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The Web is Dead: What This Means to ICANN, New gTLD Program and the Domain Industry

Is the Web really dead? What is ICANN doing about it? Are ISPs and Google abusing copyright laws and using piracy to piggyback music, movie, book and software creators's work to profit? What can be done to expand the Internet and keep it open for all to access?

ICANN may face anti-trust lawsuits if Registry-Registrar Vertical Integration not allowed for new entrants to increase domain competition & innovation

As the VeriSign lawsuit has shown, it is critical that ICANN does not shoot new entrants on the foot and cripple them from innovating and competing both in the domain industry and other industries if their model is suited for that function. Falling prey to the antiquated concept of Vertical Separation will create anti-trust problems. Top-level domain (TLD) new entrants already have all odds stacked up against them.

Will the movie industry's raise of movie ticket prices negatively impact Hollywood industry profits and increase piracy and illegal downloading of pirated films?

Will the increase of movie ticket prices increase the illegal downloading of movies? Will high prices  of ticketing negatively affect the profits of the movie industry and Hollywood in the long run and push loyal movie goers to piracy?

Can Innovation Help Fight Piracy? 5 Steps to Innovative Behavior, Creativity & Creating New Opportunities

Innovation is regarded as the new way of doing something that is useful. It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes. Can Innovation help fight piracy and introduce new opportunities and methods for monetization? The 5-Step Visualization Method for Creative Thinking & Innovation can help bring about innovative behavior, creativity and as a result create new opportunities.

Fighting Piracy By Encouraging Illegal Activity: Can Pirates Be Potential Customers?

Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello is confident that EA can convert illegal pirates of games to potential customers. The reason: downloadable content that you can not access with a pirated copy.

The Battle for dotNYC (.nyc) domain extension: Is RFP the answer?

New York City government officials announced that they will be applying for the ".nyc" top-level domain (TLD) extension and are looking to choose a qualified vendor to operate the TLD on their behalf.   New York City's Department of Information Tech...

Consumers Win: Mobile Ringtones Are Not Concerts or Public Performances

A federal judge has dismissed the music industry contention that when a mobile ringtone is heard, copyright infringement starts happening since others can hear the song and regarded as a public performance.   If held true it would mean that all mobi...

Cyberterrorists, Phishers and Hackers: What do we do about them?

Cyberterrorism is defined as the convergence of cyberspace - the Internet - and terrorism.  Cyberterrorism includes illegal attacks against computers, networks and information stored in those computer networks. Cyberterrorists have numerous objecti...

Copyright Alliance asks Obama to pursue policies supportive of the rights of artists

It has become commonplace that artists, musicians, writers and other persons who produce creative works are finding their work is being copied, misused and distributed without their knowledge, consent or benefit. In a grassroots effort,  artists are...

Microsoft $565 million for Eolas patent infringement not enough: Apple and 22 others to be sued next for infringing on browser-embedded technology

Eolas, a technology company that was awarded $565 million in a patent infringement settlement against Microsoft in 2007 is embarking on another campaign against others under the same grounds of patent violation. The latest lawsuit alleges that Apple ...

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Phishing scam affecting email services such as Hotmail and GMail is spreading

For precaution, now is the time to take a few minutes to change the password and any security questions for your e-mail account. The scam was highlighted when several lists, detailing more than 30,000 names and passwords from Hotmail, Google and Yaho...

Nintendo Combats Piracy & Launches Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

Nintendo made a major move today in its ongoing fight against piracy. Joined by 54 game publishers, including such giants as Square Enix and Capcom, the company filed suit in Tokyo District Court seeking the halt in import and sale of Majicon devices...

Viacom Has Emails Showing That YouTube Knowingly Violated Copyrights

Viacom may have emails proving that YouTube knowingly uploaded unauthorized videos. These emails can help Viacom with its $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Youtube. Emails show that YouTube managers were aware of the copyright infring...

Microsoft is awarded a patent for a DRM system that works in P2P networks.

Microsoft gets a patent for a distributed DRM system that works in P2P networks. The Patent number 7,594,275 is labeled: "Digital rights management system" using encrypted public and private keys as the licensing mechanism.   The patent was filed in...

Verizon to pay ASCAP $5 million interim license fee for public ringtone use

Three months after performance rights organization the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers filed suit against AT&T, alleging that each time a musical ringtone goes off in public the mobile phone melody constitutes a performance...

Software developer SpeedTrack files patent infringement lawsuit against Amazon.com, Best Buy, Overstock.com, Nike, Costco and Dell

Software developer SpeedTrack has filed a lawsuit against major online retailers, including Amazon.com, Best Buy, Overstock.com, Nike, Costco and Dell. SpeedTack accuses the major online retailers of infringing their patent alleging that it covered a...

Radiohead´s Ed O´Brien Reacts to Lily Allen Piracy Row

Now that he’s facing formidable opposition from Sir Elton John and Captain James Blunt, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien has finally spoken out about the pseudo showdown between the Featured Artists Coalition and Lily Allen’s “It’s Not Alright” b...