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Back in 2010, Techdirt reported on Turkey's habit of blocking Google over certain holdings on its various sites. Mostly these were Y...

A couple of months back, Mike wrote about how Psy's relaxed attitude to people infringing on his copyright helped turn Gangnam Styl...

Last week we reported that videos were currently being uploaded to YouTube at the rate of 72 hours every minute, and asked how anybody c...

YouTube has announced that 72 hours of video is now being uploaded to its service every minute . Earlier this year, the statistic was tha...

One of the favorite tropes of the anti-piracy crowd is that all this unauthorized sharing is killing culture, pauperizing artists and gen...

If you haven't seen the shocking but important video " Collateral Murder ", which shows the callous gunning-down of Iraqi citi...

I am not an unthinking fan of everything Clay Shirky says, but I do find much of the stuff he writes thought provoking. In particular, I fo...

One of the miracles of free software is that it always begins with one or two people saying: “hey, how hard can it be?” The miracle is that ...

Not earth shattering, but a further vindication of the Creative Commons idea: We are always looking for ways to make it easier for you to f...

...big-name manufacturers start making hardware to support you: Netgear has just announced its Internet TV Player, a set-top box that allow...

Instead of suing people who upload your content on YouTube, you put up * better-quality * copies, and try to sell something off the back of ...

Here's an interesting point about a new trend in "publishing" inventions directly to YouTube: This is a very good article in ...

Paul Ginsparg is one of the key players in the world of open access. Indeed, he was practising it online before it even had a name, when he...

I've noticed increasingly that the "young people" seem to watch YouTube rather than that old-fashioned thing called "TV...

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...the Beijing Olympics spirit , that is : the IOC sent a take-down notice to YouTube for a video posted by Students for a Free Tibet. The v...

Number 10 has a new look for its Web site ...and it's rather good (love the blues). Moreover, it's gone all Web 2.0: Flickr stream ...

A study about downloading finds : Music companies need to stop resisting and accept that illegal downloading is a fact of 21st-century life ...

Here's a little reminder why you can never trust Google, even if it has the best intentions: Google must divulge the viewing habits of ...

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