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Submission + - How Strong is Viacom's $1 bn Claim Against Google?

Submitted by Kermit on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @06:43PM

Kermit writes: Yesterday, Viacom sued YouTube and its owner Google for damages in excess of $1 billion for infringing Viacom's copyrights. Viacom is the media giant which owns television programming including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and movie studios including Dreamworks and Paramount. Viacom claims that YouTube has actively infringed Viacom's copyrighted works by publicly performing these movies on its website, and by permitting copies to be embedded in websites across the Net. Central to Viacom's claim is how the court will interpret provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Will Viacom win, or will Google be granted a "safe harbor"? Read this excellent analysis by David Mirchin to find out.

The Birth of Semiconductor 2.0 89

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @05:53PM from the printing-your-hardware dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to several articles in the press, an Austrian company has opened a new chip printing factory. But there is a twist. The chips produced by this factory, dubbed Semiconductor 2.0 by the company, will be organic semiconductors, and will be produced by inkjet printers. According to the company, the new factory will be able to produce 40,000 square meters of semiconductors per year, mainly for the biotech, clean tech, and defense industries."

Submission + - Geeks Never Need to Sleep Alone

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @05:41PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Reality Bedding (www.realitybedding.com) features amazing lifesize photo designs on bedding; current designs of scantily clad women have received worldwide attention, and mean no geek needs to sleep alone again, ever."

Submission + - If you could do it all over, would you choose IT?

Submitted by on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @04:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Given some of the complaints against IT and software as careers (long hours, offshoring, visa workers, ageism, boring projects, etc...), what would you do differently if you could do it all over again? Knowing what you know now, would you choose the same college major and the same career?

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