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Hey Big Brother, leave my levels alone - On the Level- msnbc.com
In Sony’s “LittleBigPlanet,” gamers made and uploaded levels that paid tribute to “Sonic the Hedgehog,” “Grand Theft Auto,” and, yes, “Super Mario Bros.” And in many cases, those levels were removed by moderators — often without warning.
Gamers in these nascent communities were furious.
“There’s really nothing we can do, except not create anymore levels on this game or just take it back in general and get our money back,” posted Josh1122 on the “LittleBigPlanet” forums. “I don't want to (it’s an awesome game) but what's the use of having a game where you CANT even create a level using the game’s OWN items without being moderated?”
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Court Reshapes Patent Reform Debate
In a decision likely headed to the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals upholds a patent court ruling that software and business methods can be patented only if they are implemented by a machine or transform something into a new or different thing. The decision reverses a decade-long trend of expanded patent protection.
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Google's Copyright Case: Settlement Is A Wake Up Call - Tech Check with Jim Goldman - CNBC.com
The Google settlement comes at a key time for the company, and represents a huge win for rights holders, authors, and other intellectual property owners.
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10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA is the Law That Saved the Web | Threat Level from Wired.com
The DMCA (.pdf) was conceived a decade ago as the United States' implementation of an international copyright treaty called WIPO. Hollywood wanted the bill to protect its intellectual property from being infringed on a massive scale, and secured a still-troubling anti-circumvention rule that generally prevents consumers from bypassing copy protection schemes. But history has shown that the far-more beneficial element in the law is a provision that provides ISPs, hosting companies and interactive services near blanket immunity for the intellectual property violations of their users — a provision responsible for opening vast speech and business opportunities — realized and unrealized.
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Chinese angry over Microsoft anti-piracy tool - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com
Chinese Internet users have expressed fury at Microsoft's launch of an anti-piracy tool targeting Chinese computer users to ensure they buy genuine software.
The "Windows Genuine Advantage" program, which turns the user's screen black if the installed software fails a validation test, is Microsoft's latest weapon in its war on piracy in China, where the vast majority of 200 million computer users are believed to be using counterfeit software, unwittingly or not.
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EA seeks to remedy its 'Spore' DRM mistake | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News
"If there is one thing that open source has taught us, it's that there are "users," and there are "customers." Odds are that all of your customers will be users first, taking your software for a test-drive and then deciding if they want to pay for it. It's all about getting people to consume your software."
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United States Patent: 7415666
Microsoft patents PageUp/PageDown functionality. Really.
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Desire2Learn Patent-Info's Blog
Desire2Learn's blog about their lawsuit against Blackboard and their patent for course management software.
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Microsoft: $1 of piracy = $5.50 in "lost opportunities"
Each dollar lost to software piracy equals $5.50 in lost opportunities, claims Microsoft.
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MPAA helps land criminal conviction in P2P piracy case | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
The Motion Picture Association of America has helped convict an administrator
for EliteTorrents.org, a peer-to-peer site, of felony copyright infringement and
conspiracy, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday.
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Technology Review: Who Owns Your Friends?
who controls the
data
users post on their profiles?
Advocates of so-called data portability, including Scoble and Smarr, say people
should be able to transfer information easily in and out of any Web services
they use. Facebook, on the other hand, says it needs to safeguard the
information it stores so that it isn't misused, and that means keeping tight
control over users' information.
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Wired Campus: Computer Scientists to Congress: Don't Tell Colleges to Install Filters on Networks - Chronicle.com
A group of computers scientists in academe, industry, and government is urging some members of the Senate and House of Representatives to oppose legislation that would encourage or require colleges to install network filters to inhibit illegal sharing of
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Why (most) authors and publishers need not fear online piracy
In a dire article in London's Times yesterday, reporter Ben Hoyle opened with the self-evidently ludicrous statement that "book piracy on the Internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for
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Newsvine - Microsoft Softens Response to Piracy
Microsoft Corp. is pulling back from a system that disables programs on users' computers if it suspects the software is pirated, opting instead for a gentler approach based on nagging alerts.
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The Digital Carrot, the Digital Stick - ChronicleReview.com
Argues that technology won't solve the problem of illegal file sharing, and shifts at least part of the blame for the problem onto the shoulders of content providers, education, and the legislature.
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Top U.S. Court Clears Way for More Patent Challenges
Thanks to Brad Potts for sending me the link to this article!
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