Google & Gonzales May Tangle in Round Two
“Google may be about to face a second round of subpoenas for search-related information.
“If the U.S. Justice Department is successful in obtaining a week’s worth of search terms from Google, which it demanded as part of an attempt to defend a 1998 Internet pornography law, a second round of subpoenas is shaping up to be far more intrusive.”
Declan McCullagh. Google May Have to Fight Second Subpoena. News.com. Feb. 17, 2006.
See also:
Declan McCullagh. Google to Feds: Back Off. News.com. Feb. 17, 2006.
American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU Urges Court to Reject Government’s Bid for Google Records. Feb. 17, 2006.
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. Plaintiff’s Response to the Government’s Motion to Compel Google to Comply With a Subpoena (No. 06-mc-80006-JW). (.pdf, 885 KB) Feb. 17, 2006.
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Google & Gonzales May Tangle in Round Two
“Google may be about to face a second round of subpoenas for search-related information.
“If the U.S. Justice Department is successful in obtaining a week’s worth of search terms from Google, which it demanded as part of an attempt to defend a 1998 Internet pornography law, a second round of subpoenas is shaping up to be far more intrusive.”
Declan McCullagh. Google May Have to Fight Second Subpoena. News.com. Feb. 17, 2006.
See also:
Declan McCullagh. Google to Feds: Back Off. News.com. Feb. 17, 2006.
American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU Urges Court to Reject Government’s Bid for Google Records. Feb. 17, 2006.
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. Plaintiff’s Response to the Government’s Motion to Compel Google to Comply With a Subpoena (No. 06-mc-80006-JW). (.pdf, 885 KB) Feb. 17, 2006.
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Digitization vs. Scanning
“Daniel Clancy, the Engineering Director for the Google Book Search Project, mentioned that Google [Book Search] was NOT going for archival quality in their scans and were ok with skipped pages, missing content and less than perfect OCR — he mentioned that the OCR process AVERAGED one word error per page of every book scanned!
“The key point that I took away from this is that Google book project IS NOT an alternative to library/archive/archival/preservation scans. Libraries will still have an important role to play (as we already know!) because a certain percentage of the digitized content owned by StanMichOxYork will be basically unusable as archival, preservation-level digital content. Google’s ok with that, but libraries shouldn’t be!”
Diglet. Thoughts on Google Book Search. Feb. 16, 2006.
Editor’s Note: Digitization project expert Jill Hurst-Wahl discussed the poor quality of the Google Book Search scans last November.
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Apple Invokes DMCA to Stifle OS X Discussion
“Apple Computer appears to have invoked the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to stop the dissemination of methods allowing Mac OS X to run on chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
“The chatter at the OSx86 Project was stifled Friday after the forum was served with a notice under the DMCA, according to a posting on the site.”
Tom Krazit. DMCA Axes Sites Discussing Mac OS for PCs. News.com. Feb. 17, 2006.
See also:
Chilling Effects. Apple Complains of Links to OS for x86. Feb. 16, 2006.
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Beatles’ Copyright Spurs UK Public Domain Debate
“In 2013, copyright in the sound recording of the Beatles’ first album expires, as it will for recordings from Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard and other performers of the same period. In the midst of an explosion in digital music sales, and a flourishing new music scene, industry executives are lobbying the UK government to extend protection for sound recordings from 50 years to 95.
“On the one hand, a powerful industry lobby, responsible for many UK jobs, says it needs this change in copyright law to survive. On the other, it is not the government’s role to protect one section of industry at the expense of innovation in another.
“It is what is sometimes called the Goldilocks problem.”
Kay Withers. Copyright Sings to a Different Tune. BBC News. Feb. 17, 2006.
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Content Protection Without DRM
“DRM (Digital Rights Management) has traditionally been thought of as a tool to enforce copyright. As such, it has failed spectacularly on several occasions. Practically every DRM solution with wide enough deployment for people to care was defeated within a short period of time.
“In this article, we propose alternative business models which would provide the participating parties with the right incentives to do what other participants expect them to do, irrespectively whether or not copyright is enforced. The proposed business models are based on several already successful business practices, which encourage creativity without relying on copyright protection.”
Daniel A. Nagy. DRM Beyond Copyright Enforcement – Alternative Models for Content Distribution. INDICARE. Feb. 15, 2006.
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Rootkit Redux: German DVDs Contain DRM-Based Malware
“Two German Video-DVDs use a new copy protection scheme which creates a security risk on Windows machines. The copy protection mechanism called Alpha-DVD was developed by Settec, a Korean company spun off from electronics giant LG.
“When the disc is inserted into a Windows PC, a window boldly announces that the disc can only be played after installing copy protection software. When the user clicks on “I agree”, Alpha-DVD installs three files to the system32 directory and loads into memory. The copy protection hides from the Task Manager by injecting a library into all running user level processes. There is no simple way for Windows users to know whether Alpha-DVD is installed on their machines.
“This library can easily be misused by third-party software for malignant purposes. heise Security has developed a proof-of-concept application which can call on Alpha-DVD to hide itself from the OS. It takes only a few lines of code to make use of Alpha-DVDs stealth functionality.”
Heise Online. DVD Copy Protection Creates Security Risk. Feb. 14, 2006.
See also:
Joris Evers. Homeland Security Official Suggests Outlawing Rootkits. News.com. Feb. 16, 2006.
Robert McMillan. Sony Rootkit Experience May Lead to Federal Oversight. IDG News Service. Feb. 16, 2006.
Ryan Naraine. ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ DVD Ships With Rootkit-like DRM. eWeek. Feb. 14, 2006.
Settec. Entertainment Copy Protection: Alpha-DVD. No date.
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