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Send Mark ‘Facebook’ Zuckerberg a message
“Not the Mark Zuckerberg you were looking for?” asks the caption to the pic on the right. “Search more …” But no need. Because thanks to Fa$ebook’s new (not) privacy updates, he’s that Zuckerberg.
Continue reading »Censor discussions on downloads! BREIN
Holland’s BREIN is a bit like Hollywood’s MPAA and Big Music’s RIAA rolled into one. And it’s now in the process of setting itself up as official net file sharing censor. Because if it has its way, pretty soon, we won’t even be able to talk about downloading.
Continue reading »Gary McKinnon launches new challenge
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- British hacker Gary McKinnon hasn’t given up in his seven-year battle with US interests. Britain’s Labour government “cravenly caved into US demands to extradite British hacker Gary McKinnon, who’s afflicted with Asperger syndrome , to America,” said p2pnet last month. He’s accused of hacking into the Pentagon “and the British High-Tech crime unit told him they had been monitoring his computers for six months and as he had caused no damage he would be facing approximately six months community service,” his mother, Janis Sharp, told p2pnet .
Continue reading »Sony v Tenenbaum: judgment now in
In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum , the Court has entered judgment,writ In addition to the monetary award fixed by the jury, the Court also granted some, but not all, of the injunctive relief requested by the RIAA. Additionally, the Court set briefing schedules for post-judgment motions, and for motions for fees and sanctions.
Continue reading »BitTorrent and RSS – Dave Winer updates
“First, let me say that it’s great that RSS is so widely supported by BitTorrent sites,” blogged Dave Winer (right), the man behind RSS, on UNBERKELEY , continuing: “When I met Bram Cohen at a Wired awards ceremony in 2003 (BitTorrent won, Skype was also nominated, as was RSS), I told him I thought the two technologies were a great match. Both were low tech, open formats for content distribution, that solved parallel problems. “So it’s great that six years later so much is being done at the intersection between BitTorrent and RSS.
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