Neowin News Feed for: Dmca

Watching DVDs on Linux is (mostly) illegal

Tim Schiesser — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:47:22 +0000

The most common, free method of watching a video DVD on Linux actually circumvents the CSS protection on the disc, which is technically illegal under the DMCA in the United States Read more...

Oops: Microsoft sends takedown requests to BBC, Wikipedia, and the US Government

Tyler Holman — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:29:42 +0100

Microsoft's automated takedown systems may need some work, since it's been trying to block Wikipedia, the BBC, and even the EPA for supposedly distributing pirated beta copies of Windows 8. Read more...

Google Takedown requests increase by 1137% compared to 2011

Paul Ferson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:18:52 +0100

Google's Takedown requests have increased by over 1,000% compared to last year. The search giant now handles more than a million takedown requests weekly, from various groups and reporters. Read more...

Google creates a giant database of links to pirated material

Alfonso Maruccia — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:36:48 +0100

Google is unknowingly helping amassing a huge amount of links to illegal content available on the web, and the culprit is that same industry that would like to eradicate piracy from the Internet. Read more...

One studio accounts for 1/3 of Twitter DMCA takedowns

Tyler Holman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:22:45 +0000

According to recently released statistics, a single studio, Magnolia Pictures, accounts for a whole one third of all DMCA takedown requests on Twitter, more than Universal Music and Sony combined. Read more...

GoDaddy hit with boycott over SOPA support [Update]

Mike Brown — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:06:51 +0000

Domain registrar GoDaddy has been hit with a boycott of its services, after Reddit users discovered the company's support of the controversial SOPA bill. Users are now taking their websites elsewhere. Read more...

Judge: DMCA allows DVD Ripping

James Woodfin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:30:32 +0100

A judge made a ruling on Monday that suggests that educational institutions are allowed rip DVDs and stream them. The judge dismissed the lawsuit that claimed the DMCA was violated by the practice. Read more...

Grooveshark faces another lawsuit

Paul Ferson — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:33:16 +0100

Grooveshark has been served another lawsuit, to continue its ongoing copyright issues. The lawsuit was issued on July 15th in the state of Tennessee. As CNET reports, the lawsuit comes with the backing of song... Read more...

Dropbox tries shutting down open source project

Christopher White — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:24:56 +0100

Dropbox sure has been in the news a lot lately. Two weeks ago Neowin reported that a major security flaw in the service can expose customer files to anyone on the Internet. Now it appears... Read more...

Judge allows Sony to subpoena IPs of visitors to GeoHot's website

Michael Collado — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:49:44 +0000

Federal magistrate Joseph Spero ruled this week that it was okay for Sony to acquire the IP addresses of visitors who took to George Hotz's, more likely known as GeoHot, website in search of jailbreaking... Read more...

Sony sues GeoHot, other PlayStation 3 jailbreak hackers

Michael Collado — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:34:05 +0000

Sony has decided to take legal action against the hackers that were able to exploit the PlayStation 3 operating system into running homebrew and pirated software, which worked by accessing root keys or "special codes"... Read more...

Microsoft backs down over "spy guide" leak, no longer seeking removal

Tom Warren — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:16:55 +0000

Microsoft has backed down from issuing a DMCA request to hosts of a leaked Microsoft “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook.” Earlier today, Neowin reported on the leak of a 22-page guide that describes the surveillance services Microsoft... Read more...

Microsoft demands take-down of leaked "spy guide"

Tom Warren — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:23:56 +0000

Whistleblowing site Cryptome has landed itself in trouble with Microsoft legal for publishing the software company's “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook.” The handbook, dated March 2008, is a 22-page guide that describes the surveillance services Microsoft offers... Read more...

Fair use comes first in web video

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:24:27 +0100

A video of a dancing baby has led to a landmark decision regarding the handling of internet videos. As part of the ruling in the Lenz v. Universal case, US Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled that... Read more...

Lexmark suffers second knock back in DMCA case

malebolgia — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:24:00 +0000

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A federal appeals court has denied Lexmark's request to consider reimposing an injunction against a firm that makes components that allow generic replacement ink cartridges to work in Lexmark printers. The ruling by the US... Read more...

Lexmark loses DMCA ink cartridge case

malebolgia — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:41:20 +0100

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Major printer company Lexmark has lost a case in a US court in which it tried to deploy the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to prevent other companies making cartridges that work with its printers.... Read more...

Microsoft ends SP2 torrent experiment with DMCA warning

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:38:02 +0100

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One group tried get out ahead of the lobbyists and demonstrate the usefulness of P2P in areas not usually covered by the mainstream media, and they've used SP2 to do it. Downhill... Read more...

DMCA comments published

configure — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 08:00:33 +0000

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The Register Of Copyrights resides in the US Library of Congress and has public rulemaking authority over copyright enforcement for all types of media -- all books, periodicals, plays, music, films, etc. In... Read more...

DMCA takes another blow

Keldyn — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:31:25 +0000

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Critics of a controversial U.S. copyright law applauded a jury's decision Tuesday to acquit a Russian software firm charged with creating an illegal encryption-disabling program. The verdict, they say, will make prosecutors more reluctant to... Read more...

DMCA coming your way UK'ers

cheekymonkey — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 20:01:30 +0100

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The UK looks set to get its own version of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), following the publication of proposals to implement the EU Copyright Directive into UK Law. A... Read more...