BlueBeat's Technobabble Fails To Impress
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 19, 5:07 PM
Not swayed by BlueBeat CEO's "pschoacoustic simulation" argument, a judge has issued a preliminary injunction banning the music site from continuing to sell Beatles tracks.
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After Privacy Breach, Blog Commenter Leaves Job
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 18, 5:08 PM
Kurt Greenbaum, an editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, doesn't seem all that happy that his newspaper allows people to publish unmoderated comments. And he doesn't seem to be much of a fan of the paper's privacy policy, either. In a recent, remarkably self-satisfied column, "Post a vulgar comment while you're at work, lose your job," Greenbaum bragged about how he outed one formerly anonymous commenter
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Study: Consumers Equate BT With 'Privacy Harm'
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 17, 5:54 PM
When privacy advocates complain about behavioral targeting techniques, industry executives tend to respond by condemning the critics as ivory-tower elitists. But new research is increasingly casting doubt on the idea that the average consumer doesn't care about behavioral targeting.
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Google Books Settlement Still Poses Privacy Problems
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 16, 6:10 PM
The revised Google Books settlement, filed Friday just minutes before a midnight deadline, has left privacy advocates underwhelmed. The deal would allow Google to digitize and sell books at prices set by a new book registry, a collective rights group similar to the music industry's ASCAP and BMI. Civil liberties organizations have pointed out that the agreement leaves Google in a position to amass at least as much in-depth information about users' reading habits as libraries.
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Fake Newspaper Ads Pulled From Movie Campaign
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 13, 6:06 PM
Ten years ago a stunt marketing campaign online propelled "The Blair Witch Project" to $250 million in box office receipts, but few other Web hoaxes have been similarly successful. Some, in fact, have been so questionable that it's hard to believe anyone greenlighted the campaigns.
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Wikipedia Tussle Over Rights Of Convicted Killer
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 12, 6:14 PM
A German man convicted of murder has demanded that Wikipedia remove his name from all articles about the killing of his victim, Walter Sedlmayr.
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One Strike, We're Out: Ohio Town's Surprising Reaction To Alleged Piracy
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 11, 5:26 PM
Hollywood executives have made a lot of noise about wanting ISPs to implement "three strike" policies for online piracy, but haven't made much headway with network providers. Now, however, a town in Ohio has taken matters into its own hands by instituting a one-strike policy -- against itself.
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How Dumping IP Logs Helped News Site Preserve Readers' Privacy
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 10, 6:09 PM
In a stunning show of disrespect for civil liberties, the federal authorities recently attempted to subpoena the IP addresses of Web visitors to the left-wing news site Indymedia.us, the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation reports.
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Judge: Tweeting Is Broadcasting, So Courtroom Tweets Are Out
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 9, 5:15 PM
The Georgia newspaper Columbus Ledger-Enquirer can't post Twitter updates about a drug trafficking trial, a federal judge has ruled. In a remarkably expansive interpretation of rules banning broadcasts of criminal cases, U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land found that tweeting was a form of broadcasting because it "would result in casting to the general public and thus making widely known the trial proceedings."
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Judge To BlueBeat: You Can't Do That
Posted by Wendy Davis on Nov 6, 6:15 PM
Music fans often lament that Apple Corps. has so far refused to allow Beatles songs to be sold as digital downloads. So when BlueBeat.com started offering downloads of Beatles tracks last week, observers immediately wondered how the site could have secured the rights to the tracks. The answer soon emerged: BlueBeat didn't own the rights to the catalog. Instead, the company said it used "psycho-acoustic simulation" to rerecord the originals.
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