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Facebook student honey trap: with honey
Tyrell Luebker, 20, made two mistakes on Fa$ebook, says Wired Campus . “He posted pictures of himself drinking beer with his friends in an album titled ‘Not Sober Fest’.” Then he “confirmed a friend request from an attractive young lady named at” who he’d “assumed” he’d met her at a party. The trouble was —- —- Jenny Anderson was a cop and in November, Luebker, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, “found himself in an interview room in the city’s police department, staring at printouts of the pictures he had posted and answering a police officer’s questions about his underage drinking”.
Continue reading »MPAA: Illegal Movie Streaming is Still Theft
Spokeswoman says its still a crime, compares it to shoplifting. Many of us are well aware of illegal video streaming sites that allow you to watch new movie releases on-demand. Obviously it’s illegal to upload and make content available, but what’s sort of murky is whether or not it’s illegal to simply watch it.
Continue reading »Fans do want to support artists they like
p2pnet news view Music | P2P:- p2pnet frequent poster and a2f2a.com member Steelwolf told me about Debbie Chachar, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, academic, music fan, and geek, “not always in that order,” she says. She also runs the music, culture and technology blog zed equals zee . Er, zed equals zee?
Continue reading »Flat World schools textbook publishers with free Web editions
Picture yourself as a college student, staring down at the syllabus for a class on banking and the financial system. It contains some good news: the course textbook won’t need to be purchased from the college bookstore, saving you an instant $80. Instead, the book is freely available on the Web, though you can also choose to buy a print edition, an audio version, flash cards, or an unencrypted PDF.
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