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http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/10/15/broadband-bills-to-rise-as-bt-uk-and-rights-holders-prepare-to-block-piracy-site.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/15/swedish_jail_for_pirate_bay_founder/

EDIT: Per a comment I realized I left alot of stuff out. Here ya go:
I am scanning everything from 1.0.0.1 to 223.255.255.255.
I am collecting hostname, IP address, OS type, and service version.
As far as how long I have no idea, I am guessing somewhere around 100 days.

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/10/scanning-internet.html

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111014/02583316350/confused-indian-anti-piracy-group-asks-us-to-remove-article-it-doesnt-like-some-other-blog.shtml

These social startups-turned-giants were supposed to usher in the next wave of Silicon Valley riches, but they’re increasingly looking vulnerable. So is the IPO market, with 2011 challenging 2008 as the worst year for IPOs, ever.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/15/groupon_zynga_start_up_stumbles/

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111014/03284916352/why-cant-protect-ip-supporters-just-admit-that-its-about-censorship.shtml

http://torrentfreak.com/drm-needs-to-be-banned-because-its-toxic-111016/

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-sued-for-violating-wiretap-laws-with-tracking-cookies/4687

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/10/researchers-increase-hard-drive-density-sixfold-with-salt.ars

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Is it safe to say that nobody in 1913 contemplated that your small little group of people would decide to hand down half a trillion dollars to foreigners?

It’s impossible to know whether Occupy Wall Street will coalesce into a  political movement, but there’s little question Wall Street is still up to its  old tricks.

Right now the Street is dedicating all its lobbying power to water down  regulations designed to implement financial-reform legislation. Its  spokespeople, including congressional Republicans and GOP candidates, charge  that Dodd-Frank (as the law is known) is overkill.

Yet take a close look at Europe’s debt crisis and you see quite the  opposite. Dodd-Frank may be too weak.

The European debt crisis isn’t a problem for America’s real economy.  Whatever happens to Greece or other deeply indebted European governments,  Americas’ exports to Europe aren’t going to dry up. And in any event, they’re  tiny compared to the size of the U.S. economy.

If you want the real reason for concern in the United States about what’s  happening in Europe, follow the money. A Greek (or Irish or Spanish or Italian  or Portuguese) default would have roughly the same effect on our financial  system as the implosion of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

That is, financial chaos.

Investors are already getting the scent. Stocks have slumped as investors  dump Wall Street bank shares.

The Street has lent only about $7 billion to Greece, according to the Bank  for International Settlements. That’s no big deal.

But a default by Greece or any other of Europe’s debt-burdened nations could  easily pummel German and French banks, which have lent Greece (and the other  wobbly European countries) far more.

That’s where Wall Street comes in. Big Wall Street banks have lent German  and French banks a bundle. The Street’s total exposure to the euro zone is about  $2.7 trillion. Its exposure to France and Germany accounts for nearly half the  total.

And it’s not just Wall Street’s loans to German and French banks that are  worrisome. Wall Street has also insured or bet on all sorts of derivatives  emanating from Europe – on energy, currency, interest rates and foreign exchange  swaps. If a German or French bank goes down, the ripple effects are  incalculable.

Follow the money: If Greece goes down, investors will start fleeing Ireland,  Spain, Italy and Portugal as well. All of this will send big French and German  banks reeling. If one of these banks collapses or show signs of major strain,  Wall Street will be in big trouble. Possibly even bigger trouble than it was in  after Lehman Brothers went down.

That’s why shares of the biggest U.S. banks have been falling for the past  month. Last week, Morgan Stanley closed at its lowest since December 2008, and  the cost of insuring Morgan’s debt has jumped to levels not seen since the end  of 2008.

The rumor mill says Morgan could lose as much as $30 billion if some French  and German banks fail – $30 billion is roughly $2 billion more than the assets  Morgan owns (in terms of current market capitalization).

Morgan says its exposure to French banks is zero. Why the discrepancy?  Morgan has taken out insurance against its loans to European banks, as well as  collateral from them. So technically it’s possible for Morgan to say it’s not  exposed.

But does anyone remember something spelled AIG? That was the giant insurance  firm that went bust when Wall Street began going under. Wall Street thought it  had insured its bets with AIG. Turned out, AIG couldn’t pay up.

Haven’t we been here before?

The mere fact that Morgan and other big Wall Street banks are susceptible to  the rumor mill is evidence enough that no one knows Morgan’s or any other bank’s  exposure to European banks or derivatives. It shows Dodd-Frank didn’t go nearly  far enough.

Which is why Washington officials are terrified – and why Treasury Secretary  Tim Geithner keeps begging European officials to bail out Greece and the other  deeply indebted European nations.

Make no mistake: The United States wants Europe to bail out its deeply  indebted nations so they can repay what they owe big European banks. Otherwise,  those banks could implode – taking Wall Street with them.

One of the many ironies here is that some badly indebted European nations  (Ireland is the best example) went deeply into debt in the first place bailing  out their banks from the crisis that began on Wall Street.

Full circle.

In other words, Greece isn’t the real problem. Nor is Ireland, Italy,  Portugal or Spain.

The real problem is the financial system – centered on Wall Street.

Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, blogs at www.robertreich.org.

http://www.milforddailynews.com/opinion/x1069154715/Reich-Rescuing-Europe-means-saving-Wall-Street

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20111016-305268.html

http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/16065092/article-Laura-Armstrong–Don%E2%80%99t-let-anti-capitalist-protesters-fool-you–Wall-Street-is-not-to-blame?instance=lead_story_left_column

Roubini, a New York University professor who four years ago accurately forecast the global financial crisis, said the current global economic system — capitalism — will remain in its current crisis, a crisis that economist Karl Marx predicted more than a century ago, until major systemic reforms are implemented.

Roubini said social unrest and demonstrations are all being driven by the same thing, a crisis period for capitalism itself. The current crisis is the global economy’s most serious crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s — and it was triggered by financial intermediation run amok and a destructive redistribution of income and wealth, from labor to capital.

More:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/231846/20111015/roubini-nouriel-roubini-occupy-wall-street-protests-dr-doom-capitalism-karl-marx-financial-crisis-un.htm?cid=2

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-10/16/c_131194227.htm

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_19124072

http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/152746/eliot_spitzer%3A_why_occupy_wall_street_has_already_won/

http://www.twincities.com/ci_19123051

http://northbranford.patch.com/articles/wall-street-protest-spreads-to-new-haven#photo-8126047