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Project Goliath : Inside Hollywood’s secret war against Google - 15 décembre 2014
SOPA was just the beginning
What is "Goliath" and why are Hollywood’s most powerful lawyers working to kill it ?
In dozens of recently leaked emails from the Sony hack, lawyers from the MPAA and six major studios talk about "Goliath" as their most powerful and politically relevant adversary in the fight against (...)
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Google Discarded 21,000,000 Takedown Requests in 2013 - 28 décembre 2013
Google discarded 9% of the 235,000,000 allegedly infringing links copyright holders asked the company to remove from its search engine this year. This amounts to 21 million URLs for which Google took no action, either because the requests were illegitimate or were duplicates already submitted in previous notices. (...)
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Google Gives Big Content an Olive Branch in Search Algorithm Change - 14 août 2012
Google will begin altering its search algorithm this week to lower search rankings of sites with "high numbers" of copyright-infringement removal notices.
Google is mum on the details of the plan, which some digital rights groups like Public Knowledge suggest is "setting up a process that can be abused" because (...)
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Trendy Twitter, groovy Google and funky Facebook wield formidable power - 2 août 2012
Twitter’s suspension of a British journalist shows we should beware the commercial interests and huge power of social media sites
At first, the story had all the David v Goliath co-ordinates of other social media furores. Guy Adams, the Independent’s LA correspondent, had complained on Twitter about NBC’s delayed (...)
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Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash - 31 juillet 2012
Twitter is facing a user backlash after suspending the account of a journalist who had criticised NBCUniversal’s coverage of the Olympic Games.
The US TV network had complained that Independent newspaper correspondent Guy Adams had posted the email address of one of its executives.
But Mr Adams has alleged the (...)
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Reporter Is Banished From Twitter After Post on NBC’s Olympics Coverage - 31 juillet 2012
It all started with a little unbridled Olympic enthusiasm. Guy Adams, a Los Angeles-based correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, started posting on Twitter how frustrated he was that NBC was delaying TV coverage of many of the most popular events of the Olympics until prime time.
He wrote, "Am I (...)
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Broadcasters Warn of Apocalypse in Dish’s Ad-Skipping Service - 27 mai 2012
Broadcasters are claiming in federal lawsuits Thursday that Dish Network’s DVR service, which allows the automatic skipping of commercials, breaches copyright law and retransmission agreements.
The suits by Fox, CBS and NBC are the broadcasters’ latest legal salvos against technological innovations, as those (...)
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Google Says It Removes 1 Million Infringing Links Monthly - 27 mai 2012
Each month, Google removes more than 1 million links to infringing content such as movies, video games, music and software from its search results "” with about half of those requests for removal last month coming from Microsoft.
The search and advertising giant revealed the data Thursday as it released sortable (...)
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Battle Over Dish’s Ad-Skipping Begins as Networks Go to Court - 27 mai 2012
The Dish Network and three television networks filed opposing lawsuits on Thursday over Auto Hop, a feature that allows Dish subscribers to automatically skip all the advertising during most prime-time shows.
The owners of the CBS, Fox and NBC networks accused Dish of copyright infringement in connection with the (...)
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Droit d’auteur : Google efface une adresse web toutes les 2 secondes ! - 26 mai 2012
Le mois dernier, Google a reçu plus de 1,2 million de demandes de suppression de résultats de son moteur de recherche, pour des URL qui conduisaient à des contenus protégés par des droits d’auteur. Microsoft est le plus gros demandeur de ces suppressions, tandis que FilesTube est le site le plus visé par les demandes. (...)
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New, Old Media Battle Over Net Rules - 18 janvier 2012
The passage of antipiracy legislation affecting the Internet, long considered likely, is no longer so certain.
Showing a strategic ability worthy of the best political campaigns, some of the Internet’s most popular sites are about to unleash a splashy weapon "“ Internet blackout day "“ to block proposed antipiracy (...)
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Web Piracy Bill Faces Fiercer Fight - 17 janvier 2012
Media Companies Lose Ground as White House Sides With Internet Firms ; Wikipedia Plans Protest
Supporters of controversial antipiracy legislation face a struggle to regain momentum after the White House sided with irate Internet companies and users over the weekend and complained that the proposal could hurt (...)
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Fighting Antipiracy Measure, Activist Group Posts Personal Information of Media Executives - 14 janvier 2012
The online activist group known as Anonymous, which has targeted opponents of the Occupy Wall Street movement and businesses that stopped providing services to WikiLeaks, has set its sights on a new adversary : media executives.
In protest of antipiracy legislation currently being considered by Congress, the (...)
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News Networks Ignore Controversial SOPA Legislation - 9 janvier 2012
Controversial legislation that the co-founder of Google has warned "would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world" has received virtually no coverage from major American television news outlets during their evening newscasts and opinion programming. The parent companies of most of these (...)
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Loi antipiratage SOPA : le mutisme des grands networks américains - 9 janvier 2012
Media Matters, une organisation de surveillance des médias, dénonce l’absence de traitement de la loi SOPA dans les journaux du soir des principales chaînes d’information (MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CBS et NBC). Des entreprises qui par ailleurs sont des soutiens déclarés de SOPA.
Selon Media Matters, un groupe américain de (...)
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The net neutrality threat of the T-Mobile merger with AT&T - 4 avril 2011
Unless the US government blocks AT&T’s T-Mobile bid, mobile phone and data customers may end up paying more for less
Last Sunday, on the eve the wireless industry’s largest tradeshow in Orlando, AT&T announced its plan to buy rival mobile service provider T-Mobile USA for $39bn. Were this merger allowed to (...)
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Comcast-NBC Universal, un ogre numérique est né - 21 janvier 2011
TF1 rachetée par Free"¦ Rectificatif, ce n’est pas encore en France mais aux États-Unis que le feu vert vient d’être donné à une fusion "” plus ou moins "” comparable entre Comcast, premier fournisseur d’accès à Internet et câblo-opérateur, et NBC Universal, un groupe audiovisuel formé autour de la chaîne NBC, qui fut longtemps (...)
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FCC net neutrality proposal opens door for prioritization and higher fees for consumers - 6 décembre 2010
A proposed net neutrality regulation at the Federal Communications Commission would allow broadband service providers to prioritize their own content over that of competitors. The draft proposal also would allow broadband network operators to charge consumers based on how much data they use, according to one (...)
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Net neutrality plan is ’right there in the middle’ - 5 décembre 2010
Tim Wu is a law professor at Columbia University, author of the (excellent) new book "The Master Switch" and chairman of the board of Free Press. Oh, and he coined the term "net neutrality" in 2003. He spoke with me from Canada, where he’s promoting his book, about the net neutrality rules that Julius Genachowski, (...)
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Internet TV battles come to head at FCC - 11 novembre 2010
Changes in the television marketplace have been fast and furious in recent months, and soon more tumult may come by way of the Federal Communications Commission.
A push to break open the technology of the television set top box, and the FCC’s review of Comcast and NBC Universal’s proposed merger, could chart a new (...)
