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Google says desktop PC is three years from ‘irrelevance’
‘We succeed because we celebrate failure’ Google’s European sales chief says that desktop PCs will be “irrelevant” in three years.…
Continue reading »FTC Warns 100 Companies About P2P Data Leaks
RIAA and MPAA quick to “welcome” news of another story chronicling the “abuse of P2P technology,” and emphasizes the “serious threat” it poses to both consumers as well as copyright holders. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent letters to almost 100 unnamed companies warning them that personal information, including sensitive data about customers and/or employees, is available in on P2P networks. The govt agency has also opened “non-public investigations” of other companies whose customer or employee information has also been exposed on P2P networks.
Continue reading »FCC admits CableCARD a failure, vows to try something else
The Genachowski-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seems to delight in dropping bombshells on a weekly basis, but we didn’t see this one coming: the FCC admits that its CableCARD mandate has been an abysmal failure. That doesn’t mean it’s giving up the fight to encourage set-box box innovation; instead, the FCC wants ideas for a new set of rules that will bust open access to video streams from cable and IPTV operators. Call it “Son of CableCARD”…
Continue reading »Jail Google execs, say Italian prosecutors
Italian authorities still want four Google executives behind bars. The four are accused of defamation and failure to comply with privacy laws in a case involving a cellphone video . In 2006 a high school student posted a three-minute clip of himself and three others on YouTube.
Continue reading »Entertainment cartel UK 3 Strikes Plan stalled
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Efforts by the Hollywood and Big Music to have their Three Strikes anti-P2P business plan forced into law in Britain before the next elections look doomed to failure, for the moment, at least. Conservative shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt (right) says he doesn’t believe the Digital Economy Bill will get through Parliament before then, “even with Tory support,” according to Times Online , which goes on: “The Conservatives back most of the proposals, which include disconnecting persistent internet pirates,” the so-called ‘graduated response’ developed by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures, it says. And it’s just been revealed that secretary of state Peter Mandelson, who’s representing the entertainment industry in Britain, is demanding changes to the bill.
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