Law And Lawyers

Once again, at the request of some friends I thought I’d do a brief review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that I imported into Australia from the USA. I’ve been playing with it for about 8 weeks and have no regrets with the purchase – really enjoying and liking this tablet. The current lawsuit in Australia that Apple has brought against Samsung to prevent the sale of this tablet; patents are supposed to encourage innovation and help consumers – but in this case the effect is the opposite.

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This week on Diggnation, Kevin shares his thoughts about the once popular social bookmarking site Delicious, and how Yahoo is clipping its wings! Plus, Alex drools over the best WoW girlfriend ever, and 5 shocking facts about what drinking booze does to your body!

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IMPORTANT UPDATE: Coulton gave spike’s predessor permission to upload the video. (See extensive annotations.) However, viacom OWES ME sixty cents, because, hilariously, they pirated THIS VIDEO. Ask Viacom where my sixty cents is: www.viacom.com Jonathan Coulton’s Flickr video: www.jonathancoulton.com Where Is Jonathan Coulton’s 37 dollars? In which John Green examines the complicated relationship between Viacom and piracy: Viacom has filed a lawsuit against YouTube seeking more than a billion dollars in damages for the copyright infringement that was rife in the early days of YouTube. But John proves that spike.com, which is owned by Viacom, has been placing ads against content that doesn’t belong to them for years, including Jonathan Coulton’s brilliant music video “Flickr.” This video includes a snippet of “Flickr,” which is–like this video–released under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Creative Commons license. All of which is to say: Viacom, if you steal my video like you stole Coulton’s, I will sue you.

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