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p2pnet.net News:- Thanks to lousy weather, I can’t do much in the way of normal posting, but while I’ve got access to a connection, below are a few item briefs:
Hollywood Curriculum for the Los Angeles Aream – Boy Scouts of America
No child is safe from entertaiment and software cartel mind-rape projects, and that includes Scouts in the US. And where America goes, Canada is sure to follow. Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) recently scammed scouts in the Los Angeles area, conning them into believing that, like scouts in Hong Kong, they need intellectual copyright badges. Now the MPAA has come out with instructions on what scouts are expected to do to ‘earn’ the totally useless IP merit badge.
Court Rejects Appeal of First BitTorrent Convict
Chan Nai-ming, the first man ever convicted for using BitTorrent has lost his appeal. Chan was charged last year for copyright infringement for uploading the movies Daredevil, Miss Congeniality and Red Planet. He was eventually sentenced to three months in prison, but was released on bail pending appeal, which he now lost. – Torrentfreak – The Netherlands
In his appeal Chan had argued that the original judge did not take into consideration the fact that he did not profit from uploading the movies. But judge Clare-Marie Beesons aid in her ruling that the judge had measured the seriousness of the crime by the harm done to the copyright holders, not by the gain made by Chan, who at the time was “aware of the possible criminal implications of uploading films to the system.” – IMDb
Famous P2P user fined in France
Ars Technica has picked up on the Big Four Organized Music cartel’s sue ‘em all campaign, French version. The case centres on Anne-Sophie Lainnemé, a school teacher who decided she didn’t want to be an anonymous victim. Her case is now famous in France. The story has Bernard Lamon, her lawyer, stating his client’s actions did not harm music companies. “Very serious studies have been done which demonstrate that downloading has no negative influence on the music industry,” he said. Ars Technica
Critical Microsoft patches
Microsoft issued seven patches on Tuesday – one more than expected – as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday update cycle. Three of the updates earn the dreaded rating of critical. – The Register
Microsoft released seven security updates with patches for 11 security vulnerabilities on Tuesday but did not include a fix for a pair of flaws exposed last week in Microsoft Word. – CBC
Consumers Prefer Movie Rentals To Downloads By A Wide Margin
Only 5% of people who watch video on the Internet have rented or bought a digital movie download, ABI Research said Monday. Even when including films taken for free from peer-to-peer sites, movie downloads remain the least-watched genre of online video. – TechWeb
Mozart, free online
The International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, has made all the scores of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s works available online. CBCApple has denied a report which claims US sales at its iTunes Music Store fell by 65% in the first half of 2006.
Apple denies download sales fall
Apple has denied a report which claims US sales at its iTunes Music Store fell by 65% in the first half of 2006. – BBC
Are You Suffering From Mouse Rage Syndrome?
The Web appears to be breeding its very own disease, a medical syndrome recognizable by a quickening of the heart, profuse sweating, and furious clicking and bashing of the mouse. In extreme cases, the ailment can be identified by loud screaming at video screens. It’s Mouse Rage Syndrome, and it infects all Internet users sooner or later, according to a study of 2,500 Web users that was released Tuesday. – TechWeb
And finally, an OT item ……..
Women sold sex above police station
“You might say it’s a bit brazen to start a brothel next to the police station,” said Niclas Johansson, a policeman based at the station in Ronna, south of the Swedish capital, to local paper Länstidningen i Södertälje. (No kidding : ) The Local
Jon Newton – p2pnet
If your Net access is blocked by government restrictions, try Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. Go here for the official download, here for the p2pnet download, and here for details. And if you’re Chinese and you’re looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent web site blocking outside of China. Download it here.
May 30th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
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