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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 »Students suspended for racy slumber party pics, file lawsuit
The line between online and offline life continues to blur as yet another lawsuit is being brought against a school that punished students over pictures posted to an online social media website. Two sophomore girls at Churubusco High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana were banned from extracurricular activities after sexually suggestive pictures posted to MySpace during summer vacation ended up in the hands of school officials. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit
Continue reading »NDP Makes No Apology for Copyright Stance
The major drama was sparked by a Toronto town hall meeting when it was found out that the copyright industry stacked the deck in their favour . The fallout exploded when students and NDP MP Olivia Chow – the wife of NDP leader Jack Layton – was threatened by private security at the meeting and an American music group called fair copyright “disgusting”. The NDP fired back by saying they won’t apologize and they aren’t departing from their platform by taking up this stance.
Continue reading »Band Calls P2P ‘Global Word of Mouth’
Praises file-sharing for allowing it to reach fans beyond the limits of its physical Canadian presence. Great Lake Swimmers is an emerging Canadian folk rock band that some have compared to the likes of Iron and Wine and Neil Young. What sets them apart though is not their acknowledgement that file-sharing has changed the nature of music industry, but that in their opinion it’s been for the better.
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