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  | Fighting intensifies over how to enforce intellectual property laws [UPDATED] Found at 9/2/2010 via latimesblogs.latimes.com
Barack Obama may be the country's most tech-friendly president ever, as comfortable discussing Net neutrality as Swiss neutrality. But his administration is caught in at least three pitched battles over intellectual property that could leave tech advocates wondering why they were so optimistic about his presidency. One fight stems from the secretive negotiations over the Anti-Counterfeiting ... More...
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| Another win for the RIAA, this time over file-sharing company LimeWire Found at 9/2/2010 via latimesblogs.latimes.com
A federal judge ruled this week that the company behind the LimeWire file-sharing network was liable for infringing the major record companies' copyrights, exposing the company and its former CEO, Mark Gorton, to potentially enormous financial penalties. The ruling didn't come as a huge surprise; LimeWire is similar to other second-generation file-sharing networks (Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster ... More...
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| Another ISP bucks 'Hurt Locker' subpoenas Found at 9/2/2010 via news.cnet.com
Producers of Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" did not properly serve a subpoena on a South Dakota-based ISP, according to that company's lawyers. More...
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| It's time to fight the copyright police state Found at 9/2/2010 via news.cnet.com
Increasingly restrictive copyright and intellectual property laws, a secretive global trade agreement, and, it turns out, totally made-up facts and figures? Ok, Internet. It's time to fight. More...
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| Hollywood wins another lawsuit against a search engine Found at 9/2/2010 via latimesblogs.latimes.com
Chalk up another legal victory for the Motion Picture Assn. of America in its battle against websites that make it easier for people to find and download bootlegged Hollywood movies. Monday, a judge in London's High Court of Justice ruled that Newzbin -- a site that indexed files posted to Usenet newsgroups -- had violated the studios' copyrights by helping members who paid a monthly fee stitch ... More...
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| A new kind of online Rdio [UPDATED] Found at 9/2/2010 via latimesblogs.latimes.com
While Spotify struggles to bring its free music-on-demand service to the U.S., a growing number of companies are filling the gap -- although not on the same terms. For example, Guvera offers a limited number of free downloads on demand to those who'll tolerate some targeted advertising (and who don't mind a less than comprehensive selection of tracks). MOG and Napster offer unlimited on-demand ... More...
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| Kazaa is resurrected, but why? Found at 9/2/2010 via latimesblogs.latimes.com
How appropriate: The day that Rdio goes live, Kazaa comes back from the dead. Rdio is the new music streaming service from Janus Friis with Niklas Zennström, the entrepreneurs who brought the Kazaa file-sharing software to market as the music industry was suing the original Napster out of existence. Kazaa eventually ran into the same legal buzzsaw, ultimately settling the lawsuit brought by the ... More...
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| Will Google TV do to Hollywood what Napster did to the music biz? Found at 9/2/2010 via latimesblogs.latimes.com
My colleagues Dawn Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn have a fascinating Page 1 story in our paper today about the upcoming arrival of Google TV, which would allow viewers to watch movies and TV shows "unshackled" from the networks and cable... More...
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| 'Fortune's Fool' tells story of Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music and crisis in the music industry Found at 9/2/2010 via www.latimes.com
The collapse of the old music industry ? the happy business of spotting talent, pressing millions of LPs or CDs and wondering how to spend the profits ? is so well documented that it is almost a surprise to find a new book on the subject. More...
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| Digg's Matt Van Horn leaving for start-up Path Found at 9/2/2010 via news.cnet.com
One of the most prominent faces of the social-news site is leaving for a stealthy start-up that might be Silicon Valley's best-kept secret. More...
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| 'Social Network' raises questions as debut nears Found at 9/2/2010 via news.cnet.com
The film about Facebook's origins, with a plot the company denounced as fiction, is stirring up Oscar buzz already after a few stellar first reviews. What's it mean for the movie and Facebook? More...
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| U2 manager still thinks ISPs are freeloading Found at 9/2/2010 via news.cnet.com
Paul McGuinness is once again blaming ISPs for falling music revenues. I agree with his plan: subscriptions are the answer. The problem is how to implement them. More...
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| Apple Unveils New iPod Touch, Shuffle, Nano Found at 9/2/2010 via www.informationweek.com
CEO Steve Jobs says new MP3 player lineup is the strongest in his company's history. More...
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| Review: Volkwagen Polo 1.6 TDI Found at 9/2/2010 via rss.feedsportal.com
Some small cars are intentionally packed full of quirkiness, effervescence and joie de vivre: the Volkswagen Polo intentionally isn?t. Related Stories Review: SEAT Altea range Review: Mitsubishi ASX Review: Suzuki Swift range Review: Mazda3 Review: Hyundai ix35 2.0 Style More...
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| Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 is "most thoroughly tested mobile platform" ever released Found at 9/2/2010 via www.zdnet.com
Yesterday Microsoft's new mobile platform Windows Phone 7 hit the RTM milestone, and in the official announcement Microsoft was keen to stress how mush tested had gone into this new platform. More...
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| Chilean Miners Continue to Battle Depression While Adapting to Surroundings & Situation Found at 9/2/2010 via www.thirdage.com
Chilean miners continue to battle depression, fatigue and their own minds while adapting to their surroundings and situation. A video shows 33 miners doing their best to adapt to what is expected to be as many as four months stuck inside a Chilean copper mine. A 25-minute video shot by the miners showed the men with clean clothes, shaved faces and playing music from an MP3 player lowered to them ... More...
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