Copyright What is Legal and what is not (In Australia)

I was slammed into reality the other day by the fact that a Solicitor that I have known for many years who dealt in the area of the law known as Trade marks which falls under the auspices of Intellectual Property Law, got some basic knowledge about the Australian Copyright Legislation wrong. (No 'P' it's [...]

RIAA – the Results are in – WiFi P2P Kiosks Win Internet War

Every time Governments legislate against or big business prosecutes against file sharing, internet users find a new way to circumvent and continue their activities.   As there are more Internet Geeks than enforcement officials, this is hardly surprising.   Sometime ago I predicted to Chris that if the “powers that be” continued raining down hellfire [...]

Farmville, the Game that IS Breaking the Internet.

In the last three weeks I have noticed a decrease in filesharing. I considered that it might be a response to the unseasonably warm weather that Sydney is experiencing with people prefering to get outside than huddle over their computers. I may be wrong. The population of Sydney appear to be too busy with other [...]

The Hedonic Value of P2P to our Economy.

The other day I blogged about the fact that P2P was big business. We discussed the value of the infrastructure purchased as a result of P2P activity, both at the carrier and consumer level.   Today we will be anecdotally commencing an examination of the apparently growing causational relationship between higher education and file sharing [...]

P2P – Kill It And You Kill The Whole Economy

For as long as the Internet has been with us there has been a view that porn is what drives growth. Now that concept has actually been with us since the time of the invention of the printing press. Back then of course, there were essentially two business models for content, or three depending on [...]

Obamas P2P Hit List

Tonights blog is short. In response to President Obama hiring 5 ex RIAA  lawyers and increasing the per infringement amount to $150,000 per, we give you – The List.   AppleJuice Halite DC++ Freenet iMesh Ares LimeWire dctc Acquisition Apollon KCEasy Localhost Dolda Connect Acqlite Grokster BitTorrent MLDonkey Elise Apollon Kazaa ABC MonoTorrent fulDC Cabos [...]

It takes a Big Man to Negotiate a Truce

My first “R” rated movie was “Little Big Man” which my dad let me see when I was only 12 years old. His exact words to me were – “You’re old enough now son.”   It was great movie – it covered a number of human themes: the arrogance and bluster of Custer, the religious [...]

The End of Appointment Media

To most readers it is no news that Television is migrating to the Web.   With the evolution of the VCR into the TIVO, PVR, VCR, DVR and the ability to download almost any TV show from over the last thirty years via P2P using tvunderground (http://tvunderground.org.ru/index.php?show=show&bst=num) as the indexing catalogue service – why does [...]

Down the YouTube?

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Down the YouTube?

Mar 23rd 2007 | SAN FRANCISCO
From Economist.com

The online-video site gets a heavyweight competitor

IT HAS been a terrible month for Google, the biggest search engine and the internet’s reigning superpower, and for its subsidiary, YouTube, the pioneer and precocious leader of online video. Users may love them, but the old-media companies, feeling increasingly exploited, loathe them, sue them, and gang up on them. And that matters, because neither Google nor YouTube, as quintessential “new-media” companies, own any of the content that they organise so well.

With the announcement on Thursday March 22nd of a new online-video venture between NBC Universal, the huge media unit of General Electric, …