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BitTorrent & Comcast are Working on Technology to ?Speed the delivery of video in the years to come??..and P2P is Green!

Posted on April 29, 2008
As reported by Beet.tv on April 26, 2008, Eric Klinker, CTO of San Francisco-based BitTorrent explains how his company is working closely with Comcast and other ISP’s in solving network traffic issues.

Net Neutrality and P2P Throttling

Posted on April 15, 2008
Bandwagons are easy to jump onto. “Net neutrality” is one of them. The idea is that a neutral communications medium is essential to our society - that allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online will fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success...

Copyright and Trademark FAQ

Posted on March 23, 2008
Thought I would post the Copyright and Trademark FAQ I will be handing out when I speak on “Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies” at the Canadian Special Events and Meetings Expo on April 1, 2008, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre: “This session, which is taught at Ryerson University is a veritable guide to copyrights & [...

A Direct Relationship with the Audience

Posted on March 18, 2008
One of the promises of the Internet is the ability to speak directly to people, thousands or millions at a time, and for them to speak right back. With that in mind, Nine Inch Nails join the growing wave of established recording artists who see record companies as irrelevant...

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BlackBerry?s Single Point of Failure

Posted on March 07, 2008
Failover shortcomings seem to be the Achilles heel in the efforts of Research in Motion Ltd. to win the battle with Apple Inc. over whether the BlackBerry or the iPhone will be the smart phone of choice as business and personal applications converge in the mobile device market...

Facebook Beacon ? Marketing Genius or Creepy Stalking?

Posted on November 26, 2007
Facebook Beacon either is pure marketing genius or yet another form of online privacy intrusion that needs to be stamped out. It depends on your perspective. Beacon was unveiled earlier this month as a new Facebook marketing initiative which includes a system for other websites to collect and bounce back to Facebook, information about Facebook users? [...

The 360 Deal: Bands as Brands

Posted on November 22, 2007
The music industry has become of late, unabashedly about selling products. Formerly, 10 or 15 years ago, there used to be more pretense to artistry. Many if not most bands would eschew “selling out.” It was not only seen as bad for the creative muse, it was bad for business as fans tended to shun [...

Free is the New Paid

Posted on April 24, 2007
The recording industry has been grappling with how to monetize peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing activity on the Internet for some time now ? and lately the major labels seem to be in agreement that the best way to make money through the digital distribution of music might be to give it away for free...

Intertainer?s ?Digital Entertainment Service Platform? Patent Suit: If not Patent Trolling, maybe a Proxy Attack?

Posted on January 05, 2007
?Intertainer was the leader of the idea of entertainment on demand over Internet platforms before Google was even thought up,? says Jonathan T. Taplin, a Hollywood executive who co-founded Intertainer back in 1996 ? as quoted by the New York Times in its January 3, 2007 article entitled, ?Patent Lawsuit Names Leading Technology Firms?...

How Open Source and Creative Commons Licenses Remain Beholden to Copyright Laws

Posted on December 14, 2006
In an essay entitled ?Copyright, Copyleft and the Creative Anti-Commons?, Anna Nimus explores the contradictions of the “copyleft” movement, insofar as the copyright freedoms that are promoted tend to be founded on the orthodox principles of copyright law that they seek to be freed from...

BitTorrent Used to be ?Illegal?

Posted on November 30, 2006
“BitTorrent?s software currently sits on 80 million computers, and Internet service providers say that file trading on the service ? most of it illegal ? now accounts for 40 percent of all online traffic”, reports Brad Stone in the New York Times on November 29, 2006, noting that fat video files that might take an hour [...

Protecting How

Posted on November 22, 2006
To my mind there are two types of know-how: (i) our own personal, legitimate accumulation of experience in an area; and (ii) the asset called ?know-how?. The first is subjective, cradled in the notion that the advancement of civilization is hobbled when people are unduly constrained from practicing their trade or calling...

Lime Wire Adds Twist in IP Litigation

Posted on November 14, 2006
A counterclaim filed against major U.S. record label plaintiffs on September 25, 2006, by peer-to-peer (?P2P?) technology defendant Lime Wire LLC adds a twist to the familiar cocktail of copyright issues facing distributors of music and videos over the Internet...

New Site Under Construction

Posted on November 02, 2006
GenereuxLaw is undergoing some fundamental changes… to make it more interactive.

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