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Wednesday, 24 December '08 - 12:42:22 AM -0400
A lighting strike that close would make anyone's butt hole pucker.
Wednesday, 31 December '08 - 5:07:26 PM -0400
An anti-gun group is suing to stop enactment of Bush administration rules that would let people carry concealed weapons in many U.S. parks.
Thursday, 1 January '09 - 10:30:49 AM -0400
Viacom and Time Warner have settled on a new contract. They had disagreed over fee increases, and Viacom had threatened to pull the plug on its 19 cable channels, including MTV and Comedy Central.
Sunday, 4 January '09 - 7:45:20 PM -0400
Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. Event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.
Wednesday, 5 November '08 - 6:31:31 PM -0400
A couple weeks ago, fanboy dorks exposed their stupidity to the wider community by hijacking the user reviews of two games on review aggregate site MetaCritic.
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A new trojan popped up at several torrent sites a few weeks ago, one that blocks access to The Pirate Bay and Mininova, while informing its victims that downloading is The trojan edits the hosts file on Windows machines, and redirects the BitTorrent sites to localhost, making them impossible to load.
The copyright expiry means that, from Thursday, anyone can print and sell Popeye posters, T-shirts and even create new comic strips, without the need for authorisation or to make royalty payments. Though it is a myth that he was coopted to promote spinach by the US Government, spinach sales in America rose by a third in the decade after his.
Chilean lawyer Guillermo Frne is having a bit of a bad hair day after it was revealed that draft legislation aimed at cutting the internet connections of illegal downloading ne'er-do-wells was presented in .doc format written on pirated software.
In an aggressive response, unofficial Mac clone builder Psystar has made a controversial claim that Apple doesn't legally own the US rights to protect Mac OS X, invalidating a major component of its lawsuit.
Last week, the RIAA announced that it was going to shift strategies to fight piracy. Instead of filing mass lawsuits, the group said it was partnering with internet service providers to identify, serve notice and potentially disconnect persistent file-sharers. The announcement was met with mixed reactions, with some praising it as a move in the right direction and others wary of their tactics.
Previously thought to be limited to HTTP and HTTPs web traffic, the touted Australian Internet filter will also target P2P traffic. In response to a comment posted by a user on his department's blog, Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy has admitted that BitTorrent filtering will be attempted during upcoming trials.
Web 2.0 provides new ways for users to communicate and collaborate, such as blogs, wikis, social networks and file-sharing sites, and increasingly, it's part of the workplace. In addition to the benefits of Web 2.0, Law firms and companies are beginning to realize its legal risks.
After suing tens of thousands of customers to no avail, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has decided to change tactics. Instead of dragging music downloaders and file-sharers into court, it has somehow convinced ISPs to take on the role of digital policeman (and jury and judge). The decision represents an abrupt shift of strategy for the industry, which has opened legal proceedings against about 35,000 people since 2003.
The Internet can prove complex to some, especially copyright holders. Recently, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) notified the webhosting company of a BitTorrent tracker dedicated to Open Source Software, that it was infringing copyright of one of their clients. Without any notice, the webhosting company pulled the tracker offline, not realizing that the tracker had done nothing.
A Spanish rights group for musicians and artists has been hiring detectives to sneak into weddings in order to videotape the goings on and catch certain venues using music illegally. The rights group collected a fine, but came out nearly 18,000 in the red after being fined itself.
Canadian users again face an increase in the cost of blank CDs, as the Copyright Board has increased levies on them by 38%. The raise was authorized in response to rises in music compression, and increases in songwriter royalties. With this rise, the Copyright Board is simply ignoring all technological advances since 1999, while the music industry.
Earlier this year Ubisoft faced with problems with the DRM on Rainbox 6: Vegas 2, and released a fix - in the form of a no-CD crack actually created by warez group. Following on from this bad experience, Ubisoft has just released the PC version of Prince of Persia without DRM, but expect piracy to be high.
A wealthy film director is spending 40 million to build an exact replica of the Taj Mahal in Bangladesh, but Indian officials are trying to block its constructing, claiming the Taj Mahal, which was completed in 1653 is protected by copyright.
As part of their commitment to transparent and open government, the Obama Transition Team is posting the lobbying agendas of the groups it meets with for public review and comment. One of the more interesting documents to be found there is the Motion Picture Association of America's "international trade" agenda. Some of the MPAA's agenda is reasonable, such as cracking down on commercial optical disc piracy.
The Free Software Foundation has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco alleging that the company failed to fulfill its obligations under the General Public License when distributing Linux-based products with various GNU software components. The lawsuit is the culmination of a long-running licensing dispute between the two organizations.
Via 3 sources. 12.12.08 @10:40PM -0400