Rumors are flying that there's a battle within the NY Times on how to price their app for the iPad. Those on the newspaper side of the house apparently believe that it should be priced at $20 to $30/month to avoid cannibalizing the print product.

Remember what happened when Newsday tried to charge $20+ per month for access to its digital version? It got a grand total of 35 people to sign up.

Lipold told Wired.com that Mute Records gave him permission to post the XX Teens' song "Darlin" on his blog, for instance.

Five years of Lipold's labor of love was deleted, in part, because he posted a track with full permission of a label, and the track apparently wasn't even online by the time the IFPI filed its complaint.

The answer for now - unsatisfying though it may be - is for music bloggers to check their e-mails for DMCA takedown notices rigorously, and file counter-claims when they're falsely accused of posting something without permission.

Iran's telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google's email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email service.

An Iranian official said the measure was meant to boost local development of Internet technology and to build trust between people and the government, according to the Wall Street Journal.

In the wake of iiNet's recent court win, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy has said that he wants the film and internet industries to sit down and try and work out a code of conduct to prevent pirating of copyrighted works rather than working towards legislation changes.

"I think it's always disappointing when situations like this end up in court in the first place," Conroy said.

The company once known for its "don't be evil" motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.

The company pinkie-swears that its agreement with the NSA won't violate the company's privacy policies or compromise user data. Those promises are a little hard to believe, given the NSA's track record of getting private enterprises to cooperate, and Google's willingness to take this first step.

"So when we store your photos, we have six versions of your photos. We don't store the original: we make six different versions on the photo uploader and upload those six versions."

"We still keep all information. What I was referring to, is that if anything, we're going to start deleting more photos for performance reasons."

"I'm not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out 'Chuck Norris,' more or less. It was pretty fantastic."

Privacy supremo Peter Fleischer told ComputerWorld in an interview that, "The unprecedented hacking... and the threat of similar such attacks in the future emphasized the importance of internal analysis of logs."

"We find it reprehensible that a company would throw away useful data when it holding it poses no privacy threat," Fleischer thundered.

The newspaper is expected to announce in coming weeks that it will institute a metered pay plan in which readers would have access to a limited number of free articles before being invited to subscribe, according to a report in New York magazine that cited sources close to the newsroom.

The New York Times abandoned a two-year experiment with the Web-subscription model in 2007, suggesting that the company's projections for subscriber revenue were small compared with advertising sales.

A Harris poll released earlier this month found that 77 percent said they wouldn't pay anything to read a newspaper's stories on the Web.

The firm's initial investigation has shown that at least some of the e-mail messages originated in China and that some of the malware payloads were on servers in China.

Gipson Hoffman & Pancione has yet to receive any response from the Chinese government or the companies named in its lawsuit, which seeks $2.2 billion in lost sales for the 56 million copies of Green Dam distributed in China.

A report financed by the French government recommends that Google, MSN, Yahoo, and other big advertising companies--as well as Internet service providers--be taxed, with revenue set to help fund the music and publishing sectors.

The government of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to defend French culture and has helped implement some of the world's strongest antipiracy and pro-copyright laws.

"The music industry is in the worst situation--worse than the publishing industry," he told Liberation. "They are in great danger. So we must act quickly."