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Comment Too soon to celebrate (Score 3, Informative) 189

by boaz112358 on Thursday August 21, 2008 @02:11PM (#24692715) Attached to: Fair Use Must Be Considered In DMCA Notices

FTFA: 'Still, Judge Fogel said he had "considerable doubt that Lenz will be able to prove that Universal acted with subjective bad faith" when it sent YouTube the takedown notice.' If I were a betting man (and I am), I'd bet Universal wins this one.

Submission + - Mark Cuban calls on ISPs to block P2P

Submitted by boaz112358 on Thursday November 22, 2007 @11:47AM

boaz112358 writes: Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner, HDNet CEO, and noted gadfly is publishing on his blog that Comcast and other ISPs should block all P2P traffic, because as he says, "As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are P2P freeloaders." He complains that commercial content distributors instead of paying for their own bandwidth, are leeching off consumers who are paying for the bandwidth. As an alternative distribution method (at least for audio and video), he suggests Google video.

Submission + - House Committee publishes whistle-blowers' emails

Submitted by boaz112358 on Saturday October 27, 2007 @08:37AM

boaz112358 writes: Over the summer, the House Judiciary Committee set up a website where would-be whistle blowers in the Justice Department can send tips to the committee. Yesterday, they sent out an email to everyone who had sent in a tip. However, the geniuses decided to include everyone in a single email with all email addresses in the 'to:' field, rather than using 'bcc:' or sending individual emails. Ironically, the email describes the procedures that the committee has set up to ensure the tipsters confidentiality. TPMmuckraker has the details.

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