Posts Tagged ‘founders’

1972 – Andy Cappa’s tavern in CA was the site for the first Pong game was wheeled into the establishment. The coin-operated game was put in by Atari co-founders Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn. The duo decided that making their own game – rather than having 3rd parties do it – would help keep costs down. They then turned an old Roller rink and converted to a production line. Pong was the first successful video game system.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Microsoft is first mentioned in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen
• Mercury-Atlas 5 carries the first chimpanzee into space
• Microsoft starts talking to Yahoo again – this time on a search deal

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2006 – In February 2005, 3 former Paypal employees start a website that lets you upload and share your video. YouTube brought a new idea of putting your creations on the internet. However, it cost a lot of money to run. Therefore, Google stepped in. They purchased the site from the founders for $1.65 billion. Today marks the completion of this acquisition.

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Other Technology History Facts

• New York Times tears down their Walled Garden for Ad- supported content.
• Tim Bernes-Lee launches the first Web Page
• The first Make Money Fast scheme is uploaded to Usenet

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One year in jail and fines. Read the full story, including a discussion of the larger legal implications, here.

The four founders of The Pirate Bay, an online site for free sharing of music and films, were found guilty of contributing to copyright infringement and sentenced to one-year prison terms each.Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstroem received their sentences in Stockholm today, according to a district court statement. The court said the defendants will have to pay compensation and damages of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million), compared with the more than 100 million kronor claimed by prosecutors.

Jeff’s Thoughts:

This was the expected verdict and I agree with it. While privacy does come into play here, I think the Pirate Bay could have done things to curb piracy. It’s a touchy subject, but Pirate Bay could have monitored downloads on it’s own and given notice to those who were breaking the law.

If you had an establishment and you allowed people to come in and play Russian Roulette, expect to see some jail time when the cops shut your shop down.

They got off easy with 1 year and only 3.6 million. The next site to do that probably won’t be so lucky. Hopefully they won’t shut down the Torrent site, but instead get someone in there to take over, create a content checking system and block those items deemed illegal to redistribute. After all, we still need good Torrent sites for LEGAL content.