INTERNET TO BE
CENSORED
Google
streamlining YouTube video copyright claims
By AFP
"Google is building a tool called Claim Your Content that allows
publishers to automate the take-down process," Google chief executive Eric
Schmidt said.
"It is not a filtering system and doesn't block downloads;
it makes it much quicker for us to remove copyrighted content."
Schmidt described the project while discussing with analysts and reporters a
freshly released earnings report that showed Google profits and revenues surged
in the first three months of 2007.
"In YouTube we've had tremendous updates,"
Google co-founder Larry Page said during the conference call.
"We've made many improvements to the site ... Things are going like
gangbusters there."
Since Google bought YouTube in November in a
1.65-billion-dollar stock deal, the globally popular website has generated
copyright litigation and complaints instead of profits.
A copyright protection system that California-based YouTube
promised to have in place by the end of 2006 has yet to be seen.
MySpace to protect video clip
copyright
By AFP
The
social-networking Internet site MySpace on Friday
announced a system that prevents users from re-posting video clips that have
been removed from the website at copyright-holders' request.
The new copyright
technology, called "Take Down Stay Down," is
alerted upon a copyright owner's request to remove a video clip, takes a
digital fingerprint of the video and adds it to a copyright filter that
prevents uploading again on Myspace users' personal
pages.
"We have
created this new feature to solve a problem that has long frustrated copyright
holders and presented technical challenges to service providers," said
Michael Angus, executive vice president for Fox Interactive Media.
The move aims to
"prevent copyrighted content from being reposted by the same or a
different user after it has been taken down by the copyright owner," Angus
said in a statement.
Fox Interactive
Media is a division of NewsCorp, which includes MySpace among its media holdings.
The technology is
offered to copyright owners free of charge, MySpace
said in a statement.
The move comes as
the video-sharing site YouTube faces a pile of legal
complaints for user-provided videos at odds with cultural tastes, political
agendas or copyright concerns.
Entertainment giant Viacom is demanding one billion dollars in damages
from YouTube for posting Viacom-copyrighted material
and a filtering system for pirated content.
Internet Censorship
By Wayne Madsen
“Internet
censorship. It did not happen overnight but
slowly came to
“Internet Censorship: The Warning
Signs Were Not Hidden
The
warning signs for the crackdown on the web have been with us for over a decade.
The Clipper chip controversy of the 90s, John Poindexter's Total Information
Awareness (TIA) system pushed in the aftermath of
9-11, backroom deals between the Federal government and the Internet service
industry, and the Patriot Act have ushered in a new era of Internet censorship,
something just half a decade ago computer programmers averred was impossible
given the nature of the web. They were wrong, dead wrong”.
http://www.rense.com/general69/intercens.htm