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Continue reading »Antipiracy Actions in Deadlock, MPAA Fires Its Leaders
The movie industry must be boiling with discontent and apparently want to set an example for how they don’t want their affairs handled since they’ve fired three of the men in charge with its anti-piracy operations. CNET reports that the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) showed the door to its general counsel Greg Goeckner (running things since 2004), director of worldwide antipiracy operations and its deputy director of Internet antipiracy. Part of the new strategy the MPPA plans to implement in the future (apart from letting go a number of people from the stuff) is getting a bit more euphemistical – what do I mean by that?
Continue reading »UK anti-filesharing reports ’speculative’
|| Politics:- Britain is trying to finesse stories that it’s all set to make life even harder for people who share music with each other online. “Various media outlets reported that Lord Mandelson, secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), had ordered that the legislative measures be beefed up to include sanctions such as fines and cutting off of Internet access,” says Billboard . Very true.
Continue reading »Group Plans Lawsuit To Unveil the CIA’s Pentagon Papers
The CIA and other agencies are sitting on a trove of documentary evidence of actual and suspected wrongdoing under the Bush administration, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to file a lawsuit Wednesday to force the intelligence community to come clean, the group says. At issue are the misconduct reports the spy agencies are required to file with the Intelligence Oversight Board, a board of private citizens with security clearances who oversee the spy agencies and report to the president. The board is tasked with evaluating the self-reported malfeasances of intelligence agencies, looking at the agencies’ responses, and forwarding on the worst to the attorney general when it believes criminal prosecution is called for.
Continue reading »US 20th in broadband penetration, trails S. Korea, Estonia
A new broadband survey out from Strategy Analytics shows the US in 20th position when it comes to household broadband use, well behind countries like South Korea, Singapore, and the Netherlands. The report focuses on broadband penetration by household rather than by person. Many other reports use a per-capita broadband measurement, but Strategy Analytics says that those reports are simply using the wrong data.
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