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...compelling vision: China as a high-tech powerhouse. But making it come true will take years, and there are major obstacles. Idea theft is the biggest. Though the country has made progress in strengthening intellectual-property rights over the past several years, rampant piracy of software, music and other IP remains a huge issue. "People with the ideas have to be protected," says Rosen, the New York City economic consultant. "They've moved on this because they know without it a high-tech China remains a dream...
That's where Donahoe's tough love comes in. First, he's acquiring companies like Bill Me Later, a payment system, and Danish classified-ad sites that have synergy with eBay's brand. He's also re-evaluating whether to spin off Skype, the voice-over-IP phone-system acquisition that was Whitman's biggest mistake, not to mention a $1.4 billion write-off. eBay overpaid for a company that doesn't directly benefit the core business. Donahoe also launched a new search platform to better catalog the 120 million live listings...
...Whether written warnings will turn users off illegal music is not clear. The BPI plans to monitor unlawful file sharing sites and pass along to ISPs the individual IP addresses of users it suspects of pirating music. Many of those receiving letters are likely to be the parents of children; just over half of music file sharers in the U.K. are under 25, according to Mark Mulligan, an analyst at JupiterResearch in London. The music industry hopes parents of young music lovers perhaps unaware they are breaking the law, will force their kids to start downloading music legally. But convincing...
...order, the site's cache of more than 1.2 million documents - among them, a U.S. operations manual for its Guantanamo Bay, Cuba facility - had been readily available at several mirror locations around the world, including domains registered in Belgium, the Christmas Islands and Germany, and at its numerical IP address. "The cat is out of the bag," White conceded. He also acknowledged the injunction had backfired, kindling publicity for Wikileaks and driving traffic to its mirror sites...
...server by exploiting a “computer that had been hijacked, in order to attack our server from [his own] computer,” Selsby explained. Doing so allowed the hacker to mask his identity, and there would be “no way to get a definitive IP address” that the hacker used...