Archive for the ‘File Sharing’ Category
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Researchers at Perth's Edith Cowan University working with partnership with the Western Australia Police have come up with a tool that they're beta testing that they describe as a "random breath test". It's purpose is to scan computers for illicit images of the sort that won't ever appear on ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Weird Al Yankovic can now join the ranks of the censored. Not over anything political that I've ever heard of but rather over the lyrics to one of his songs.
That's right, MTV has "bleeped" parts of the song 'Don't Download This Song'. Specificaly, the portions bleeped were the names ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Realnetworks new RealDVD program has been causing quite a stir which has now landed in the courtrooms. Hollywood in general, movie studios (can the MPAA be far away? I doubt it.) are all trying to stop the sale of this software that allows people to copy the contents of ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
After a whole load of claims, counterclaims and assorted legal wrangling, the FCC has finally issued an order on the matter of Comcast interfering with p2p applications. On 8/20/08 they ordered (pdf) that among other things:
Comcast within 30 days to disclose the details of their unreasonable network management
practices, submit ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
I just ran across an item on TorrentFreak that gives some hope for file sharing enthusiasts.
It seems that the German judicial system has been overrun by various anti-P2P efforts to prosecute anybody that shares a music track or movie with somebody else. As part of an effort that I ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The response by Comcast's to recent inquiries by the FCC have apparently gotten some people in Washington to wake up a bit and at least open the way to some new talk about the subject of Net Neutrality.
Rep. Ed Markey, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The various messes with the RIAA continue getting worse. In one case for example Oklahoma State University ended up having to bow to an order to respond to an RIAA subpoena demanding a list of students names. Attorneys for the school emailed the list of names to the ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Big Content providers and the French music industry have managed to get the French government to go along with an insane plan that is going to require ISPs to monitor p2p file sharing and in effect become internet cops, cutting off people's access if the ISPs decide that they're illegally ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Here's a good illustration of why you should be careful about what pictures you put online even if they're in a "private" area of some kind.
This story on Wired.com tells the story of a security flaw that was discovered in MySpace last fall.
This flaw allowed people to view photo galleries ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
This story makes it pretty obvious that file sharing can sometimes have risks and not just limited to those that involve possible malware infected files. The danger comes in what you allow a file-sharing program such as limewire to have access to.
If you use such a program, make certain ...
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