YouTube Trouble Times Magazine rated YouTube.com (acquired by Google) as the best invention for the year 2006 because of its having touched lives of millions of internet user... a common man is recognized all over world through personal vidoes. But it seems the dream will be shortlived as YouTube.com is under pressure from media companies to remove copyrighted material, and have been served with various legal notices, which is not surprizing the fact majority of the videos on YouTube.com are movie clips, music videos, in which media companies hold all the rights. Related News Time's Person of the Year: You Viacom asks YouTube to remove 100K clips Youtube is on a "Copyright" DELETING SPREE! YouTube.com Served with Legal Notice YouTube under fire for Copyright Protection Plan Speed Limit: YouTube biker traced and questioned

India 1. Rahul Gandhi sues website for alleged propaganda Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's lawyer sent a legal notice to two people - Rohit Vyassman and E Z Bode who are apparently behind the blog that makes unsubstantiated and disparaging charges against the Amethi MP and his activities in his constituency. Read Story | Discuss 2. Indian Cybercrime Unit: Fighting to keep your data safe A new training center is being built to coach business process outsourcing managers and police officers in cybercrime prevention, with much of the funding coming from businesses involved in the outsourcing industry. Read Story | Discuss 3. Bid2Win.com: Cops get new crime to tackle, as online fraud rears its head The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) began investigations into allegations of online fraud against bid2win, an online bidding portal, on a complaint by Mr Khajuri on the grounds of swindling. He had bid for a Compaq Pressario Notebook C 301 in January and claimed to have clocked the lowest and unique bid on the online auction. Read Story | Discuss 4. Mumbai tops the country in e-obscenity related crimes A teenage girl from Bandra recently received a flurry of obscene calls and emails. Investigations revealed that the person responsible was a boy she had turned down... Read Story | Discuss 5. Latest Crime: Stealing Internet Time Theft of Internet time, mainly by hacking broadband accounts, seems to be the latest in cyber crime in the State of Kerala. This year, several Internet broadband cable connection subscribers in Kochi incurred huge monthly bills.... Read Story | Discuss USA 1. Two Game bills introduced to protect kids Two bills dealing with video games were recently introduced in the New York State Assembly. Bill A00547, prohibits the sale to minors of certain rated video games containing a rating that reflects content of various degrees of profanity, racist stereotypes or derogatory language, and/or actions toward a specific group of persons... Read Story | Discuss 2. Police grab $million teenager Police investigating an international sweepstakes and lottery scam, were last night interrogating a 19-year-old St James woman to determine how she came to have $1 million in cash in her possession... Read Story | Discuss 3. Website Hosting Company, Bloggers, named in $57.5 Million Lawsuit Web hosting company, Liquid Web, along with Vodien, Inc., have been named in a lawsuit, initiated by online payment provider, GreenZap, for a total of $57.5 million. The suit is the first of many GreenZap is preparing against individual bloggers and hosting companies that maintain websites where defamatory comments are being posted concerning GreenZap and its executives... Read Story | Discuss 4. NY youths in plea deal in MySpace case Two New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution. Read Story | Discuss 5. Trial Set In Computer Child Porn Case RANKIN COUNTYnnA Morton man is scheduled to stand trial this spring on charges of child exploitation charges via the computer. According to information released by the state Attorney General’s Office, Shannon Joe Gilbert, 21, of 225 Wilson Bates Rd., Morton, will go to trial on May 15 in Rankin County Circuit Court. Read Story | Discuss 6. Proposed Law to ban Domain sale to Terrorist Groups Bill states "A person is guilty of criminal sale of an internet domain name to a terrorist group when he or she knowingly sells or provides without charge an internet domain name to any organization included on the list of organizations engaged in terrorist activities or who pose a terrorist threat compiled, maintained and updated by the state office of homeland security pursuant to paragraph (t) of subdivision two of section seven hundred nine of the executive law. Criminal sale of an internet domain name to a terrorist group is a class A misdemeanor." Read Story | Discuss 7. US Republican calls for Email, IM and Website visits monitoring A bill introduced to the US House of Representatives would require ISPs to record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely. The bill would impose fines and a prison term of one year on ISPs which failed to keep full records. Read Story | Discuss Europe 1. Cyber crime strikes Irish businesses, 98% businesses affected The first research into cyber crime in Ireland shows the problem is widespread and can have economic repercussions for companies... Read Story | Discuss 2. Ireland: Companies Registration Office website hacked The Companies Registration Office (CRO) website was hacked last December, resulting in the agency having to suspend publication of its gazette. The CRO has confirmed that the defacement was discovered on 17 January by a member of staff who reported it to management. Read Story | Discuss 3. Austria busts global cyber child porn ring Austria has smashed a global child pornography ring involving 2,361 suspects in 77 states who paid for internet videos showing children subjected to "the worst kind of sexual abuse"... Read Story | Discuss 4. Toxbot hackers sentenced by Dutch court A Dutch court has sentenced two hackers to prison for breaking into millions of computers worldwide and using the hijacked systems in online crimes. Read Story | Discuss 5. Data protection scam operators jailed Four men who operated bogus data protection agencies pulled in over half a million pounds in illicit income from their criminal enterprise. The men charged businesses bogus fees for notification under the Data Protection Act. Read Story | Discuss Others 1. Anti-spam law passed by New Zealand Parliament The New Zealand Parliament passed Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe's Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007. The aim of the law is to prevent New Zealand from becoming a haven for spammers, as the country until now has had no legislation against spamming... Read Story | Discuss 2. NZ: New copyright laws necessary as technological changes abound When we take stock of all the technological changes taking place around us it is evident that we are living in challenging times. Changes are even necessary to the copyright laws to safeguard intellectual property in an increasingly digital world. Technological progress moves so fast that the Copyright Act 1994 has been under comprehensive review, the upshot being an amending bill... Read Story | Discuss 3. Pakistan prepares for Internet war Pakistan is spending $3 million to establish a Center For Cyber Crime. This is the result of several trends....increase dependence on Internet access, Islamic terrorists have been making heavy use of the Internet for communications, etc. Read Story | Discuss 4. Cyber Crime In Japan Jumps 40 Percent The police in Japan said cyber crimes jumped 40 percent in 2006 as fraudsters over the internet become increasingly daring. Records showed that online crimes totaled 4,425 in 2006 compared to 3,161 cases in 2005 or about 3.3 times more than five years ago, the National Police Agency in Japan said. Read Story | Discuss 5. South Africa: Cybercrime 'About to Take Off' An initiative by Standard Bank to tighten the safety of online banking has failed, with fewer than one in seven customers bothering to use the security software. The bank launched its security pin pad feature after money was filtered out of accounts by using keystroke logging software, which records the personal identity number (PIN) typed in by customers. Read Story | Discuss 6. Korea Becomes Haven for Hackers The dominance of the Windows operating system coupled with a lack of interest in cyber security and state-of-the-art Internet infrastructure has made Korea a haven for hackers. Earlier this month hackers launched a powerful offensive on crucial Internet servers, which help manage global computer traffic. Read Story | Discuss Security 1. Latest mass-mailing worm - Win32/Womble.C Win32/Womble.C is a mass-mailing worm that may be distributed both as an executable or as a malformed Windows Media file exploiting the MS06-001 vulnerability. It may also replicate via network shares. It can be used to periodically download and execute arbitrary files on an affected machine. Read Story | Discuss 2. Security watchers lambast Vista Windows Vista has only just left the starting blocks but security watchers have wasted no time in challenging claims that it provides improved security defences. Virus Bulletin, the independent security certification body, has revealed that Microsoft's own anti-virus product, Live OneCare, is among four anti-virus testing products that failed to reach the standard required for approval... Read Story | Discuss 3. Risk of the Botnets... Criminals controlling millions of personal computers are threatening the internet's future, experts have warned. Up to a quarter of computers on the net may be used by cyber criminals in so-called botnets, said Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet. Read Story | Discuss 4. DDOSattack takes down Anti-Spam Service Around 1pm EST on Friday 12th of January, the server that hosts the site came under a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In order to protect other, unrelated sites and servers in the same location, the hosting company that provided webspace to spamnation.info was forced to take the site offline. Read Story | Discuss 5. Hack lets intruders sneak into home routers If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, let this recent threat serve as a reminder. Attackers could change the configuration of home routers using JavaScript code, security researchers at Indiana University and Symantec have discovered... Read Story | Discuss 6. New UM Cybercrime Study says computers sre hacked every 39 seconds A study by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering is one of the first to quantify the rate of hacker attacks on computers with Internet access. Researchers found that on average a computer is attacked every 39 seconds. Read Story | Discuss Trademarks & Patents 1. 'keithurban.com' domain - TradeMark Violation Keith Urban, the country singer, has filed a lawsuit against Keith Urban, the painter from New Jersey, claiming the painter's Web site violates federal trademark laws. The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court, says Keith D. Urban of Wayne, N.J., is using his keithurban.com domain in a deceptive manner and for commercial purposes. Read Story | Discuss 2. McAfee wins over its Domain Name (.co.in) from Cyber Squatter In an impressive victory by McAfee Limited against the Cyber Squatters, who are posing the great threat to the domain names of rightful owners, McAfee wins the disputed domain name www.mcafee.co.in in its favour. Complaint was filed with National Internet Exhange of India (NIXI) against Chinese national, for allegedly registering the disputed domain name www.mcafee.co.in in its own name. Read Story | Discuss 3. Microsoft hit with $1.5 billion patent verdict Microsoft Corp. must pay $1.5 billion US for violating two patents connected with converting audio signals into the digital MP3 format, a U.S. jury ruled Thursday. The federal jury in San Diego, Calif., said Microsoft must pay the damages to equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA. Read Story | Discuss 4. Microsoft and Ma Bell in Supreme Court duel Corporate giants Microsoft (Charts) and AT&T (Charts) are getting set to duke it out before the U.S. Supreme Court in February in a case that will decide whether a company can be liable for infringement on a domestic patent abroad. Legal experts say the outcome could have widespread implications on both the software industry and the manner in which patent holders can protect their intellectual property. Read Story | Discuss 5. Microsoft runs into "Office Live" trademark spat A company called Office Live has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Microsoft over the software giant's use of "Office Live" for its on-demand productivity tools. Office Live, which runs sites such as Accountantsofficelive.com, Legalofficelive.com and Realtorsofficelive.com, offers free professional advice to consumers and offers customer leads to businesses. The company is seeking an injunction to prevent Microsoft from using the "Office Live" name. Read Story | Discuss 6. Google loses European GMail trademark battle Google has failed to win the right to register the term "Gmail" as a wide-ranging European trademark. The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), the body which is responsible for European community trademarks, rejected Google's appeal after a stiff battle with German-born venture capitalist Daniel Giersch. Giersch, who has held his trademark for six years, has been fighting this battle since Google launched its email service in 2004. Read Story | Discuss 7. Google faces Gmail.cn challenge in China Google Inc., fighting to consolidate its trademark globally, faces an obstacle in the world's second largest Web market -- China's www.Gmail.cn, which is refusing to sell its Internet address to the US giant. A legal source told Reuters that Google was trying to buy the Internet domain name www.gmail.cn, which is run by Beijing-based ISM Technologies. Read Story | Discuss

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