/"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">LINK</span></u></a>) from the UK that claimed 7 million British people engage in online piracy. A huge number for a country with a population of approximately 60 mllion. After an investigation by the BBC it was discovered that the 7 million figure was arrived at after relying on a previous study carried out on behalf of the British Music Industry, as well as a habit of drastically rounding up statistics. The most troubling aspect of this story is that the report was commissioned by the UK government.<br /><br />So in answer to the first question, who are the pirates? They are an indeterminate number of people with internet access instead of parrots, but who do probably have scurvy from a lack of fresh fruit.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE HOW</span><br /><br />Internet piracy covers many acts, including but not limited to; downloading songs, downloading movies, downloading tv shows, circumventing DRM measures, uploading copyright material, etc.<br />As for the how? All you need is a computer, an internet connection and the ability to use a search engine.<br /><br />On my own blog I give the following example:<br /><br />"According to Nielsen ratings...the most popular cable television show in America is "The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick, with almost 7 million viewers. When you enter the search term 'watch "the closer" online free" in Google you return 963,000 hits. Clicking on some of these links will bring you to websites where full episodes have been posted by other individuals. You can watch these episodes, hosted on websites such as youtube and dailymotion, for free, without commercial breaks and whenever you choose."(4)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE Y</span><br /><br />I am 25 years old and so I have been lumped in with the geoup of people known as Generation Y, AKA the Millenial Generation, Generation Next and, my particular favorite, the Echo Boomers(5).<br /><br />We are generally computer savvy but are more vulnerable to the present economic downturn (<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=2773"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">LINK</span></u></a>).<br /><br />Oh, and we're not actually stupid. Although the copyright industry's new approach (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/07/anti-piracy-campaign-bill-filesharing"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">LINK</span></u></a>) to the prevention of copyright theft would suggest that we had no idea that when you pay full price for an artist's album you are actually supporting them and the music that you love. Gone is the heavy hand of the copyright industry of old, the one that would have you arrested for "facilitating" the theft of copyright material(6), replaced it seems with a "oh you silly misguided fool, can't you see how your actions are hurting the ones you love?"<br /><br />Of course the copyright industry has once again misrepresented the situation. Most profit is generated from ticket sales to concerts, not the sale of individual cd's (7). The copyright regime is not encouraging the creative talent of artists, instead it is devoted to ensuring massive payouts to the industry that is charged with distributing the final product (intended to recoup a cost that is now largely irrelevant since the internet makes it so much easier and cheaper to distribute digital material).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONCLUSION</span><br /><br />So there you have it. Internet piracy is whatever you want it to be. Provided you are the copyright industry. A true case of might makes right. It's enough to make you say "Aaargh".<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Footnotes</span></p> <p>(1) <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_average_man_will_bristle_if_you_say_his/331231.html"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_average_man_will_bristle_if_you_say_his/331231.html</span></u></a><br /></p> <p>(2) <a href="http://define.com/pirate"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">http://define.com/pirate</span></u></a></p> <p>(3) <a href="http://define.com/theft"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">http://define.com/theft</span></u></a></p> <p>(4) <a href="http://internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com/2009/05/conspiracy-theory.html"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">http://internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com/2009/05/conspiracy-theory.html</span></u></a></p> <p>(5) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y</span></u></a></p> <p>(6) <a href="http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9066/tvlinks_shut_down_owner_arrested/"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9066/tvlinks_shut_down_owner_arrested/</span></u></a></p> <p>(7) <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20031107/1134211_F.shtml"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20031107/1134211_F.shtml</span></u></a></p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1006964878831063730?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-71930266816031156752009-10-15T10:59:00.000-07:002010-01-02T09:32:36.544-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/752774_64388ae9d8.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 89px; height: 134px;" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/752774_64388ae9d8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />My time guest blawging on ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com is over and so over the next few weeks I will be reposting my work on this blog (perhaps with some minor updates). You can find them by looking for (FM) in the title.<br /><br />My thanks go out to Stephanie Soondar for the opportunity, and congratulations to her on a very unique blawg.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Original Posts</span><br /><br /><a href="http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/09/piracy-who-how-and-y.html">http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/09/piracy-who-how-and-y.html</a><br /><a href="http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/09/im-not-blockbuster-boy.html">http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/09/im-not-blockbuster-boy.html<br /></a><a href="http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/09/massive-tools-become-industry-tools.html">http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/09/massive-tools-become-industry-tools.html<br /></a><a href="http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/10/meanwhile-somewhere-over-atlantic-ocean.html">http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/10/meanwhile-somewhere-over-atlantic-ocean.html<br /></a><a href="http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/10/google-books-satans-library.html">http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/10/google-books-satans-library.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7193026681603115675?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-17700822865386789402009-10-02T17:42:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:52:53.790-07:00<p align="center"><a href="http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/life/2008/around_campus/images/around_campus_13.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 123px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 131px" alt="" src="http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/life/2008/around_campus/images/around_campus_13.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></p><p align="left">If you have a Drug Czar who is charged with overseeing the war on drugs, then does that mean a Copyright Czar will be devoted to waging war on copyright?!<br /><br />Probably not, but I guess we will find out soon enough if Obama's pick, Victoria A. Espinel, is confirmed by the Senate.<br /><br />Espinel is a scholar with an impressive pedigree when it comes to intellectual property education and trade.<br /><br />Read more <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/obama-taps-new-copyright-czar/">HERE</a><br /><br />One last thing, the Pro-Intellectual Property Act that created the new position also allows for the creation of an elite FBI piracy unit. And, of course Hollywood is excited.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1770082286538678940?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-62239243071145625062009-09-30T10:18:00.000-07:002009-11-22T09:50:10.877-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tucker Max: Live Outside The US? Please Pirate My Movie</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/tucker-max-live-outside-the-us-please-pirate-my-movie-090924/">LINK</a>)<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Lawsuit: Copyright Filtering Technology Infringes</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/infringingfiltering/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pirate Bay Buyer Faces Bankruptcy</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-buyer-faces-bankruptcy-090918/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brazilian Court Bans P2P Software</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/brazilian-court-bans-p2p-software-090918/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Pirate Bay Host Got Hollywood Threats In 20 Minutes</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/new-pirate-bay-host-got-hollywood-threats-in-20-minutes-090916/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">EU Commission sets up piracy monitor but rejects copyright reform</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10377">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Swedish ISP to appeal Pirate Bay cut-off verdict</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/15/black_internet_pirate_bay_appeal/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pirated Teaching Materials Threaten Health of China’s Youth</span><br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirated-teaching-materials-threaten-health-of-chinas-youth-090915/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Music business presents united front on filesharing</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/16/filesharing-music-industry">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Russian prez launches YouTube channel</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/01/medvedev_launches_youtube_channel/">LINK</a>) <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Software lobby joins calls for filesharer disconneciton</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">(sic)</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10345">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-6223924307114562506?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-77727810940911200672009-09-25T15:54:00.000-07:002010-06-25T10:58:00.297-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://vhirsch.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/itunes-button-logo-300x300.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 153px;" src="http://vhirsch.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/itunes-button-logo-300x300.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>A recurring theme of this blog is that with the rise of the internet, the increasing availability of high speed connections and the lower cost of digital technology new business models are required to ensure that traditional entertainment companies survive.<br /><br />To date the approach has been to rely on strengthening and widening the scope of copyright laws. This approach is ineffective and inefficient.<br /><br />One example of a new business model is the iTunes model. Details of which can be found in the second link below.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />TV Everywhere: (Almost) everyone is at least trying it<br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23405">LINK</a>)<br />Analyst: Apple to offer iPhone on U.S. carriers within a year; replace cable with iTunes subscriptions<br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23552">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7772781094091120067?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-8597114406136848832009-09-21T18:24:00.000-07:002009-10-06T14:00:39.178-07:00<p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><a href="http://static.zooomr.com/images/752774_64388ae9d8.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 104px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 128px" alt="" src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/752774_64388ae9d8.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></p>Just a brief note to let you know that I will be guest blawging on <a href="http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/">ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com</a> for the next few weeks so updates to this blog will be sporadic at best.<br /><br />Thanks to Stephanie Soondar at Forward Movement for the opportunity!<br /><br />Read my first post <a href="http://ourforwardmovement.blogspot.com/2009/09/piracy-who-how-and-y.html">HERE</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-859711440613684883?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-84587132710797438022009-09-17T10:27:00.000-07:002010-06-25T11:00:05.306-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://icons.mysitemyway.com/wp-content/gallery/glowing-green-neon-icons-media/111655-glowing-green-neon-icon-media-ipod1.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 174px;" src="http://icons.mysitemyway.com/wp-content/gallery/glowing-green-neon-icons-media/111655-glowing-green-neon-icon-media-ipod1.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div>It was inevitable that the iPhone would eventually come into contact with the sticky world of file sharing. This instance involved a torrent tracking app which has been rejected by Apple. A similar app will, if it isn't already, be available on the jail-broken iPhone's alternative to the App store, Cydia.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />uTorrent iPhone App Rejected by Apple, Goes Underground<br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-iphone-app-rejected-by-apple-goes-underground-090831/">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-8458713271079743802?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-14672482949450017202009-09-15T13:15:00.000-07:002010-06-25T11:20:17.464-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.deviantart.com/download/80374419/Video_Killed_the_Radio__s_Star_by_Momoko_Kawase.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 141px;" src="http://www.deviantart.com/download/80374419/Video_Killed_the_Radio__s_Star_by_Momoko_Kawase.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div>Unless large rights holders change their business models then they are not going to like where they end up. One such possible end point is discussed below.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />Online Video Will Kill the Movies - grainy youtube videos for 38 people<br />(<a href="http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?doc_id=180839&amp;f_src=ieupdate">LINK</a>)<br /><br />However, some rights holders are waking up and facing the music, changing their business models to adapt to the changing face of technology today.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />Hollywood studios offer 'download to own' DivX movies online; Film Fresh the new iTunes?<br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23064">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-1467248294945001720?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-31317049742597591582009-09-10T15:57:00.000-07:002009-10-09T09:14:13.022-07:00<p align="center"><a href="http://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/law/357c/001/projects/jsieman/googlebooksearch.png"><img style="WIDTH: 168px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 59px" alt="" src="http://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/law/357c/001/projects/jsieman/googlebooksearch.png" border="0" /></a></p><div align="left">As promised here are a few of the latest developments in the ongoing Google Books debate.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">1. </span>Librarians are lining up against the project. They are citing problems with conducting research.<br /><br />Librarians apply scrutiny to Google Books at Berkeley con<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5309">LINK</a>)<br />Google Book Search - Is it The Last Library?<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/29/google_books/">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">2.</span> The European Commission discussed how best to digitise works. The biggest difference between their proposal and Google's is that there will be no scanning of in-copyright works.<br /><br />EU consults on problems of digitising libraries<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/01/eu_digital_library/">LINK</a>)<br />EU likes Google's book registry idea<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5331">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">3.</span> Meanwhile Germany weighs in with its opinion.<br /><br />Germany says Google Books violates international law<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5334">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">4.</span> The Anti versus Pro arguments are succinctly laid out in the following articles.<br /><br />(ANTI) Internet Archive stares down Google book mine<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/google_book_research_corpus/">LINK</a>)<br />(PRO) A spirited defense of the Google Book Search settlement<br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23506">LINK</a>)<br /><br />[for those who want a truly ANTI view read Amazon's condemnation of the project <a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5349">HERE</a>]<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">5.</span> Sony has something to add.<br /><br />Sony lines up with Google over Books deal<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5315">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">6.</span> Google has the last word...for now, reminding us that the "social justice and social utility impact" of its project is being lost in the debate.<br /><br />Google tries to sidestep criticism of $125m book project<br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/03/google-books-project-digital">LINK</a>) </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3131704974259759158?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-46997497623283152902009-09-10T12:58:00.000-07:002009-10-12T17:29:48.869-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.metrotimes.com/blog/images/newsblawglogo.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 69px;" src="http://www.metrotimes.com/blog/images/newsblawglogo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Exciting news for the blog as it is featured in the current issue of <a href="http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/">Blawg Review</a> #288, <a href="http://lawiscool.com/2009/09/07/blawg-review-228/">Law is Cool</a>.<br /><br />The reviewed post in question can be found <a href="http://internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com/2009/03/call-for-some-imagination.html">HERE</a>.<br /><br />Also, the Internet Television Law Blog is now listed at <a href="http://www.blogged.com/blogs/internet-television-law-blog.html">Blogged</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/http://internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com">Technorati</a>, and <a href="http://blawgsearch.justia.com/category.aspx?catid=1871&amp;sortby=name">Justia Blawg Search</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-4699749762328315290?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-35415386912025013302009-09-07T09:56:00.000-07:002009-11-22T10:04:26.004-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:dI7uwE0TkZ9HwM:http://www.pbs.org/engage/sites/all/files/YouTube_logo.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 129px; height: 91px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:dI7uwE0TkZ9HwM:http://www.pbs.org/engage/sites/all/files/YouTube_logo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Here's an update on all the latest headlines involving Youtube.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1.</span> Youtube has struck a deal with right's holders and music videos return to the UK version of the site. Meanwhile, protests occur in response the the British government's plans to disconnect persistent file sharers.<br /><br />YouTube UK welcomes back the music<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/03/youtube_uk_music/">LINK</a>)<br />YouTube and PRS make peace as musicians protest about plans to punish file sharers<br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/03/youtube-prs-deal-file-sharing">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2.</span> Yet another new business model is in the works, which is a good sign that rights holders might be closer to realising the benefits of embracing new distribution methods.<br /><br />WSJ: YouTube and movie studios in talks over streaming rentals<br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23769">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3541538691202501330?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-53865885008587782322009-09-05T13:14:00.000-07:002009-10-12T17:30:50.117-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.piracyhappens.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/copyleft.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 103px;" src="http://www.piracyhappens.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/copyleft.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Lawrence Lessig is a renowned author and proponent of "copyleft" who has a number of interesting thoughts in the field of copyright law. I highly recommend that you read some of his works, especially as many of his full books are available free online under a creative commons license.<br /><br />Below is an interview on the popular Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report", where he discusses his latest book, "Remix".<br /><br /><table style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="360" height="353"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229);" valign="center"><td style="padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;"><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/" target="_blank">The Colbert Report</a></td><td style="padding: 2px 5px 0px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c</td></tr><tr style="height: 14px;" valign="center"><td style="padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;" colspan="2"><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/215454/january-08-2009/lawrence-lessig" target="_blank">Lawrence Lessig</a></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgb(53, 53, 53); height: 14px;" valign="center"><td style="padding: 2px 5px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: right; width: 360px;" colspan="2"><a style="color: rgb(150, 222, 255); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/" target="_blank">http://www.colbertnation.com/</a></td></tr><tr valign="center"><td style="padding: 0px;" colspan="2"><embed style="display: block;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:215454" bgcolor="#000000" allownetworking="all" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="autoPlay=false" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="window" width="360" height="301"></embed></td></tr><tr style="height: 18px;" valign="center"><td style="padding: 0px;" colspan="2"><table style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%"><tbody><tr valign="center"><td style="padding: 3px; width: 33%;"><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" href="http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes" target="_blank">Colbert Report Full Episodes</a></td><td style="padding: 3px; width: 33%;"><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/" target="_blank">Political Humor</a></td><td style="padding: 3px; width: 33%;"><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/video?keywords=health+care+protesters" target="_blank">Health Care Protests</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-5386588500858778232?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-30614418681174120692009-09-03T10:24:00.000-07:002009-09-03T12:09:24.583-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://torrentfreak.com/images/eircom.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 116px;" src="http://torrentfreak.com/images/eircom.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Bad news for Irish file sharers as Eircom, the country's largest ISP, has made good on the terms of its deal with rights holders and blocked access to the Pirate Bay.<br /><br />This is of concern for two reasons: a) copyright holders clearly have an inordinately large amount of lobbying power that enables them to force an ISP to change its entire way of doing business, and b) ISP content filtering is creeping into Europe.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />Eircom Pirate Bay Blockade Takes Effect<br />(<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/eircom-pirate-bay-blockade-takes-effect-090901/">LINK</a>)<br /><br />Meanwhile, in Australia their ISP filtering regime may be coming to an end.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />Aussie firewall nears death<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/03/aussie_firewall_obit/">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3061441868117412069?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-54047298432720869532009-09-01T08:54:00.000-07:002010-01-02T09:36:20.413-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://phandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/analog-tv.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 136px; height: 101px;" src="http://phandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/analog-tv.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />According to Ashley Highfield, Microsoft UK's Managing Director of Consumer and Online, the television industry can be rescued if it embraces a few ideas from the internet, most especially "the democratisation of programming".<br /><br />As a representative of a software company it is of course no surprise that monetisation and copyright protection will have to be central elements to this rescue.<br /><br />The full report, from the Guardian UK, also says that Highfield is dismissive of Hulu's likelihood of success if they were to attempt to enter the UK market. In a related report, MSN's video player service has proved quite popular in its first days.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Source</span><br /><br />Microsoft's Ashley Highfield: 'We must face piracy head on'<br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/17/microsoft-ashley-highfield-interview">LINK</a>)<br />Microsoft's MSN Video Player nears 170,000 show views in first 11 days<br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/17/msn-video-player-viewing-figures-microsoft-online-tv">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-5404729843272086953?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-35567474098110575832009-08-31T09:08:00.000-07:002009-11-22T09:50:47.140-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 61px;" src="http://www.creditunion.ie/files/NewsRoundup.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Last-Ditch Effort to Scuttle RIAA File Sharing Verdict</span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/scuttlefilesharingverdict/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=2666">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. YouTube Embraces Pre-Roll Video Ads (Updated) </span><br />(<a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/youtube-embraces-pre-roll-video-ads/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Young people will pay for downloads, says trade body's secret data</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10332">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. YouTube to share ad money with viral videos</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/26/youtube_expands_ad_partnership_program_to_single_vids/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6. Mininova flattened by Dutch court</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/26/mininova_loses_lawsuit/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. Mandelson web cutoff plan 'potentially illegal'</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/25/mandelson-web-cutoff-plan-attacked">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">8. UK caves to Hollywood, orders net cut-off for 'hardcore' downloaders</span><br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5293">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">9. Government details proposed filesharing crackdown</span><br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/25/internet-file-sharing-digitalbritain">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">10. UK plan to disconnect file-sharers might be made redundant by ECJ, says expert</span><br />(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10318">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">11. Sony loses bid to force royalties out of webcaster</span><br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5290">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">12. YouTube injects cash into US F1 team</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/20/us_f1_youtube_chad_hurley/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">13. Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable?</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23018">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">14. Goldman goes ga-ga for Google, cites YouTube, Europe and display ads</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22998">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">15. Writers who call MPAA or RIAA awful need to look in the mirror</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4684">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">16. Government details how Digital Britain Report will become reality</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span>(<a href="http://www.out-law.com/page-10300">LINK</a>)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />17. Justice says $1.9 million verdict is constitutional</span><br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5240">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">18. Let me say it again: Stop sharing music!</span><br />(<a href="http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2942">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">19. Mandy not swayed by ents mogul on illegal file sharing</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/17/lord_mandelson_digital_policy/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">20. Courts put DVD ripping on shaky ground</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=5184">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">21. Oz gov suggests world's worst copyright protection scheme</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/14/australia_copyright_scheme/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">22. 'Norfolk Broads Idiot' nailed on YouTube</span><br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/14/norfolk_broads_idiot/">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">23. 'iTunes of Documents' focuses on forms, legal docs for online marketplace</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22654">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">24. Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22590">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">25. DVD Jon subpoenaed in Apple anti-trust lawsuit</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=5153">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">26. SEG Clip USB TV tuner: Watch digital TV on your iPhone, if you live in Japan</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=6474">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">27. Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it</span><br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=2330">LINK</a>)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">28. Hey, kids! The days of free music are over.</span><br />(<a href="http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2889">LINK</a>)<br /><h1></h1><h1></h1><h1></h1><h1></h1><h1></h1><h1></h1><h1></h1><h1></h1><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3556747409811057583?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-75634506001161871242009-08-25T17:08:00.000-07:002010-06-25T11:23:54.539-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://awesomedc.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/mobile-tv.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 136px;" src="http://awesomedc.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/mobile-tv.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div>A leading blogger for ZDNet believes that watching live television on your cell phone is unlikely to catch on, for technological reasons and because there really is not much need for it.<br /><br />Good news for Internet TV however, as he says: "the logical step is to watch television on a computer instead."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />Mobile TV: Why it stalled and why it won't take off<br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=2570">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-7563450600116187124?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-38426240237180100212009-08-24T09:54:00.000-07:002009-08-26T07:20:19.926-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/images/set3/the-piratebay-logo.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 122px;" src="http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/images/set3/the-piratebay-logo.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The Pirate Bay was due to be sold to GGF in the near future, however the sale has been halted by Swedish stock market authorities due to a lack of immediately verifiable funds. Also, a number of Pirate Bay clones are surfacing due to the posting of a torrent file of the website's entire database. As a result, commentators consider the deal dead in the water.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />Trading in The Pirate Bay bidder stopped over deal funding<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/21/ggf_stock_halted_21_aug/">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE - 25 August 2009</span><br /><br />A Swedish court threatened the Pirate Bay's main ISP with heavy fines if it does not block access. The ISP complied although the website is expected to be working normally very soon.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />Swedish court orders The Pirate Bay shutdown<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/24/swedish_court_orders_black_internet_shut_down_tpb/">LINK</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE - 26 August 2009</span><br /><br />"Don't mess with our torrents" seems to be the message that the Pirate Bay's users deliver when they engage in what has been described as "sabotage" of the ISP that complied with the Swedish court's order.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />ISP that cut off Pirate Bay hit hard, site is back online in hours<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5296">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3842624023718010021?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-92152829684402017992009-08-23T12:40:00.000-07:002009-10-09T09:19:14.449-07:00<p align="center"><a href="http://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/law/357c/001/projects/jsieman/googlebooksearch.png"><img style="WIDTH: 168px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 59px" alt="" src="http://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/law/357c/001/projects/jsieman/googlebooksearch.png" border="0" /></a></p><div align="left"><br />In 2007, while I was a student in University College Cork, I authored a paper entitled "Don't Be Evil - The Google 'Book Search' Project". The paper dealt with an examination of Google's "Book Search" Project and whether it would pass a "fair use" copyright test. I was pretty proud of my work, and it was even shortlisted for the prestigious Matheson Ormsby Prentice Undergraduate Prize in Information Technology Law. As a result, I have tried to keep an eye on the Project and so, even though it may not fit in with the overall theme of this blog, I will from time to time include any updates here.<br /><br />The first of these updates is the news that Google has struck a deal to scan and digitize in copyright, but out of print works, including "orpan" works, i.e. works where it is almost impossible to identify the copyright holder(1).<br /><br />The second update is that the US Government is close to scuppering the deal with their concern about the possibility of a Google monopoly over "orphan" works.<br /><br />The third update is that the French National Library is allowing Google access to its archive, after the library's calls for a European Union online book repository were ignored.<br /><br />The fourth update is that Google's rivals (Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon) are also trying to defeat the deal with a view to preventing Google becoming a "book gatekeeper". [<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Can anyone smell irony?!</span>]<br /><br />Commentators are divided on the issue, saying on the one hand that if Google has the resources and the capability to save "orphan" works then it should even if the motivation is profit. On the other hand, a monopoly of orphaned works might lead to more difficulties.<br /><br />As I stated in the conclusion to my paper, "After all, as George Orwell wrote: “Who controls the past controls the future”, and Google could be said to be going a long way towards this end... Similarly it could be seen as creating the need for more responsibility from corporations such as Google, who are now effectively acting as the stewards of information for the public. But these worries might well be unfounded seeing as Google believes, at least informally, in the phrase: “Don’t be evil”.<br /><br />A copy of my paper can be found <a href="http://devalera01.googlepages.com/">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Footnote</span><br /><br />(1) "Orphan" Works, Wikipedia Entry, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works<br /></a><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Source</span><br /><br />Can Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon help scuttle Google's book settlement?<br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23039">LINK</a>)<br />Lawyer files a full-throated attack on Google Books deal<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5259">LINK</a>)<br />Google annexes Bibliothèque Nationale de France<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/19/google_france/">LINK</a>)<br />Just let Google give us the books already!<br />(<a href="http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2668">LINK</a>)<br />Justice inquiries into Google Book Deal show it's all but dead<br />(<a href="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4918">LINK</a>)</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-9215282968440201799?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-33336318359176517182009-08-21T14:11:00.000-07:002010-06-25T11:31:26.834-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://jennyleewilliams.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/3d-specs.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 168px; height: 115px;" src="http://jennyleewilliams.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/3d-specs.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div>3D movies are gaining in popularity and the upcoming "The Final Destination" is sure to be a seat filler in your local multi-plex. So popular is 3D, that now the television industry is getting in on the action - with television stations intending to have devoted 3D channels in both the UK and the USA. If you can't wait until 2010, when the new channels are to be rolled out, then British viewers can look forward to Channel 4's limited 3D scheduling which is to air this Autumn.<br /><br />The hardware is in development, the content is on its way, the only thing that remains is to wait and see if this is going to be anything more than a phase. If it is successful then expect online television to move in the same direction.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />Channel 4 to go 3D<br />(<a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/21/ch4_3d/">LINK</a>)<br />Sky switches on 3D TV channel in 2010<br />(<a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/07/30/sky_3d_launch/">LINK</a>)<br />First 3D TV channel coming to U.S. next year?<br />(<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/home-theater/?p=1396">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-3333631835917651718?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-20723861003377670882009-08-20T13:07:00.000-07:002009-08-20T13:25:01.960-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:_peeHYhAk0V6jM:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Copyright-serif.svg/354px-Copyright-serif.svg.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 101px;" src="http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:_peeHYhAk0V6jM:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Copyright-serif.svg/354px-Copyright-serif.svg.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />The Pirate Bay is apparently up for sale, and if it ends up being purchased by Global Gaming Factory X the new owners intend to implement a new system that will appease copyright holders while still appealing to the Pirate Bay's die hard clientele. In effect it will legalise the Pirate Bay.<br /><br />The new system will effectively require users to pay a monthly subscription to gain access to licensed content from copyright holders. Alternatively, when infringing content is found copyright holders will have the choice of having the content taken down or receiving an undisclosed sum of money.<br /><br />A benefit of the new system would be that the quality of files would be assured. Similarly it would allow copyright holders to receive some payment for a practice that will continue with or without the Pirate Bay.<br /><br />Watch this space.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />GGF plans to steer The Pirate Bay freeloaders straight<br />(<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/19/ggf_plans_for_legal_pirate_bay/">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-2072386100337767088?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7478483309082574001.post-86643471119373576012009-08-19T13:05:00.000-07:002009-08-21T12:10:42.130-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:SYIYldrNHH2WpM:http://www.p2pnet.net/images/fspx.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 35px;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:SYIYldrNHH2WpM:http://www.p2pnet.net/images/fspx.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />In previous years, tv-links and Oink have been shut down and their respective owners arrested, although the former was never made stand trial. Now another site that links to allegedly infringing content, including television shows, has been shut down.<br /><br />Filesoup began in 2003 and up until its closure acted as a forum where users could post links to various files.<br /><br />This is another victory for copyright holders, as represented by the group, known in Britain as FACT. However, the law in Britain regarding sites that link is underdeveloped and so it will be worth waiting to see whether official charges will eventually be made or not.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span><br /><br />British man arrested for role in running FileSoup file sharing website<br />(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/04/file-soup-sharing-tv-movies">LINK</a>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7478483309082574001-8664347111937357601?l=internet-televisionlaw.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>devalera01http://www.blogger.com/profile/12151700861458398163noreply@blogger.com0