Archive for 2011/05/06

Google Loses Copyright Appeal Over Internet Links to Belgian Newspapers

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Google, Jurisprudence, Litigation

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-06/google-loses-copyright-appeal-over-links-to-belgian-newspapers.html

If you haven’t accepted the new Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy by May 31st, your Club Nintendo account will be deleted, resulting in the loss of any Stars you have accrued during your membership

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/2011/important_information_for_club_nintendo_members_32864.html

Why Creative Commons Hasn’t Caught On In Serbia: They’re Happier Without Copyright At All

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Copyright, Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110430/23070014100/why-creative-commons-hasnt-caught-serbia-theyre-happier-without-copyright-all.shtml

China Centralizes The Great Firewall Into Single Censorship Body

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110505/00383414162/china-centralizes-great-firewall-into-single-censorship-body.shtml

EU Tried To Get US To Force ICANN To Delay .xxx Domain

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110505/14155014169/eu-tried-to-get-us-to-force-icann-to-delay-xxx-domain.shtml

Appeals Court Effectively Opens The Floodgates For People To Claim Hollywood ‘Stole’ Their Ideas

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, Litigation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110505/10575014165/appeals-court-effectively-opens-floodgates-people-to-claim-hollywood-stole-their-ideas.shtml

Hollywood Pushing EU To Sign ACTA Before It Has A Chance To Study The Legal Implications

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110506/03173114181/hollywood-pushing-eu-to-sign-acta-before-it-has-chance-to-study-legal-implications.shtml

Security expert testifies Sony servers went unpatched

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gamification/security-expert-testifies-sony-servers-went-unpatched/374

Thor: The Best Superhero Movie Since The Dark Knight

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5799343/thor-the-best-superhero-movie-since-the-dark-knight

Magazine Publishers Can Now Get Around Apple’s 30% iOS Cut

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5799050/magazine-publishers-can-now-get-around-apples-30-ios-cut

Four Reasons Not to Jailbreak Your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5799020/why-you-should-not-jailbreak-your-iphone-ipod-touch-or-ipad

Third Attack Against Sony in the Works

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5799163/anonymous-plans-third-attack-against-sony

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Opulent’ New House

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5799262/inside-mark-zuckerbergs-opulent-new-house/gallery/1

Encrypt Your iPhone Backups for Convenience, Not Just Security

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/#!5799285/encrypt-your-iphone-backups-for-convenience-not-just-security

The personal information of more than 250,000 would-be X-Factor contestants may have been exposed after hackers broke into systems maintained by producers of the US edition of the TV talent show

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/05/x_factor_hack/

Websites should notify European users about privacy breaches

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/06/websites_should_notify_users_about_privacy_breaches/

Anonymous: Sony is incompetent (and we don’t steal credit cards)

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/anonymous-sony-is-incompetent-and-we-dont-steal-credit-cards.ars

Mozilla resists US gov’t request to nuke “MafiaaFire” add-on

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/mozilla-resists-us-govt-request-to-nuke-mafiaafire-add-on.ars

Google, Facebook: “do not track” bill a threat to California economy

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness, Google

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/google-facebook-fight-california-do-not-track-law.ars

Google to beef up Places, Street View with interior business photos

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/05/google-offers-businesses-free-pro-photos-for-use-with-google-maps.ars

With PSN still down, hackers return Linux to the PlayStation 3

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/with-psn-still-down-hackers-return-linux-to-the-playstation-3.ars

56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to investigate

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/56-of-americans-have-internet-data-caps-fcc-asked-to-investigate.ars

French Court of Appeal decided that Google can’t be forced to filter.

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Education / Awareness, Filtering, Google, Jurisprudence

http://torrentfreak.com/google-wins-anti-piracy-filtering-lawsuit-filters-anyway-110506/

Homeland Security’s ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, New Business Models, Public Policy, Tech Evolution

http://torrentfreak.com/homeland-security-wants-mozilla-to-pull-domain-seizure-add-on-110505/

U.S. politicians are encouraging Google to censor piracy related terms from their search results

Posted: 2011/05/06 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing, Public Policy

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-politics-fuel-internet-censorship-hypocrisy-110505/