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John Katz is a waste of carbon.

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  Your Rights Online: Geek Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Corporation 2008-02-25 00:07

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 25, @12:07AM
from the david-1-goliath-0 dept.
Chris Gregerson writes "I work as a stock photographer/web developer. I saw a photo of mine used in Vilana Financial's full-page phone book ad. They wouldn't pay the licensing fee, and I wrote about it online (mirror). They sued me for defamation, producing a sales agreement signed by one ' Michael Zubitskiy' (who they said took the photo and sold the rights to them). I sued them for copyright infringement, and they added claims against me for trademark infringement, deceptive trade practices, and tortuous interference. There was a trial I'll long remember on the 5th of November, and the judge recently issued her verdict (PDF; mirror). She ruled Vilana Financial forged the sales agreement and willfully infringed my photos, and awarded me $19,462. All claims against me were denied. I represented myself during the litigation."
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 [+] story, yro, court, congratulations, copywrong, !geek, pwnage
Journal by twitter on Thursday September 06 2007, @04:33PM

Incredible but true. Peter Gutmann, of suicide note fame, details more Vista DRM problems at USENIX:

Vista automatically degrades so-called "premium" content such as high definition movies and audio tracks when they are output to less than bleeding-edge new devices that don't happen to support Intel's High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) DRM scheme. It apparently does this even if the media files being played are not copyright protected commercial media but the users' own home movies or music they've recorded in high-definition format.

He goes on to detail the havoc caused to PC makers like Dell and Gateway and how a new need for Hollywood driver permission has pushed the cost of components up for everyone.

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 [+] journal, windows

  Cry no more early Apple adopters![->] 2007-09-06 15:40 juuri

Submitted by juuri on Thursday September 06 2007, @03:40PM
juuri writes "The mighty Steve has perched himself on high and decided to give you all 100 Apple Fun Bucks! This is a scary trend if even the infallible are willing to listen to the mighty masses. Personally (as an early adopter) I didn't understand what the stink was about, you paid a price you apparently felt fair for a product, Steve's assertation yesterday that, "(this) is tech..." was right on the money!"
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
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 [+] submission, apple, macbook

  Libraries Defend Open Access 2007-09-06 13:23 aisaac

Submitted by aisaac on Thursday September 06 2007, @01:23PM
Publisher plans to equate public access to federally funded research with government censorship and the destruction of peer review were exposed earlier this year (Nature, January 25, 2007). In an open letter last month, Rockefeller University Press castigated the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine (PRISM) for using distortionary rhetoric in a coordinated PR attack on open access. Now the Association of Research Libraries has released an Issue Brief addressing this PR campaign in more detail. The Issue Brief exposes some of the distortions used to persuade key policy makers that recent gains open access scientific publishing pose a danger to peer reviewed scientific research, free markets, and possibly the future of western civilization. As an example of what the publishers backing PRISM hate, consider the the wonderfully successful grants policy of the National Institutes of Health, which requires papers based on grant-funded research to be published in PubMed Central.
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 [+] , science, censorship

  Green Emerges As Key To Branding[->] 2007-09-06 12:56 AlexGr

Submitted by AlexGr on Thursday September 06 2007, @12:56PM
AlexGr writes "By K.C. Jones (Information Week): Green products and practices are keys to technology branding and consumer preferences, according to a survey released Wednesday. Respondents also ranked a long list of brands for environmentally friendly business practices. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Apple ranked in the first tier. Kodak, Sony, Gateway, IBM, and Motorola ranked in the second tier. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=201804192"
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201804192
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 [+] submission, it, enlightenment
Submitted by graham_stark on Thursday September 06 2007, @12:46PM
graham_stark writes "In response to an online petition on the Prime Minister's Downing Street website, the British Government has backed away from allowing the BBC from providing IPlayer,its new online media player, for Windows users only. This is not binding on the BBC directly, but since the BBC is almost entirely Government funded and the Government appoints the BBC Governors, it's going to be hard to refuse."
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13090.asp
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 [+] submission, yro, microsoft

  Judge Strikes Down Part of PATRIOT Act[->] 2007-09-06 12:40 ukemike

Submitted by ukemike on Thursday September 06 2007, @12:40PM
ukemike writes "From the New York Times...

"A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday, saying investigators must have a court's approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers.""
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Patriot-Act-Lawsuit.html?ex=1346731200&en=30271c7cd1c247af&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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 [+] submission, politics, internet

  Ron Paul Takes on the Machine[->] 2007-09-06 12:35 Mike Kuykendall

Submitted by Mike Kuykendall on Thursday September 06 2007, @12:35PM
Mike Kuykendall writes "Presidential aspirant Rep. Ron Paul takes on the GOP machine all by himself at last night's Republican debates."
http://indigentahole.blogspot.com/2007/09/ron-paul-takes-on-machine.html
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 [+] submission, politics, quickies, slownewsday, interesting, binspam

  Creative Labs' Vista driver team feeling stressed?[->] 2007-09-03 19:32 regular_gonzalez

Submitted by regular_gonzalez on Monday September 03 2007, @07:32PM
regular_gonzalez writes "While the X-Fi's issues under Vista have been widely reported, that doesn't prevent a flood of complaints pouring into the Creative Labs website, posted for all to see. What is more surprising is the employees' responses. A sampling:

# The drivers will be released when we are good and ready and happy with them
# Bitching like a 5 year old won't magically solve all our problems on the drivers.
# Call us hopeless and whatever else all you like, noone else is going to fix these drivers but us, demoralizing us won't bring it faster
# There are already reasonably working drivers supplied with the card, legally our responsibility stops there, think yourselves lucky we even bother updating the drivers at all.
# Anymore of these derogatory posts and we might well just flush the whole XFi/Vista64 saga to the toilet and move on.
Is Creative Labs obliged to treat even the most obnoxious of whiners with a certain level of respect, or is it refreshing to have a company actually state opinions that normally would be kept to themselves?"
http://connect.creativelabs.com/beta/Lists/Driver%20Issues/AllItems.aspx
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 [+] submission, windows, refreshing

  Science: Images of Endeavour's Damaged Tiles 2007-08-15 09:55

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 15 2007, @09:55AM
from the that-sure-doesn't-look-good dept.
Roland Piquepaille writes "Neptec Design Group, a Canadian company and a NASA prime contractor for 25 space missions, was kind enough to send me exclusive images of Endeavour's damaged tiles during its last take-off. So here are some of these pictures" The pictures are pretty amazing and make the urgency of this whole thing much more amazing.
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 [+] story, science, nasa, shuttle, damagedtiles, neptec, donotclick

  Gracenote Defends Its Evolution 2006-11-13 11:20

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 13 2006, @11:20AM
from the well-straighter-anyway dept.
In the beginning was a music recognition database called CDDB, and it was good. Now, people accuse Gracenote of stealing its success. CDDB and Gracenote architect Steve Scherf sets the record straight.
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