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Firms working to halt pirates; Many people post videos in violation of copyright laws
To build a case against YouTube, Viacom turned to a Silicon Valley company to sniff out pirated clips on the popular video- sharing site. Viacom, which last week sued YouTube and parent company Google Inc. for publishing its videos on the Web without its permission, hired BayTSP Inc. in October and asked the Los Gatos technology company to scour the site and find the offending clips. By the time Viacom filed its $1 billion lawsuit, BayTSP had amassed more than 160,000 unauthorized videos, snippets from "South Park," "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," "SpongeBob SquarePants" and other popular shows owned by MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and other Viacom networks. YouTube says it took all those videos down. |
AT&T to settle probe of wireless cancellation fees
AT&T Inc.'s mobile phone unit agreed to pay $30.6 million to settle an investigation by California regulators over early-termination fees charged to wireless customers. |
College loan kickbacks are alleged; A nationwide probe finds that lenders are engaged in widespread illegal and deceptive practices, New York's attorney general says.
Student loan providers are engaged in widespread illegal and deceptive practices, including kickbacks to colleges for directing students to lenders, New York Atty. Gen. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. A nationwide investigation by his office revealed all-expense-paid trips to luxury Caribbean resorts for college financial aid officers and their spouses as well as college call centers secretly manned by lenders, Cuomo said. He did not single out specific lenders or schools. "A student's first lesson in college should not be in consumer fraud," Cuomo said. "The school-lender relationships are often for the benefit of the school at the expense of the student." |
THE MORTGAGE MELTDOWN; Ameriquest fires big part of workforce; The parent company also shuts six centers in an effort to survive the sub-prime shakeout.
The parent of Ameriquest Mortgage Co., once the biggest provider of home loans to Americans with checkered credit, fired a large number of its workers Thursday and closed six operations centers around the country in a bid to survive the shakeout in sub-prime lending. Two years ago, Orange-based Ameriquest was at the top of the game -- sponsoring the Rolling Stones on tour and the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXIX. Its founder, Los Angeles billionaire Roland Arnall, was a major political donor who was later named U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. |
ICE bids to expand empire; Offer made to buy Chicago Board of Trade
Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange's nearly $10 billion offer to buy the Chicago Board of Trade would create the world's "most comprehensive" exchange for trading farm, energy, precious metals and financial futures, said Jeffrey Sprecher, chairman and chief executive of IntercontinentalExchange. Best known as ICE for its stock ticker symbol, the company made the unsolicited offer in a letter to directors of CBOT Holdings, which owns the Chicago Board of Trade. It was announced Thursday during a Futures Industry Association conference in Boca Raton, Fla., catching everybody by surprise. ICE would relocate its headquarters just north of Atlanta to CBOT's landmark building in Chicago. Sprecher said in a conference call with analysts that he has already bought a house in Chicago. ICE's stock-for-stock offer outbids by more than $1 billion another pending offer by Chicago Mercantile Holdings, parent of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, to merge with CBOT Holdings. Shareholders of both Chicago organizations are scheduled to vote on the CME proposal on April 14. |
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