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Philip Blenkinsop / Reuters:
Belgian court rules against Google over copyright — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian court ruled on Tuesday that Google may not reproduce extracts from a variety of Belgian newspapers, imperilling one of the web search leader's most popular services if other courts follow suit.
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Associated Press:
Google loses copyright case launched by Belgian newspapers — BRUSSELS, Belgium: Google Inc. lost a copyright fight on Tuesday that had been launched by Belgian newspapers, which claimed that the Web search service infringed copyright laws and demanded it remove their stories.
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Google Loses Copyright Case, Drops Belgian Links (Update4) — Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — A Brussels court said Google Inc. violated copyright laws by publishing links to Belgian newspapers without permission and ordered the company to remove them, setting a precedent for future cases in Europe.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Loses In Belgium Newspaper Case — A Belgium court has found that Google did violate copyright when including material from several Belgian newspapers in its search index. Google will have to pay a $4.4 million fine, but the ruling is far more positive for the company.
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mathewingram.com/work, John Battelle's Searchblog, Tech Beat, Search Engine Roundtable and SearchViews
Carlo / Techdirt:
Belgian Newspapers Still Don't Get How Google News Is A Good Thing For Them — from the someday,-hopefully dept — The story of French-language Belgian newspapers' lawsuit against Google has been going on for some time. Apparently they think they're a giant TV network or record label or something …
Karen / Official Google Blog:About the Copiepresse decision — Posted by Rachel Whetstone …
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Screenwerk
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:Court: No More Belgian Papers on Google
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Search Engine Journal
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:Google Loses Newspaper Copyright Case in Belgium
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Hackers discover HD DVD and Blu-ray "processing key" — all HD titles now exposed — Those cooky kids over at the Doom9 forums hate themselves some DRM. Not more than two months after discovering a means to extract the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc "volume keys" to decrypt AACS DRM on individual films …
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Blu-Ray AND HD-DVD broken - processing keys extracted — Arnezami, a hacker on the Doom9 forum, has published a crack for extracting the "processing key" from a high-def DVD player. This key can be used to gain access to every single Blu-Ray and HD-DVD disc.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Leaked letter shows RIAA pressuring ISPs, planning discounts for early settlements — The RIAA is asking for additional cooperation from ISPs in getting customers targeted by the RIAA's file-sharing sting to cooperate, according to a letter recently leaked to P2P attorney Ray Beckerman.
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Social-Networking Sites Open Up — Facebook, Friendster, and others are starting to let third-party developers build new features to attract more users—and profits — Dom Tolli envisions a day when people will be able to push a few buttons on their cell phone and post a list …
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Newspapers beating TV sites to video revenue — Borrell Associates is releasing a new report today that reveals that newspaper sites grossed $81 million in local video advertising in 2006, compared to $32 million for local TV sites. "Print media are using the internet as a crossover platform …
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Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Flags Pages that Install Malicious Software — I mentioned in August last year that Google started to show malware warnings if you click on a search result from a harmful site. Now Google shows a message below the title of a search result: "This site may harm your computer."
Nicholas Carlson / internetnews.com:
Google Turns Over User IDs — Google's YouTube and a company called Live Digital will offer no refuge to users who uploaded pirated copies of Fox Television's "24" and "The Simpsons" onto their video platforms. — In an e-mail to internetnews.com, a 20th Century Fox Television spokesperson …
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Steven Daly / Vanity Fair:
Pirates of the Multiplex — Under U.S. pressure, Swedish authorities are going after the popular Pirate Bay Web site for illegal distribution of video files. But if Hollywood wants to stop online pirates—who cost the industry some $7 billion in 2005—it needs to join them, not beat them.
microsoft.com:
Daylight Saving Time 2007 Update — Updating Windows Mobile-powered devices for the new Daylight Saving Time — Congress has changed the dates for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the United States starting in 2007. Canada has adopted similar DST dates. These changes could cause clocks …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Yahoo Music: Santa Claus will have DRM-free music in his sleigh — DRMed music has been the talk of the town for the last week, due in no small part to Steve Jobs' well-known missive on the topic. Another music store head has weighed in on the subject, predicting that his store will be mostly DRM-free by Christmas.
Reuters:
Mexican drug wars find new battleground on YouTube — MEXICO CITY—A vicious Mexican drug gang war has moved onto Internet video-sharing site YouTube, where rivals taunt each other with blood-soaked slideshows and film of their murder victims. — One popular video on the site shows a man being shot in the head.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FilmLoop Betrayed By Investors? — When I added FilmLoop to the TechCrunch DeadPool last month based on rumors of mass layoffs, it was clear there was more to the story. The thirty person company had raised $11.5 million in capital and by any calculation should have still had at least $3 - $5 million left in the bank.
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VentureBeat, PE HUB, HipMojo.com, Sramana Mitra on Strategy, Valleywag, Cerdafied and Paul Kedrosky's …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
StumbleUpon brings video to the Wii — Web site discovery and recommendation site StumbleUpon has announced an update to its Stumble Video product, enabling owners of Nintendo's Wii to find video content and watch it on the popular game console. — StumbleUpon, which claims nearly 2 million …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Google deals upset studios — Movie groups say firm's actions aided piracy — A group of Hollywood studios has accused Google Inc. of supporting digital piracy by cutting advertising deals with two Web sites that direct users to illicit film downloads. — The complaints …
Stan Schroeder / franticindustries:
5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes — I've had some time to play with Yahoo!'s new RSS mixing service, Pipes, and I'm impressed with the possibilities. Unfortunately, there's still a hefty number of bugs, and some features are sorely lacking (experienced coders will probably be most annoyed …
