After an order to remove it from US servers downed the site for hours, the Pirate Bay has found itself a new offshore residence. From the site’s recent blog post on the matter, Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the [...]

From Reuters.

It was revealed here that Firas Alkhateeba, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, Photoshopped a now infamous image of President Obama as the Joker out of apparent “boredom.” Interesting that the image has been removed from Flickr due to “copyright-infringement concerns.”

From Ars Technica.

Google recently rewrote its AdWords Trademark policy to “allow some ads to use trademarks in the ad text.”  According to a blog post by Dan Friedman of Google’s Inside AdWords, “you can use trademark terms in your ad text in the U.S. even if you don’t own that trademark or have explicit approval from the [...]

YouTube restored a National Organization of Marriage (NOM) video after contemplating a Perez Hilton issued  Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice. Hilton had reacted to a video by NOM defending pageant contestant Carrie Prejean and criticizing gay marriage activists. In it, NOM used a 3 second clip of Hilton proclaiming, “she’s a dumb b**ch. [...]

Considering the recent tussle over Google’s Book Search settlement, one might be interested in just how Google is capable of scanning books en masse to its digital library. NPR recently posted this interesting review of Google’s scanning technology and a brief history of scanning techniques generally.

Google’s Director of Product Management for Book Search speaks out via the Public Policy Blog (Google) amid antitrust concerns over the proposed author settlement. In 2005, the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and numerous authors and publishers filed a class action lawsuit against Google Book Search claiming copyright infringment. Google initially expressed its [...]