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Archive for 2011/09/13
Americans spent 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook in May 2011
Posted: 2011/09/13 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsAustralia’s domain name authority auDA has shut down and deleted the domain mirandakerr.com.au in a public stand against cybersquatting
Posted: 2011/09/13 in Blocking, Education / AwarenessUnder .au policy rules, a registrant must meet certain eligibility criteria to register a domain name. Registering a domain name for the sole purpose of resale or transfer to another entity is not permitted.
“The purpose of the rule against resale is to prevent people from “cybersquatting” the names of well-known people and brands,” said Chris Disspain, CEO of auDA.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/13/mirandakerr_deleted/
Publisher Sanoma still in blog platform migration hell: moving 400,000 web-log.nl blogs from Typepad to WordPress is already taking 3 weeks now. 5% of blogs probably incomplete or damaged due to faulty backup by Typepad. Bloggers becoming desperate
Posted: 2011/09/13 in Education / AwarenessDutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107901/web-log-nl-na-3-weken-nog-steeds-offline.html
In its push to get ISPs onboard for a three-strikes system to warn copyright infringers, lobby group IPAF released a study that reveals how immensely effective this would be. However, the entire press release is a cheap marketing trick with mispresented research results that actually prove the opposite
Posted: 2011/09/13 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Stats / reports, Three StrikesAccording to the report, 22 percent of the respondents said they used file-sharing software in 2011, and 16 percent of the total group used it at least once a month. This puts the effectiveness of the warnings in a totally different perspective.
http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lobby-misleads-aussie-press-for-three-strikes-campaign-110912/
