New Media Wrongs

Privacy Falls into YouTube's Data Tar Pit

As a big lawsuit grinds forward, its parties engage in discovery, a wide-ranging search for information "reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence." (FRCP Rule 26(b)) And so Viacom has calculated that scouring YouTube's data dumps would help provide evidence in Viacom's copyright lawsuit.

Submitted by New Media Rights on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 7:30pm

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Comcast spits on Democracy and the Internet by tampering with FCC meeting on net neutrality

THIS JUST IN: Democracy for sale to the highest bidder! ....or something like that.... In a recent FCC hearing concerning network neutrality, Comcast paid bystanders to hold nearly all the seats in the hearing room (some of which were observed sleeping through the proceeding), forcing concerned members of the public that wished to participate to miss the meeting. The hearing was scheduled to address accusations that Comcast is blocking rival video-on-demand services on it's network. Read more at: http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/28/why-comcast-payola-is-wrong/ or: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/02/26/Comcast-FCC-Hearing-Strategy
Submitted by New Media Rights last modified Thu, 02/28/2008 - 3:30pm

Wikileaks.org shutdown by California court; how a webhost can hijack your url

Wikileaks.org, a site dedicated to providing an open forum for whistleblowers to expose corporate and government misdeeds, has been shut down in its entirety by a U.S. federal district court in San Francisco. This is really a "New Media Wrong."

Submitted by Art Neill last modified Wed, 04/20/2011 - 10:39am

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