Matusow’s blog points out that “Microsoft
InsideHigherEd reports that “Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada [this week] announced his plan to prevent campus based digital theft through a series of requirements that he is expected to try to attach to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, when the Senate takes up that legislation, most likely in the next day or so.”
According to the Register, “France’s answer to YouTube has been found guilty of copyright infringement. As the Google-owned YouTube faces a U.S. lawsuit from movie and TV behemoth Viacom, a French high court has ruled against the Paris-based video-sharing site Dailymotion, holding it liable for a copyrighted film posted by its users.”
Internetnnews.com writes that “Digg is looking to grow its advertising revenue with the help of a new, big partner – Microsoft. The software giant and Digg, the popular content aggregation and rating site, announced an agreement to collaborate to bring relevant advertising to Digg’s over 17 million unique monthly visitors.”
Yahoo!News reports that “[i]dentity thieves have sent thousands of bogus e-mails purporting to be from the Federal Trade Commission — as well as the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department — in an attempt to trick consumers into divulging personal financial information.”