Blacklist in the works. No blocking obligation for banks
Dutch language news article: http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/9419889/__Zwarte_lijst_goksites_banken__.html
Archive for March, 2011
The Netherlands: Banks to block financial transactions relating to illegal gambling websites
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public PolicyStudios argue that offering up films 60 days after their theatrical run wouldn’t hurt the box office for theater chains, given that most films generate most of their coin during their first three months
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsWB, Universal and Fox have already succeeded in fending off companies like Netflix and Redbox, forcing them to wait 28 days after a film bows on DVD to offer those titles for rent through their online services and kiosks. Those same studios wouldn’t mind lengthening that window even longer and have considered pursuing such talks.
The majors also say they wouldn’t release any films via Home Premiere that are still performing well at the B.O.
EU eyes reform of intellectual property laws
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public PolicyUK firms are losing nearly £36bn a week in employee time as their staff deal with password management
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reportscreating and remembering passwords, dealing with being locked out of accounts and resetting passwords when details are forgotten wastes 9.3 billion minutes a year
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=3F1B77BE-1A64-6A71-CEB5A0DBA9C38A04
If you’ve ever doubted how much anyone could track you based on information embedded in geolocation services like Foursquare, Twitter, and Flickr, free app Creepy will show you by aggregating GPS coordinates for any user, pointing out their most frequented hangouts on a map
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech EvolutionSmart paperless tickets eliminate scalpers completely, by requiring that concertgoers present the credit card used to purchase the ticket, along with a driver’s license or other identification
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionIf you have an extra ticket to a show, you should be able to sell it to a friend, but you can’t do that with tickets that are tied to your identity.
The solution: People should only be able to resell tickets to people with whom they have been Facebook friends for at least 30 days
http://gizmodo.com/#!5787266/how-facebook-could-save-ticketmaster-from-scalpers
Fox Wants Its Channels Removed From Time Warner’s iPad App
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Education / AwarenessBy tracking search terms, US officials may have foreseen the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings before they happened
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsImagine what it can do for business intelligence gathering
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/service-oriented/search-data-analysis-opens-up-intelligence-gathering/6833
The UK Government’s Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey MP, has officially invited the Open Rights Group and other civil society and consumer groups to join ISPs and Rights Holders in industry discussions over the formation of an alternative website blocking measure (“plan B”) for the Digital Economy Act
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionProminent Torrent Site ‘Scamvertiser’ Calls It Quits
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Education / Awareness, Online advertisingThe Court of Appeal has asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to decide whether online publishing takes place where information is hosted or where it is read
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Education / Awareness, LitigationThe High Court had previously said that a company is responsible for “making available” material where a server is based rather than where the reader accesses it, but the Court of Appeal has asked the ECJ to clarify the law
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/ecj_asked_to_rule_on_internet_publishing_jurisdiction_issue/
Google bestows 1Gbps fiber network on Kansas City, Kansas
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Education / Awareness, Google, Tech EvolutionA fairly simple hack adds wireless streaming video to the iPad 2
Posted: 2011/03/31 in Education / Awareness106 WikiLeaks donor email addresses, not the 58 reported in the press
Posted: 2011/03/30 in Education / AwarenessAs chance would have it, one of the donors whom we had thanked on this occasion was a certain Adrian Lamo. He was the semi-famous ex-hacker responsible for the arrest of US Army private Bradley Manning, who has been accused of being one of our sources.
“Look at that,” Julian said when he discovered Lamo’s contribution. “What an idiot!”
