Filed under: Internet, Video, Web services, Google
Google to Viacom: see you in court
Google has filed a response to Viacom's $1 billion dollar lawsuit over copyright infringement involving video sharing site YouTube. And that response is essentially, "I'm rubber, you're glue..."In slightly more grownup language, Google claims that it's actions have been covered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and that Viacom's complaint would hold internet hosts responsible for the actions of their users, and "threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news" and other forms of expression.
Google is seeking a jury trial, which may be a way of bullying Viacom into entering settlement negotiations. Or perhaps Google's willing to risk $1 billion plus legal costs to prove its point.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
