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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.
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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.
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.
Discussion:
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, European Director of Communications and Public Affairs — Today we heard that the Belgian court, which last year ruled against us in the Copiepresse case has reaffirmed its original decision. This judgment is clearly disappointing …
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley: Belgian newspapers score victory in bold traffic-reduction initiative
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:Court: No More Belgian Papers on Google
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Search Engine Journal
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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Ray Beckerman / Recording Industry vs The People:
RIAA Adopts New Policy, offers "Pre-Doe settlement option" if ISP Holds Logs Longer, Asks ISP's to Correct Identification Mistakes — The RIAA has sent out a letter to ISP's attempting to change its prelitigation policies: — Letter from RIAA to ISP's* — While we have not had time to analyse …
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.
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 …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Microsoft holding open house on Home Server — Microsoft is opening up the second beta release of its Windows Home Server software to the public, the company announced Monday. — Windows Home Server is a developing piece of software that would allow budding home system administrators …
Discussion:
Download Squad, Windows Home Server Blog, M-Dollar, TechBlog, Monkey Bites, Neowin.net, All about Microsoft, The Test Bed and Bleeding Edge
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."
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 …
Discussion:
GigaOM, jkOnTheRun, Good Morning Silicon Valley, GottaBeMobile.com and Paul's Down-Home Page
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.
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
Nortel has a burn the boats strategy says CTO — The clap and rumble of thunder is followed within seconds by the sound of a torrential, tropical downpour. I'm sitting in the Tonga Room, in the bowels of the swank Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, with John Roese, CTO of Nortel, the $11bn Canadian telecoms equipment giant.
timewarnercable.com:
TIME WARNER CABLE BECOMES A PUBLIC COMPANY — Time Warner Cable Stock Expected to Trade on New York Stock Exchange as Early as March 1, 2007 — Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) and Time Warner Cable Inc. today announced that Time Warner Cable has become a public company as a result …
