March 13th, 2007 . by joe
I feel like there should be a sinister laugh somewhere in here.
Viacom Inc. today announced that it has sued YouTube and Google in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for massive intentional copyright infringement of Viacom’s entertainment properties. The suit seeks more than $1 billion in damages, as well as an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. The complaint contends that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom’s programming have been available on YouTube and that these clips had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
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February 18th, 2007 . by joe
This is kinda interesting. Drawball is a site where there is a huge canvas for the general web public to draw anything they want but everyone is limited in the amount they can draw per day so, groups have to work as a team to draw anything substantial. I was unable to successfully figure out how to draw on the ball (probably just me) but I did find their playback page kinda cool. It illustrates the evolution of the ball.
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October 30th, 2006 . by joe
I like this idea. It looks like it’s created by the same people as bugmenot. Looking to buy something from xyz.com? Go to RetailMeNot, enter in the URL of the site you are buying from, and it will give you coupon codes to try with a description of each coupon code.
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October 1st, 2006 . by joe
Another file-sharing software maker has been found guilty of causing copyright infringement. A US judge has said the Morpheus software produced by StreamCast breaks the law.
The ruling is another victory for the entertainment industry, which has had a string of recent victories and concessions. Just weeks ago Kazaa settled with the music industry for $100m.
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October 1st, 2006 . by joe
Cuban, co-founder of HDNet and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, also said YouTube would eventually be “sued into oblivion” because of copyright violations.
“They are just breaking the law,” Cuban told a group of advertisers in New York. “The only reason it hasn’t been sued yet is because there is nobody with big money to sue.”
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