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2:00 AM ET, February 14, 2007

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Karen / Official Google Blog:
About the Copiepresse decision  —  Posted by Rachel Whetstone, European Director of Communications and Public Affairs  —  Today we heard that the Belgian court, which last year ruled against us in the Copiepresse case has reaffirmed its original decision.  This judgment is clearly disappointing …
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Associated Press:
Google loses copyright case launched by Belgian newspapers  —  BRUSSELS, Belgium: Google Inc. lost a copyright fight on Tuesday that had been launched by Belgian newspapers, which claimed that the Web search service infringed copyright laws and demanded it remove their stories.
Aoife White / Associated Press:
Court Orders Google to Pull Belgian News  —  BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Google Inc. lost a copyright lawsuit Tuesday to Belgian newspapers that had demanded it remove headlines and links to articles posted on its news site without their permission.  —  The ruling, if it stands on appeal …
Discussion: Neowin.net and TechSpot News
Carlo / Techdirt:
Belgian Newspapers Still Don't Get How Google News Is A Good Thing For Them  —  from the someday,-hopefully dept  —  The story of French-language Belgian newspapers' lawsuit against Google has been going on for some time.  Apparently they think they're a giant TV network or record label or something …
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Belgian newspapers score victory in bold traffic-reduction initiative  —  A group of newspapers in Belgium have gotten a judge to order what they themselves could have arranged with much less fuss: the removal of their content from Google News.  Copiepresse, a group representing French …
Discussion: Marshall Kirkpatrick
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:   Google defeated in Belgian copyright case; everyone but Google loses
Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
Google to pay £2.4m over 'copyright breach'
Discussion: PaidContent
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Leaked letter shows RIAA pressuring ISPs, planning discounts for early settlements  —  The RIAA is asking for additional cooperation from ISPs in getting customers targeted by the RIAA's file-sharing sting to cooperate, according to a letter recently leaked to P2P attorney Ray Beckerman.
Discussion: Boing Boing and digg
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Ray Beckerman / Recording Industry vs The People:
RIAA Adopts New Policy, offers "Pre-Doe settlement option" if ISP Holds Logs Longer, Asks ISP's to Correct Identification Mistakes  —  The RIAA has sent out a letter to ISP's attempting to change its prelitigation policies:  —  Letter from RIAA to ISP's*  —  While we have not had time to analyse …
Mike / Techdirt:
RIAA Tries To Make Deals With ISPs To Hound Customers Into Settling Earlier  —  from the how-nice-of-them dept  —  When the RIAA first kicked off its backwards-thinking plan to sue music fans who were engaged in unauthorized file sharing, it did so by just getting court clerks to send subpoenas …
Discussion: broadbandreports.com
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Blu-Ray AND HD-DVD broken - processing keys extracted  —  Arnezami, a hacker on the Doom9 forum, has published a crack for extracting the "processing key" from a high-def DVD player.  This key can be used to gain access to every single Blu-Ray and HD-DVD disc.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
YouTube Hands Over User's Info to Fox  —  Three weeks after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. District Court in Northern California, YouTube has reportedly identified a user accused by 20th Century Fox Television of uploading episodes of the show 24 a week prior to their running on television.
Discussion: NewTeeVee, franticindustries and digg
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Filmloop's demise, the reputation of VCs, and how you can help  —  The details of Silicon Valley photo-sharing company Filmloop's quick, and strange demise continues to dribble out — and it carries some lessons for the first-time entrepreneur.  —  Yesterday, we'd referred to an apparent move …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Pheedo Launches Social Media Ad Widgets  —  RSS ad network Pheedo will announce a new service tonight - advertising widgets powered by RSS and incorporating several social media tools.  Readers familiar with Techmeme's advertising program will recognize the ideas here …
Discussion: Blogspotting
James Hong:
On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry  —  Today I had coffee with Albert Lai, the founder of a site called bubbleshare.  It looks like he sold the company and has repositioned the site to be more like the increasingly dominant service Slide.  —  Albert mentioned that he gave most of the money …
Brian Smith / ComparisonEngines.com:
Shopping Path's CrispyShop  —  I've known about ShoppingPath for a couple months, but Guilherme Leal inventor and co-founder of the company was putting on some finishing touches.  The site is in Beta, but I thought it was now worth a mention.  ShoppingPath has launched a site called CrispyShop.
Discussion: Screenwerk and StartupSquad.com
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Microsoft Releases Patches to Fix 20 Security Holes  —  Microsoft Corp. today issued a dozen software updates to plug at least 20 security holes in its Windows operating system and other software, including fixes for a number of vulnerabilities in Office that hackers are currently exploiting to hijack vulnerable PCs.
Discussion: Zero Day and TechBlog
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
How do we keep up?  —  I got up early to read feeds and do email.  I started at 5:45 a.m. and it's now 7:26 a.m. and I still didn't get through all my feeds.  But, worse, is what I did find: dozens of new products, new companies, new phones (Gizmodo and Engadget are going crazy posting phone news …
Ocean / discipline and punish:
Identity vs Membership  —  So, I don't like the whole Online Identity thing.  I think it's a plain bad idea.  Problem is, I can't explain exactly why I dislike it.  But I'm not worried.  This is a common situation for me.  I often like or dislike ideas long before I understand why.
 
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
BBC explains decision to go with Microsoft DRM
Ryan Freebern / The Uber-Review:
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Discussion: Gizmodo and digg
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
Dual-screen laptop sees double
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Maps Hijack Caused By Google Algorithm: Google Adds Report Map Feature
Joe / Techdirt:
LG Accuses Apple Of Ripping Off iPhone Design
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Online Video Industry Index
Discussion: TechCrunch
Zephoria / apophenia:
Facebook's little digital gift
Marianna / Official Google Checkout Blog:
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Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
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microsoft.com:
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