protection

Have you ever watched a herd of buffalo or deer?Ever seen hundreds of small fish school together and move in one fluid movement? As you may already know, they do that in order to protect themselves from a single large predator. It often works, as the predator will mistakenly believe the prey is too large to consume, or get’s blocked out by a massive wall of bodies.

A year after the first Data Protection Day in Europe, Google will be part of the celebration of the now-renamed Data Privacy day, aimed at educating people about their data and how to manage it.

Controversy is brewing about domain registrar company Network Solutions' newly instituted practice of automatically registering domain names users search for and then jacking up the price during ICANN's return grace period.Critics call it "extortion," but Network Solutions calls it a service to protect customers from the practice of "front running." The extra charge is, assumedly, the protection fee -- you know, just like the one the mob offers.

YouTube cofounder Steve Chen addressed the "speculation" in the media about the video-sharing site's technological efforts to combat copyright infringement.

When Google bought YouTube last year, most throughout the blogosphere saw the move as a natural fit for the search company and lauded the acquisition as an monumental success. Nearly six months later, however, YouTube’s sparkle is beginning to fade amid the copyright complaints that are plaguing Google’s legal department.

Recently (I honestly don’t know when), MSN launched a Digg clone in the Netherlands, called MSN reporter. You can submit your story, and others can vote for it or against it. The top stories go to the MSN.nl homepage. Now the boys at MSN haven’t really thought this through, as they store what stories you’ve voted on in… your cookie-jar!

Compounding YouTube's recent rows with copyright holders, YouTube's biggest backdoor competitor, MySpace, announced a pilot program developed with Audible Magic to block copyrighted video from being posited in the community.

Any publicity is good publicity...