England’s 6 Nations match to be Europe’s first live 3D sports broadcast Telegraph
England’s forthcoming 6 Nations match against Wales will become Europe’s first live 3D sports broadcast. Rugby fans can watch every crunching tackle and scrum with the latest 3D technology at 40 Odeon and Cineworld cinemas across the UK on February 6. The sophisticated polarised 3D cameras will beam the action directly to the stalls, giving rugby fans the closest experience of the atmosphere inside Twickenham Stadium, now in its centenary year.

Motion picture industry is not a ‘cartel,’ judge rules in RealDVD case Beta News
For years, RealNetworks has wanted to produce and sell a product called RealDVD that would enable the legal owners of DVD movies to copy their content onto a hard disk drive, in order that the original discs may stay protected like archival copies. Movie studios responded in September 2008 by suing Real, alleging that its technology intentionally circumvented their copy control system — a circumvention that violated the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That led to an injunction barring any sale of RealDVD, which is still in force today. Real then responded with a countersuit, blasting the movie studios with an allegation that they were leveraging the DMCA as a platform on which to build a kind of content cartel — a mechanism that disables viewers and the companies that sell to viewers from using DVDs in any other way besides direct viewing, that doesn’t involve a licensing agreement. Last Friday, the judge in that ongoing suit ruled that Real had not proven the basis of its argument, noting that at any time, Real was free to enter into its own individual licenses for copying DVDs, and that there’s nothing to stop it from doing so.

Ron Jeremy says violent video games ‘worse’ than porn BBC
Violent video games have “a much bigger negative influence on kids” than pornography, a leading porn star has claimed. He said parents should be more worried about the harmful effects of such games. Mr Jeremy’s comments were made at a session called the Great Porn Debate during the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas. His comments angered gamers, who accused him of “ignorance”.

UMG Goes After Golden Oldies Pirate Courthouse News
UMG Recordings claims an Internet site is ripping it off by distributing Golden Oldie music from UMG’s catalogue for free, and using the mass copyright violations to attract advertising dollars to its site. UMG seeks punitive damages from Escape Media Group, which does business as Grooveshark.com. UMG claims Grooveshark violates copyright by providing “free access to UMG’s pre-1972 recordings,” which includes ” some of the most popular and successful recording artists of the 20th Century,” including Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Cat Stevens, the Jackson Five and the Who.

The Madness of Crowds and an Internet Delusion New York Times
In the 1990s, Jaron Lanier was one of the digital pioneers hailing the wonderful possibilities that would be realized once the Internet allowed musicians, artists, scientists and engineers around the world to instantly share their work. Now, like a lot of us, he is having second thoughts. Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist — he popularized the term ‘virtual reality’ — wonders if the Web’s structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, ‘You Are Not a Gadget,’ is a manifesto against ‘hive thinking’ and ‘digital Maoism,’ by which he means the glorification of open-source software, free information and collective work at the expense of individual creativity. He blames the Web’s tradition of ‘drive-by anonymity’ for fostering vicious pack behavior on blogs, forums and social networks. He acknowledges the examples of generous collaboration, like Wikipedia, but argues that the mantras of ‘open culture’ and ‘information wants to be free’ have produced a destructive new social contract.

Cost-benefit analysis: net neutrality makes economic sense Ars Technica
A new study warns that abandoning network neutrality could transfer billions of dollars from the most competitive sector of the Internet (online content) to the least (Internet service providers).

Danish artist’s attacker ‘tried to recruit Swedes’ The Local
Young Swedes were encouraged to join the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab by the Danish-Somali man who attacked Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe, according to Danish media reports. Denmark’s Berlingske Tidende reports that the 28-year-old man currently in custody for the January 1st attack on Westergaard at his home in Århus has cooperated with some of Scandinavia’s most notorious terror suspects. Last winter, he visited Gothenburg in western Sweden together with another Danish-Somali man who later blew himself and 23 others up in a suicide bomb attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu last month.

Federal Court Slaps Satellite Signal Pirate With $51 Million Judgment Broadcasting & Cable
A federal court in Florida has slapped Robert Ward with a $51 million summary judgment for distributing software that aided in the theft of DISH Network signals. In the process, it left no doubt that it believes the Communications Act prohibition on “any electronic, mechanical, or other device or equipment” that aids in the unauthorized decryption of a satellite programming” includes software.

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