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Pirate Bay back in the courtroom BBC
The founders of The Pirate Bay have been hit a with new order to remove links to copyright material. A Dutch court has ordered them to to remove all links to the material of a group of Netherlands-based music and film makers. The trio could face fines of up to $9m (£5.5m) if they do not comply within three months. However they claim that since selling the file-sharing website in 2006 they no longer have control over it. They also dispute some of the evidence presented by music and film copyright protection body, Stichting Brein. The action, brought by Stichting Brein, was against The Pirate Bay’s former spokesperson Peter Sunde, along with founders Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholmmen.

Beacon settlement gets preliminary OK CNet News
A class action suit over Facebook’s controversial Beacon program received preliminary approval Friday in U.S. District Court, allowing the company to clear the matter without long–and expensive–court proceedings. The proposal (PDF), which was made public last month, calls for Facebook to discontinue Beacon and cough up $9.5 million to set up a nonprofit foundation to “fund projects and initiatives that promote the cause of online privacy, safety and security.” Beacon was launched in November 2007 to let users share information with their Facebook friends about the things they were doing on third-party, affiliated sites.

Court case shows limits of anonymous blogging Ars tTechnica
Lawsuits against anonymous bloggers are common, but the courts generally protect the right to speak unnamed. Now, one Tennessee blogger is about to be unmasked, reminding us that even Internet anonymity has its limits—and that making accusations of arson, drug abuse, and tax evasion can carry consequences.

News Corp. digital chief: MySpace ‘kind of stopped’ CNet News
With both MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta and News Corp. chief digital officer Jonathan Miller taking the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit this week, there was naturally plenty of talk about the social site’s attempt to reverse its ill fortune of late. Once the biggest name in social networking, it’s long since lost that title to Facebook and is trying to reinvent itself as a destination for music and entertainment. “I think that what you see in the space more than anything else is if you don’t keep innovating and moving forward you get in trouble,” Miller said in his talk on Thursday morning. “You can’t stop, you have to keep going, and (MySpace) didn’t keep going, it kind of stopped.”

Electronic medical records not seen as a cure-all Washington Post
When President Obama designated $19.5 billion to expand the use of electronic medical records, former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said it was one of only “two good things” in February’s stimulus package. But such bipartisan enthusiasm has obscured questions about the effectiveness of health information technology products, critics say. Interviews with more than two dozen doctors, academics, patients and computer programmers suggest that computer systems can increase errors, add hours to doctors’ workloads and compromise patient care.

GeoCities’ time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today New York Times
We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated “under construction” signs, and we’d hear one last Midi file to the tune of horns playing taps. Instead, GeoCities will probably go down with a whimper today. Time is up for Yahoo Inc.’s scheduled closing of perhaps the most significant virtual museum in recent history. Years ago a central meeting place for a massive chunk of American Web surfers, GeoCities will lock its doors and take millions of pages offline. GeoCities allowed anyone to build a custom Web page for free and reserved a small amount of virtual storage to keep pictures and documents. It was perhaps the first mainstream example of an open, participatory and personal Internet.

Organ theft article ‘a perversion of journalistic standards’ The Local
Amid an ongoing uproar over accusations that Israel harvested the organs of dead Palestinians, Andrea Levin of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) issues a fresh plea to Aftonbladet to acknowledge and correct “the factual errors that litter the article”. Allegations that Israel plunders and trafficks Palestinians’ organs are ugly, false, and harmful to peace efforts. No less dangerous—such libels spread. The August 17 story by Donald Boström in Aftonbladet, Scandanavia’s leading daily, has quickly metastasized to mainstream Muslim media, spawning cartoons of Jews stealing body parts and drinking Arab blood. These have been published in Syria, Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, to name a few.

Net set for ‘language shake-up’ BBC
The internet is on the brink of the “biggest change” to its working “since it was invented 40 years ago”, the net regulator Icann has said. The body said it that it was finalising plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters. The proposal – initially approved in 2008 – would allow domain names written in Asian, Arabic or other scripts. The body said if the final plans were approved on 30 October, it would accept the first applications by 16 November.

Man sentenced in software case Washington Post
A Falls Church man was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison for selling more than $1 million in pirated software on eBay. Gregory W. Fair, 46, pleaded guilty in April to charges of criminal copyright infringement and mail fraud for selling pirated copies of Adobe Systems programs between 2001 and 2007. In addition to sentencing Fair to three years and five months in prison, U.S. District Judge Richard W. Roberts ordered him to pay Adobe $743,098 in restitution.

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October, 2009

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