Tag: piracy
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US judge rules IP address does not prove online piracy
from rt.com: A US federal judge in Washington wrote that a suspected internet pirate should not be prosecuted solely because his computer’s IP address was identified by a film studio. The landmark opinion may tip the fortunes of defendants in similar situations. The Hollywood executives behind the movie ‘Elf Man’ filed a lawsuit against hundreds…
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WiFi + USB Drive = Your Own Mini-Internet
Worried about draconian Internet laws? Creeping surveillance? The inability to share with others without being criminalized?
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#DataDump: Balconies, Breaches, Biggest Builds and More
Julian Assange takes aim at US as diplomatic row deepens; Speech from balcony calls on Obama to abandon witchhunt // Did Bush’s Broadband Deregulation Upend His Own NSA Wiretapping? // Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth
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Internet Archive unleashes 1PB of data through BitTorrent
from computerworld.com: The Internet Archive, a non-profit project established to act as an online library of that preserves digital information, has to date offered up nearly a petabyte of content via the BitTorrent file-sharing site. In a blog post, The Internet Archive said it is offering 1.5 million torrents including live music concerts, the Prelinger…
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#DataDump: Cops, Robots, Minerals and More
Uncle Sam Wants You! to Combat Online Piracy* DefCon: 20 Years of Hackers, Hijinks and Snooping Feds* How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down* Military Judge Orders Obama Admin to Turn over Proof that WikiLeaks Documents Damaged National Security* ‘Big Brother’? No, It’s Parents: Software Helps Parents Monitor Their Children Online*…
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#InfoGraphic: Hypocrisy In Hollywood
As we’ve previously noted: Hollywood is making the most money from the technologies it claimed would kill its profits // Hollywood is itself one of the biggest intellectual property infringers // Hollywood apparently encouraged people to use file-sharing software for pirating copyrighted material
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SOPA Is Back As Websites Go Black
A mere 4 days after announcing he was dropping the DNS blocking provisions of the bill and putting it on the shelf until a ‘consensus’ was reached, Representative Lamar Smith has brought SOPA back out to play, and just in time for the January 18th SOPA blackouts.
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#sopa: how to stop the ‘stop online piracy act’
from brasschecktv.com: If passed, the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, will ban the very architecture of the Internet and turn the Internet into basically another form of television. The Internet is interactive. It is infinitely searchable with links that connect the free flow of information and ideas to a system that can be navigated.…
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12/1 defcon: sopa, carrier iq & you
comedy of errors led to false ‘water-pump hack’ report* flashback: feds deny water utility hack* hackers target united nations development program website* crack this code & become a british spy* sopa on the ropes? bipartisan alternative to ‘net censorship emerges* critics line up to bash maker of secret phone-monitoring software* does your smartphone run carrier…
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10/6 defcon: nsa, b of a, acta & siri
#phonehacking: news corp faces more than 60 claims* homeland security dept puts its websites in the cloud* hayden to congress: let nsa monitor public nets for threats* bank of america website disrupted for 4th day in a row* gps inventor urges scotus to reject warrantless tracking* video: americans offered sleep-monitoring datatouch card* video: US signs…
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How a Troubled WV Lawyer Foisted a ‘Teen Anal Nightmare’ on the Nation
In September 2010, West Coast Productions—maker of such films as Teen Anal Nightmare 2 and Juicy White Anal Booty 4—paired up with West Virginia lawyer Ken Ford to file a set of mass lawsuits against online file-sharers.
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Media/Memes: Keep Ya Head Up
2011 VMA’s a celebration of #Illuminati music industry? // Video: Remembering Tupac Shakur 15yrs later // No Beatles for you! EU adds 20yrs to music copyrights // Now we can all use the FBI anti-piracy warning! // Netflix spends $110K lobbing Congress in 2Q // 1 million customers exit after Netflix increases price
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Quaids Claim Corruption Keeping Them In Canada
Is there a connection between phonehackers & star-whackers? // Randy Quaid says he would like to return to the United States one day, but he and his wife still fear they are being persecuted by California prosecutors and tabloid media. // Related Media/Memes Updates: Amy Winehouse, Grammy-winning singer, dies at 27
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5/26 Defcon: Stuxnet, Square & Born This Way
Senior defense official squirms on US involvement in Stuxnet // Flashback: Israel tested Stuxnet at Dimona // Senator blocks bill giving feds power to blacklist piracy sites // Square tries to make wallets obsolete // Google faces lawsuit over mobile phone ‘wallet’
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DHS/ICE Start Another Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures
US authorities have resumed “Operation In Our Sites” and have seized several domain names associated with copyright infringement or counterfeit related crimes. Among the new targets are two sites that linked to copyrighted films hosted on third party streaming sites such as megavideo.com and veoh.com.