Archive for 2012/04/26

When Facing Online Crimes, Are Proactive “Disruption Of Service” And Immediate “Seizure Of Funds” Better Sanctions In The Internet Age When Compared To “Old School” Civil Litigation Or Criminal Prosecution?

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

MegaUpload vs. The Pirate Bay

Dotcom’s lawyer confident client won’t be extradited
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/nbnat/796323623-Dotcom-s-lawyer-confident-client-won-t-be-extradited

Megaupload data negotiations set to begin
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/6812654/Megaupload-data-negotiations-set-to-begin

Megaupload case involves some 1100 servers. No-one wants to incur the cost to house and maintain such a large number of servers, so they are in legal limbo until the court makes a ruling
http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x/174718/Cloud+Computing/The+Cloud+What+Goes+Up+Must+Come+Down

Watch Kim Dotcom Race An F1 Driver In Video ‘Seized By The FBI’
http://jalopnik.com/5905421/watch-kim-dotcom-race-an-f1-driver-in-video-seized-by-the-fbi

See also (Dutch language & English language):

Three dozen criminal carding sites were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/36-carding-sites-seized/

If a user uploads a photo and sets it as publicly viewable, that picture could end up in an ad for Google

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Education / Awareness, Google

http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/04/google-drive-privacy/

Belgian start-up Sensirius.com registers the “.kpn” and “.deloitte” gTLDs

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports

Dutch language news article:
http://datanews.knack.be/ict/knowledge-center/start-ups/leuvense-start-up-haalt-contracten-binnen-voor-deloitte-en-kpn/article-4000085644080.htm

Movielabs’ PirateEye Prevents Illegal Camcording In Movie Theatres

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution

The system involves the installation of cameras in theaters that scan the audience and have the ability to detect the lenses of camcorders and cellphones. PirateEye also records what it sees and retains “forensic quality” evidence for prosecutions.

http://torrentfreak.com/movie-spy-cameras-attack-the-dying-art-of-camcorder-piracy-120426/

IMAGiNE BitTorrent Piracy Group Indicted, Face Years In Prison

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing

After being busted last year following an ICE Homeland Security investigation, four alleged members of the movie release group IMAGiNE have now been indicted. The defendants, all US residents aged between 27 and 57 years old, face up to five years in prison for criminal copyright infringement. Rumors persist that they were led to the slaughter by a rival release group with a grudge.

http://torrentfreak.com/imagine-bittorrent-piracy-group-face-years-in-prison-120426/

Facebook shares URL blacklists with security companies

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Stats / reports

All hail the blacklist

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/26/facebook_av_marketplace/

Baidu thrives as Google Drive is blocked in China

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports, The Cloud

Cloud storage service joins Dropbox on the banned list

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/26/baidu_google_cloud_storage/

Privately, UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is said to have mulled abolishing Ofcom altogether

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports

We find that Ofcom hasn’t, after all, been broken up into some obscure ad hoc technical committee meeting in a room in Whitehall, as some expected. It has shed a fifth of its staff, and Ed Richards’ remuneration is still twice that of David Cameron: last year, with perks, he pocketed £363,539 but generously waived a £15,000 performance bonus.

But this quintessential New Labour wonk is still there. And Ofcom is more interventionist than ever as we can see from the emails, released by the Leveson Inquiry this week, from News Corp’s chief UK envoy Fred Michel to his boss, James Murdoch.

So what happened to the axe dangling over the regulator? It’s actually wonderfully ironic.

More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/26/murdoch_bskyb_hunt_ofcom_wtf/

Tech City hailed as saviour – Profit isn’t that important

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/26/techcity_new_renaissance_ben_hammersley/

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch wished he had closed down the News of the World years ago

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/26/rupert_murdoch_phone_hacking_leveson_inquiry/

New IP Watchlist Ranks Countries On How Well Their Copyright Laws Serve The Public

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Copyright, Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120424/23284518640/new-ip-watchlist-ranks-countries-how-well-their-copyright-laws-serve-public.shtml

Iran readying hacker attacks on U.S. infrastructure, specialists say

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/25/iran-readying-hacker-attacks-us-infrastructure-spe/

User Experience: The Reason Apple Towers Over Sony

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://gizmodo.com/5905192/user-experience-the-reason-apple-towers-over-sony

How One Man Hacked Hollywood

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

Chris Chaney, one of the most prolific celebrity hackers to date, was recently arrested—but GQ has a wonderful profile of the man which you really have to read.

http://gizmodo.com/5905303/how-one-man-hacked-hollywood

You Can Watch Live TV on Your iPhone or iPad with This Website (Update: Android Too!)

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://gizmodo.com/5905385/you-can-watch-live-tv-on-your-iphone-or-ipad-with-this-website

World Intellectual Property Day 2012 celebrates visionary innovators

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2012/04/26/today-world-intellectual-property-day-2012-celebrates-visionary-innovators.html

Not a fan of CISPA? Fear not. President Barack Obama isn’t either

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/cispa-veto-recommended-by-white-house-bills-authors-defend-it.ars

Google To Decide Which SEO Tactic Is Evil Or Not? To Block Or Not To Block

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Google, Tech Evolution

Is using “white hat” and “black hat” terminology. All hail to the algorithm

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/googles-new-search-algorithm-to-crack-down-on-webspam.ars

Google tries to destroy Oracle’s case, asks for judgment on Java copyrights

Posted: 2012/04/26 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Google, Litigation

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/google-tries-to-destroy-oracles-case-asks-for-judgment-on-java-copyrights.ars