In a video from the technology news website SiliconANGLE, contributing editor John Casaretto discusses whether “rogue” mobile apps are really a danger to the film industry. The segment addresses the takedown notice that Warner Bros. recently sent Google demanding that the company remove the “Hobbit 3D Wallpaper HD” app from its store. As SiliconANGLE host
In a February 19 post to the blog InternetNZ, Susan Chalmers examined the first two cases that came before New Zealand’s Copyright Tribunal as part of that country’s “Three Strikes” copyright infringement program. Chalmers wrote that the written decisions showed that the account holders had a limited understanding of the technology they had been punished for using,
A video posted online shows some of the pictures that street photographer Brandon Stanton has used as part of his Humans of New York photo project. In a February 25 post to his Facebook page, Stanton included a photo a fan had sent him from a DKNY store in Bangkok. “The window is full of
During the final lap of the NASCAR Nationwide Series auto race at Daytona International Speedway on February 23, a multi-car crash sent Kyle Larson’s car airborne and into the catch fence. The crash on the eve of NASCAR’s biggest race of the year, The Daytona 500, sent 14 fans to the hospital after a tire
In 2009, Andy Baio, of CreativeMornings, put together an 8-bit version of “Kind of Blue,” the classic Miles Davis album. Baio’s version was entitled “Kind of Bloop” and he had a friend create a pixel-art version of Jay Maisel’s photo for the iconic cover. The photography blog PetaPixel reported that “Baio meticulously licensed all the
In an April 2011 RT video, host Alyona Minkoski discusses Google’s plans to censor “pirate sites,” or websites that profit by providing illegal material. While those plans were an attempt to hurt pirate sites by ranking them low in search results, a United Kingdom newspaper recently reported that Google is now planning to implement even
A trailer for the documentary “The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard” (or “TPB AFK”), which was recently released online. The film is about the 2009 Swedish trial of the four founders of “The galaxy’s most resilient BitTorrent site.” Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were all found guilty of copyright infringement and were sentenced
A video was released recently that serves as a beginner’s guide to Zynga’s CityVille 2. The game is one of three titles launched last quarter that the San Francisco-based social game developer will be shutting down, according to GamePolitics.com. The decision came after Zynga reported a loss of $448 million for the quarter and a net
In a 1986 interview with Fortune magazine, investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet said that the “perfect amount” of money for parents to leave their children is “enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.” Before musician Ray Charles died in 2004, the singer gathered most
In an April 2011 Associated Press video, University of Southern California intellectual property law expert Jack Lerner summarizes some of the issues in a long-running dispute between rival toy makers Mattel, Inc. and MGA Entertainment, Inc. over the billion-dollar Bratz doll line. Mattel first filed a lawsuit in 2004, alleging that the designer of the toys, Carter
