Archive for 2011/11/24

There are standards but there are no penalties for not sticking to them – McCanns gave the most powerful testimony heard so far

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/23/leveson-inquiry-mccann-testimony-tabloids

You Can Rent Disney Movies on YouTube Now

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://gizmodo.com/5862282/you-can-watch-disney-movies-on-youtube-now

What would happen if all movie-downloading BitTorrent users made the switch to Netflix? What if movie piracy via BitTorrent disappeared?

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, New Business Models, Stats / reports

Getting rid of ALL BitTorrent movie and TV piracy appears to have a ‘relatively’ small effect, even if all pirating BitTorrent users signed up for a Netflix account

http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-costs-hollywood-more-than-us-bittorrent-piracy-111122/

Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Google, Illegal File Sharing

http://torrentfreak.com/google-now-censors-the-pirate-bay-isohunt-4shared-and-more-111123/

With Hugo, Martin Scorsese Makes a Masterful 3-D Movie for the Ages

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/11/hugo-review/all/1

Grooveshark Bites Back: We’ll Fight Universal in Court, Not The Press

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://torrentfreak.com/grooveshark-bites-back-well-fight-universal-in-court-not-the-press-111123/

Virgin Media UK ISP Customers Suffer Brute Force Webmail Hack and SPAM

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/11/23/virgin-media-uk-isp-customers-suffer-brute-force-webmail-hack-and-spam.html

Why SOPA endangers America’s Internet leadership

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, Legislation

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/why-sopa-endangers-americas-internet-leadership.ars

Terrified of cybersquatting, businesses battle plan for more top-level domains

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/terrified-of-cybersquatting-businesses-battle-plan-for-more-top-level-domains.ars

Chinese search engine Baidu again accused of copyright infringements

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/11/23/chinese-search-engine-baidu-again-accused-of-copyright-infringements.html

Singapore Press Holdings sues Yahoo! over copyright infringement

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/11/23/singapore-press-holdings-sues-yahoo-over-copyright-infringement.html

Google future-proofs your email, documents from spies

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, Google

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57330602-245/google-future-proofs-your-email-documents-from-spies/

William Shatner Is Here to Comfort You through Facebook Unfriending

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5862174/william-shatner-is-here-to-comfort-you-through-facebook-unfriending

Facebook’s law enforcement ‘guidebook’ leaked

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebooks-law-enforcement-guidebook-leaked/64155

Recently while browsing Reddit, I found the account of a popular app developer who claims that another developer on the Android Market had stolen his app, added ad spam code to it, and uploaded it under his own account with the same name

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193251/Stealing_apps_installing_ads

German Court: YouTube Doesn’t Need To ID Uploader Who Didn’t Profit From Infringement

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, Google, Jurisprudence

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111119/00262916838/german-court-youtube-doesnt-need-to-id-uploader-who-didnt-profit-infringement.shtml

New EU Parliamentary Forum To Push For Even More Draconian Copyright Laws And Enforcement

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111116/06485616790/new-eu-parliamentary-forum-to-push-even-more-draconian-copyright-laws-enforcement.shtml

New Research Shows Movie And Game Piracy On The Rise, But Won’t Tell Us How It Knows

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Stats / reports

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111112/09045016750/new-research-shows-movie-game-piracy-rise-wont-tell-us-how-it-knows.shtml

Microsoft’s Cold Feet Over SOPA Behind BSA’s ‘Rethinking’ Its Views

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111123/11042416888/microsofts-cold-feet-over-sopa-behind-bsas-rethinking-its-views.shtml

China overtakes US as world’s biggest smartphone market

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Education / Awareness, Mobile tech, Stats / reports

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/23/china_overtakes_us_biggest_smartphone/

The European Commission has concluded that it would not be appropriate, at this stage, to set at EU level a single broadband connection speed under the universal service rules

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1400&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

Confusion Center: Feds Now Say Hacker Didn’t Destroy Water Pump

Posted: 2011/11/24 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/scada-hack-report-wrong/