Internetnews.com has an interesting article on how the battle between CNN and Ashton Kutcher for Twitter followers may spur Twitter to “adopt its long-awaited business plan.”
The Register reports that “the four defendants in The Pirate Bay versus entertainment industry trial have been found guilty in a Swedish court of being accessories to breaching copyright laws. The verdict was handed down to four men behind the notorious BitTorrent tracker site this morning in a court in Stockholm. ‘The Stockholm district court has today found guilty the four individuals that were charged with accessory to breaching copyright laws,’ the court said in a statement. ‘The court has sentenced each of them to one year in prison.’ Additionally, the defendants have been ordered to pay 30 million Swedish crowns ($3.58m).”
Silicon Valley Watcher’s Tom Foremski writes that, according to a reporter for the Korean newspaper Hankyoreh, “Google is facing an investigation for its refusal to abide by a law that it must verify the real names of Korean users if they upload files or leave comments. Google disabled its YouTube Korea site so that no one can upload videos or leave comments and so that it wouldn't have to collect people's real names. Google said the law was against its principles of supporting free expression on the Internet.”
The New York Times reveals that “[t]he National Security Agency has been campaigning to lead the government’s rapidly growing cybersecurity programs, raising privacy and civil liberties concerns among some officials who fear that the move could give the spy agency too much control over government computer networks. The Obama administration is expected to complete an internal cybersecurity review on Friday and may publicly announce its new computer-security strategy as early as next week, White House officials said Thursday. That plan will determine the scope of cybersecurity efforts throughout the federal government, they said, as well as which agencies will take leading roles in protecting the government’s computer systems.”
According to the Guardian, “[t]he [British] trade secretary, Lord Mandelson, will today stress that the creation of a fully digital Britain is ‘critical’ to the UK's future economic success. Mandelson's speech will follow a keynote address to the Digital Britain summit in London by Gordon Brown in which the prime minister is expected to stress the important role that the government believes broadband and the media industry can play in pulling the UK out of recession.”