September 8, 2000
USA Today: Decision could limit tapes of TV broadcasts.
Critics of the Federal Communications Commission's proposed ruling are especially concerned that it could allow studios to prevent many of the 230,000 consumers who plunked down up to $10,000 for digital TV sets from watching high-definition pictures. But FCC officials say they have little choice.
Industry Standard: Is Taping a TV Movie a God-Given Right?
What's unclear is what will happen if the MPAA gets turned down. Industry officials have threatened under their breath that if they don't get their way, they simply won't make their movies available to TV networks that might be vulnerable to digital taping. But that seems like a hollow threat...
The Village Voice: Why I Flame.
In service to our employers, we flamers slither across the Internet—a realm where rudeness is a form of currency—and take out the customers, competitors, and wannabes who target businesses out of misplaced rage or the need to feel important.
Internet Week: Retail Site Pushes Web Envelope.
Neiman Marcus hopes to build a strong Internet presence with technology that's as fashionable as the $1,000-plus articles of clothing it peddles. The tony retailer is following up a $24 million Web site investment with new multimedia applications that promise to make the online shopping experience more realistic.
InfoWorld: Retailers ignore Web technologies.
Many of the retailers cited costs and concerns over alienating consumers by integrating the technologies into their sites. But Loizides asserted that the new technologies, when integrated properly, can better the online shopping experience.
Salon: Data mining mutilations, beatings, murders.
Simson Garfinkel. Ironically, he uses many of the same database-mining techniques used by marketing firms to manipulate consumer opinion or by intelligence agencies to track the movements of dissidents. But in Ball's hands, these techniques instead become tools for justice and equity.
NY Times: Assessing Linking Liability.
In a largely overlooked portion of a recent decision, a federal judge has indicated the answer is, yes indeed. According to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District, in Manhattan, a link can be bad or good. It mainly turns on whether the linker's intent is laudable or not.
EE Times: SDMI challenges hackers to crack its technology.
The multi-industry group, which is defining a secure framework for the digital distribution of music, issued the challenge in the form of an open letter that offers up to $10,000 to any hacker who can "remove the watermark or defeat the other technology" in an SDMI-proposed copyright protection system.
TechWeb: ICANN Nominations' Deadline Approaches.
Individuals who applied to become at-large members of the organization that governs cyberspace have until midnight GMT Friday to log their nominations for the first ICANN at-large board election.
The Economist: ICANN call it what I want.
The result is a procedure biased in favour of the trademark holder, which, Mr Froomkin argues, damages the consumer’s right to use the Internet for purposes other than capitalism—such as free speech, posting pictures of your children, or parody.
Industry Standard: Deconstructing the I-Builder Blues.
But the spring stock market slump shut off the tap. As startup budgets grew thin, brick-and-mortar competitors felt less pressure to spend on the Net. Now Web services companies must reevaluate their businesses and regroup.
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