Not just the pirates: Brazilian rights holders indicted for ripping off artists
Fifteen officials of ECAD, the Brazilian organization in charge of collecting copyright licensing fees for music, face indictment after a Senate investigation there. The organization is the Brazilian counterpart to Ame......
How a fake Justin Bieber "sextorted" hundreds of girls through Facebook
Police in Biloxi, Mississippi received a disturbing report in the summer of 2011: someone using the e-mail address dalton.powers1@yahoo.com had been contacting young girls in the area through Facebook. "Dalton" said...
Massive offshore wind turbines to float in waters over a thousand feet deep
The US and UK last week announced plans to develop enormous floating offshore wind turbines that can be deployed in much deeper waters and further out to sea.
By being freed of...
Feature: “Free babysitting”: how would-be pedophiles use Craigslist—and how they get caught
Craigslist classified ads may have kneecapped the newspaper business, but they are doing wonders for amateur comedians, finders of false teeth, and fashioners of crucifix-shaped guitars played by men dressed as...
Fair use or "first excuse"? Oracle v. Google goes to the jury
The Oracle-Google copyright showdown is now in the hands of a San Francisco jury, following heated closing arguments given today to a packed courtroom. It's the culmination of the most high-profile...
TV Now is the latest Internet-based DVR service to find courtroom trouble
Consumers around the world want a hassle-free way to record free, over-the-air television and play it back on any Internet-connected device. But every time a company creates such a service, it...
Why bandwidth caps could be a threat to competition
Since the first dot-com boom, unmetered Internet access has been the industry standard. But recently, usage-based billing has been staging a comeback. Comcast instituted a bandwidth cap in 2008, and some...
Hate fossil fuels? Then buy up the reserves
Those with a desire to see a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels could do worse than to buy up reserves, according to a paper published this month. Researcher...
Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping
Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the ...
Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping
Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the ...
Google releases full details of FCC investigation into Street View WiFi snooping
Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission’s investigation into the company’s collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the ...
