p2pnet news | Last of the week …

Hi everyone:

For the first time in 12 years or so, I’m taking a break of longer than one or two days and this’ll be the last post until Monday, August 20.

I’ll be around and checking my email every now and then, but I don’t plan to do any posting.

A couple of weeks ago, I was having a lot of pain and it turns out my stomach is building me an ulcer. Nice of it But strangely, it was good news, not bad: I was worried it was something rather more serious.

Anyhow, hopefully, the time off will do me some good, and I can certainly use the break: there are lots of things I’ve been putting off at home and elsewhere

If anything really important comes up (as far as the corporate cartels are concerned, anyway) Ray Beckerman at Recording Industry versus The People has promised to do a post. Thanks, Ray, and thanks Chris.

For now, Cheers! And thanks. And all the best …

Jon Newton

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China’s iClone

The little gadget was bootleg gold, a secret treasure I’d spent months tracking down. The miniOne looked just like Apple’s iPhone, down to the slick no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the iPhone wouldn’t. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to cost half as much as the iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers. The miniOne’s first news teases—a forum posting, a few spy shots, a product announcement that vanished after a day—generated a frenzy of interest online. Was it real? When would it go on sale? And most intriguing, could it really be even better than the iPhone?

Saudis block liberal Internet forum, says activist

A Saudi political reform activist said on Thursday the authorities had blocked his Internet forum as part of a wider crackdown on freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia. “I want to put government bodies and public opinion in our country before the facts of how certain elements are infringing human rights,” Ali al-Dumaini said in a statement published on blog sites.

Howard on internet porn crusade

[Australian Prime Minister] John Howard is going to spend $189 million on “cleaning up the internet” for Australian families, blocking pornography, upgrading the search for chat-room sex predators and cutting off terror sites. Every Australian family will be provided with a free internet filter and the federal Government will enter an unprecedented partnership with service providers to filter pornography at the source.

Mass pump-and-dump scam causes spam level surge

Experts at SophosLabs … have warned of a huge spam campaign in the last 24 hours, designed to manipulate the share price of a company which sells wireless products to young people. Sophos reports that the scale of the spam campaign is so great that it has resulted in the amount of spam seen by its global traps rising by 30% in the last 24 hours.

Blockbuster acquires Movielink

Although Blockbuster Inc.’s Total Access program has been adding subscribers faster than Netflix Inc.’s DVD rental service, Netflix was able to tout that only it offered the ability to instantly download movies and TV shows to a computer. Not for long. Blockbuster said Wednesday it is buying the digital movie-download service Movielink, giving it a stronger online foothold to compete with its rival.

TV Channels Move to Web, Think Outside the Cable Box

When the Black Family Channel launched on cable television in 1999, its executives and celebrity investors – including boxer Evander Holyfield and the Jackson Five’s Marlon Jackson — had big plans to bring socially responsible TV shows to African-Americans. But in May, the Black Family Channel said it was abandoning TV, and instead would become an online-only channel. Despite some inroads – it eventually reached 16 million homes – the Atlanta-based company had struggled to get cable providers to offer the channel in enough homes to attract advertisers.

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