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Submission + - Penny Arcade Sells Out (kickstarter.com)

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sanosuke001
sanosuke001 writes: "Penny Arcade has taken the crowdfunding idea from the other direction; try to fund an existing, and already successful, operation via their fans. With 29 days to go they have already passed their initial goal of $250,000 USD and are on their way to reaching some very interesting stretch goals including new Lookouts and Automata strips, an ad-free penny-arcade.com, revived podcast, and my personal favorite: Jerry Holkins cosplay which will be decided on by the fans.

They will be giving out some pledge goodies like t-shirts, autographed prints, digital versions of their first two books, Stream codes for Rainslick Precipice of Darkness Episode 3. For those with deep pockets: promises of twitter following, re-tweeting, an internship for a day, hang-outs with the PA crew, and even a shirt-of-the-month club, just to name a few."

Submission + - Criminalizing links: Why the Richard O'Dwyer case matters (gigaom.com)

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TheNextCorner
TheNextCorner writes: "Will Hollywood succeed in ruining the Internet?

"The U.S. government is trying to extradite O’Dwyer to the United States to face charges of criminal copyright infringement.
While MegaUpload hosted terabytes worth of "infringing" files, O’Dwyer simply linked to them — but in the eyes of the U.S. Justice Department, these two things are virtually equivalent. If the case proceeds, it could force us to change the way we think about some of the fundamental underpinnings of the web."
Open Source

Submission + - How Open Source Hardware Is Driving the 3D-Printing Industry (readwriteweb.com)

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TheNextCorner
TheNextCorner writes: "Open source software has been a key player in all kinds of disruptive technologies — from the Web to big data. Now the nascent and growing open source hardware movement is helping to power its own disruptive revolution.

The potential of 3D printing to transform the way we get things — the market is predicted to hit $3.1 billion in the next four years. But not much of that attention has focused on the unique role of open source hardware in enabling 3D printing to realize its promise."

Submission + - GoDaddy: DMCA Overreactor Extraordinaire (plagiarismtoday.com)

Submitted by
TheNextCorner
TheNextCorner writes: "A recent Slashdot story, about a photographer threatened with lawsuits because he was sending DMCA take down notices, got more attention to the policies of GoDaddy.
GoDaddy takes down the full account of the infringing website, which could have the effect that other websites are taken down. see story here.
The lesson should be: Don't take images of the Internet which you don't have the copyright for!"

Comment Re:don't get fickle now (Score 1) 667

And as an attorney and someone who publishes stuff herself, she should know that every work is subject to copyright, and that if she can't see where someone has granted her license to use it without asking, she can safely assume that running off with it and using it as part of her own material is infringement, plain and simple.

Especially as she is running Wordpress with a plugin which protects her writing from copyright infringements herself! From the source: !-- Copyright protection script by daveligthart.com --

Comment Re:Ludicrous (Score 1) 667

That said, this is a clear example of the problems with the DMCA. Had the photographer contacted the website admin and requested the picture be taken down or permissions be negotiated before submitting a formal takedown, this whole situation may have been avoided (depending on just how crazy the woman is).

You know how much time is spend on trying to reach each and every website owner who is infringing on your copyright if you have a couple of hundred pictures being used by them? Following up on all these request can be a timely manner, where the DMCA just is a time saver for the right holder. I've been through the former a couple of times, and have website owners changed their credit to me fairly easily in a couple of times. However, the majority of the times you are confronted with a snarky email or no response at all. I even had a magazine claiming the copyright through their T&C's, while the picture had a clear watermark. After I contacted them with an invoice, they laughed it off. So I'm still working to take them to the cleaners. No, I think that Jay Lee had every right to send the DMCA request.
Cloud

Submission + - Ariba Acquired by SAP for $4.3 B (slashdot.org)

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TheNextCorner
TheNextCorner writes: "SAP will purchase cloud-networking vendor Ariba for roughly $4.3 billion, a move widely seen as giving SAP additional muscle with regard to business-cloud offerings.
SAP believes the acquisition will allow it to bake cloud-based collaboration into its current products. Ariba’s network connects thousands of companies, and enables and automates billions of dollars in commerce transactions and collaborations."
Open Source

Submission + - Interview Ross Gardler, mentor on the Apache OpenOffice Incubator project (sourceforge.net)

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TheNextCorner
TheNextCorner writes: "The Foundation only exists to provide a legal entity in which the project can exist. It doesn’t exist to control the project, or babysit the project, or make sure the project succeeds. That’s entirely up to the community. So the community does have to become part of the Apache Software Foundation in order to get the most from it."
Cloud

Submission + - How will kids use technology in school if these are lacking the adoption of it (slashdot.org)

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TheNextCorner
TheNextCorner writes: "Using the cloud in an education context seems like a no-brainer. Teachers could send homework and permission slips “home” via Google Docs or Dropbox, no longer relying on a crumpled slip of paper in a 7-year-old’s backpack to communicate with parents.
However, integrating the cloud into our current education system is far more difficult than setting up a few accounts. Indeed, a couple of major roadblocks, peculiar to America’s public education system, stand in the way."
Google

Submission + - Google's New 'Account Activity' Is a Sham (technologyreview.com) 1

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TheNextCorner
TheNextCorner writes: "Google Account Activity is Google's fairly transparent attempt to differentiate itself from Facebook by being open about what it knows about you. But in their attempt to not overwhelm you with the truly scary amount of data they have compiled about you, they boiled it all down into a super accessible milquetoast of a dashboard that tells you absolutely nothing."

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