Viacom’s copyright battle with YouTube took an interesting turn this week, as the company has found itself in the embarrassing position of having highlighted the possibly that it committed a little “for-profit” copyright infringement of its own (some would call it “piracy”).
Detroit Free Press - The EP, available bundled with the Limited Edition version of the game, contains three wildly catchy songs: “Beyond the Sea,” which was originally popularized by Bobby Darin; “God Bless the Child,” originally made hip by Billie Holiday; and “Wild Little Sisters,” a variation on “Wild Ride” by Django Reinhardt. [w/AUDIO CLIPS]
The Swedish Standards Institute has tonight issued a press release where they declared this weeks earlier vote regarding OOXML as invalid and by that Sweden don’t have any official position regarding OOXML any more.
Computer scientists are using a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application to explore a next-generation model for safe and legal electronic commerce that uses Internet bandwidth as a global currency. The application (available for free download) is an enhanced version of a program called Tribler.
While many first-generation Wii games have been criticized for having “tacked-on” motion control, Metroid Prime 3 offers one example of how immersive motions can be if done correctly.
“NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes.”
Media giants have new brilliant plan for making more money from their content: by pulling them off the most popular online music + video store.
It surprising which parts of the Internet where information can flow freely.
New GTK# widgets created by a Google Summer of Code participant enable Linux developers to create applications with visually attractive toolbars that resemble Microsoft’s Ribbon paradigm.
Check out the screencast at: http://mono-soc-2007.googlegroups.com/web/Ribbons-final.ogg
FileZilla is one great open source FTP client that — up until now — was available only for Windows. Version 3 is a ground-up rewrite that makes the application available for the first time on Linux, too.
When gamers are allowed outside…
RARELY if ever has a company risen so fast in so many ways as Google, the world’s most popular search engine. This is true by just about any measure: the growth in its market value and revenues; the number of people clicking in search of news, the nearest pizza parlour or a satellite image of their neighbour’s garden; the volume of its advertisers;
The RIAA is fighting allegations that its identical tactics in over 25,000 file-sharing lawsuits demonstrate that it is an anticompetitive cartel, and therefore guilty of copyright misuse.
