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height="100" width="80">Here's something a
little different for you. We've noticed quite a
few stories lately about big tech companies
getting into disputes with big countries and
organizations - and we're not talking about Sony
and North Korea, which was more of a sneak attack
than a confrontation. Taking these disputes as the
theme of this week's <em>4cast</em>, we're
highlighting four different stories from one
source (<em>Ars Technica</em>) about some big
battles currently going on. Depending on how these
disputes are resolved, it's possible that one or
both of the parties involved will change their
ways, which might also affect us small folk. For
now, though, it's just interesting to watch from
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<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/how-hollywood-spurned-by-congress-pressures-states-to-attack-google/">Hollywood
v. Goliath: Inside the aggressive studio
effort to bring Google to heel</a> (Ars
Technica | Joe Mullin) "Attorneys at Sony were
on a short list of top Hollywood lawyers
frequently updated about the MPAA's 'Attorney
General Project,' along with those at Disney,
Warner Brothers, 21st Century Fox, NBC
Universal, and Paramount. The e-mails show a
staggering level of access to, and influence
over, elected officials. The MPAA's
single-minded obsession: altering search results
and other products (such as 'autocompleted'
search queries) from Google, a company the movie
studios began referring to as 'Goliath' in
around February 2014. The studios' goal was to
quickly get pirated content off the Web; unhappy
about the state of Google's voluntary compliance
with their demands and frustrated in their
efforts at passing new federal law such as <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act">SOPA</a>
and <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act">PIPA</a>,
the MPAA has turned instead to state law
enforcement."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/microsoft-tells-us-the-worlds-servers-are-not-yours-for-the-taking/">Microsoft
tells US: The world's servers are not yours
for the taking</a> (Ars Technica | David
Kravets) "The appeal is of a July court decision
demanding that Microsoft hand over e-mail stored
on an overseas server as part of a US drug
trafficking investigation. Microsoft, which
often stores e-mail on servers closest to the
account holder, said the e-mail is protected by
'Irish and European privacy laws.' But a US
judge didn't agree. 'It is a question of
control, not a question of the location of that
information,' US District Judge Loretta Preska <a
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/usa-tech-warrants-idUSL2N0Q61WN20140731">ruled</a>.
The order from the New York judge was stayed
pending appeal."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/in-wake-of-restrictive-data-law-in-russia-google-pulls-its-engineers/">In
wake of restrictive data law in Russia, Google
pulls its engineers</a> (Ars Technica | Cyrus
Farivar) "The move comes a few months after
Russia <a
href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-steps-up-new-law-to-control-foreign-internet-companies-1411574920?mod=WSJ_TechWSJD_NeedToKnow">passed
a new law</a>, taking effect in September
2016, that <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/new-russian-law-represses-social-media-bloggers/">will
require data</a> held on Russian citizens to
be kept in-country. The Kremlin and the Russian
data protection authority known by its local
acronym <a
href="http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d501137c-bcae-423d-b470-1a63d9fe1b79">Roskomnadzor</a>
have used the law as a way to exert more
pressure on Russian companies and foreign
companies doing business in Russia, like Google,
Facebook, Twitter, and others. Many Russia
observers note that this law is likely to drive
tech companies out of the country."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/the-predictable-result-of-spains-google-tax-no-more-google-news/">The
predictable result of Spain's "Google tax": No
more Google News</a> (Ars Technica | Joe
Mullin) "The Spanish Ministry of Education,
Culture, and Sport published a <a
href="http://www.mecd.gob.es/prensa-mecd/actualidad/2014/12/20141211-tasa.html">response</a>
(Spanish) calling the Google News closure a
'business decision' and emphasizing that the
newspapers' websites were still available
directly, as well as through Google's regular
search. The Spanish 'Google tax' effort followed
shortly after German publishers gave up their
effort to <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/german-publishers-want-an-11-percent-cut-of-google-news/">get
an 11 percent cut</a> of gross revenue from
Google News. Technically, there's still a
'Google tax' in effect in Germany, but it was up
to individual publishers to try to collect, and
they have generally given up on such efforts."</li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Articles
from <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org">Ohio
Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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<li><a
href="http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=62c28a5e-3026-451d-96d2-c5bb497654d7%40sessionmgr4003&vid=0&hid=4214&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=96046061">MPAA
study: Google's role in online piracy
unchanged.</a> (<em>Telecommunications
Reports</em>, 10/1/2013, p19-20)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=5ec9b776-0db3-410e-9c6f-cf45e5910a54%40sessionmgr4004&vid=0&hid=4214&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=cph&AN=78192341">Data
protection jurisdiction and cloud computing
- when are cloud users and providers subject
to EU data protection law? The cloud of
unknowing.</a> (<em>International Review of
Law, Computers & Technology</em>,
July-Nov. 2012, p129-164 | W. Kuan Hon, Julia
Hörnle, and Christopher Millard)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=beda73ca-f80a-43ba-8df5-f23cb7e147a6%40sessionmgr4001&vid=0&hid=4214&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=92886750">Domestic
institutions and the taxing of multinational
corporations.</a> (<em>International Studies
Quarterly</em>, Dec. 2013, p751-759 | Nathan
M. Jensen)</li>
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