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‘I got my ass kicked,’ Charles Nesson admits
Harvard law professor Chales Nesson admits “I got my ass kicked” in the Joel Tenenbaum vs the RIAA trial. Like Jammie Thomas-Rassett, Tenenbaum was ordered to pay for allegedly 30 downloading copyrighted songs . His bill?
Continue reading »Researchers: Flaw in Fed Wiretaps Could Allow Circumvention
People who think they are being wiretapped by the cops could disable the taps by sending a stream of text messages or making numerous VOIP calls to overwhelm the system’s thin bandwidth, researchers in Pennsylvania postulate. The researchers say they’ve found a vulnerability in U.S. law enforcement wiretaps, if only theoretical, that would allow a surveillance target to thwart the authorities by launching what amounts to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the connection between the phone company switches and law enforcement.
Continue reading »Popularity of Pirated TV-Shows Still Rising
In the US streaming sites such as Hulu offer ‘legal’ platforms to watch TV-shows online. However, in the rest of the world people have to wait for weeks or months until they can watch US TV-shows. Most TV-show downloads come from overseas where the episodes haven’t aired yet, let alone that it can be streamed online.
Continue reading »First-ever moving magazine advert
Advertising:- Remember when the first CDs started appearing as magazine give-aways? And the likes of National Geographic had holographic images as their covers? More recently, Esquire mag turned out a “limited number” of its 75th anniversary issue featuring an experimental cover done with electronic ink .
Continue reading »IP addresses don’t identify people
A federal judge in Seattle has ruled IP addresses aren’t personal information. Rather, an IP address, “identifies a computer,” US district court judge Richard Jones has decided. His ruling followed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, “stemming from an update that automatically installed new anti-piracy software,” says Wendy Davis in Online Media Daily .
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