Growing Criticism of Feds’ Domain Seizures Two high profile domain seizure cases have led to some strong criticism of federal law enforcment’s seizure of domains for copyright infringement. When the Justice Department seized and shutdown Dajaz1.com on November 24, 2010 for allegedly linking to four songs , it had a deadline of 90-days in which to…
Tech Giants Behaving Badly Google’s Canadian Overdose $500M DOJ Settlement Plus Class Action Suit Google has entered into a $500 million settlement with the Department of Justice for allowing Canadian pharmacies to advertise in the US. Google blocked ads from other countries, just not Canada. The U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island that ran the investigation…
No Solid Gold in RIAA File Sharing Suits The Recording Industry Association of America is finding that its legal war against over 18,000 file sharers is about as big a hit as Pat Boone’s 1997 heavy metal album. While the RIAA has recovered about $1.4 million in damages, it has spent about $63 million…
TED’S TUBES Click Fraud, Nobel Net, Twit & Run, Spanish Prisoners and Net Decade Click Fraud Drops From ’08 Record High Q4 Rate of 15.3% A recent click fraud study pegged the Q409 rate at 15.3% which was down from the record high of 17.1% twelve months earlier but up from the Q309 rate of…
From 9/21 Cyber Report Internet Turns 40! On September 2, 1969 the first two ARPAnet computers were linked and began exchanging meaningless data. This evolved to the Internet and the ultimate exchange of meaningless data — Twitter. Today there are nearly 1.7 billion Internet users representing 1 in 4 people on the planet — that’s…
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