How to Report Bugs & Send Feedback in Windows 7 RC
Microsoft latest Windows operating system Windows 7 RC is available for public download under Customer Preview Program.
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22.5.2009 AT&T to start sending copyright warnings
AT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.
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28.3.2009 Microsoft to blast Google for its copyright policy
Microsoft Corp. is set to launch a blistering attack on rival Google Inc. on Tuesday for what the software giant argues is the Web search leader's "cavalier" approach to copyright protection.
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6.3.2007 MSN Soapbox reopens with copyright filtering
Today sees MSN Soapbox return to a public beta after having closed back in March. The reason given for the closure was that Microsoft needed time to deliver a technological solution to resolve the piracy issues that have plagued other user-generated video sites such as YouTube.
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2.7.2007 Microsoft confirms no Copyright Cop on Zune
We have seen some chatter in the blogosphere over the last 24 hours around a couple of posts speculating about what Zune may or may not do in terms of putting content filtering features directly into the Zune family of devices in future releases.
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8.5.2008 Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial begins, founders plead not guilty
Today marked the first day of the criminal copyright infringement suit against The Pirate Bay that was initiated in Sweden one year ago by Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal, Metro Goldwin Mayer and 20th Century Fox.
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16.2.2009RIAA threatens 19 universities with lawsuits
Just in time to welcome many students back from fall break, the Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday dispatched a new round of
"prelitigation" letters to 19 U.S. universities from coast to coast, alleging that campus networks are being used to commit copyright
infringement.
For those keeping score at home, this marks the ninth time the RIAA has launched such an initiative.
As usual, each of the 411 letters reveals that a student or employee of the school is about to be sued for copyright infringement. The
letters also offer the opportunity for those targeted to settle out of court at a "discounted rate," touting a
special Web site that allows targets to settle their claims online.
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19.10.2007Apple, Microsoft threatened with possible digital copyright lawsuit
Microsoft Corp and
Apple Inc could face a
possible lawsuit for failing
to include measures to control
access to copyrighted material
in products such as Vista OS,
iTunes and the iPod, two
companies have
warned.
Media Rights Technologies
(MRT) and BlueBeat.com have
issued cease and desist
letters to both companies and
to Adobe Systems Inc.and Real
Networks -- which produce the
Adobe Flash Player and Real
Player respectively -- for
actively avoiding their X1
SeCure Recording Control,
which they said is an
effective copyright protection
system.
MRT and
Bluebeat said the failure to
use an available copyright
protection solution
contravenes the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act,
which prohibits the
manufacture of any product or
technology designed to
circumvent a technological
measure that effectively
controls access to a
copyrighted work or protects
the rights of copyright
owners...
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13.05.2007Virgin and BPI warn illegal downloaders
Virgin Media and the British Phonographic Institute (BPI) are to send warning letters to customers they believe are downloading or distributing music
illegally. The announcement represents the first such public deal between the BPI and an ISP.
The pair hope that the new campaign will
avoid users risking disconnection and possible legal action. "Virgin Media's fibre optic broadband is a great platform for people who want to
download lots of music," said Virgin Media in a statement. "But we want them to do so without infringing the rights of musicians and music
companies."
Customers whose accounts appear to have been used to distribute music in breach of copyright will receive "informative
letters" from Virgin Media and the BPI.
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06.06.2008RIAA Sends 411 Letters to 19 Universities
RIAA continued its effort to end piracy at college campuses with a new round of 'pre-litigation' letters aimed at using the threat of a suit to
settle cases out of court...
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19.10.2007RIAA Sends Out Letters To College Students
RIAA said Monday that it had
sent out 408 letters offering
to settle with students from
23 universities across the
country. The letter offers
those who receive it a
discounted settlement for
staying out of court...
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24.07.2007Yahoo tweaks advertising policies in response to Congress
Last week, Congress sent letters to Internet platform providers expressing concern over targeted advertising. Now those letters have resulted in
action from at least one company, which will now enable users to opt-out...
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09.08.2008Microsoft biffs the severance-payout math
The proverbial adding of insult to injury was underway at Microsoft this week, only they seem to be having some trouble over there with the whole
"adding" concept: TechCrunch is reporting that a number of laid-off Microsoft folk have received letters informing them that they were paid
out too much severance... and please send the money back, kthx...
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22.02.2009Brits who download music illegally to receive warning letters
If you live in England and download a lot of copyrighted music, check your mailbox. The British government said Thursday that the recording industry
and the country's largest ISPs have agreed on a deal to cut down on piracy through warning letters...
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25.07.2008MPAA's student P2P sniffer pulled over copyright issues
In an embarrassing blunder for an organization that has made copyright one of its signature issues, the MPAA is now being accused of violating
copyright itself...
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05.12.2007Virgin warns 800 punters for file-sharing
The BPI has written to 800 Virgin Media customers warning them to stop sharing music files or risk losing their broadband connection. The letters came
in an envelope marked: "Important. If you don't read this, your broadband could be disconnected." But Virgin told Radio 1's Newsbeat that
the phrase was a mistake and the letters were part of an education campaign. Virgin said it was not making any kind of accusation and that it was
possible someone other than the account holder was involved.
When the Virgin campaign was revealed last month the company assured us that
the letters were not part of a "three strikes" process. The BPI has pushed ISPs to warn users three times for copyright infringement before cutting
off their broadband
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03.07.2008RIAA Pressures Students To Stop Illegal Downloads
Thanks to johnathonm
for his submission to the
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The
Recording Industry Association
of America (RIAA) said it sent
400 letters to 13 U.S.
universities advising of
potential copyright
infringement lawsuits against
students who use their
computer networks to swap
songs they haven't paid for.
The industry group is asking
the universities to notify
students they will be sued,
but can settle the cases
online, at a site the
organization has set up,
before any lawsuits are filed.
RIAA said it will send out
hundreds of the letters each
month in an effort to stamp
out music theft by students.
Under the settlement deal
offered by RIAA, students
would have to pay a fine and
sign a statement promising
they would no longer download
music illegally. A University
of Richmond study found that
more than half of college
students downloaded music and
movies illegally, the RIAA
said. " We need to address
this demographic. Remember
that the habits that they form
in college will stay with them
for a lifetime ," RIAA
President Cary Sherman said.
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01.03.2007New Zealand Internet blackout protest against copyright law
Copyright infringement is wrong, but should people, schools, and hospitals have their internet connections and websites cut off due to accusations
of copyright infringement?
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16.02.2009Copyright Alliance Director: We're Not Behind Policy Initiatives
Responding to our story
yesterday on Congressional
initiatives to impose new
royalty fees for both Internet
and terrestrial radio, the
director of the Copyright
Alliance, Patrick Ross, told
BetaNews it's a mistake for
anyone - including us - to
attribute certain advocated
copyright policies to the
Alliance, although they share
key members and supporters...
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23.05.2007Judge grants Veoh DMCA safe harbor in copyright suit
Yesterday, Federal Judge Howard R. Lloyd dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against video sharing site Veoh, granting it "safe harbor"
under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...
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28.08.2008RIAA faces possible class action over suing the innocent
The scene at RIAA headquarters
this week must have been
fascinating. The group
yesterday announced that it
has finished sending out a new
batch of 503 "pre-litigation
letters" to 58 different
universities around the US,
generously offering to let
students settle copyright
infringement claims "at a
discounted rate" before those
claims go to trial.
The letters
blanketed the country, going
everywhere from the University
of Hawaii to Swarthmore, from
Boston College to Tulane, from
Emory to UC-Chico. And then
the RIAA learned that its
aggressive litigation tactics
have placed it on the
receiving end of a class
action lawsuit.
Single mom Tanya
Andersen, a defendant in a
previous lawsuit brought by
the RIAA, was one of the first
to have her case dismissed
with prejudice (it cannot be
refiled at a later date).
Throughout the court battle,
she maintained her total
innocence, a claim given even
more plausibility by the fact
that she was charged with
downloading numerous gangsta
rap tracks.
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17.08.2007Secret of Intel name revealed
Intel has always been very proud of its name. In fact, it was so proud of the name that yours truly remembers all those legal letters sent to
companies and communities that even touched the sacred "intel" term. We especially remember the case of threatening to sue a gaming team from
America's Army, which didn't went well with members of US Army that reported that case to us.
We would not have been surprised
if Intel even didn't send letters to members of secret services, since that word is quite often used in the halls of counter-intelligence
organizations.
And in the end, it turns out that Intel was not Intel since day one. In his special appearance, Gordon Moore gave
us some trivia from the history, like the one that the first name of Intel was Moore & Noyce Electronics. However, that name did not sounded off well
in sceptical world of Electronics that only started its existence - so Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce used this name only to get the paperwork done,
which lasted some eight weeks. A different name was suggested to them by Noyce's daughter, and both founders liked it.
New name
was of course - INTegrated ELectronics, or Intel for short. The fact that "intel" was the term for intelligence information was also quite suitable,
but that name was already taken by some hotel chain in mid-west. In the end, Moore & Noyce Electronics bought the name from the chain and renamed
itself Intel Corporation.
The rest, as they say - is history.
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19.09.2007Court to consider what happens when copyright and free speech collide
Does the US Congress have the authority to stuff public domain works back inside the copyright closet? It did so back in 1994 when it implemented the
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) to bring US intellectual property law in line with that of other countries. A byproduct of the law was that some
people who regularly use public domain content from other countries (music teachers, for instance, who might use Prokofiev scores) suddenly found that
these works were now covered again by copyright, and they had to pay license fees in order to use material that had previously been free.
After signing URAA as part of a global round of trade talks, the US agreed to provide copyright protection for foreign works that was at
least equal to the protection those works received in their countries of origin. Before URAA was passed, foreign works still received copyright
protection in the US, but only on US terms. This meant that works began to leave copyright and enter the public domain in the US even though some were
still granted copyright protection in their home countries. After signing URAA, these works reverted into copyright here.
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06.09.2007UC-Berkeley Students Face Tougher Piracy Rules
As part of its war on pirated
music and videos, the
Recording Industry Association
of America (RIAA) is opening
up a new front at the resident
halls of the University of
California-Berkeley's campus.
Starting this fall semester,
students using campus computer
networks to illegally download
copyrighted audio and visual
materials will automatically
lose their in-room Internet
connection for a minimum of
one week, the university has
announced. " It's our job
to make sure students who live
in the residence halls fully
understand the consequences of
illegal file-sharing, "
said Dedra Chamberlin, manager
of residential computing
services at the university.
" We don't want students
to end up facing a lawsuit or
$3,000 fine saying, 'Why
didn't anyone warn me about
this?' ."
The
music industry group has
already sent more than 2,000
letters to students across the
country this year, including
to 16 at UC-Berkeley, alerting
the individuals that they have
downloaded audio files
illegally. The letters provide
the students with a choice:
pay an early settlement fee of
$3,000 to $6,000 or
face possible litigation. The
pre-litigation letters are
part of a broad education and
deterrence campaign that the
association launched early
this year, according to a
statement released by the
association: " The new
process gives students the
opportunity to resolve
copyright infringement claims
against them at a discounted
rate before a formal lawsuit
is filed. "
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17.08.2007New Chinese law finds Yahoo in copyright violation
Chinese courts handed the world's recording industry a significant victory Thursday, finding the search giant's Chinese music service was committing
copyright infringement...
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22.12.2007Apple says jailbreaking is illegal
Apple has for the first time gone on record to say that jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch is copyright infringement. Every three years the US
copyright office holds a rulemaking session with regards to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act where corporations can file complaints or exemptions.
For the 2009 session the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) filed an exemption request for jailbreaking iPhones for the use of interoperability
with independent software (read: anything not in the App Store) to help keep the jailbreaking community alive. Apple filed a formal complaint that
sates jailbreaking is copyright infringement which is not legal.
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