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MPAA Chairman & CEO Dan Glickman to Step Down
Washington
- The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced on Friday that chairman
and CEO Dan Glickman has resigned to become president of Refugees
International.
The...
Italy's Berlusconi Backs Legislation to Screen YouTube Content
Milan
- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government is backing legislation
that would mandate that videos uploaded by users to sites like YouTube and
Dailymotion be screened...
China Says Its "Internet is Open," Derides U.S. Criticism
Washington - Following a
speech on Thursday by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that criticized
Internet censorship in countries including China, China
responded harshly, urging the...
Some Google Book Settlement Critics Withdraw Opposition
New York
- Several parties who had previously been opposed to Google's (NASD: GOOG) settlement with
authors over the creation of a digital book index have removed...
IFPI Mulling Civil Action Against OiNK P2P Admin
London - While a U.K. court
recently acquitted the administrator of BitTorrent site OiNK of charges of
"conspiracy to defraud" the recording industry, that industry is...
Microsoft Sues TiVo in Ongoing DVR Patent Dispute
Redmond,
Wash. - Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) has filed
patent infringement claims against TiVo (NASD: TIVO), the maker of digital video recorders,
as a ploy in ongoing patent litigation where...
CNET: Verizon Suspending Service of Repeat File-Swappers
San Francisco
- Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) acknowledged that it has penalized an undisclosed
number of its Internet access subscribers who failed to comply with multiple
file-sharing...
Obama DOJ Defends $675,000 File-sharing Damages Award
Washington
- The Obama Justice Dept. has submitted a filing defending a $675,000 damages
award for copyright infringement on a file-sharing network, the Copyrights and
Campaigns blog...
Baidu Suit Charges Register.com Negligent in Cyber Attack
Beijing - Chinese search engine Baidu (NASD: BIDU) has filed suit against
U.S. domain registrar Register.com, alleging negligence that resulted in a
malicious website attack that downed...
U.S. Malware Expert Finds China Link in Google Attack
San Francisco
- Evidence has emerged that purports to show that Chinese programmers were
behind the recent attacks on Google's (NASD: GOOG) Gmail service that targeted...
