"If we can't have our rights properly protected through legal and political avenues, we will pursue business solutions," Carey said during his NAB keynote on Monday, Variety reports. "One such business solution would be to take the network and turn it into a subscription service."

"Aereo is stealing our signal," said Carey at NAB. "We believe in our legal rights, we're going to pursue those legal rights fully and completely, and we believe we'll prevail."

Sky customers are complaining they were bombarded with literally thousands of old email messages when the company switched email provider from Google to Yahoo last week.

Apparently the switch caused some old emails, which weren’t deleted from the Sky servers, to be redelivered, sometimes resulting in thousands of obsolete messages clogging up a customer’s inbox.

Portugal's prime minister has said a court ruling striking down parts of his government's budget means it will have to make other deep spending cuts.

Since tax increases were out of the question after the unprecedented increases already in the budget, he said, the only option was to cut back on other public services.

"After this decision by the Constitutional Court, it's not just the government's life that will become more difficult, it is the life of the Portuguese that will become more difficult and make the success of our national economic recovery more problematic.

In a comical display of meta-censorship several copyright holders including 20th Century Fox and NBC Universal have sent Google takedown requests asking the search engine to take down links to takedown request they themselves sent. Google refused to comply with the movie studios requests and the “infringing” DMCA notices remain online. Meanwhile, the number of takedown notices received by Google is nearing 20 million per month.

No longer is Google merely asked to remove direct links to copyrighted material as the DMCA prescribes, but also links to links to links to copyrighted material.

Parallel Iron is the latest in a string of shell companies created to do nothing more than assert patent-infringement claims as part of a typical patent troll scheme of pressuring companies to pay up or else face crippling litigation costs.

IP Nav told us that they could not divulge the details of their infringement claims – not even the patent numbers or the patent owner – unless we entered into a “forbearance agreement” – basically, an agreement that we would not sue them.

Patent trolls brazenly use questionable tactics to force settlements from legitimate businesses that are merely using computers and software as they are intended.

Astronomers M. Nikołajuk and R. Walter caught a black hole in the act of destroying and consuming part of a large planet or small brown dwarf. This event involved a supermassive black hole located in a relatively nearby galaxy, and emitted a burst of intense X-ray light that fluctuated over a short time span, then faded.

Typically, as matter falls onto a black hole at the center of a galaxy, it forms an accretion disk, a rotating region of material that heats to very high temperatures. The result is often strong emissions in gamma rays and radio light, with the output fluctuating only slightly.

On Wednesday, Zynga launched its online poker and casino games in the United Kingdom, the first proof that the company’s previously announced pivot away from social gaming and toward “real-money” gaming is for real.

“Launching the download and web versions of Zynga’s real money games for play in the UK is an exciting move to bring players the real money games they have been asking us for,” wrote Barry Cottle, the company’s chief revenue officer, on a company blog on Tuesday evening.

ICANN's big generic top-level domain (gTLD) rollout, planned for April 23, needs to be delayed because the system isn't ready, Verisign and others are warning – and ICANN itself has told The Register that the first gTLD domains won't come online until at least August.

"When .xxx came out, the most recent one, virtually every college and university signed up for .xxx," he said. "Why? Not because the universities want to do that, but [because they] didn't want their name associated with that domain – as did many, many companies. Now we have .wtf, .sex, .gripe, and other sites that consumers could be tricked into."

The ruling is still fairly distressing in just how badly it distorts other parts of the law, which may harm other, even more reasonable uses. Hopefully, ReDigi will appeal and fight back against the more extreme interpretation from the district court here.

Effectively, the court wipes out first sale for digital goods, arguing that because (as above) each transfer is not really a "transfer" but a "copy," first sale doesn't apply. That is, first sale only applies to the initial "copy" "made under this title." But, the court argues, because the sale involves making a new copy, it's not covered by first sale.

You could hear a collective sigh of relief from the software developer world when Judge William Alsup issued his ruling in the Oracle-Google lawsuit. Oracle lost on pretty much every point.

Oracle lost in their attempt to protect their position using patents. They lost in their attempt to claim Google copied anything but a few lines of code. If they succeed in claiming you need their permission to use the Java APIs that they pushed as a community standard, software developers and innovation will be the losers.