What I’ve been surfing for 6th March 2007
These are my links for 6th March 2007:
- Wired News: China Blocks LiveJournal - “China has blocked the site before, for no clear reason — then unblocked it again just as mysteriously, without any concessions from the company. “We would just follow our standard procedures, which honor free speech,” says Tulley.” - Tags netregulation china
- FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Microsoft attacks Google on copyright - “Microsoft on Tuesday launches a fierce attack on Google over its ?cavalier? approach to copyright, accusing the internet company of exploiting books, music, films and television programmes without permission.” - Tags copyright
- ABC News: Porn in Hi-Definition: Too Much Detail? - “But Daniels is also facing a closer threat. Amateur porn stars, armed with cheap cameras and computers, are now selling their wares across the Internet and are chiseling away at the profits of companies like Wicked Pictures.” - Looks like user generated - Tags distributedcontent copyright piracy
- Free our data: Ordnance Survey challenged to open up | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology - ‘Sir Tim Berners-Lee told an Oxford University audience last week getting “basic, raw data from Ordnance Survey” online would help build the “semantic web”…’ - Tags opencontent copyright crowncopyright
- ‘PORNY’ BARNEY ARREST By IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON - Regionalnews - New York Post Online Edition - “Julio Quevedo, 43, thought he was selling his furry get-ups to a porn-film producer, authorities said. Instead, the buyer was an undercover detective with the Queens District Attorney’s Office.” - Tags trademark
- FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Viacom hails fight against YouTube - “Viacom said on Thursday that traffic to its MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon websites rose sharply over the past month, validating its decision to force YouTube, the video sharing site bought by Google, to remove all Viacom video clips.” - Tags gootube digitalcopyright noticeandtakedown
- ‘Safest ever’ passport is not fit for purpose | the Daily Mail - Can be read without opening the letter it arrives. - Tags biometric_id rfid
