Viacom will condemn bloggers for Comedy Central

The owner of channel Comedy Central company Viacom has promised to condemn bloggers which will place without the permission in the Internet episodes of their comic shows. The company will toughen the control over intellectual property after rupture of relations with Hulu, writes THR.

The annoying reticence

Viacom to which belongs Comedy Central, could not agree with Hulu about advertising deductions for display of comic shows "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report", it is informed in blog The NY Times. In this connection vice-president Hulu Andy Forssell has promised since March, 10th to stop show channel Comedy Central display. Thus show episodes, and also full archive of transfers will be still accessible on their official sites.

Internet users distinguish essential distinctions of on-line players Hulu and Comedy Central. So, bloggers can place any fragment which has liked them of show by means of player Hulu with itself in a blog. Portal Comedy Central offers users of the a little preliminary selected fragments of each episode of show. Thus representative Viacom has declared, that the company will pursue bloggers which will continue to spread after March, 9th in the Network not authorised Viacom show fragments.

Viacom VS Bloggers

The situation with illegal placing of fragments is ambiguous as in "The Daily Show" on a regular basis fragments from an aether of other channels are used, in particular CNN and Fox News. And these fragments are used on the lawful bases thanks to a principle "fair use" which extends on news channels. However Viacom opposes that Internet sites and bloggers earned on advertising on the resources, using their comic content.

Hulu is free service of viewing of video, accessible to inhabitants of the USA. Hulu belongs to owners of popular channels NBC, Fox and ABC and is a legal platform for display of episodes of television shows and films. The portal receives a content directly from legal owners and shares with them a part of incomes of advertising placing. Hulu has been officially started in March, 2008, and content Comedy Central has appeared on Hulu after three months.

By data comScore number of visitors of portal Hulu is made 44 million by person in a month. According to The NY Times, legal owners of a content usually receive from 50 to 70 percent of advertising gain Hulu. The portal takes away the rest to itself.

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The British policemen are punished for visiting of pornosites

Over four hundred British policemen have been dismissed or have received strict reprimand for viewing of unseemly materials in the Network. The information on the summary punishments imposed on 439 employees, journalists The Daily Mail have received on demand. They notice, that figures can be above as some departments have given up in granting of data.

Porno not for policemen!

It is a question first of all of visiting of pornosites and social networks. Besides, the employees of police using office databases to suit the own ends have got to number of the dismissed.

So, the police inspector in Lancashire was reprimanded for access to working hours to resources which can be considered "unworthy, offensive, pornographic or indecent". Other employee has been caught behind viewing "pornographic images by means of the Internet". The third has been punished for loading on a commercial site of a videoclip without the permission of the heads.

No-purpose use of the Internet

The Great Britain — not the unique country disturbed by no-purpose use of the Internet by law enforcement bodies. In the middle of 2008 the central national police administration of Poland has forbidden the employees visiting of social network Nasza-klasa.pl. In the end of the same year Montenegro has forbidden the officials to come on sites of social network Facebook and video hosting YouTube.

China has toughened rules of registration of domains

The Chinese authorities have toughened rules of registration of domain names. About it writes Reuters referring to the representative of the Ministry of industrial and information technologies of China. As he said, it has been made with a view of struggle against distribution of a pornography and an illegal content.

China updates "the black list"

Also the authorities will update "the black list" former owners of the forbidden resources to prevent repeated registration of the sites by them.

While it is not clear, whether new rules will be applied only to the Chinese resources or restrictions will concern also the sites located outside of China, writes the edition. However, many of foreign resources, such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in China are blocked for a long time already.

To private persons have forbidden registration of domains

Since December, 14th in China registration by private persons of domain names has been forbidden. All wishing to register in a zone.cn a domain name have obliged to receive the permission in the Chinese information Internet centre, having given the licence for commercial activity.

Besides, in December of the power have founded for Internet users the award in 10 thousand yuans (1465 US dollars) for a denunciation of a resource extending a pornography.

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