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Visit Top Sites on the web. http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn/news/2222040/microsoft-swoops-amid-fears-4130517 Microsoft is stepping up efforts to snare illegal traders after research suggested the economic downturn could spark an increase in software piracy. http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3178/textbook-piracy-site-now-offline Today's news Current issue Salary surveys The Faculty Research & Books Government & Politics Money & Management Information Technology Students Athletics International Community Colleges http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/07/18/american-airlines-drops-google-lawsuit The use of competitor keywords had American flying into the courtroom, but both sides taxied out with a quiet and confidential settlement. http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/2689/206/ Rogers violates net neutrality again by hijacking failed DNS Lookups In what appears to be a violation of Net Neutrality by Rogers Cable, Digital Home readers are reporting that Rogers High Speed Internet service has begun redirecting customers "Server not found pages" to webpages laden with Rogers advertising. http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20080719/1004635.html One would expect a law professor to stay on the right side of the law but an academic at the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University has been booked by the Uttar Pradesh police for duping two people by selling them the same piece of land. http://www.netindia123.com/showdetails.asp?id=1004635&cat=World&head=Varsity+law+teacher+in+police+net+for+land+fraud One would expect a law professor to stay on the right side of the law but an academic at the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University has been booked by the Uttar Pradesh police for duping two people by selling them the same piece of land. http://www.ians.in/userlogin-news.php?Sno=175112 (This page lists 25 stories. For earlier stories, please check previous pages) http://www.addict3d.org/news/412636/Serious%20YouTube%20test%20of%20copyright%20law A woman who posted a home video on YouTube of her 13-month-old son dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" squared off Friday against entertainment giant Universal Music Corp. http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2221975/software-piracy-keeping-cops The Business Software Alliance has claimed that software piracy is robbing communities of much needed funding for police, education and housing. http://www.itbinternet.com/pr/21267 Bloxx, the web filtering specialist, today announced that it has become a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), joining around 80 members from a diverse range of organisations in their battle against illegal online content. With its expert knowledge of up-to-date web filtering technologies, Bloxx hopes to contribute to the remarkable success of the IWF in tackling online illegal content; specifically child sexual abuse images hosted worldwide and criminally obscene and racial hatred content hosted in the UK. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9922827?source=rss A San Jose federal judge this morning weighed a cutting-edge copyright conflict over Universal Music Corp.'s attempt to force a Pennsylvania mom to take down a YouTube video of her toddler learning to walk with the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy" blaring in the background. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/071708-six-us-states-account-for.html?fsrc=rss-security A first-time study by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) shows that while the U.S. has the lowest rate of software piracy of countries tracked around the world, there is still a long way to go to end illegal software use here. http://www.computing.co.uk/crn/news/2221955/metaforic-offers-anti-piracy-4126842 Digital rights management (DRM) start-up Metaforic has claimed it can drive lost software licence revenue back into the channel with the launch of an anti-tamper system, MetaFortress, which could signal the end of software piracy. http://www.computing.co.uk/crn/news/2222040/microsoft-swoops-amid-fears-4130517 Microsoft is stepping up efforts to snare illegal traders after research suggested the economic downturn could spark an increase in software piracy. http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2221975/software-piracy-keeping-cops The Business Software Alliance has claimed that software piracy is robbing communities of much needed funding for police, education and housing. http://138.88.8.1/login.php Broadband Service Provider Trident SR Sdn. Bhd. http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/07/18/google.sued.for.false.ads/ Google is reportedly placing a percentage of its AdWords ads on parked and error sites, which carries no benefit for paying consumers. This practice has landed the search engine giant in hot water, with a federal class action lawsuit filed on Thursday in a US District Court in San Jose, California. Lawyer and Google advertiser Hal Levitte noticed the practice back in 2007, then filed a complaint late last week claiming Google is unjustly enriching its promises. The lawsuit was filed by Kabateck Brown Kellner, and, if approved by the judge, could involve a large numbers of litigants who advertised with Google in the last four years. http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/07/17/youtorrent-re-launches-legal-download-search-index Los Angeles - YouTorrent, formerly a popular search engine that indexed material on all of the most-popular BitTorrent sites, has after legal threats relaunched as an index of solely "legal" content, offering links to over 67,000 files or 6 terabytes of data, TorrentFreak reported. The now-legal site links to verified content offered on sites including Jamendo, Vuze, BitTorrent, Legaltorrents, Legittorrents, Gameupdates, Wortharchiving, BT.etree and Mininova. http://www.hothardware.com/News/Viacom%5FBacks%5FOff%5FYouTube%5Fto%5FAnonymize%5FUser%5FData/ Earlier we reported a court decision that handed over all YouTube user data to Viacom. As we know Viacom and YouTube are enmeshed in a lawsuit over copyrighted material uploaded to YouTube. The information was to assist Viacom in its case, but it was unclear why they needed user data to prove the amount of copyrighted material uploaded or viewed. http://www.pcmag.co.uk/vnunet/news/2221975/software-piracy-keeping-cops The Business Software Alliance has claimed that software piracy is robbing communities of much needed funding for police, education and housing. http://138.88.8.1/login.php Broadband Service Provider Trident SR Sdn. Bhd. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/web-filtering-company-bloxx-joins,472739.shtml With its expert knowledge of up-to-date web filtering technologies, Bloxx hopes to contribute to the remarkable success of the IWF in tackling online illegal content; specifically child sexual abuse images hosted worldwide and criminally obscene and racial hatred content hosted in the UK. http://www.betanews.com/article/YouTorrent_relaunches_with_focus_on_legal_downloads/1216319277 One of the fastest-growing new BitTorrent sites said late Wednesday that it had relaunched its search engine, indexing nearly six terabytes of legal content. http://press-releases.techwhack.com/22170-bloxx-3 Bloxx, the web filtering specialist, today announced that it has become a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), joining around 80 members from a diverse range of organisations in their battle against illegal online content. With its expert knowledge of up-to-date web filtering technologies, Bloxx hopes to contribute to the remarkable success of the IWF in tackling online illegal content; specifically child sexual abuse images hosted worldwide and criminally obscene and racial hatred content hosted in the UK.