Archive for 2011/05/16

Turkey protests new Internet Filter System

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.nationalturk.com/en/turkey-protests-new-internet-filter-system-internet-censorship-11904

Domainmonster.com Disclose Pre-order Pricing for .XXX Domain Launch

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/domainmonstercom-disclose-pre-order-pricing-for-xxx-domain-launch-121877403.html

Japan Restart of Sony Online Games Services Not Yet Approved

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/05/15/japan-restart-sony-online-games-services-approved/

Introducing “News near you” on Google News for mobile

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-news-near-you-on-google.html

Dutch Ministry of Justice asking Dutch Data Protection Authority to investigate Apple Computer

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

Dutch language article: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2514592/justitie-vraagt-onderzoek-apple.html

HTTPi for Practical End-to-End Web Content Integrity

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

Without end-to-end confidentiality, content can be cached. In light of this observation, we propose a new protocol, HTTPi, which offers only end-to-end authentication and integrity. HTTPi works seamlessly with and benefits from the existing web caching infrastructure. It performs content signing while preserving progressive content loading supported by browsers.

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/148963/htti-techreport.pdf

GoFlex Satellite™ Mobile Wireless Storage: Take more than 300 HD movies on-the-go, stream media over Wi-Fi to 3 iPads at the same time

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/external-hard-drive/goflex-satellite/?intcmp=bac-en-us-home-hero1-goflex-satellite

PlayStation: We’re experiencing a heavy load of password resets and will be turning off the services for 30 minutes to clear the queue

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness

Dutch soccer match Ajax-FC Twente too popular. Stream inaccessible. Dutch ISP Ziggo also unable to cope with popularity of this particular online broadcast

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness

Dutch language news articles:

http://www.totaaltv.nl/?action=nieuws&id=5211&id2=0&keuze=5
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2515445/website-ziggo-tijd-niet-beschikbaar.html
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2515517/problemen-met-stream-eredivisie-live.html

Dutch Premier League clubs take streaming site offline

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Blocking, Education / Awareness

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/nc/home/blog-post/2011/05/16/dutch-premier-league-clubs-take-streaming-site-offline.html

BPI: Digital music sales pass magic £1 billion boundary

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/nc/home/blog-post/2011/05/16/bpi-digital-music-sales-pass-magic-pound1-billion-boundary.html

Open source movie on copyright and the internet

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/nc/home/blog-post/2011/05/15/open-source-movie-on-copyright-and-the-internet.html

Chinese government closes down fake Disneyland park

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/nc/home/blog-post/2011/05/14/chinese-government-closes-down-fake-disneyland-park.html

UK ISP TalkTalk Accused of Abusing HomeSafe Service to Censor News Website

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Blocking, Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/05/13/uk-isp-talktalk-accused-of-abusing-homesafe-service-to-censor-news-website.html

World Internet Data Traffic to Surpass 600000 PetaBytes in 2016

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/05/12/world-internet-data-traffic-to-surpass-600000-petabytes-in-2016-2.html

Ofcom UK Expects 200 Percent Capacity Boost from 4G Mobile Broadband Tech

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/05/12/ofcom-uk-expects-200-percent-capacity-boost-from-4g-mobile-broadband-tech.html

Global Telecoms Service Market Worth GBP1.14tn and Back to Sustainable Growth

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/05/12/global-telecoms-service-market-worth-gbp1-14tn-and-back-to-sustainable-growth.html

Ofcom UK Toughens Phone and Broadband ISP Consumer Protection Powers

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/05/11/ofcom-uk-toughens-phone-and-broadband-isp-consumer-protection-powers.html

Google’s Blogger outage makes the case against a cloud-only strategy

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Google, The Cloud

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/googles-blogger-outage-makes-the-case-against-a-cloud-only-strategy/3300

Sony begins PlayStation relaunch

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20062983-261.html

The Senators Who Say Merely Linking To Certain Sites Should Be A Felony

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110513/11210514265/senators-who-say-merely-linking-to-certain-sites-should-be-felony.shtml

Why Innovation Is Under Attack

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110509/23511814220/why-innovation-is-under-attack.shtml

The hackers who breached the security of Sony’s PlayStation Network and gained access to sensitive data for 77 million subscribers used Amazon’s web services cloud to launch the attack

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, The Cloud

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/14/playstation_network_attack_from_amazon/

Hackers turn Cisco phones into remote bugging devices

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Tech Evolution

Confidential communications tapped by default

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/13/cisco_voip_insecurity/

Intelligence officials have learned more about al Qaeda in the past 10 days than in the previous 10 years combined

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/13/osama_bin_laden_pr0n/

Google to pay $500 million fine for rogue pharma ads

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Online advertising

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/google-to-pay-500-million-fine-for-rogue-pharma-ads.ars

Are Google and Amazon next on RIAA’s docket?

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, New Business Models

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/limewire-settles-are-google-and-amazon-next-on-riaas-docket.ars

WSJ: data caps keep Netflix from “swamping the network”

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/wsj-modest-data-caps-keep-netflix-from-swamping-the-network.ars

Domain seizures of alleged pirate sites continue to be criticized in the United States. Two of the most outspoken politicians on the issue have asked the responsible authorities about the legitimacy of the seizures, but received insufficient answers

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policy

http://torrentfreak.com/vagueness-about-pirate-domain-seizures-disturbs-us-politicians-110515/

The private company entrusted to carry out file-sharing network monitoring for the French government has been hacked. Trident Media Guard, which is responsible for gathering data for so-called 3 strikes warnings, now has some of its scripts and secrets out in the wild

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Three Strikes

http://torrentfreak.com/french-hadopi-3-strikes-anti-piracy-company-hacked-110514/

Don’t share anything the rest of the Internet isn’t supposed to see. Once it’s posted on BitTorrent, there is no central place to take it down either, if other people are still seeding the file. Bottom line is, be cautious while sharing

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-inc-goes-social-but-at-what-cost-110513/

LimeWire’s $105 million: the recouped money is destined for reinvestment in new anti-piracy efforts and will not be used to compensate any artists

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence

http://torrentfreak.com/limewire-pays-riaa-105-million-artists-get-nothing-110513/

A 58-year-old grandmother from Scotland had become the first person in the country to be convicted of file-sharing offences

Posted: 2011/05/16 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing

http://torrentfreak.com/scottish-file-sharing-conviction-dismays-oink-and-filesoup-lawyer-110513/