Archive for 2011/11/12

Occupy Portland crafting weapons as deadline looms (video)

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

Berkeley police beating Cal students #OccupyCal (video)

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

BREIN’s attorney, Joris van Manen, claims ISPs refuse to block the site, because a blockade would lead to fewer revenues. Moreover, the attorney finds it remarkable that the providers already have blockades for spam and viruses in place, but refuse to use these tools when it comes down to The Pirate Bay

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/11/11/court-hearing-brein-and-ziggoxs4all-isps-ziggo-and-xs4all-obliged-to-block-the-pirate-bay.html

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Envisional Claims UK Internet Video Game Piracy Has Grown by 20 Percent

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Stats / reports

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/11/11/envisional-claims-uk-internet-video-game-piracy-has-grown-by-20-percent.html

The Italian police division tasked with handling cybercrime cases has announced it has shut down several file-sharing websites

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing

http://torrentfreak.com/cybercrime-police-shut-down-five-file-sharing-sites-111111/

ChannelSurfing Admin Pleads Not Guilty to Criminal Copyright Charges

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

http://torrentfreak.com/channelsurfing-admin-pleads-not-guilty-to-criminal-copyright-charges-111111/

Viacom Says That By Letting People View Videos On Phones, YouTube Loses DMCA Safe Harbors

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111110/12320516711/viacom-says-that-letting-people-view-videos-phones-youtube-loses-dmca-safe-harbors.shtml

Judge rules Feds can have WikiLeaks associates’ Twitter data

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/judge-rules-feds-can-have-wikileaks-associates-twitter-data.ars

How the most massive botnet scam ever made millions for Estonian hackers

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/how-the-most-massive-botnet-scam-ever-made-millions-for-estonian-hackers.ars

Valve confirms Steam hack: credit cards, personal info may be stolen

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/11/valve-confirms-steam-hack-credit-cards-personal-info-may-be-stolen.ars

Facebook settlement will make all future privacy changes ‘opt-in’

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/facebook-settlement-will-make-all-future-privacy-changes-opt-in.ars

6.5 million Modern Warfare 3 units sold, profits just beginning

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/11/activision-65-million-modern-warfare-3-units-sold-profits-just-beginning.ars

Mr. Page has never been more impatient than he is now. He is on an urgent mission to pull Google through a midlife crisis that threatens to knock it off its perch as the coolest company in Silicon Valley

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, Google

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/technology/googles-chief-works-to-trim-a-bloated-ship.html

Google sent invitations for a press event, to be held in Los Angeles, where the company is expected to add a download service to its cloud music service, as well as social-networking features

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, The Cloud

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57323505-261/sony-warner-not-part-of-google-music-upgrade/

Why the Muppets Need to Host the Oscars

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5858035/why-the-muppets-need-to-host-the-oscars

Amazon’s $79 Kindle Costs $84 to Make

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5858213/amazons-79-kindle-costs-84-to-make

Verizon Wants to Fix Crappy Data Speeds by Selling You a Turbo Bandwidth Button

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://gizmodo.com/5858237/verizon-wants-to-fix-crappy-data-speeds-by-selling-you-a-turbo-bandwidth-button

We are entering the age of the unintended celebrity, where the new rules state that we all run the risks associated with fame without necessarily enjoying any of its benefits. There’s a new reality show and you’re the star, whether you like it or not

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://gizmodo.com/5858507/the-day-privacy-died

One of the Most Important Internet Hubs in the World Is in Manhattan

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5858571/one-of-the-most-important-internet-hubs-in-the-world-is-in-manhattan

Whatever happens to Netflix, data charges, caps, throttling, and a lack of 4G penetration will be the banes of our existence. Frankly, I don’t think it will be Netflix using up our data allowances in a couple of years, but it’s clear that there will be a myriad of other services that will be. Protesters won’t be occupying Wall Street then…they’ll be occupying Verizon

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/some-parting-thoughts-on-netflix/63261

33% use social networks at work, Facebook first

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/33-use-social-networks-at-work-facebook-first-uk-infographic/5250

Doctors in America are up in arms over the suggestion that they have no business advising their patients on gun ownership and safety

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/10/doctors_demand_to_give_gun_advice/

French nuclear giants EDF have been fined €1.5m (£1.28m) by a Paris court for hiring spooks to hack computers and gather info on eco group Greenpeace

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/11/edf_fined_for_greenpeace_hack/

New iPad App Puts Viewers Inside Immersive Video

Posted: 2011/11/12 in Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/11/new-ipad-app-puts-viewers-inside-immersive-video/