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Judge in Pirate Bay Appeal Removed for Bias
Categories: Yo Ho Ho The Pirate Bay saga took another twist Tuesday as one of the appellate judges set to hear the appeal of the co-founders criminal copyright convictions was removed over concerns of bias. The Swedish judge in question, Fredrik Niemela, owns an unstated number of stock options in the music streaming service, ...
Obama Appoints Scholar as New Copyright Czar
The “Copyleft" and the “Copyright" are both applauding the presidential appointment Friday of Victoria A. Espinel to become the nation’s first copyright czar. Congress created the new czar position last year as part of intellectual property reform legislation. Espinel, who requires Senate confirmation, has a past in teaching and government. Most recently, she was a visiting ...
Behold the World's First Laser Microphone
Smoke and Lasers Could Disrupt Microphone Market David Schwartz, who laid the foundation for MP3 with his undergraduate and Ph.D. work in the 80s, has another big idea: a microphone that uses lasers and smoke to detect the minute variations in air pressure the rest of us call sound. His invention appears to be ...
Twitter Syncs with AIM, Bebo, and AOL.com
On the heels of a Twitter-MySpace linkup, the micro-blogging site on Thursday announced that it is also synching with several AOL products. “As a proud partner in AOL Lifestream, Twitter will be smoothly integrated into AIM, Bebo, and AOL.com," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote in a blog post. Stone said that services like YouTube, Flickr, Digg, ...
6 Ways to Make the Most of Twitter's 140 Characters
(Updated) Artists from Trent Reznor to Amanda Palmer and Imogen Heap have shown the power of Twitter for fostering and monetizing a more direct relationship between artists and fans. Many startups also use Twitter effectively to spread their massage. But getting your point across in 140 characters or less isn't always easy. Here are 5 Ways ...
MySpace Beats Facebook with Twitter Synch
MySpace began rolling out new functionality today that allows users to sync their MySpace status updates with a Twitter feed. Any U.S. user can opt-in so that updates created on MySpace will appear on Twitter and posts to Twitter appear within their MySpace status & mood. The system was created using open authentication technology OAuth ...
YouTube Offers New Features
YouTube has added a number of features in recent weeks that offer new opportunities for musicians and music markters using the popular viral video site: Friend suggestions: An ongoing “find your friends" project kicks off with a module on the homepage that makes friend suggestions based on the email addresses of people with whom users have ...
Variety to Start Charging for Online Access
Less than three years after opening up its website for free, Hollywood trade paper Variety is closing it back down to admit subscribers only. Starting early next year, most content on Variety.com will be available only to those who subscribe to the Daily Variety newspaper or weekly Variety magazine, or those who pay for a digital ...
FCC Position May Spell the End of Unlimited Internet
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowskis unsurprising affirmation of support for network neutrality is a victory for the high-minded principle of open, unfettered internet access. Too bad it means the days of all-you-can-eat, flat-rate internet access are probably over. Net neutrality sounds like a good idea. After all, its the internets openness to any and all users, applications ...
