- Google Launches Nearby Share, Years After Apple Releases Its Basic Feature AirDrop
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Nearby Share shows users a list of devices nearby. Once the device is selected, the recipient will receive an alert to accept or decline the file. ...
- Peretti's BuzzFeed View Of The Internet
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti lays out a perceptive explanation of Internet Past, Present and Future. It's a reasonably concise summing up, that starts with addressing fake news. ...
- Hollywood Players Leak Movies To File-Sharing Sites
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Hollywood insiders are leaking movies to file-sharing sites, a new lawsuit brought by Warner Bros. suggests. Warner Bros. alleges that the talent agency Innovative Artists uploaded DVD screeners and oth ...
- Kim Dotcom To Relaunch Megaupload
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom will relaunch the cyberlocker service next year. The FBI shut down the first version of Megaupload in 2012. ...
- How to Navigate Exporting And File Saving Issues In Excel
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, David Grow - Friday, July 8, 2016
Microsoft Excel is one of the most common tools that marketers rely on for sorting and analyzing data, and although exporting and saving would seem to be basic skills th ...
- One In Five Brits Is A Copyright Pirate
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, July 23, 2015
Britain remains a hotbed of illegal file-sharing, with one in five Internet users downloading movies and music without paying, according to a report from the government's Intellectual Property Office. T ...
- Google Turns Tables On Mississippi A.G., Demands Info About 'Project Goliath'
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 13, 2015
Google is demanding that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood turn over information about "Project Goliath" -- a Hollywood-backed initiative that reportedly involves enlisting state law enforcement officials in the fig ...
- Obsolete Technology Makes Non-readable Photos, Files
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 13, 2015
It makes perfect sense that photos saved on floppy disks once inserted into a hard drive would one day become non-readable as the technology becomes obsolete. I guess not ...
- BitTorrent Urges Sony To Release 'The Interview' On Its Platform
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 23, 2014
The file-sharing network BitTorrent wants Sony to release "The Interview," the movie about two producers who the CIA recruits to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on their trip ...
- The Little Frog That Couldn't
Real MAD, Stan Mack - Monday, August 4, 2014
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- A Better Way To Share Business Links On Facebook
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Facebook said Tuesday it made an update to the News Feed algorithm that will reduce the number of text posts shown from business pages, and more text posts being sho ...
- Adults Feel Personal Information Collected Online Unwarranted
Research Brief, Jack Loechner - Wednesday, February 13, 2013
According to a recent Ipsos online study, 45% of U.S. adults feel that they have little (33%) or no (12%) control over the personal information companies gather while they a ...
- Pirate Bay Takes To The Cloud
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Thursday, October 18, 2012
The Swedish file sharing site Pirate Bay has moved its server infrastructure to the cloud in an attempt to avoid raids that could knockit offline. Blamed for supporting illegal file-sharin ...
- Better Connected When Sharing
Research Brief, Jack Loechner - Thursday, September 20, 2012
According to a recent study by Intel Corporation, conducted by Ipsos, across the globe people share information online for two main reasons: connection and expression. The majority of adults a ...
- Share And Share, But Not Alike
Research Brief, Jack Loechner - Thursday, August 16, 2012
According to the e-tailing group and MyBuys, in a joint online survey, consumers are more comfortable sharing data with retailers than they are with social networks, especially if it enhanc ...
- Shared Content Acquires Profitable Customers
Research Brief, Jack Loechner - Thursday, May 17, 2012
According to the Curata 2012 Content Curation Adoption Survey, curation has become mainstream, with the majority of marketers surveyed curating content. Marketers are sharing relevant content with new prospects ...
- Social Sharing Trends
Research Brief, Jack Loechner - Monday, December 5, 2011
Secure social login can be used to speed up registration on sites across the web, says the report. According to an analysis by Janrain of online users across 365,000 websit ...
- Senate Panel Passes Anti-Piracy Bill
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, November 18, 2010
A Senate panel just passed a bill giving U.S. agencies and officials new powers to battle foreign websites that sell counterfeit goods, pirated music, movies and books. "The bill, whi ...
- Revised Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Satisfies Digital-Rights Advocates
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 7, 2010
A new version of a proposed anti-counterfeiting treaty no longer contains some of the Web-related provisions that had alarmed a broad coalition of watchdogs. ...
- Judge Rules ISP Subscribers Have No Expectation Of Privacy, Allows Filmmakers To Unmask P2P File Sharers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 13, 2010
A federal judge has okayed independent filmmakers' attempts to unmask thousands of Web users who allegedly
downloaded movies from peer-to-peer networks. The judge reasoned that Web users have ...
- Report: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Owner Taps Righthaven For Copyright Enforcement
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 31, 2010
WEHCO Media, which owns 15 newspapers including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Chattanooga Times Free Press, reportedly has become the second client of copyright enforcement outfit Righthaven. ...
- FTC Closes LimeWire Privacy Probe Without Taking Action
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 30, 2010
In February, the Federal Trade Commission warned a host of businesses, local governments and schools that sensitive data about their employees and customers had ended up on on file-sharing network ...
- Coalition Urges Supreme Court To Consider File Sharers 'Innocent Infringers'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 20, 2010
A coalition of law professors and other attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether people who share music over peer-to-peer networks can be considered "innocent infringers." ...
- Judge Reduces Fine In File-Sharer Case, Could Have Wide-Ranging Repercussions For Copyright Cases
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 9, 2010
In a ruling that could put a crimp in content owners' attempts to convince downloaders to settle lawsuits, a federal judge in Boston has said it's unconstitutional to require ...
- RIAA Asks Judge To Freeze LimeWire's Assets
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Having persuaded U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood that LimeWire infringed copyright, the record industry is now asking her to shut down the peer-to-peer network and freeze its assets, ...
- File Sharer Takes 'Innocent Infringer' Case To Supreme Court
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 27, 2010
A peer-to-peer user who downloaded 37 tracks on Kazaa as a teen is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that she can be considered an "innocent infringer." ...
- Judge: RapidShare No Napster
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 24, 2010
People might use RapidShare to share copyrighted material, but the company is no Napster. That's according to U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Huff, who declined to issue an injunction again ...
- Judge Prohibits File Sharer isoHunt From Knowingly Hosting Copyrighted Material
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 21, 2010
A federal judge in California has issued a permanent injunction prohibiting BitTorrent search engine isoHunt and its founder, Gary Fung, from knowingly encouraging users to share pirated material. The orde ...
- Injunction (Briefly?) Cripples Pirate Bay
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, May 17, 2010
Content owners, rejoice! Or, at least for the moment. Some top Hollywood studios just won an injunction against Pirate Bay's bandwidth provider CB3ROB via a court in Hamburg. The injuncti ...
- LimeWire Found To Induce Copyright Infringement
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Siding with the record labels, a federal judge has ruled that the peer-to-peer company LimeWire is liable for infringement because it induced users to download copyrighted material. U.S. District Cou ...