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We've pointed out before that the short-term troubles of some legacy media players appears to have more to do with their own mistakes, rather than piracy.

But they just keep on lobbying for more laws (none of which have actually worked). We've also pointed out that while defeating SOPA/PIPA was a good thing, the supporters of the bill, undoubtedly, were already hard at work trying to get similar efforts through elsewhere -- however possible.

Since January 2011, Google has been filtering “piracy-related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete‘ and ‘Instant‘ services.

Although it had been on the radar of Grindhouse movie fans for some time, Hobo With a Shotgun can hardly be called mainstream material.

With its (albeit intentional) B-movie acting, storyline and bucket loads of gore, it was only really expected to appeal to dedicated followers of the genre.

This semester, my students at the School of Information at UC-Berkeley researched the VC system from the perspective of company founders.

We prepared a detailed survey; randomly selected 500 companies from a venture database; and set out to contact the founders.

Thanks to Reid Hoffman, we were able to get premium access to LinkedInwhich was very helpful and provided a wealth of information.

But some of the founders didnt have LinkedIn accounts, and others didnt respond to our LinkedIn inmails. So I instructed my students to use Google searches to research each founders work history, by

DMCA takedown notices are sent in large numbers to dozens of organizations on the Internet every month. The ChillingEffects clearing house has been receiving copies of these from some of the Internet's biggest players including Google, Yahoo, Digg and more recently Twitter.

Thanks to Google people have all the world's knowledge at their fingertips. Simply type in a few words and the search engine usually returns hundreds of thousands of related websites - some background info on your favorite musician for example, or the latest blockbuster that just premiered.

But, what's that torrent thing Google keeps suggesting? Click...

BitTorrent’s leading role in the file-sharing world can be partly attributed to its technical superiority.