4 posts and columns on 2006

Big Music Wins One: LimeWire Loses Court Fight

in Media on May 12, 2010 at 1:17 pm PT

A big victory for Big Music: A federal court has ruled in favor of the music labels in their fight against LimeWire, one of the most prominent file-sharing services on the Web.

YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, but No Smoking Gun

in Media on March 18, 2010 at 7:25 pm PT

The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them.

Flashback: When Viacom Wanted to Buy YouTube

in Media on March 18, 2010 at 11:30 am PT

Here are a couple documents the Google team is pointing reporters to as it releases material related to its fight with Viacom: Evidence that Viacom executives were interested in buying YouTube four years ago–in part because it wanted to beat News Corp. to the punch.

Google’s European Road Trip Gets Even Worse

in Media on February 24, 2010 at 5:41 am PT

Maybe Google should just retire its passport for a bit. In China, the search giant is battling hackers and the government, who may be one and the same. In Europe, the company is being hauled in front of an antitrust review. And Italy? Total disaster.