San Francisco: Google's Internet search engine receives more complaints about websites believed to be infringing on Microsoft's copyrights than it does about material produced by entertainment companies pushing for tougher online piracy laws. A snapshot of Microsoft's apparently chronic copyright headaches emerged in new data that Google released Thursday to provide a better understanding of the intellectual property abuses on the Internet. Google has a good vantage point on the...
11:56 AM, May 25, 2012
KOZHIKODE: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is learnt to have received definite leads regarding the role of CPM leaders in hiding the main accused in the RMP leader T P Chandrasekharan murder case. The police team is reportedly inching closer to the real conspirators by thoroughly blocking all chances for them to escape.As part of the investigation, four more persons were taken into custody by the police on Sunday.The arrested...
09:04 AM, May 21, 2012
Ever heard of Puntland? What about Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud? Well he's the president of this "state of Somalia", as the MEA describes it. It's the ...
04:13 PM, May 18, 2012
Bangalore/Mumbai: The International Society for Krishna consciousness, better known as ISKCON, is in the throes of controversy. Members are battling a host of serious charges, the most recent ones includes fraud and criminal conspiracy. ISKCON, arguably India's biggest exporter of Lord Krishna to the western world, is struggling to keep its spiritual identity intact as scandal, corruption, and infighting threaten to tear its foundations apart. The ISKCON newsletter - with...
08:43 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Nineteen years after the failed attempt to restore hope in Somalia, it appears the West is getting ready for another crack at Africa's Horn. The ...
01:31 PM, Apr 23, 2012
BANGALORE: The estimate of losses faced by the Indian publishing industry last year raised quite a few eyeballs as the losses crossed over Rs 2,000 crore. This year, in barely three months, the publishing industry, has recorded losses that are almost half of last years losses, reveal sources. Bangalore retains its status of being the city with a huge chain of book piracyoperators working underground, but also a city with...
10:17 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Washington: Pirate activities have extended to as far as the waters off the coast of India, making it difficult for patrolling and effective action, a US official has said. "Pirate activity has even extended as far as the waters off the coast of India. This increase makes it difficult for naval or law enforcement ships and other assets to reach the scene of a pirate attack quickly enough to disrupt...
09:25 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: Fast growing e-commerce website Flipkart is flying into the digital music download territory with its MP3 download service called Flyte. The online music download store which opened on Monday will have to compete with music piracy websites and illegal BitTorrent downloads but also with free Indian online music streaming services. While Flipkart had previously announced its plans to come up with a digital media store, a link to...
11:22 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Beijing: China, India and Japan will step up their coordination and cooperation on international naval escort activities to check the growing menace of piracy, Chinese defense ministry said on Thursday. "The integrated escort schedule will be arranged on a quarterly basis," spokesman Geng Yansheng said, noting that the strengthened coordination and cooperation could increase the efficiency of escort operations and better safeguard international navigation safety to check piracy. The schedule-making...
09:26 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Brussels: A European Union court ruled that social networking sites cannot be compelled to install general filters to prevent the illegal trading of music and other copyrighted material. The decision is a victory for operators of social networking sites in the EU, but a setback for those who seek to protect copyrighted material from being distributed without payment or permission. It also comes as protests are growing in Europe against...
07:44 PM, Feb 16, 2012
In a tete-a-tete with me, Swapnil Shinde, co-founder, Dhingana.com, an Indian music streaming platform across mobile and web, provides insights about the music streaming market in India, the consumer base for streaming, and the opportunities that he sees in this market. He explains how the music streaming industry works and tells how the streaming model can help stop music piracy in the country. IBNLive: Where does the future of music...
12:37 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Washington: The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Megaupload.com file-sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material. The group, which advocates for Internet privacy and digital rights, sent a letter on behalf of one user asking "that all concerned work together to make sure innocent users are returned their legal property." "We are...
11:17 AM, Feb 03, 2012
New York: Three days before Super Bowl XLVI, US prosecutors said they seized 16 websites that illegally streamed live sports and pay-per-view events over the Internet, and charged a Michigan man with running nine of those websites. According to the government, the 16 websites provided links to give viewers easy access to other sites that hosted pirated telecasts from the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, World...
11:01 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Mexico City: The activist hacker group Anonymous attacked three Mexican government websites on Friday in protest at a proposed bill that seeks to toughen local laws about online file-sharing. The affected sites belong to the Interior Ministry, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The homepage of the Interior Ministry remained offline by mid-afternoon. "We demand the Mexican government not continue with this law because they will take away our...
02:45 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Davos: The founder of Wikipedia hailed the online encyclopedia's role in helping halt US legislation aimed at cracking down on Internet piracy, saying the proposed bills needed to be stopped because they were flawed. The idea to black out Wikipedia's English pages for 24 hours came from the site's volunteer editors, who voted overwhelmingly in favour of the move. Wikipedia was among a number of sites that argued the Stop...
12:43 PM, Jan 27, 2012
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