RED ALERT!! Google must divulge YouTube log

"Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier...

Garage Sued over Playing a Radio

I don't know which is sillier: that the Performing Rights Society is claiming that music played in a car repair shop is a "public performance", or that the judge didn't throw this case out the window."The PRS claimed that Kwik-Fit mechanics routinely use personal radios while...

US Feds Sue over Muslim Skullcap

This seems to be a growing trend. This time, though, the one being forced to remove religious headwear is a corrections officer, and not a soccer kid. This officer has the feds on his side, so we'll see how it all goes down."The feds have lobbed a civil-rights lawsuit at the...

MySpace, YourSpace: Are Libraries infringing on teen privacy?

" MySpace - Libraries on MySpace appeal to teens!” Is this true, or just an aphorism? I’ve heard from teens that MySpace is a good source of library information, but I’ve also heard from the same teens that they want MySpace for themselves. They’re not...

YouTube Hosts While Napster Points

I've always felt that Youtube was more like Napster than Flickr in terms of a media sharing site.  More like Napster in the sense that a lot of the content on the site is owned by someone other than the uploader.  It seems though, that the fact that YouTube actually...