EFF and Study Authors Refute PFFs ‘Junk Science’ Claims
The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF) had some choice words expressed by a study on DMCA notices received by Google. While the posting was very pointed, the authors of the study Thomas Sydnor accused of being “junk science”, as well as the EFF, gave ZeroPaid a response to the many accusations made by the [...]
French Pres Considers “Google Tax” to Help Artists
Asks finance industry to research tax on online advertising for Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MSN, and other Internet portals as a way to help finance ways for writers, musicians, publishers, and other artists to also make money from the web.
France seems to be convinced the Internet is destroying French culture, that it’s robbing artists of all [...]
Zeropaid at CES 2010!
While the year, and the decade, may just be starting out, things are already heating up quickly in the electronics and technology worlds. With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) trade conference beginning tomorrow in Las Vegas, a flood of new devices, gadgets and services will be announced, released or just rumored. The big trends we [...]
Are You Ready for a Real Google Phone?
In yet another of the seemingly endless stream of new products coming from Google this year, this week has seen the confirmation of rumors that the search engine giant is about to get more directly involved in the mobile phone space. Google has already made a major step into thesmart-phone world through its creation of [...]
Google and the Privacy of the Cloud
There has been a bit of an uproar about a recent quote by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. While talking to CNBC, Schmidt remarked that, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality [...]
Will the Future Belong to Chrome?
As anyone with an Internet connection has probably heard, Google took the first public wraps off of it’s long-awaited Chrome OS last month, giving a short demonstration, and even releasing the source code for the Open Source version of the OS, called Chromium. Bootable versions quickly appeared, first on gdgt and then a “diet” version [...]
Android Phones and Downloading On the Go
After a somewhat rocky start, the Android platform from Google is beginning to pick up steam, and with the new Motorola Droid model from Verizon, and with multiple new handsets promised from a number of manufacturers, Android is poised to challenge the iPhone and Symbian platforms for future supremacy (WinMo seems moribund at best). As [...]
Google Removes, Reinstates Pirate Bay in Search Results
Search engine giant erroneously complied with a “cease and desist” letter sent by porn company Evasive Angels reporting copyright infringement by the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site.
It appears that late last week search engine giant Google briefly removed Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay from its search results after receiving a “cease and desist” letter [...]
Google Currently Offering Free Web App to Access BitTorrent Trackers
There have been many who compare Google to ThePirateBay. The technical front may be more of a grey area that can be debated back and forth, but the line that defines the differences between Google and ThePirateBay may be a little more blurry on that technical side after one observant user spotted Google’s hosted [...]
Google – Stop Comparing Us to The Pirate Bay!
Many people who have been watching the debate surrounding the trial of The Pirate Bay have compared the website to Google. A few may have wondered what does Google think about being compared to a notorious BitTorrent tracker? Apparently, they didn’t take too kindly to the comparison and have gone on record in [...]
