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Google backpedals (again) on Buzz privacy
We don’t auto-follow. We auto-suggest For the second time since the launch of Google Buzz last Tuesday, Mountain View has announced changes to its Tweetbookish Gmail add-on in an effort to answer complaints over user privacy .…
Continue reading »Beatles Downloads Available, Lawsuit for License
BlueBeat was sued by EMI for releasing Beatles songs as Mp3s without permission The EMI guys must be very upset. After US digital music store BlueBeat announced last week that it was selling Beatles albums (tracks priced 55 cents, that is 25 cents per song and 30 cents for ‘processing’) spoiling EMI’s own announcement for the first legitimat release of the Beatles back catalog digitally, the record label is now suing for copyright infringement. EMI said BlueBeat is selling Fab Four without a license.
Continue reading »Blogger: Time Warner Routers Still Hackable Despite Company Assurance
A blogger who stumbled across a vulnerability in more than 65,000 Time Warner Cable customer routers says the routers are still vulnerable to remote attack, despite claims by the company last week that it patched the routers. Last Tuesday, David Chen, an internet startup-founder, published information about the vulnerability in Time Warner’s SMC8014 series cable modem/Wi-Fi router combo , made by SMC. The problem would allow a hacker to remotely access the device’s administrative menu over the internet and potentially change the settings to intercept traffic, making possible all sorts of nefarious activity.
Continue reading »EU taunts US: Net neutrality’s better here
In a major speech this week, Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner in charge of “Information Society and Media,” talked some serious smack about the US. She claimed that network neutrality was better in Europe—thanks to “pro-competitive EU regulation” that curbstomps the preferred “deregulatory” approach in the US. Reding also made the issue personal, telling Europeans that she plans to be “Europe’s first line of defense whenever if comes to real threats to net neutrality.” Reading was speaking at a conference in Brussels on “The Future of the Internet and Europe’s Digital Agenda,” and she opened her Tuesday remarks with a bang.
Continue reading »Jay-Z’s New Album Drops Early To Compete With Torrents
Thanks to an early leak , the eleventh studio album by Jay-Z is now expected to arrive in stores in the US on September 8, three days ahead of its original release date. Despite efforts by the record label to prevent the leak from spreading, it is now widely available on BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks. According to our most recent statistics the album has been downloaded by some 400,000 people on BitTorrent alone in the past days, making it last week’s most pirated music album.
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