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Xanga fined $1 million from COPA violations
From News.com – “Xanga.com, a social-networking and blog site, has been ordered to pay $1 million in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for violating the Children’s Online Privacy...
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The Record Industry still doesn’t get it
Via PaidContent: “Universal CEO Doug Morris described these sites as “copyright infringers†during a Merrill Lynch investors’ conference speech on Tuesday . “The poster child for...
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Have your politicians been spanked by the lame stick?
The Republicans were worried they were going to get too many votes so Bill Frist decided to ban online poker. What other obnoxious government intrusions are on the horizon? How about the IRS requiring...
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MSN Adcenter behavioral targeting triggers privacy complaints
From ITWorld – “The complaint by The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), filed Wednesday, asks the FTC to investigate Microsoft’s use of customer...
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Internet Voting Record should determine US elections
Here is one for our United States readers. A big election is coming up tommorow. With both parties ignoring your interests staying home has become the most attractive option for many. CNet published...
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Checkmate helps Yahoo dodges the PPC fraud bullet?
Since there was a little Google-hate yesterday, how about some Yahoo-hating today? There is an interesting blog post by Jeff Molander over at ThoughtShapers.com about the Yahoo Checkmate PPC fraud...
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PerezHilton.com faces 8-figure lawsuit over copyright violations
Celebrity tabloid blog PerezHilton.com is very popular. With a WebSearch.com ranking of 698 and an Alexa rank of 1,539 its fair to say there are a lot of readers. The site also happens to make a whole...
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Leave the phishing to the Nigerians
Its not exactly breaking news, but Myspace is sueing Scott Richter, an owner of affilaite network CPAEmpire, over what amounts to spamming affiliate offers through stolen Myspace member’s profiles....
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Someone needs to annex these Morons from the US
Danny Sullivan made a post about this embarassingly silly law that has been passed in Utah. “Establishes a new type of mark, called an electronic registration mark, that may 10 not be used to trigger...
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Website owners republishing old newspaper articles facing lawsuits
One of the topics I have followed closely since the beginning of Web Publishing blog is for profit copyright enforcement. Lawyers have been using copyright law enforcement for profit for years whether...
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