A new study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on consumer attitudes towards piracy reveils recent insights into the minds of pirates. Consumers are in it because it’s about getting free stuff, and everybody else is doing it too.
Archive for 2011/02/17
‘Offering free content, supported by advertising is the key to combat piracy’
Posted: 2011/02/17 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsDigital Agenda: Vice-President Kroes calls on 21 Member States to take urgent measures on mobile satellite services
Posted: 2011/02/17 in Education / Awareness, Mobile tech, New Business Models, Public Policy, Tech Evolutionurgent call to twenty one EU countries to rapidly introduce all the legislative measures necessary to allow the pan-EU deployment of mobile satellite services that could be used for high-speed internet, mobile television and radio or emergency communications to EU consumers and businesses
WikiLeaks hacker Jacob Appelbaum promotes TOR on Dutch TV
Posted: 2011/02/17 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionDutch language video with English language comments by Appelbaum: http://nos.nl/artikel/219423-tor-digitale-solidariteit-met-middenoosten.html
Previously:
WikiLeaks Intercepted Private Communications via TOR proxy network, Maintains Access
http://vrritti.com/2010/12/10/wikileaks-intercepted-private-communications-via-tor-proxy-network-maintains-access/
Appelbaum has been an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective since 2008, and is the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum
The American Wikileaks Hacker
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/meet-the-american-hacker-behind-wikileaks-20101201
Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents
http://vrritti.com/2011/01/14/wikileaks-volunteer-detained-and-searched-again-by-us-agents/
General Court of the European Union: A Member State may, in certain circumstances, prohibit the exclusive broadcast of all World Cup and EURO football matches on pay television, in order to allow the general public to follow those events on free television
Posted: 2011/02/17 in Education / Awareness, JurisprudenceWhen those competitions are, in their entirety, of major importance for society, the restriction on freedom to provide services and freedom of establishment is justified by the right to information and by the need to ensure wide public access to television broadcasts of those events
http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011-02/cp110009en.pdf
Big Blue’s development of a supercomputer known as Watson that was intended to be able to beat the world’s best “Jeopardy” players at a game centered around one of the biggest problems in computing: understanding and parsing natural language
Posted: 2011/02/17 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionMicrosoft Tells Broadband ISPs NOT to Ban Malware Infected PCs from the Internet
Posted: 2011/02/17 in Blocking, Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech Evolution- consumers may not want their machines scanned, right? They have a privacy interest in their machine. They may not feel comfortable with that;
- it puts a lot of burden on the ISPs, because they’re the ones who are gaining access to the Internet. And that could be a problem;
- the problem with quarantining on the Internet is this issue of convergence, which is my Internet PC may have VoIP, and it may be the way I access 911 for emergency services, so you see the scenario, right, I’m having a heart attack, I run to my computer, it says you need to install four patches and reboot before you can access the Internet. That’s not the user experience we strive for;
Previously:
http://vrritti.com/2010/06/28/blacklist-and-walled-garden-of-dutch-isp-kpn/
Ten individuals have freely and bizarrely handed over $1,000 each to movie studio Liberty Media in piracy settlements, despite the company having absolutely no idea who they are or if they did anything wrong
Posted: 2011/02/17 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, LitigationNow Liberty have a new amnesty and are offering BitTorrent users the chance to hand themselves in or risk being involved in 36,000 upcoming lawsuits
More: http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-start-handing-over-1000-each-in-bizarre-amnesty-program-110217/
Concerned about Facebook, Google, and other companies that make billions brokering sensitive information, free-software champion Eben Moglen has unveiled a plan to populate the internet with tiny, low-cost boxes that are designed to preserve individuals’ personal privacy
Posted: 2011/02/17 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech EvolutionPublic enemy No. 1 is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who in Moglen’s eyes, “has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age
More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/17/eben_moglen_freedom_box/
