Made Worse in Canada – The Video Version – Michael geist

A recent entrant in Michael Geist’s C-61 in 61 Seconds competition.

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Tunisia: More than just censorship – Global Voices

Three more blogs have been blocked in Tunisia this week. These blogs, Mochagheb (Disturber), Ennaqed (The Critic) and Place Mohamed Ali have all been particularly active in providing news of the struggle of The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), and especially about the latest social unrest in the southwestern phosphate mining region of Gafsa, where two people have been killed. One was shot dead by security forces and the other was electrocuted inside a local electric generator.

Woman can sue over YouTube clip de-posting – San Francisco Chronicle

In a victory for small-time music copiers over the entertainment industry, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that copyright holders can’t order one of their songs removed from the Web without first checking to see if the excerpt was so small and innocuous that it was legal. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose was the first in the nation to require the owner of the rights to a creative work to consider whether an online copy was a “fair use” – a small or insignificant replication that couldn’t have affected the market for the original – before ordering the Web host to take it down. (Thanks, Kelly)

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Google finds no privacy on private roads – CNET News

Google’s Street View service apparently thinks your “no trespassing” and “private road” signs are just for decoration. The service, which gives Web users a driver’s perspective of hundreds of cities around the world, has raised the ire of residents who say the images are an invasion of their privacy. Now residents in California’s Humboldt County are complaining that the drivers who are hired to collect the images are disregarding private property signs and driving up private roads. In an episode reported recently by the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, a Street View driver cruised past two “no trespassing” signs to collect images of a residence that is 1,200 feet from the public road. “It isn’t just a privacy issue; it is a trespassing issue, with their own photos as evidence,” resident Betty Webb told the newspaper. “They really went off the track to get to our address.”

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Egyptian blogger rearrested after release order – Agence France-Presse

An Egyptian blogger held a month ago and issued with a release order this week has been rearrested, rights groups said on Saturday. Media student Mohammed Refaat “is being held under the hateful emergency law,” the Arabic Network for Human Rights and the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre said in a statement. Refaat, who runs the blog “Matabbat” (Speedbumps), was first detained on July 21 after police raided his home and confiscated his computer, the groups said. “He was accused of offending state institutions, destabilising public security and inciting demonstrations and strikes via the Internet,” the groups said. “State Security decided to release him on August 17 … but an order to arrest him was issued under the state emergency law,” they added.

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DNS poisoners hijack typo domains – Heise Online

Websense, the security services provider, has reported a successful case of cache poisoning on name servers of one of the largest Chinese ISPs. Netcom customers are said to have been steered by criminals to manipulated pages on which exploits for RealPlayer, MS Snapshot Viewer, Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Data Access Components attempted to inject malicious software into their PCs. The criminals carried out their attacks somewhat subtly: instead of manipulating the addresses of prominent web sites in the cache, they only changed the address of the ISP’s publicity pages. People arrive at these pages when the domain name they request is unavailable, because, for example, they mistyped the URL. ISPs use this redirection method, known as Typosquatting, to advertise free domains or competing products. In the present case, however, clients don’t arrive on the Typosquatter pages, but on pages with a crafted trojan.

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