A storm is brewing up in America over the publishing of keys that allow the circumvention of HD-DVD and Blu-ray copy protection systems.
The AACS have been recently quashing bloggers, directories and search engines over the discovered keys, giving cease and desist letter to those who infringe upon the copyright.
However, a rebellion is starting on the world famous Digg website. Initially, Digg's stance was to remove any stories linking the keys. As more users became aware of Digg censoring the story, the owner and founder of Digg, Kevin Rose, decided to come outright with it. In a bold move he titled a new blog entry with the key it self in.
Swedish mega-torrent site PirateBay are soon to launch a free online music service which the bands and acts listed actually profit from.
www.playble.com
Instead of users of the service subscribing to the website by explicitly paying for it, PirateBay give a cut of the advertising profits which appear on band pages to the band themselves, thereby making money for the band and PirateBay.
This comes as a welcome change to the previous stance of the PirateBay on piracy. The ’screw you!’ element of authority may be starting to dissolve in place of a more legitimate approach to torrenting in a few years maybe?
Earlier this week, Google release iGoogle, a general term for all of their personalised content, and user-centric homepage which is customisable by the user (obviously).
For me, it comes as a great improvement to Google services to me, and an marvelous time for Google to start trumpeting about all the goodness of social networking, in opposition to the fat $1bn lawsuit that Viacom has slapped it with a few months back over copyright infringement.
In a statement to BBC news, Google representative said:
By seeking to make carriers and hosting providers liable for internet communications, Viacom's complaint threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression,
