The rhetoric on both sides of the debate concerning the Stop Online Piracy Act almost peaked when Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said the House proposal “would mean the end of the internet as we know it.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/blacklist-bill-analysis/
•Adobe
•Apple
•Autodesk
•AVEVA
•AVG
•Bentley Systems
•CA
•Cadence Design Systems
•CNC Software – Mastercam
•Compuware
•Corel
•Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation
•Dell
•Intel
•Intuit
•Kaspersky
•McAfee
•Microsoft
•Minitab
•Progress Software
•PTC
•Quark
•Quest
•Rosetta Stone
•Siemens PLM Software, Inc.
•Sybase
•Symantec
•TechSmith
•The MathWorks
This week an operation led by a powerful anti-piracy group closed down a 6-year-old BitTorrent tracker. The site had already been targeted following the verdict in the original Pirate Bay trial, but had quickly announced their intentions to go 100% legal. This week, however, people said to be behind the site were arrested. Most surprisingly, one of them was the owner of the company supplying them bandwidth.
http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-bittorrent-tracker-and-arrest-its-hosting-provider-111117/
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His remarks came the same day that President Barack Obama said on a visit to Australia that the U.S. military would expand its role in the Asia-Pacific region despite budget cuts. Obama declared America was “here to stay” as a Pacific power.
Obama also announced this week that the United States will extend the military’s reach into Southeast Asia with Marines, naval ships and aircraft deployed to northern Australia from 2012.
China has questioned the deployment to Australia, raising doubts whether strengthening such alliances will help the region pull together at a time of economic gloom.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/11/17/idINIndia-60593020111117
