p2pnet news roundup: October 22, 2008
The Campus Costs of P2P Compliance - Campus Computing Project
This paper reports the results of a summer 2008 survey designed to address the campus costs of compliance with the new P2P filesharing mandates in reauthorized Higher Education Act (HEA) that was signed into law on August 14, 2008. The report is based data from 321 colleges and universities and focuses on P2P compliance costs as reflected in expenditures (e.g., content and software licenses) and also the time that campus personnel spend on P2P filesharing issues.
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Music Social Network Imeem In Play; Hires Bank; Laying Off 25 Percent – paidContent
Online music-focused social network Imeem is on the block, according to our sources, and has hired investment banker Montgomery and Co. to lead the sale. Coincidentally, we have also learned that the company is announcing some layoffs internally today—as much as 25 percent of its around 80-strong workforce. These layoffs are mainly on the technical back end and services side. The company has done its on-demand streaming music deals with all four majors, and has also been working with a slew of indies. As it has built out its platform (it recently relaunched its site/service), and done most of the biz dev deals, the focus now is on growing audience and monetizing the platform…it won’t be needing as much technical expertise going ahead, the sources say, and hence the layoffs. Of course, Imeem is a Sequoia-portfolio company, which means it is all but obligated to heed to the VC firm’s recent call of cost and employee cuts.
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Kevin Cogill, The Guns N Roses Pirate Pleads Not Guilty – PiracyIsACrime
Kevin Cogill, a man who admitted in writing two times to the fbi that he in fact pirated, and distributed the unreleased guns n roses album titled “’Chinese Democracy” has plead not guilty in court earlier today. Cogill was arrested in August at his Los Angeles home and released on bail the same day. He faces three years in federal prison if convicted, and five years if the court finds he posted the songs for commercial gain. Kevin, who has support from many online who are helping pay for his defense fund (ref link removed), is now able to fight in what most thought would be a quick ending to a ‘open and shut’ case. Originally Kevin was being represented by the federal public defender’s office but now has retained his own attorney, David Kaloyanides.
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Virtual games, real addiction – Globe and Mail
Angelika Crisp would wake in the middle of the night to hear her son, Brandon, speaking into his headset as he feverishly played Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a popular online video game. She and her husband, Steve, are sure Brandon had become addicted to the game and link its appeal to the 15-year-old’s disappearance from their Barrie, Ont., home on Oct. 13. “He is obsessed with Call of Duty – it has been a constant battle for the last two years,” she told The Globe and Mail this week. Last night, investigators ramped up their national search for the youth and considered the possibility he is trying to survive in the wilderness. The kind of obsessive online behaviour reported by Brandon’s parents is what prompted clinicians at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto to launch Canada’s first holistic clinic specifically designed to treat adolescents addicted to gambling, the Internet and video games. The Adolescent Clinical Education Service, dubbed ACES by clinical head Bruce Ballon, was launched last month and seeks to propel youth addiction treatment into the 21st century by acknowledging that video games and the Internet can be just another escape route for young people battling mental health issues such as social anxiety, depression or low self-esteem.
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‘Shocking’ 61% of all Upstream Internet Traffic is P2P – TorrentFreak
Sandvine, best known for manufacturing the hardware that slowed down BitTorrent users on Comcast, has released an Internet traffic trends report today. The report shows that, on average, P2P traffic is responsible for more than half of the upstream traffic, but mostly the report seems an attempt to sell their traffic shaping products.
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Experts predict botnets will spread to mobile devices in 2009 – Heise Online
Security experts from the renowned Georgia Institute of Technology expect to see botnets spread to mobile devices in 2009. The “Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009″ from the annual summit, attended by various research and business specialists and organised by Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), concludes that bot-driven DDoS attacks on mobile phone networks are likely to occur from next year. In addition, criminals will also take aim at data stored on mobiles and smartphones. In Japan users are already using mobile devices for making payments at vending machines and to pay for public transport.
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[OT] Operating inside a Beating Heart – Technology Review
Fixing the heart is hard. Certain procedures have to be performed on a stationary organ, so the heart is stopped and the patient put on a cardiopulmonary bypass machine. But stopping the heart increases the risk of brain damage. Now researchers at Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston are testing a robotic system that could help surgeons perform a common valve repair while the heart beats on. The system uses 3-D ultrasound images to predict and compensate for the motion of the heart so that the surgeon can work on a patient’s mitral valve as it moves.
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