Digimarc Files DMCA to Take Down the Entire WordPress.com Domain
So-called anti-piracy company Digimarc is once again under fire for filing faulty DMCA notices. Recently, they tried to take down WordPress.com.
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New Feature: You Can Now Follow Us on Google Plus
Today, we are pleased to announce that you can now follow us on Google Plus.
Canadian Internet Censorship Proposal Receives Pushback at CRTC
The CRTC consultation has seen proposals for Internet censorship. Canadians, however, are pushing back against this idea.
Google Abandons User Rights to Support the TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has gained support from what might be considered by some as an unexpected source: Google. The search engine giant has announced in their policy blog that they have come out in support of the controversial agreement.
Google To NSA Over Surveillance: See You In Court
The NSA surveillance scandal doesn’t appear to be ending any time soon. Now, if Google has its way, what data the government has been asking for could simply be, well, a Google search away.
Fight Piracy By Cutting Off Ad Revenue – Google
There’s been numerous ways of fighting piracy that has been proposed in the past. One study was conducted by BAE Systems Diteca and PRS for music and published by Google. The idea is that government needs to work with advertisers and payment processors to stop the funding to alleged “pirate sites”, thereby cutting off the […]
Ten Wrongly Targeted URLs for DMCA Takedowns
Last week, we reported on the Google Transparency Report which brought to light some of the obviously wrongly filed DMCA takedowns being sent to Google. We decided to start doing a little data mining of our own to see just how rampant of a problem wrong DMCA notices are in the first place.
Google Releases Transparency Report of Takedown Requests
Google is offering a rather insightful look of what is being requested to be taken down. Many were copyright related, but some were requests from governments all around the world. That includes the American, Canadian and British government. We take a look through the report.
Faulty Google Result Caused Suspect Google Buying 4Chan Story?
A curious news story recently surfaced about Google possibly buying a well known website 4Chan. We did some digging into this to get to the bottom of this and found that this may have been the result of a faulty Google news result.
Google Fined $5 Million for Using Linux
In what could be a major blow to those hoping to see Linux in the workplace, a small company called Bedrock Computer Technologies sued Google for patent infringement because the company used the Linux operating system.
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