Youtomb is a MIT Free Culture research project that monitors the most popular Youtube videos for copyright related takedowns. The project is currently monitoring more than 220000 videos at Youtube and has identified a a takedown rate of nearly 8%, a pretty hefty rate.
The website lists a screenshot and the name of the video, the [...]

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The first thing that came to my mind when I read “Attempted copyright infringement” was the term thought crime. It seems that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual-property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including “attempts” to commit piracy.

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Every webmaster witnesses content theft from time to time. Most of the time it is text or images that gets copied and published on other websites. There is however a solution for images that adds a visible copyright notice to them. You could use image editors like Gimp, Adobe Photoshop or Paintshop to create a [...]

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Rapidshare, one of the largest file hosters in the world, is currently under heavy fire in Germany. The Gema, which administers the copyrights of more than 60,000 members as well as those of over 1 million rights owners from all corners of the world managed to get a court ruling in their favor. The court ruled that the hoster could be held responsible for copyright violations committed by users who upload copyrighted material to Rapidshare servers. The court furthermore ruled that Rapidshare had to implement filters that would prevent further copyright violations.

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This sounds like one of those plots to conquer the world in comic series like Pinky & The Brain. The Piratebay (and fellowship) are planing to raise enough money to buy the Principality of Sealand located in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. I’m not sure if they really intend to buy Sealand because the sovereignty was never recognized by another country.

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