One of the phrases in the proposed amendment is as follows:
“A FOIA request will be regarded as unreasonable when [...] a request apparently has a different purpose than to obtain information”
The Dutch public is allowed to respond to the suggested changes and can do so until October 2012.
Dutch language news article and government website:
http://www.nu.nl/media/2849587/meedenken-aanpassing-wob.html
While Corbin Fisher’s language towards Oron has been predictably aggressive, comments and accusations leveled at LeaseWeb are bound to raise eyebrows. Challenging Oron’s need to make such large payments to LeaseWeb, Corbin Fisher’s lawyers directly accused LeaseWeb of conspiracy and/or extortion.
“The evidence put forth by [Oron] shows that these expenses fall far outside of the norm for the industry. Something is amiss. Either Oron is fabricating this newfound need for hundreds of thousands of dollars or LeaseWeb is conspiring with Oron,” XBIZ reports.
“Logic suggests that LeaseWeb is either colluding with Oron to assist Oron in removing hundreds of thousands of dollars from this court’s jurisdiction; extorting Oron; or Oron is not being entirely forthcoming with the court,” Corbin’s lawyers said.
And the criticism of LeaseWeb didn’t stop there. An investigator for the studio said that LeaseWeb is known to “…ignore DMCA notices or at the very least, minimize their impact.”
See also:
Erika Dillon, an online investigator for Corbin Fisher, said in her declaration that LeaseWeb has been implicated in numerous episodes involving piracy and served as hosts of MegaUpload and Diwana, two services that are now shut down.
“Since 2007, LeaseWeb has been acknowledged online and by anti-piracy law enforcement agencies as the target of several investigations,” Dillon said. “They have frequently found themselves in the midst of legal actions because of the websites that they provide services to.
http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=150638
Previously:
Clash Of The Titans: Adult Content Industry United Foundation Versus Leaseweb Hosted Oron.com
http://vrritti.com/2012/06/23/clash-of-the-titans-adult-content-industry-united-foundation-versus-leaseweb-hosted-oron-com/
MegaUpload represented 25 percent of Carpathia Hosting’s revenue, and 30 percent of LeaseWeb’s revenue
http://vrritti.com/2012/03/24/megaupload-represented-25-percent-of-carpathia-hostings-revenue-and-30-percent-of-leasewebs-revenue/
Judge wants MegaUpload user data preserved for now. Govt claims that Carpathia generated $35 million from working with MegaUpload
http://vrritti.com/2012/04/13/judge-wants-megaupload-user-data-preserved-for-now-govt-claims-that-carpathia-generated-35-million-from-working-with-megaupload/
Internet Lawyer David Snead Comments On MegaUpload & Carpathia / Leaseweb Revenue Stats. New “Single Digit” Claim Highly Unlikely
http://vrritti.com/2012/03/28/internet-lawyer-david-snead-comments-on-megaupload-carpathia-leaseweb-revenue-stats-new-single-digit-claim-highly-unlikely/
BREIN Threat Of Criminal Prosecution Meaningless Because Dutch Government Issued Guideline Never To Criminally Prosecute Online Piracy
http://vrritti.com/2012/06/28/brein-threat-of-criminal-prosecution-meaningless-because-dutch-government-issued-guideline-never-to-criminally-prosecute-online-piracy/
Child Abuse Complaint Center Observes Increased Use Of Cyberlockers by Pedophiles. Engages In Proactive Filtering Effort With NetClean And Leaseweb
http://vrritti.com/2012/04/08/child-abuse-complaint-center-observes-increased-use-of-cyberlockers-by-pedophiles-engages-in-proactive-filtering-effort-with-netclean-and-leaseweb/
Technological breakthrough: Dutch National Police and provider Leaseweb fighting distribution of child abuse images online. They will block uploads of child abuse images and the IP address of the uploader will be shared with law enforcement if needed
http://vrritti.com/2011/09/15/technological-breakthrough-dutch-national-police-and-provider-leaseweb-fighting-distribution-of-child-abuse-images-online-they-will-block-uploads-of-child-abuse-images-and-the-ip-address-of-the-uplo/
Also these filelockers are being used for exchanging illegal pornography like bestiality and kiddie porn. LeaseWeb the hosting provider who hosts MegaUpload is also hosting oron.com and we found bestiality and kiddie porn on there and reported it to the Dutch police and little is done. It’s bitter that it takes American justice to take down an illegal operation in the Netherlands. Maybe this is because the Dutch entertainment industry is so tiny compared to the American one?
http://www.facebook.com/DigitalAgenda/posts/257217534351559
“Oron is not a legitimate file storage company and has no such characteristics,” the suit says. “Its website is a pornographic website which showcases images of an erotic nature to users of any age.
http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=150218
Dutch providers KPN, UPC and Ziggo will not block sites carrying child abuse images
http://vrritti.com/2011/03/07/dutch-providers-kpn-upc-and-ziggo-will-not-block-sites-carrying-child-abuse-images/
Head Of Dutch High Tech Crime Unit Pim Takkenberg Is Pleased With The Close Coop Between His Team And The Dutch Forensic Lab, Fox-IT And Leaseweb In The Fight Against Hackers
http://vrritti.com/2012/05/26/head-of-dutch-high-tech-crime-unit-pim-takkenberg-is-pleased-with-the-close-coop-between-his-team-and-the-dutch-forensic-lab-fox-it-and-leaseweb-in-the-fight-against-hackers/
Previously:
http://vrritti.com/?s=leaseweb&submit=Search
New legislation is proposed that would effectively introduce a compulsory purchase order, but without compensation, across an unlimited range of creative works, for commercial use.
Millions of amateurs who today post their images to Flickr and automatically receive the full protection of the law, would also lose, unless they opted-out.
The changes involve orphan works reform – floated as Clause 43 of the Digital Economy Act in 2010 but killed off by photographers – and an Extended Collective Licensing (ECL) program. The white paper follows intense lobbying by the culture sector and large corporate users of copyright works, such as Google, who wish to lower their costs.
It would operate roughly like this. A new agency, let’s call it ‘Bastard Ltd’ could apply to become a licensing authority for a given class of work, for example, cartoons or poems. It could then license any work in that class without the rightsholder’s permission, for any fee it cares to set, so long as it was “significantly representative of rights holders affected by the scheme”. Amazingly, Bastard Ltd would have no obligation to return revenue gained to the rightsholder, if it couldn’t find them. The obligation would fall upon the rightsholder to keep the agency updated at all times – the reverse of the law today. The Government calls the proposals ‘voluntary’, but it’s actually anything but: if you don’t like it, you too will have to opt out.
It’s certainly great news for large publishers, and wannabe-publishing empires such as the British Library, and other large corporate interests, but that freedom comes at a price. The fundamental presumption of international copyright agreements is turned upside down by the proposal, and this assures a bumpy ahead for the Government. How so?
Much more:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/02/govt_copyright_white_paper/
Mobile devices are an inseparable part of the modern cybercrime ecosystem. From ATM skimmers with SMS notification next to fake antivirus scanners for Android users, the growth of the mobile malware segment is pretty evident.
In this post I’ll profile a recently spamvertised managed SMS flooding service, in the context of E-banking fraud, and just how exactly are cybercriminals using the service as a way to evade detection of their fraudulent transactions.
More:
http://blog.webroot.com/2012/07/02/cyberciminals-launch-managed-sms-flooding-services/
Remember when Facebook changed all of our default email accounts to their own, unused system, without informing any of us? That was fun! But it looks like the problem could be much wider and more damaging than it first seemed.
CNET reports a multitude of user complaints after the big obnoxious switch-over, citing claims that Facebook is “changing their address books while intercepting and losing unknown amounts of e-mail.” Some Facebookers are seeing messages (inadvertently) sent to their @facebook accounts vanishing into nothing, while others have noticed every email address in their phone overwritten by Facebook.
Personally, I’ve noticed some Facebook strangeness on my iPhone’s contact list. For many of my friends (there doesn’t seem to be a pattern), there’s now a second, duplicate contact, with nothing but Facebook information (usually just their Facebook email address). These contacts cannot be deleted.
Giz reader Daniel’s problem suggets iOS 6 is making Facebook’s email blitz even worse.
More:
http://gizmodo.com/5922836/is-the-facebook-email-fiasco-worse-than-we-all-thought
The browser-based smartphone operating system, formerly called Boot to Gecko, has won over two hardware makers and six carriers
The ratio behind prosecuting on the basis of mere linking could be the fact that website operators, like Vickerman or for example operators of pornographic platforms, generate profit by displaying links to obscure content. If such a legal precedent can be deduced from this case, this could be a new way to tackle an economic incentive behind online crime.
In the past, linking to copyrighted files was only discussed in the context of a duty of care of site operators, who had been asked to remove infringing links in a timely fashion.
See also:
http://vrritti.com/?s=surfthechannel&submit=Search
Christopher Chaney, of Jacksonville, Florida, 35, pleaded guilty in March to hacking into the webmail account of numerous celebs including Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson and changing settings to forwards emails to accounts under his control.
More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/02/scarlett_johansson_photo_hacker/
Hackers have broken into sensitive naval computer systems in and around Visakhapatnam, the headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command, and planted bugs that relayed confidential data to IP addresses in China.
The Eastern Naval Command plans operations and deployments in the South China Sea — the theatre of recent muscle-flexing by Beijing — and beyond. India’s first nuclear missile submarine, INS Arihant, is currently undergoing trials at the Command.
The extent of the loss is still being ascertained, and officials said it was “premature at this stage” to comment on the sensitivity of the compromised data. But the Navy has completed a Board of Inquiry (BoI) which is believed to have indicted at least six mid-level officers for procedural lapses that led to the security breach.
The naval computers were found infected with a virus that secretly collected and transmitted confidential files and documents to Chinese IP addresses. Strict disciplinary action against the indicted officers is imminent.
Sources confirmed that classified data had been leaked, and the breach had possibly occurred because of the use of pen drives that are prohibited in naval offices. The virus was found hidden in the pen drives that were being used to transfer data from standalone computers to othersystems, said a person familiar with the investigation.
The adoption of the Communications Data Bill, will grant British intelligence full access to web communications made by UK nationals.
The idea behind this move is to protect the public against crimes like terrorism and child abuse.
The UK Home Office says that the ‘communications data’ will only gather information about the sender and recipient of a piece of communication such as an email or instant message, but not the content of the communication.
To filter the incoming materials, ‘black boxes’ will be installed by communications services providers to decode encrypted materials – including social media and email messages, something which critics say will have an impact on personal privacy.
At the moment, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) already grants law enforcement the ability to monitor phone and email records.
But this is limited to service providers and websites who keep such records, but the new document would ensure that all providers keep tabs on their users.
More:
http://www.rt.com/news/uk-privacy-internet-freedom-186/
“The clear distinction between the on and offline, between human and technology, is queered beyond tenability. It’s not real unless it’s on Google; pics or it didn’t happen. We aren’t friends until we are Facebook friends. We have come to understand more and more of our lives through the logic of digital connection. Social media is more than something we log into; it is something we carry within us. We can’t log off.”
Dear Merchant,
We’re writing to let you know about some upcoming changes to the product listings you submit to Google. As we recently announced, we are starting to transition our shopping experience to a commercial model that builds on Product Listing Ads. This new shopping experience is called Google Shopping. As part of this transition, we’ll begin to enforce a set of new policies for Google Shopping in the coming weeks. A new list of the allowed, restricted, and prohibited products on Google Shopping is available on our new policy page – http://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/ApI7UWRj6OCZpd.
Based on a review of the products you’re currently submitting, it appears that some of the content in your Merchant Center account, HamLund Tactical, will be affected by these policy changes. In particular we found that your products may violate the following policies:
Weapons
When we make this change, Google will disapprove all of the products identified as being in violation of policies. We ask that you make any necessary changes to your feeds and/or site to comply, so that your products can continue to appear on Google Shopping.
To help you through this new set of policies and how to comply with them, we would like to give you some specific suggestions regarding the changes needed to keep your offers running on Google Shopping.
Weapons
As highlighted on our new policy page http://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/ApI7UWRj6OCZpd, in order to comply with the Google Shopping policies you need to comply first with the AdWords policies http://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/StQ08jAzM4fVtG. We do not allow the promotion or sale of weapons and any related products such as ammunitions or accessory kits on Google Shopping. In order to comply with our new policies, please remove any weapon-related products from your data feed and then re-submit your feed in the Merchant Center. For more information on this policy please visit http://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/GbBNIGHOribLzf.
We’re constantly reviewing our policies, and updating them when necessary, to ensure we’re offering the best experience possible to our users. We’ve identified a set of policy principles to govern our policy efforts on Google Shopping in the U.S. These principles are:
1) Google Shopping should provide a positive experience to users. Showing users the right products at the right time can truly enhance a user’s experience. When people trust us to deliver them to a destination that’s relevant, original, and easy to navigate this creates a positive online experience to the benefit of both users and merchants.
2 ) Google Shopping should be safe for all users. User safety is everyone’s business, and we can’t do business with those who don’t agree. Scams, phishing, viruses, and other malicious activities on the Internet damage the value of the Internet for everyone. Trying to get around policies or “game the system” is unfair to our users, and we can’t allow that.
3) Google Shopping should comply with local laws and regulations. Many products and services are regulated by law, which can vary from country to country. All advertising, as well as the products and services being advertised, must clearly comply with all applicable laws and regulations. For the most part, our policies aren’t designed to describe every law in every country. All advertisers bear their own responsibility for understanding the laws applicable to their business. Our policies are often more restrictive than the law, because we need to be sure we can offer services that are legal and safe for all users.
4) Google Shopping should be compatible with Google’s brand decisions. Google Shopping must be compatible with company brand decisions. Our company has a strong culture and values, and we’ve chosen not to allow ads that promote products and services that are incompatible with these values. In addition, like all companies, Google sometimes makes decisions based on technical limitations, resource constraints, or requirements from our business partners. Our policies reflect these realities.
We’ve given much thought to our stance on this content, as well as the potential effect our policy decision could have on our Merchants, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Sincerely,
The Google Shopping Team
© 2012 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Merchant Center account.
More:
http://www.infowars.com/google-shopping-censors-all-gun-ammo-accessories-results/
…and that political trickery, sneakery and thievery will come to its end…
Much more:
http://torrentfreak.com/this-week-we-kill-acta-or-get-locked-down-in-monopolies-for-decades-120701/
