Archive for 2011/09/12

UK Proposal Would Allow Police To Seize Domain Names Without A Court Order

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110906/04154715811/uk-proposal-would-allow-police-to-seize-domain-names-without-court-order.shtml

Focus groups reveal ISPs seen to facilitate piracy but appear to show no responsibility

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/11/more_dodgy_piracy_research/

Dutch authorities fear upcoming Windows Update as that update is going to block ALL DigiNotar certificates

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

Effects unknown. Dutch government had already asked Microsoft to delay the update with one week

Dutch language news article:
http://www.security.nl/artikel/38456/1/Overheid_waarschuwt_voor_Microsoft_update.html

Dutch government had to beg, threat and ultimately force DigiNotar to cooperate. Government was ready to start an injunction procedure at midnight during the crisis

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Litigation, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107893/donner-dreigde-diginotar-met-nachtelijke-rechtszaak.html

Former RIAA Lobbyist, Now Judge, Says Lowest Possible Statutory Damages For Single Case Of Infringement Is $3,430

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110911/01214815893/former-riaa-lobbyist-now-judge-says-lowest-possible-statutory-damages-single-case-infringement-is-3430.shtml

Comparing NinjaVideo to Rojadirecta: the indictment here seems a lot stronger — and unless they got something in the indictment totally wrong, I would predict that these five people are going to lose and lose badly in court

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110912/00101415896/us-govt-continues-indicting-people-file-sharing-5-indicted-ninjavideo.shtml

Google Native Client: The web of the future – or the past?

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, Google, Tech Evolution

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/12/google_native_client_from_all_sides/

BT trying for fibre ‘monopoly’, claims TalkTalk chief

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/12/talktalk_bt_monopoly_gripes/

Leader of Cisco counterfeit ring jailed for 60 months

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

One-time Chinese national Chun-Yu Zhao, of Virginia, was found guilty of 16 felonies including conspiracy to commit importation fraud, peddling counterfeit goods and money laundering in May but has only just been sentenced.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/09/12/cisco_counterfeit_ring/

DigiNotar fallout: Adobe to patch Reader and Acrobat tomorrow

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/diginotar-fallout-adobe-to-patch-reader-and-acrobat-tomorrow.ars

You probably haven’t heard of Comodohacker. He operates alone. But on Thursday, he scared Google into issuing a warning for all of Iran—and he wants them to control the internet. 21-Year-Old Iranian Hacker Is the LulzSec Antichrist

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5839252/21+year+old-iranian-hacker-is-the-lulzsec-antichrist

Ford inspired developers for its AppLink contest at the TechCrunch Hackathon last weekend by demonstrating Spotify integration. The demonstration showcased how easily Spotify developers were able to use Ford’s Sync API to integrate the online music service into a Ford vehicle

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20104676-48/ford-kicks-off-hackathon-contest-with-spotify-integration/

Amazon is working on a new business model for e-books. The idea is that paid subscribers will have access to an online e-book library. The ebook library will mainly contain older books

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/09/12/amazon-to-introduce-e-book-library.html

In interim injuction proceedings, the court ruled that a miniature version of the stadium of professional football club NAC infringes the copyrights of the architect of the original soccer stadium

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/09/12/miniature-version-of-dutch-soccer-stadium-infringes-copyrights.html

Study Finds Big UK ISPs Still Failing to Publicise Broadband Upload Speeds

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/09/12/study-finds-big-uk-isps-still-failing-to-publicise-broadband-upload-speeds.html

Broadband ISP Affordability Remains a Serious Problem in Poorer Countries

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/09/12/broadband-isp-affordability-remains-a-serious-problem-in-poorer-countries.html

Evan Stone had asked the whether he could contact ISPs in order to discover the identities of alleged file-sharers, but the court said he’d have to wait. Stone ignored the court but was ultimately found out, which resulted in him picking up a $10,000 fine

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

http://torrentfreak.com/lawyer-fined-for-defying-judge-and-sending-subpoenas-to-isps-110912/

A corporation’s profits must never be at the center of policymaking, much less the center of determining what fundamental civil liberties we have as free citizens

Posted: 2011/09/12 in Copyright, Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/i-dont-care-about-your-profits-and-it-enrages-me-that-you-think-i-should-110911/