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China lifts block on Wikipedia - Web User
In its bid to appease critics in the run-up to this summer’s Beijing Olympics, Chinese authorities appear to have a lifted a block on the English-language version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Surfers in Beijing and Shanghai confirmed that over the weekend they were able to access the English-language version of one of the world’s most popular websites. However, searches for politically sensitive words such as Tibet and Tiananmen Square resulted in a message that the browser was unable to connect with the internet.
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Study Shows: P2P Filters Can Be Easily Circumvented - NewTeeVee
Hollywood has been stepping up its demands for ISP-based P2P filters in recent weeks, with the MPAA suggesting that such filters would help unclog the Internet’s tubes. But how well do P2P-filtering appliances really work? The French music industry association SNEP recently teamed up with Internet Evolution to find out. The idea was to run an extensive test with products from dozens of vendors and publish the results online so that ISPs could make informed decisions. Well that was the idea. Most of the device manufactures balked at this degree this transparency - 28 vendors were invited to take part in the six-month test; 24 of them declined. And three of the remaining five decided that they didn’t agree with the test results and refused to have them published.
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DVD piracy too rife among police to prosecute - The Australian
Hundreds of police officers across South Australia caught using their work computers to illegally copy movie DVDs will escape prosecution. The activity - strictly banned under federal copyright laws - was detected during an audit conducted by the information technology branch of SA Police. Senior police, including Commissioner Mal Hyde, have been briefed on the extent of the problem. An internal email to police management said the audit had "identified a number of instances where commercial DVD movies have been copied to the hard-drives of police computers which potentially had been burnt to blank DVDs". "This practice is potentially a breach of copyright and misuse of SAPOL equipment," it said.
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French athletes hope ‘for a better world’ in Beijing - CBC Sports
A group of French athletes wants to wear a badge emblazoned with the words "For a better world" at the Beijing Olympics to show support for human rights in Tibet. The proposed crest, intended to symbolize humanitarian and Olympic values the athletes say China is violating, features the words "France" and "Pour un monde meilleur" - "For a better world" in French - above the five Olympic rings.
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ACLU Introduces First Amendment Argument In Key Patent Law Case - ACLU
Introducing a rare argument applying the First Amendment to patent law, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a friend of the court brief today urging a federal court to uphold the denial of a patent that would, if awarded, violate freedom of speech. In the brief, the ACLU argues that Bernard L. Bilski is seeking a patent for an abstract idea, and that abstract ideas are not patentable under the First Amendment.
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Chinese Firms Face the Music On Downloads - Wall Street Journal
A Chinese court has agreed to consider copyright-infringement cases against two China-based Internet heavyweights that offer illicit music downloading, potentially opening Chinese companies to hefty damage claims they have previously dodged. The music-industry lawsuits claim $9 million in damages against Baidu.com Inc., and $7.5 million against Sogou, the music-delivery service operated by Sohu.com Inc.
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TV rules in Canada set for shake up - Toronto Star
If the medium is the message, then stay tuned. The rules governing TV in Canada are poised for a major shake up. The federal broadcast regulator is about to embark on a sweeping review of the cable and satellite television industry that experts say has the potential to revolutionize the dial, while pushing consumers to their limits on the prickly issue of higher fees. Most of the regulations controlling what Canadians watch on TV are up for grabs, as are those dictating how industry players can make money.
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Facebook terror threat in Australia - Australian IT
Counter-terrorism agents have launched an investigation into a multi-national terror threat made against an Australian using internet social networking website Facebook.
The first investigation of its kind was prompted by a death threat emanating from the Middle East against a Jewish woman and her family from an alleged member of the Iranian-backed terror outfit Hezbollah. The woman received the death threat from the self-proclaimed terrorist through the website after she declined the man’s online "friendship request".
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Yahoo reveals new ads system - PC Pro
Yahoo has outlined its plans for a new web advertising platform that gives sales-partners access to online advertisement space both on Yahoo and other major sites. Yahoo says the system, known as Amp, will offer a suite of tools offering geographic, demographic, and interest-based targeting across a vast network of Yahoo sites and specialist destinations such as WebMD, Forbes, the major ad networks, and thousands of smaller sites.
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