Corporations are all too often not directly liable for human rights violations they cause or that they are complicit in. They benefit from impunity as long as their behaviour is approved by the state of which the contested corporate activity took place. Furthermore, multinational enterprises normally consist of many separate legal persons. The twin concept of separate legal personality and limitations on their liability shields parent companies (and their directors) from being liable for misconduct of their subsidiaries and contractors unless they take active role in managing these subsidiaries at the operational level. Regulation and a change in corporate culture is required to ensure corporations fulfil their environmental and human rights obligations. ECCJ therefore considers as a priority the following changes to the EU legal framework:
Companies operating within the jurisdictions of EU Member States shall have a duty of care not to commit or be complicit in human rights abuses.
Companies operating within the jurisdictions of EU Member States shall have a duty of care to prevent and mitigate human rights abuses in their sphere of responsibility, which includes their subsidiaries and commercial partners, owed to potential victims of such abuses.
Directors and responsible corporate officers shall be liable for that their corporations don’t breach the liabilities imposed on them by the measures described above, as well as for their own compliance.
Virtual currency is moving serious amounts of money these days and some of the most lucrative businesses, social gaming companies, have taken advantage of the huge potential audience social networks provide and the number of possible ways to promote their products to gain huge user numbers. Facebook, the preferred platform for these companies, has been offering its own virtual currency, Credits, for a while now, but most have shunned this option in favor of implementing their own currencies, a much more lucrative alternative. This, though, may be coming to an end if rumors coming from InsideFacebook, that Facebook is considering making Credits mandatory for third-party developers, turn out to be true. 
The staff and I are taking the day off to honor the holiday, but I didn’t want to let the opportunity slip by without extending my gratitude to you, the MDA community. To all our readers, I want to say thank you for your incredible enthusiasm and involvement (in the comment boards, in the 
The largest BitTorrent indexer in the world, Mininova, decided to remove all torrents from the sites, except for those uploaded through its Content Distribution platform. The decision comes after a court decision which forced the site to remove all infringing torrents. In the face of legal consequences and with no practical way of determining which torrents were infringing and which weren’t, the site made the move to remove all torrents except those from the verified uploaders. 
Online video has had a great month in October in the US. Viewers are up across the board, but there aren’t any surprises at the top, and Facebook is sitting at a more modest ninth spot rather than the third place other reports had put it at. YouTube once again played in a league of its own, with 12 times more videos streamed than its closest competitor Hulu, which has had a very good month. 
