p2pnet - rss feed: p2pnet roundup: July 30, 2007
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Web child fight videos criticised
Police chiefs have urged websites to remove violent video footage of children fighting, following an investigation by the BBC. Panorama found that films showing brutal fights between children are regularly uploaded to sharing websites.
eBay dealt blow on fake Rolexes by German court
eBay disclosed on Friday that Germany’s top court ruled several months ago that the world’s largest online auctioneer must do more to halt the sale of counterfeit goods on its site.
Report criticizes Net restrictions in some nations
Kazakhstan and Georgia are among countries imposing excessive restrictions on how people use the Internet, a new report says, warning that regulations are having a chilling effect on freedom of expression. “Governing the Internet,” issued Thursday by the 56-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, called the online policing “a bitter reminder of the ease with which some regimes - democracies and dictatorships alike - seek to suppress speech that they disapprove of, dislike, or simply fear.”
Blatant iPhone Clone Sucks Hard
Send in the iPhone clones, and this one is the most blatant ripoff we’ve seen yet, even more so than the Meizu MiniOne. Seen on a Chinese auction site, this one touts itself as being “more formidable than the iPhone,” calling itself the “Love Feng Mobile Phone.” It’s just the kind of cheap knockoff we love to hate. Take the jump for a gallery and more specs.
Windows Vista unreadiness revealed
Microsoft has finally outlined the extent to which Windows Vista was unfit for the marketplace when it launched six months ago. A mere 650 applications were certified for Vista when it launched, compared to 2,000 now. Seventy “critical” enterprise applications from corporate mainstays such as Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, McAfee, Citrix Systems, Oracle, SAP and IBM are “being resolved daily.”
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