Reuters as reported "U.S. communications regulators on Wednesday put off a controversial decision on Internet traffic rules, giving industry and consumer groups a chance to forge a compromise while avoiding a politically sensitive issue ahead of the November elections."

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The Digital Millenium Copyright Act, passed in 1998 was designed to deal with modern concerns of protecting copyright in the new "modern" age.  It deals with encryption, online publication, and a variety of other copyright related issues.  One thing the DMCA prevented was the breaking or "cracking" of encryption for personal or "fair use" instances.  Fair use is often related to non-commercial or public information enterprises, and in this instance, it is related to personal use of DVD's, phones, and other electronics.  The Library of Congress, via the Register of Copyrights, has just recently issued the following circumvention exemptions as it relates to DRM (or Digital Rights Management).

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On June 23, 2010 (that's today), Judge Louis J. Stanton of the United States District Court, for the Southern District of New York issued a ruling in the infamous suit between Google/YouTube and Viacom.  Judge Stanton held, in a motion for Summary Judgement by the defendants (Google/YouTube), that the "Safe-Harbor" provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act shield YouTube from liability due to users uploading potentially copyright infringing videos to its web based video sharing service.

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Jeffrey Neu has been selected as the chair for the Internet and Computer Law Committee for the NJSBA year 2010 - 2011.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, has a history of exhibiting a cavalier attitude towards privacy. Recently, the internet has been abuzz with a transcript of an instant message exchange between then 19-year-old Zuckerberg ("Zuck") and an unidentified friend shortly after The Facebook was first launched in six years ago, in 2004. The instant message exchange reads:

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Jeffrey Neu will be speaking at LegalTech West Cost on June 24th, 2010 at 2pm.  The panel is entitled "Leveraging Technologies for Better Firm Efficiencies".  J. C. Neu and Associates is technology firm which implements the most advanced technologies in keeping the firm efficient, up to date, and also on the cutting edge of technologies deployed.  Jeffrey Neu will be discussing the following points:

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The Federal Communications Commission proposed an approach to regulating broadband Internet service on Thursday in light of the recent Comcast decision, that would reclassify the transmission component as a basic utility subject to the agency’s oversight in order to enforce consumer protections and equal access.

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The Hatchery, a New York Venture Collaboration group, has opened registration for the 2010 Hatch Match. Hatch Match 2010 will take place at the Lower Library at Columbia University on Thursday, June, 3 2010, 5 PM.  You can register here. Naturally we'll be there helping out as much as we can...look forward to seeing you there!

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The Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on how to prevent and protect against terrorists using firearms to attack the United States.  Aaron Titus, an attorney at J. C. Neu and Associates testified on behalf of the Privacy Coalition.

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The roads and approaches of P2P prosecution and litigation has, at a minimum, been approached in a slightly controversial manner.  Prior to 2003, copyright owners did not need to file a lawsuit to obtain an subpoena in order to unmask the identity of alleged copyright infringers, or p2p file sharers.  However, in 2003, an appeals court ruled that unless the information resided on an online service providers servers (sucn as Youtube, Twitter, etc.), a copyright holder was required to file a lawsuit in order to serve a subpoena requesting the identity of an alleged infringer.

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