American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), an illustrator and graphic design group, consider Google’s copyright infringement. For photos and illustrations in the book are legally protected their creations.
“Just be justified if someone uses what you create, you then get paid,” said James McGuire, the agency legal counsel, as quoted from the Telegraph, Thursday (08/04/2010).
Victor Perlman of ASMP said many creations photos and illustrations in books are targeted by Google. However, Google does not ask for permission on the owner.
Responding to this lawsuit, Google seems to not feel intimidated. They believed themselves already complied with applicable law.
“We believe that Google Books has complied with international copyright law in full. Google Books is an effort to create all the knowledge in books searchable online,” Google spokesman said.
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]]>YouTube engineers say they modify the site by studying the habits of people in accessing YouTube. Some features changed to be simpler. The new design was tested since January on 10 percent of YouTube users, but only officially launched today to all users.
One feature which removed is a user ranking on the video, previous a user rank uses the sign of 5 stars. This time, there are only two thumb marks ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ below video.
Also there is a change when user watches the video. Users able choose the size of the video only and quality of video is automatically determined by YouTube. The recommended video list on the right screen is longer than the previous.
Currently, each user on average saw a video over 15 minutes per day on YouTube. YouTube apparently wants to extend the duration so as to make new designs to make accessed more at home.
According to Shiva Rajaraman, Senior Product Manager for Google, that goal can be attained with the YouTube web pages simpler.
“We’re trying to gather information in one place and hide the things that are less important,” he said as quoted by PCMag, Thursday (1/4/2010).
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]]>Metropolitan Police Scotland on Thursday (25/3/2010) said the idea to “spy” that internet users are part of counter terrorism strategy. The policy was done to show that the authorities are ready to listen to complaints or suspicions of internet users.
A number of posters and desktop computer logo given Scotland Yard’s also been released. “It’s not about asking the manager to spy on Internet cafe customers, but how to increase alertness,” said a source in the police who refused to be quoted by name.
Still according to sources, the cafe manager can check your hard drive that left its users. But he did not elaborate in more detail about how to monitor what is “abandoned” its customers in the computer.
Responding to the policy, some parties claim the move could create an atmosphere of fear among Internet users as well as disturbing the public’s privacy.
Privacy International Director, Simon Davies states, although using internet in the cafe did not private like at home, internet customers still want to be kept confidential. “We did not even want our phone calls from public phones are monitored,” he said.
But the police have other opinions. They assume too often internet cafe used by terrorists and other criminals to communicate its action plan.
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]]>What exactly makes this Superman comic value so high? Because Superman comic feature a Superman character is a rare collection.
Actually in the year 1938, there were approximately 130 thousand Superman comic books sold. However, currently there are only 50-100 copies, because the other Superman comics had rotted with age. Superman comic are worth USD 1.5 million was still in prime condition.
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]]>“This is an example of computer hacking acts largest and most expensive in U.S. history,” said Patti Saris, a trial judge in the Court of Boston, Thursday (25/3/2010). Nonetheless, the punishment is still lighter than the demands of prosecutors, 25 years.
In addition, as part of this demand, in September 2009, Gonzalez also had to return the money of one million U.S. dollars which he kept in a container, a condominium in Miami, a BMW 330i year 2006, a Tiffany diamond ring and Rolex watches.
Gonzales and two colleagues from Russia, was caught after stealing 130 million credit card numbers or debit cards from various banks, financial institutions, and retail shops. More than 250 banks and financial institutions have become its victims. In this case, Gonzales as a provider of computer servers used two colleagues to do the piracy over the Internet with malware.
He is currently also facing different demands for retail services hijack systems to steal credit and debit card data customers. He did it with wardriving techniques, bring a laptop in his car and running around hotspot network that emanated retail service victim to infiltrate the system.
In court, Gonzales had time to defend himself that what he did because of the curiosity of a very large and the drug as the effects of autism called Aspenger syndrome. However, the reason was rejected prosecutors.
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]]>Daily Global Times, citing Qian Xiaoqian, Deputy Minister in the Office of Media Council of State, Thursday, preaching, three-quarters of Internet users in the country in the next few years will come from rural areas.
The occurrence of the population of Internet users have made the Internet as a forum for citizens to express opinions in a way that is rarely seen in countries where traditional media are under tight government control. Increasing strength and influence of the web population has made Beijing’s anxiety. Internet is considered a potential tool to trigger social unrest. Government of China also has improved monitoring of the Internet in recent years. The government closed the contents of the website which are politically sensitive in a large system, dubbed the “Great Firewall of China”.
Monday, Google has decided to direct the search query from mainland China to an uncensored site in Hong Kong. The move was made in a struggle against censorship that occurred in China. However, it made Beijing infuriate.
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