p2pnet headline roundups, April 10, 2008
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90-Percent Of Pedophilia Complaints In Brazil Come From Google’s Orkut – SearchEngineLand
Brazil Senate orders Google to identify website pedophiles via AFP reports a Brazilian Senate has ordered Google to hand over the profiles of 3,261 suspected pedophiles yesterday. However, according to The Inquirer, Google is willing to help Brazilian authorities but not hand over users’ personal information. Sergio Suiama, Sao Paulo’s federal prosecutor said, that over the past two years, “nearly 90 percent of the 56,000 pedophilia complaints on the Internet were related to Orkut.”
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Criminals home in on social networks – Heise Online
Symantec has published its semi-annual Threat Report online. One of the findings is that organised crime is homing in on users of social networks, who are apparently quite willing to provide personal information that can be used in phishing attacks. Whereas 66 per cent of all phishing websites pretended to be from the finance sector, 91 per cent of phishing sites hosted in the US imitated only two social networks. In the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Symantec found that most phishing sites were hosted in Romania, with the most commonly forged website once again being a social network.
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Internet Giants Seek to Block New York Law on Targeted Ads – Wall Street Journal
A trade group representing several large Internet companies sent a letter detailing “strong opposition” to a New York state bill that would limit the companies’ ability to collect information for targeted advertising.
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Lost Elvis Presley pictures turn up - New York Daily News
“Lost” pictures of The King have left a New York cameraman all shook up. Nearly 36 years after Elvis Presley rocked Madison Square Garden, George Kalinsky raided his files, hunting for pictures he’d taken of the concert and never printed. He dug out nearly 100 never-before-seen shots, including some Graceland officials consider the most iconic ever taken. “I thought I had eight or 10 good photos, but I found four rolls of film,” said Kalinsky, the Garden’s official photographer for 40 years.
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Adobe Joins Content Fray With Media Player 1.0 And Adobe TV – InformationWeek
Adobe on Wednesday entered the hotly contested markets for digital media content and playback software with the debut of Media Player 1.0 and Adobe TV. Media Player 1.0 is Adobe’s answer to Microsoft’s Windows Media Player, RealNetworks’ RealPlayer, and Apple’s iTunes applications. Adobe believes it has an edge in that its new media player lets consumers download digital content, such as movies, TV shows, and music, from the Internet without having to launch their Web browser.
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Telstra-ACCC deal puts heat on Google – Australian IT
Telstra has settled a dispute with the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission over the actions of its classified advertising division, which leaves search engine giant Google as the sole target of the competition watchdog’s case. In a major blow to Google, the Trading Post also made a declaration to the court that its search engine marketing contravened the Trade Practices Act
Telstra announced yesterday that its classifieds division, the Trading Post contravened sections 52 and 53(d) of the Trade Practices Act through its search engine marketing on google.com.au in August 2005.
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Christian group sues Google after search engine refuses to take its anti-abortion adverts – Daily Mail
A Christian group is suing Google over the internet giant’s refusal to take its anti-abortion adverts. The Christian Institute, a “non-denominational Christian charity”, wanted to pay Google so that whenever the word “abortion” was typed into the popular search engine, its link would appear on the side of the screen. The link would have read: “UK abortion law – news and views on abortion from the Christian Institute. www.christian.org.uk.”
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Recession Hits Hollywood – IMDb
The current economic downturn is drying up traditional financing for many film producers — from those turning out low-budget indies to those making big-star vehicles, the Hollywood Reporter reported today (Thursday). “Projects that would have sailed through easily a year ago are stalled in development. Movies that are practically in preproduction are falling apart at the eleventh hour,” the trade publication observed.
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