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Nintendo Pirate Fined $1.5 Million
Major distribution companies now use forensic technology in their battle against illegal file sharing, which facilitated the prosecution of James Burt from Queensland, recently mandated by the Federal Court to pay damages of $1.5 million for uploading a Nintendo game on the Internet. The state-of-the-art technology aided in identifying the man responsible for pirating and illegally sharing a new Super Mario Bros game that was still waiting to be officially released. The upload generated record-breaking activity among the community of downloaders, with 50,000 downloads in only six days.
Continue reading »New Technology Could Be Adopted to Monitor Illegal File Sharing in UK
Talks between Ofcom and Detica, a data gathering and processing company, could result in the adoption of a new system developed by the latter to help identify the illegal P2P traffic on broadband networks The UK’s concern with illegal file sharing has taken various forms. From Lord Mandelson’s plans to disconnect copyright infringers to the latest option that Ofcom (the independent regulator and competition authority for the communication industries in the UK) is considering – to use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology developed by Detica and called CView to monitor file sharing (P2P) traffic on broadband ISP networks and asses the level of online piracy among customers. Sources say that rather than being used against individual users CView could have the role of measuring the level of illegal downloading on a network, data which is quite precious for copyright owners.
Continue reading »Billy Bragg, Charlie Angus, on digital culture
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The outgoing British Labour government wants to leave as its legacy a law to victimise members of the P2P communities, including children, who share with each other online. “Initially the Government will aim to educate and those identified as downloading unlawfully, will be sent letters,” says the Telegraph . “If this proves insufficient, technical measures will be introduced — including the powers to disconnect pirates.” The ‘graduated response’ Three Strikes plan, touted as separate ‘initiatives’ by individual governments such as Britain’s, is in fact a major component of a massive global entertainment industry scheme to acquire the net as an exclusive corporate marketing and distribution vehicle.
Continue reading »High-tech adoption happening faster, driving economic growth
If you’ve had the sense that new technologies are being adopted at an ever-accelerating pace, it’s probably not just your imagination. That’s the conclusion of a couple of economists who have modeled the adoption of 15 key technologies that have been developed over the past two centuries. They find a consistent acceleration of adoption across that entire period.
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