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Business Magazine Compares Angela Merkel To Hitler In New Ad Campaign
http://www.businessinsider.com/mercado-news-ad-likens-merkel-to-hitler-2013-4
Archive for the ‘Stats / reports’ Category
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Oban provoked anger in Berlin after comparing Angela Merkel’s policies to methods used by the Nazis during the Second World War
Posted: 2013/05/20 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reportsInternet service providers in the UK have today begun blocking one of the world’s largest streaming movie portals
Posted: 2013/05/20 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Litigation, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionIn a follow up to similar actions, the MPAA obtained a High Court order which compels all major ISPs to begin blocking Movie2K, a massive site with millions of visitors each month.
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TorrentFreak can confirm that in the last week of April several of the UK’s leading ISPs including BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, and almost certainly O2, EE and Sky, received a copy of a High Court order compelling them to block the sites.
BT have already begun blocking the site in the UK and Virgin Media inform us that they too will initiate a blockade today.
“Virgin Media has received an order from the Courts requiring it to prevent access to Download4All and Movie2K in order to help protect against copyright infringement,” a spokesperson told TorrentFreak.
“As a responsible ISP, Virgin Media complies with court orders addressed to the company, but strongly believes that changing consumer behaviour to tackle copyright infringement also needs compelling legal alternatives to give consumers access to great content at the right price.”
More:
http://torrentfreak.com/uk-isps-block-huge-movie-site-movie2k-proxy-immediately-unblocks-130520/
More than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
Posted: 2013/05/20 in Education / Awareness, Google, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionThat’s more than four days of video uploaded each minute! Every month, more than 1 billion people come to YouTube to access news, answer questions and have a little fun. That’s almost one out of every two people on the Internet.
More:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.nl/2013/05/heres-to-eight-great-years.html
Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate have all asked Google to take down links pointing to the Pirate Bay documentary TPB-AFK
Posted: 2013/05/20 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Stats / reportsOver the past weeks several movie studios have been trying to suppress the availability of TPB-AFK by asking Google to remove links to the documentary from its search engine. The links are carefully hidden in standard DMCA takedown notices for popular movies and TV-shows.
The silent attacks come from multiple Hollywood sources including Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate and are being sent out by multiple anti-piracy outfits.
Fox, with help from six-strikes monitoring company Dtecnet, asked Google to remove a link to TPB-AFK on Mechodownload. Paramount did the same with a link on the Warez.ag forums.
Viacom sent at least two takedown requests targeting links to the Pirate Bay documentary on Mrworldpremiere and Rapidmoviez. Finally, Lionsgate jumped in by asking Google to remove a copy of TPB-AFK from a popular Pirate Bay proxy.
More:
http://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-studios-take-down-pirate-bay-documentary-130519/
Radio Host Pete Santilli Stated That Hillary Clinton Needs To Be Shot In Her Private Parts
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports…and I want to look her in the eyes and I want to say, on behalf of all Americans that you’ve killed, on behalf of the Navy SEALS, the families of Navy SEAL Team Six who were involved in the fake hunt down of this Obama, Obama bin Laden thing, that whole fake scenario, because these Navy SEALS know the truth, they killed them all. On behalf of all of those people, I’m supporting our troops by saying we need to try, convict, and shoot Hillary Clinton in the…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/18/pete-santilli-hillary-clinton_n_3299247.html
Dutch Banks To Block Accounts Of Cyber Criminals (But Probably Not The Ones They Are Allegedly Profiting From Or Have Invested In)
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Blocking, Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, New Business Models, Organized Crime, Public Policy, Stats / reportsDutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/beveiliging/77804-banken-gaan-rekeningen-internetcriminelen-sneller-blokkeren
Previously:
Dutch Judge: ING Bank Cannot Be Forced To Hand Over Personal Details Of Pirate Site Operator To BREIN
http://vrritti.com/2013/05/17/dutch-judge-ing-bank-cannot-be-forced-to-hand-over-personal-details-of-pirate-site-operator-to-brein/
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/
Dutch ING Bank has agreed to pay a $619 million penalty for moving billions of dollars through the U.S. financial system at the behest of Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, Libya and Sudan, falsifying the records of New York financial institutions
http://vrritti.com/2012/06/13/dutch-ing-bank-has-agreed-to-pay-a-619-million-penalty-for-moving-billions-of-dollars-through-the-u-s-financial-system-at-the-behest-of-cuba-iran-myanmar-libya-and-sudan-falsifying-the-records-o/
Italian Anonymous Members Were IT Professionals Who Offered Their Services To Their Victims. They Also Ratted Out 30 Fellow Hackers
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsPirates and black hats both cowards when AFK. 4 Italian Anonymous members have been arrested after 10 homes were raided. 6 others under investigation
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/beveiliging/77806-opgepakte-italiaanse-anonymous-leden-leidden-dubbel-leven
Sociologist, philosopher, computer industry pioneer and inventor of the term “hypertext” Ted Nelson is claiming that he knows the identity of Bitcoin inventor “Satoshi Nakamoto”
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionIn a rambling – and, let’s face it, odd – 12-minute post on YouTube, Nelson spins out the suspense, throws in a dialogue with himself as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, and finally ends with the statement that the mystery developer of the cryptocurrency is Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki, research professor of mathematics at Kyoto University.
Bitcoin was proposed in 2008 in a paper by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, with the first client released in 2009 (a point Nelson scrambles at around 9:15 of his video, giving the date as 2011).
His identification stands on three legs:
- Mochizuki can rightfully be identified as being smart enough to have conceived of Bitcoin;
- Mochizuki doesn’t use the conventional scientific peer review process. Rather, his habit is to publish, and leave it to other mathematicians to sort their way through his reasoning; and
- Bitcoin would fit Mochizuki’s work-rate.
More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/19/ted_nelson_thinks_hes_outed_bitcoins_nakamoto/
Dear Ad Brokers, If You’re Going To Distribute Ads, Please Take Into Account The Security Of Consumers…Or Else
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Online advertising, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsThe German government will still recommend people to install ad-blocking applications…
Dutch language news article:
https://www.security.nl/artikel/46292/1/Duitse_overheid_adviseert_advertentie-blocker.html
German language news article:
http://blog.botfrei.de/2013/05/liebe-online-medien-wenn-schon-werbung-dann-bitte-sicher/
Amnesty International Will Probably Be Focusing More And More On Countries Deemed “Civilized” In The Recent Past
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsHuman rights group Amnesty International has questioned Sweden’s pension fund over its investment in companies that produce drugs used for executions
http://blueandgreentomorrow.com/2013/05/01/amnesty-international-challenges-pension-fund-over-investment-in-lethal-drug/
Amnesty International: Canada blocking efforts to compensate three men tortured in Syria
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/05/15/amnesty_international_canada_blocking_efforts_to_compensate_three_men_tortured_in_syria.html
David Cameron should challenge the deteriorating human rights record of the United Arab Emirates during a state visit by the country’s president to Britain next week, a coalition of seven international human rights organisations said
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=20749
Forcibly returning people to a volatile security situation in Somalia would violate international law, Amnesty International said as the Danish Refugee Board is due to consider returning five Somali asylum seekers
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/denmark-no-forced-returns-volatile-situation-somalia-2013-05-15
Amnesty International Participates in Vigil at White House to Mark 100th Day of Hunger Strike at Guantanamo
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/amnesty-international-participates-in-vigil-at-white-house-to-mark-100th-day-of-hunger-strike-at-gua
The execution of two death row inmates in Japan shows that a “chilling” escalation of death penalty use under the new Liberal Democratic government is intensifying, Amnesty International said
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/japan-executions-show-chilling-escalation-death-penalty-use-2013-04-26
Catholic church review not showing extent of child abuse says Amnesty International
http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/04/24/catholic-church-review-child-abuse/
Court decided that the Alien Tort Statute does not allow tort cases to be brought in U.S. federal courts when the actors and territories involved are outside the U.S. The New York Times editorial board and Amnesty International have decried the decision as an assault on human rights.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddavenport/2013/04/25/the-supreme-court-blocks-the-politicization-of-international-law/
Asylum Seekers Who Are Imprisoned In The Netherlands Face Isolation, Sleep Deprivation And Abuse, Possibly By G4S Staff, Dutch Physician Claims
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsShe is unable to get access to medical dossiers or asylum seekers themselves. Physician also suggests that asylum seekers are facing physical abuse when they choose to cooperate with news media to expose the situation in Dutch detention centers.
In The Netherlands asylum seekers are being imprisoned not because they committed a crime, but because they are seeking asylum. A lot of the enforcement related activities have been outsourced to the private sector.
Dutch language news article:
http://www.joop.nl/leven/detail/artikel/21108_hongerstakende_asielzoekers_slecht_behandeld/
Previously:
Another Ghost Is Back In Europe: Dutch Government To Label And Treat Fugitives As Criminals
http://vrritti.com/2013/04/26/another-ghost-is-back-in-europe-dutch-government-to-label-and-treat-fugitives-as-criminals/
Goldman Sachs Just Predicted Your Future: “It would be extremely bad for Europe and the rest of the world if the European experiment were to fail”
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsOr was the bank issuing a threat?
Banks & Bankers: +
Politicians: +
European citizens: -
But at least we know now that Europe is still being regarded an “experiment”
Google isn’t just the backbone of the Internet anymore. It’s rapidly becoming the backbone of your entire life
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionGoogle to become yet another unstoppable, all-knowing force governments will have to reckon with…
Thanks to data you’re voluntarily giving up to a private company based on your Web searches, photos, Gmail messages, and more.
After spending three days at I/O this week, it became more apparent than ever that unless millions (billions?) of people suddenly change their mind and start using alternative tech tools, or unless the government steps in waving the anti-trust banner, our lives, our history, and our personal wealth could be managed by one company –– Google.
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Google Now scans your email and knows when your Amazon package is arriving. It knows what sports scores to show you based on the teams you’ve searched for. It knows what stock prices to show you based on the companies you search for. It scans your calendar and reminds you when to leave to make your appointment on time. And all that data is delivered to you without you having to ask.
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The question to ask now is, are we OK with this? Does the benefit of faster search, better transportation, and automated news updates outweigh giving up so much of our lives to a computer run by a private company that mines our data?
They’re issues we’d have to tackle gradually, but hopefully not before Google advances faster than we can adapt.
More:
http://www.infowars.com/googles-plan-to-take-over-the-world/
What does the illegal manipulation of markets by the Federal Reserve tell us?
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsIt tells us that the Federal Reserve sees no way out of printing money in order to support the federal deficit and the insolvent banks. If the dollar came under attack and the Federal Reserve had to stop printing dollars, interest rates would rise. The bond and stock markets would collapse. The dollar would be abandoned as reserve currency. Washington would no longer be able to pay its bills and would lose its hegemony. The world of hubristic Washington would collapse.
More:
http://www.infowars.com/washington-signals-dollar-deep-concerns/
Endemic gagging: Over 300 UK police silenced with taxpayer millions
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsGreater Manchester Police confirmed to the paper that 14 agreements had been signed in the past three years, with a further 17 being signed by Nothumbria Police.
London’s Metropolitan Police is also implicated, having gagged 230 of its police officers over a seven year period, with its former head of human resources, Martin Tiplady, being handed 259,462 pounds after he put his name to one of the agreements. The former commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson received 176,838 pounds in a single payment: more than 1.8 times his annual salary.
James Patrick, a constable in the Metropolitan Police, was investigated for gross misconduct and told not to use Twitter or his blog last December, after he expressed concerns over the impact of the cuts on the force.
“This is someone who has tried to raise his concerns through the legitimate channels, but was not able to do so,” his lawyer Karen Todner told the Guardian at the point of investigation.
“They are gagged in the NHS, arrested in our police forces and blacklisted in many industries,” Cathy James, chief executive of the charity Public Concern at Work told the Guardian earlier this week, prompting calls for a review of legislation.
In the case of the NHS, potential whistleblowers have been gagged, threatened and stopped from raising concerns pertaining to patient safety.
A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government’s support for international terrorist networks and organised crime
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reportsThe government has denied the allegations yet gone to extraordinary lengths to silence her. Her critics have derided her as a fabulist and fabricator. But now comes word that some of her most serious allegations were confirmed by a major European newspaper only to be squashed at the request of the U.S. government.
In a recent book Classified Woman, Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the FBI, describes how the Pentagon, CIA and State Department maintained intimate ties to al-Qaeda militants as late as 2001. Her memoir, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story, published last year, charged senior government officials with negligence, corruption and collaboration with al Qaeda in illegal arms smuggling and drugs trafficking in Central Asia.
In interviews with this author in early March, Edmonds claimed that Ayman al-Zawahiri, current head of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden’s deputy at the time, had innumerable, regular meetings at the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, with U.S. military and intelligence officials between 1997 and 2001, as part of an operation known as ‘Gladio B’. Al-Zawahiri, she charged, as well as various members of the bin Laden family and other mujahideen, were transported on NATO planes to various parts of Central Asia and the Balkans to participate in Pentagon-backed destabilisation operations.
Former Google Executive Feels It’s Time For The Company To NOT Be Evil. Blows The Whistle. Others To Follow?
Posted: 2013/05/19 in Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsA FORMER Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and “immoral” tax avoidance scheme that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds over the past decade.
Barney Jones, 34, who worked for the internet search giant between 2002 and 2006, has lifted the lid on an elaborate structure which diverts British profits through Ireland to the Bermuda tax haven.
Although Google’s London sales staff would negotiate and sign contracts with British customers, and cash was paid into a UK bank account, deals were technically booked through its Dublin office to minimise its liabilities here. Jones, a devout Christian and father of four, is ready to hand over a cache of more than 100,000 emails and documents to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), detailing the “concocted scheme.”
More:
http://www.infowars.com/google-insider-exposes-immoral-tax-scam/
There is no constitutional amendment that prevents corporate enterprise from abusing our need for certain tools that corporations provide
Posted: 2013/05/18 in Google, Legislation, Privacy / Data Protection, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Public PolicyA stellar example is the popular website Google. Since there is a long line of useful Google products available, they are able to collect all of your information and store it in one spot. Google also analyzes everything you do to determine what ads pertain to you specifically. Syncing Google chrome is an example of how your information is saved on the Internet: Google Syncing remembers history, bookmarks, and pretty much everything else you do on the Internet. In the event someone obtained your login they could scroll through your browser history very easily. When using Google to search the Internet, the search engine logs everything you search in order to give you the “best possible experience,” by targeted advertising. There is a link where Google will list all of your likes and dislikes. Any employee or person with the intent to get your private information can retrieve it. The popular company Windows logs every file that is ever on a computer for “security purposes.” Another instance of this type of blatant and public privacy invasion is Carrier IQ. During this scandal Android, Blackberry, and other companies pre-install programs on all devices that logs everything the devices do, essentially, built-in spyware. May it be noted that they still use this technology today.
Corporate enterprise can even justify releasing such information to private interest groups around the world, because the average American consumer is forced to sign a contract and play ball at a rigged game to use common gadgets and tools. Carrier IQ comes with the ability to log everything you type on a phone, even bank pins, passwords, and more information that is crucial to keep private. CISPA allows the legal transaction of anyone’s information, regardless of warrants, to the government or corporate enterprise. So, how does corporate enterprise get away with this? Ignorance, and because Uncle Sam only has the knack of following those with the most resources, voting power, and most importantly, money. So, what can a non-violent consumer do besides playing with an aristocratic government dominated by capitalistic enterprise? Adults have the voting power and can petition. Kids are sitting ducks to be abused by enterprise. An aristocracy runs the government via legal or illegal means such as lobbyists and bribes.
IP Infringement Index assesses and scores websites by reference to their relative degree of IP infringement
Posted: 2013/05/18 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionwhiteBULLET:
- GATHERS a broad range of website infrastructure and infringement information, including legal, technical, operational, revenue, commercial data
- ANALYSES data by reference to an objective and consistent methodology
- CLASSIFIES websites to create the IP Infringement Index
Audio watermark blocks playback of pirated movies and sends viewers to digital retailers to access titles legally
Posted: 2013/05/18 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech Evolutionhttp://variety.com/2013/biz/news/new-ant-piracy-software-uses-power-of-suggestion-1200481389/
and
Anti-Piracy Technology Links Consumers With Legitimate Services
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/anti-piracy-technology-links-consumers-523387
Mass Layoffs At Rapidshare. Signs Of Demise, Or Just Cashing The Chips?
Posted: 2013/05/18 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionRapidshare, once one of the world’s premier file hosting and sharing websites has just laid off 45 of the company’s 60 employees according to the Swiss news portal 20min. The company, once the epitome of file hosting on the Web is facing hard times after it changed its business model dramatically in the past year.
More:
http://www.ghacks.net/2013/05/17/mass-layoffs-are-signs-of-rapidshares-demise/
“Unfortunately, we have to part with a number of employees,” Sidler told the paper, adding: “But RapidShare will continue to operate, and we have concrete plans for our future.”
That future likely won’t look at all like RapidShare’s past: The company used to run the world’s most popular one-click file hoster, and was frequented by millions of file sharers looking for safer alternatives when music labels and others started to go after P2P users. However, Rapidshare quickly found itself in court, and fought long legal battles with rights holders in Germany and elsewhere.
More:
http://gigaom.com/2013/05/17/rapidshare-mass-layoffs/
Previously:
Rapidshare Boss And Internet Millionaire Christian Alexander Schmid Buys Himself A New Lair, Possibly With Use Of Middle Man
http://vrritti.com/2013/05/02/rapidshare-boss-and-internet-millionaire-christian-alexander-schmid-buys-himself-a-new-lair-possibly-with-use-of-middle-man/
Apple’s lax iTunes streaming security gives out a free copy of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories
Posted: 2013/05/18 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Stats / reportsIt’s about the devices, not the content…
BitTorrent can be credited for one third of all North American upload traffic
Posted: 2013/05/18 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsBitTorrent usage remains high in other regions as well, and highest of all in Asia-Pacific where it’s credited for 21.6% of total Internet traffic during peak hours. In Europe and Latin America this percentage is 17.4% and 10.2% respectively.
More:
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-accounts-for-35-of-all-upload-traffic-vpns-are-booming-130518/
