p2pnet headline roundups - Dec 17, 2007
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IFPI Pressure Leads Police to Detain File-Sharing Students - TorrentFreak
As part of its anti-piracy activities within ‘Operation Premiere’, Czech police raided a students dormitory in the Prague-Strahov area. As well confiscating many terabytes of pirate material, police detained seven students who they claim form part of Internet pirate network. They are facing 5 years in jail. Following an investigation and pressure by the IFPI, Czech police carried out raids as part of ‘Operation Premiere’ - action against alleged P2P internet pirates. According to a report and additional information from the Prague Municipal Police website, the raids were carried out on the Prague-Strahov dormitory which is usually inhabited by students from the Czech Technical University in Prague. The police seized a large amount of computer related equipment and tens of terabytes of pirated material - otherwise known as ‘warez’ - worth an estimated several millions of dollars.
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High School Student In Detention For Using Firefox - dissfunktional
An 11th grader at Big Spring High School in Newville, PA has 2 hours of detention on December 19th for using the Firefox Browser.
In the letter they call firefox ‘foxfire.exe’.
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Can Ribbit Finally Bring Web & Voice Together? - Om Malik
For a long time, I had this belief that the worlds of web and voice would converge, unleashing upon us a whole new class of voice-web mashups. Instead all we got were some marginal ideas and rarely-used widgets. Voice, in particular, remained too difficult for web developers. In the end the two turned out to be awkward roommates, never really comfortable with each other. Lately, VoIP insiders have started talking about taking a platform approach -– a way to add voice to web applications easily while leaving complex tasks such as peering and billing in the background. Ribbit, a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup, is the latest to join the fray, and it has perhaps the most audacious (and equally risky) strategy for bringing web and voice together. If you strip away the hype (meaningless blather such as the company’s claim of being Silicon Valley’s first phone company), what they have done is built their own Class 5 softswitch and back-end infrastructure and married it to front-end technologies like Flash and Flex from Adobe Systems (ADBE).
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Watchdog looks into X Factor vote - BBC
Media watchdog Ofcom is looking into complaints from X Factor viewers who claim they could not phone in to vote for eventual runner-up Rhydian Roberts. The Welsh singer was hot favourite to win, but narrowly lost to Leon Jackson on Saturday night’s ITV1 show. Ofcom has had 80 viewers’ complaints, and some fans told the BBC they tried and failed to vote up to 10 times.
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Crackdown on Child Pornography - Washington Post Staff Writer
Lewd photographs of children were disappearing from adult bookstores. Child porn magazines in plain brown envelopes were no longer reaching customers through the mail. It was the early 1990s, and experts believed that federal law enforcement efforts were ending child pornography. “We thought this was one of those rare forms of social deviance, of criminal behavior, that had been eradicated,” said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “Except for a fixated group of hard-core pedophiles, we thought it was gone.”
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Spanish police arrest 63 in Net child porn swoop - Reuters
Spanish police said on Sunday they had arrested 63 people across the country in five investigations into child pornography being posted, viewed and paid for on the Internet. It is the second huge swoop this year after police arrested 66 people on charges of child pornography in July.
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Censors battle for Manhunt 2 ban - BBC
British censors are seeking a judicial review to block the sale of controversial video game Manhunt 2. Last week developer Rockstar won a hearing at the Video Appeals Committee to have a ban on the title lifted. But the British Board of Film Classification said that decision was based on an incorrect interpretation of the Video Recordings Act.
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Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust - New York Times
When he was chief executive of Intel in the 1990s, Andrew S. Grove would often talk about the “software spiral” — the interplay between ever-faster microprocessor chips and software that required ever more computing power. At Microsoft, from top, Craig Mundie, Burton Smith and Dan Reed are working on the next generation of computing power. The potential speed of chips is still climbing, but now the software they run is having trouble keeping up. Newer chips with multiple processors require dauntingly complex software that breaks up computing chores into chunks that can be processed at the same time.
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