Here are four questions I asked Orange two weeks ago. The company promised me a response on several occasions, but I have still not received any answer:
As of the time of writing, Orange has so far failed to give me any answers or explain its actions on overblocking.
The FB pages of the ‘occupy’ protests and Twitter pages of Anonymous are gaining support from netizens with many signing up to reach venues wearing Guy Fawkes masks. “Internet is the only free media we have. Censoring it will mean that free speech is not possible any more,” a member of Anonymous told TOI in an online chat.
Whether you are an ex-pat who is missing TV shows from home, an enthusiast who loves to watch shows in their original language, or a fan who wants to watch shows as soon as their air, you may or may not be able to do that over the Internet depending on your location in the world. It does not really matter if you are trying to watch the latest TV shows on Hulu, listen to Pandora Internet Radio, or use Netflix: if you are not in the right location, you are blocked from using these excellent services.
We have covered tools and services in the past that let you circumvent these regional restrictions. One of the latest to enter the market is Tunlr, a free service that supports a variety of streaming services, not U.S. based and non-U.S. based.
Tunlr does not provide a virtual private network (VPN). Tunlr is a DNS (domain name system) unblocking service. We’re using sophisticated technologies (a.k.a. the Tunlr Secret Sauce ©) to re-adress certain data envelopes, tricking the receiver into thinking the envelope originated from within the U.S. For these data envelopes, Tunlr is transparently creating a network tunnel from your location to our U.S.-based servers. Any data that’s not directly related to the video or music content providers which Tunlr supports is not only left untouched, it’s also not even routed through Tunlr.
The core benefit of this approach is speed. Tunlr does not have to maintain a huge server farm to cope with huge bandwidth requirements. It is still recommended to change the DNS server back to their original values after accessing those contents.
For speed, stability, privacy and security reasons we do not recommend to permanently set your DNS addresses to Tunlr. Setting your DNS permanently to Tunlr also puts a heavy strain on Tunlr’s network infrastructure.
More:
http://www.ghacks.net/2012/06/02/tunlr-access-hulu-pandora-netflix-from-blocked-locations/
Ils ont collaboré au Printemps arabe, aux contestations électorales en Iran, ont intimidé bien des dictateurs et des chefs d’entreprises. Et maintenant Anonymous frappe au Canada.
Anonymous, c’est une espèce de bannière derrière laquelle il y a tout et n’importe quoi. Il y a des clowns, il y a des militants des droits de l’homme, des geeks, des hackers, des pirates pas recommandables. Au début c’était surtout des hackers, mais c’est en train de changer. Ça se démocratise et ça s’internationalise. C’est de moins en moins des geeks et de plus en plus des indignés, des gens qui ne se reconnaissent pas dans les partis, dans les syndicats; des gens qui veulent s’impliquer, mais qui préfèrent le faire comme ça, de façon anonyme.
“It’s not something that the US cares about,” he told ABC radio.
“And, frankly, in Sweden there is a less robust extradition relationship than there is between the US and the UK.
“I think it’s one of those narratives that have been made up. There is nothing to it.”
Much more:
http://www.spencertipping.com/posts/2012.0530.why-i-left-google.html
Families have constitutional right to block release of death-scene photos
The judge overseeing the case ruled that three individual authors and the Author’s Guild could represent the class of all authors whose works had been scanned by Google. Google had sought the opposite result, arguing that including all authors in a single lawsuit would make the case too complex, and that most authors actually supported the scanning project.
Much more:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/google-dealt-blow-in-book-scanning-lawsuit/
Epic awarded nearly $4.5 million in Silicon Knights lawsuit
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/05/epic-awarded-nearly-4-5-million-in-silicon-knights-lawsuit/
London’s High Court yesterday helped Golden Eye International, a firm that holds numerous film copyrights and is linked to the UK’s Ben Dover porn brand, to finalise the format of its controversial P2P internet piracy settlement letters. Thousands of O2′s broadband ISP customers (those accused of copyright infringement) can now expect to receive the letters, albeit not without some crucial limitations.
The outcome follows Golden Eye’s submission of a Norwich Pharmacal Order (NPO) to collect the personal details associated with 9,124 internet connections, which was cleared at the end of March 2012 (here). Crucially the court ruled that Golden Eye could only send the letters if a made a series of critical changes to the format and wording. The firm has also confirmed that it will not send letters to individuals who “simply downloaded one film“.
According to yesterday’s proceedings, GoldenEye will need to send two letters. The first will act as a general notice to inform the connection owner that copyright infringement has been detected on their internet connection and ask them to respond within 28 days (Golden Eye had wanted 14 days). The court has also prevented Golden Eye from wrongly asserting that the bill payer may be liable for any copyright infringement that occurs on their connection. Likewise the letter must not threaten to “slow down or terminate” the suspects broadband connection.
In other words the bill payer will not automatically assumed to be guilty, which could open the door to an ‘open wi-fi network’ defence. Golden Eye, after effectively asking customers to incriminate themselves, will then send a second letter (assuming they decide to pursue it) that is designed to individually negotiate the settlement sum (Golden Eye had wanted to demand £700 from everybody). People who admit, in the first letter, to the alleged infringement will also be asked to disclose information about their P2P filesharing activity.
EU taxpayers’ money allows for innovation for the lulz
Researchers at Delft University of Technology have taken up the ambitious challenge of creating a BitTorrent client which secures the privacy of its users. Their Tribler client is already completely decentralized, meaning it will still work even in the event that all BitTorrent sites are shut down. Anonymity is the next big step in its evolution. “We’re going to take Internet privacy to the next level,” the lead researcher says about the upcoming release.
http://torrentfreak.com/researchers-anonymous-bittorrent-client-120601/
Previously:
http://torrentfreak.com/search/tribler
The ISP refused to comply with a court-ordered subpoena obtained by book publisher John Wiley and Sons in one of their mass-BitTorrent lawsuits. Initially, Wiley responded to this move by asking the court to compel Verizon to cooperate, but this request and the subpoenas have now been withdrawn.
http://torrentfreak.com/verizon-succesfully-defends-privacy-of-alleged-bittorrent-pirates-120531/
