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Gad-Zookz! WTO to Allow Copyright Infringement?
As reported in the LA Times' technology blog, the launch of Antigua-based media download site Zookz has raised the ire of the US trade commission as well as the RIAA and MPAA. However, according to the company, Zookz is permitted by the World Trade Organization under a loophole copyright sanction. You read that correctly. The US trade commission and the RIAA / MPAA is challenging Zookz the pirate with the WTO in its corner. Imagine the cage match.
Exclusive: First Look At Genome, A Next-Gen Social Networking Service
What are the number one problems facing today's social networks? According to the young developer Vladislav Chernyshov they are: privacy issues, distraction and time-wasting, quantity over quality, ads, and lack of control over your identity. That's why he, Dmitry Gorpinchenko, and Andrew Chernyh, all students at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU) in Russia, have founded Genome, an upcoming next-generation social networking service which addresses the main problem of Web 2.0: the ever-increasing quantity of Web 2.0 resources and the lack of tools to manage them.
Google Teams up With eBay and PayPal to Combat Phishing
Google today announced that it has teamed up with eBay and PayPal to fight phishing scams more effectively. Starting today, Google will authenticate every email that claims to be from 'paypal.com' or 'ebay.com.' If a message fails these checks, Google will reject the message and not, as it often did before, allow it through and display a warning message.
US, EU Reach Internet Gambling Agreement
Don't let the headline excite you, there's still no easy way to play poker online from a US-based computer -- at least not with money involved. But today the US reached deals with the European Union, Japan and Canada to compensate those countries for revenue lost by keeping foreign gaming companies out of the US market. The agreement with the EU centers around trade concessions regarding mail services and warehousing, and though there was no immediate word on how much the deal is worth, it is likely to fall far short of the US$100 billion that European Internet gambling sites say they are owed.
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