Archive for 2011/05/05

US DVD sales plummet 20%

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

Hollywood studios feel impact of rapid shift to online film and TV viewing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/03/us-dvd-sales-online-tv

Hyperspectral Imaging Helped Kill Osama bin Laden. But What Is It?

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

It’s like Predator-vision on steroids

http://gizmodo.com/#!5797872/hyperspectral-imaging-helped-kill-osama-bin-laden-but-what-the-hell-is-it

Facebook ranked top display ad publisher in Q1 2011

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Online advertising, Stats / reports

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-ranked-top-display-ad-publisher-in-q1-2011/1346

Star Wars Blu-ray Set Coming Sept. 16 With Days of Bonus Features

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5798449/star-wars-blu+ray-set-coming-sept-16-in-north-america-with-days-of-bonus-features

Scientists Trap Antimatter For a Record Breaking 16 Minutes

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://gizmodo.com/#!5798314/scientists-trap-antimatter-for-a-record-breaking-16-minutes

The Augmented Reality Tattoo

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5798078/guy-takes-his-love-for-the-3ds-too-far-with-the-augmented-reality-tattoo

American Airlines to Offer In-Flight Streaming to Your Device

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://gizmodo.com/#!5798288/american-airlines-to-offer-in+flight-streaming-to-your-device

The grey-market app Any Music Downloader knocked Angry Birds from its perch atop iTunes’ Tuesday

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5798295/apple-drops-top-itunes-app-for-being-obliquely-illegal

Spotify Totally Just Added iPod Syncing to its Streaming and (New) Download Service

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://gizmodo.com/#!5798387/spotify-totally-just-added-ipod-sync-to-its-streaming-and-new-download-service

Verizon Droid X2 and LG Revolution—the First Android Phone With Netflix—Coming May 12

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://gizmodo.com/#!5798498/verizons-next-android-phones-droid-x2-lg-revolution-and-sony-xperia-play

Osama bin Laden Searches Increased One Million Percent on Sunday Night

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://gizmodo.com/#!5798669/osama-bin-laden-searches-increased-one-million-percent-on-sunday-night

US Court: IP-address does not identify individual Internet user

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, Litigation

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/nc/home/blog-post/2011/05/04/us-court-ip-address-does-not-identify-individual-internet-user.html

Ofcom Predict 12 Months Before First ISP Copyright Infringement Notices are Sent

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Three Strikes

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/05/04/ofcom-predicts-12-months-before-first-isp-copyright-infringement-notices-are-sent.html

No Punishment For Bogus DMCA Notices If Service Provider Doesn’t Take Down The Content

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110428/18060114075/no-punishment-bogus-dmca-notices-if-service-provider-doesnt-take-down-content.shtml

Utah Legislators Want Extra Tax For Owners Of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness

The complaint is that those people don’t spend as much (if anything) on gas, and thus don’t pay gas taxes

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110502/02355714111/utah-legislators-want-extra-tax-owners-hybrid-electric-vehicles.shtml

Senator Wyden Warns That Domain Seizures And COICA Undermine Internet Freedom

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Blocking, Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110504/12103214143/senator-wyden-warns-that-domain-seizures-coica-undermine-internet-freedom.shtml

Sony has drafted in security experts to figure out who hacked into its systems – and how they did it – before stealing personal data on 100 million consumers of the company’s services

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/04/sony_hack_investigation/

The US government’s fiscal 2012 budget includes $860.6m to build a high performance computing center at the NSA’s Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters facility

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports

That is the cost for the facility alone, not the cost of the servers, storage, and networking gear that will inhabit the data center

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/04/nsa_fort_mead_data_center/

A North London primary care trust has suffered the most personal data breaches among NHS trusts in the capital over the past three years, according to figures obtained by Guardian Healthcare

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/04/nhs_barnet_most_leaky_of_london_nhs_foi_list/

A parliamentary committee has dropped its inquiry into the Digital Economy Act (DEA) and whether it is the right mechanism to protect copyright on the internet

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Legislation, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/04/parliamentary_committee_suspends_ip_rights_inquiry/

A 29-year-old man from California has pleaded guilty to his role in a long-running warez-scene release group and now faces up to 5 years in jail

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing

http://torrentfreak.com/leader-of-music-piracy-group-faces-5-year-jail-sentence-110504/

CNET’s Download.com and parent company CBS are being sued for several copyright infringement related offenses for their role in distributing LimeWire and other P2P software

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

http://torrentfreak.com/cnet%e2%80%99s-download-com-sued-over-limewire-downloads-110504/

PC rental store accused of using webcams, keyloggers on customers

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/lawsuit-computer-rental-store-aarons-spied-on-users-at-home.ars

Lithuania’s top telco is boosting fiber speeds up to 300Mbps without boosting its prices

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/want-super-fast-broadband-try-lithuania.ars

Hollywood “comes to us more and more” for help, said a Royal Canadian Mounted Police official in a newly leaked diplomatic cable from 2006. He worried about becoming “the enforcement arm of industry”

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/unhappy-mounties-sick-of-being-private-copyright-cops.ars

Look out Apple: Spotify is coming after iTunes users

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/05/look-out-apple-spotify-is-coming-after-itunes-users.ars

Sony: Anonymous provided cover for PSN attack

Posted: 2011/05/05 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/sony-wont-testify-on-psn-attack-names-anonymous-in-written-answers.ars