Google Wins Appeal on Copyright of Nude Images

May 16, 2007 · Filed Under Silicon Valley · 1 Comment 

Federal appeals court ruled out yesterday that Google has not infringe any copyrights act by allowing the user to search for adult publishing company’s porn images in thumbnail size. If the courts say Google did not infringe any copyright act because they simply don’t store these images on their server, then won’t that applies to P2P company like Kazaa or Napster, they don’t store but merely pointing to the user where and how to download these files.

Let say if Napster function just like Google, searching for mp3s using only the browser, would Napster be infringe any copyright act? This is a grey area. Read More.

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iTunes DRM free

April 2, 2007 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

Apple and EMI ditching DRM is good, but it's not good enough

Yesterday, Apple together with EMI announce to the world of music that finally they are ditching DRM in music, probably due to the fact that Yahoo and Sony did that long time ago, technically this would in turn means that the entire EMI collection in iTunes would be completely DRM free, meaning so say that you are no longer stuck with an iPod. If things goes accordingly, I would purchase some mp3 from iTunes that is DRM free, to walk the talk.

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Download Free Music

August 30, 2006 · Filed Under Sci and Tech · Comment 

who said that downloading mp3 for free online is illegal? Universal Music the world’s largest music company, has shaken up the record industry by announcing that it will make its song catalogue available as free internet downloads.

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