M&Mâs World Headlines: Mar 17, 2009
Canadian accused at U.S. border of ’stealing American jobs’ – CBC
A B.C. sales representative who markets equestrian products in Canada was barred from crossing the U.S. border to attend a trade show last month by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who accused him of trying to steal American jobs.
Joel Borsteinas, an independent sales rep who markets U.S. equestrian products in Canada, says he was yelled at and accused of stealing U.S. jobs. Joel Borsteinas, an independent sales rep who markets U.S. equestrian products in Canada, says he was yelled at and accused of stealing U.S. jobs. “He looked at me, and in a yelling voice he said, ‘You’re friggin’ stealing jobs away from American citizens,’ and I tried telling him that I wasn’t,” Joel Borsteinas told CBC News. Borsteinas, a Canadian citizen, said he’s been in business for 15 years, acting as a middleman between U.S. and Canadian suppliers of western wear and equestrian products and Canadian retailers who want to stock the products.
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Web watchdog changes tack after blacklist leak – Australian IT
The communications regulator has been forced to change its internal processes after the address of a prohibited anti-abortion web page in its top-secret blacklist was widely distributed on the internet. The move comes after the Australian Communications and Media Authority threatened a fine of up to $11,000 a day against a web host for displaying the banned web page link. The host supplies services to popular internet community website Whirlpool. The problem began on January 5 when a Melbourne internet user, known online as Foad, complained to ACMA about “offensive content” on an anti-abortion web page (not the entire website). Two weeks later ACMA replied, confirming the web page contained prohibited or potentially prohibited content. ACMA’s response contained the link to the offending web page, which soon found its way to various blogs and forums, including Whirlpool. ACMA has since learned from its mistake. “ACMA has modified its replies to complainants to omit the URLs of prohibited content and potential prohibited content,” a spokesman said.
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Puff piece of the day: Satellite piracy costing TV industry billions The Star
The modern day pirate doesn’t sport a patch or walk with a limp. His weapon of choice is an unassuming pizza-sized satellite dish that can literally harpoon signals from space – and provide lucrative and illicit profit. The Canadian Motion Pictures Distribution Association estimates that the total loss to the industry from satellite piracy in 2001 alone was about $1 billion – and that number is likely far higher today. The coalition, which represents Canadian cable and satellite providers, is lobbying government to toughen laws against piracy, including harsher sentences for pirates. In a get-tough policy, Bell has targeted end users by threatening legal action against customers who have been sold FTA receivers and were registered members of websites that promoted piracy. “We are contacting you because the operation or possession of illegal signal theft equipment to access Bell ExpressVu’s programming constitutes a violation,” says a letter sent to customers of a distributor selling satellite equipment. The letter states that Bell is willing to drop legal proceedings if the user pays a $1,000 fine and hands over the equipment to Bell. But the new tactics aren’t scaring some pirates. [Comment: guess if I don't watch that TV commercial its a lost sale. Or each TV show is a lost sale. Or everyone wants satellite TV and would buy it. These are the same people who don't wnt you watching TV on the net, so they throttle you. BTW, buying and owning FTA is not illegel. If anyone recieved these puff piece letters from Bell please post it here. Bell extortion letters going out now! SWEET!]
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“Family Guy” wins court battle over song Reuters
Creators of the U.S. television show “Family Guy” did not infringe copyright when they transformed the song “When You Wish Upon a Star” for comical use in an episode, a U.S. judge ruled on Monday.
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Australia secretly censors Wikileaks press release and Danish Internet censorship list, 16 Mar 2009 Wikileaks
The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship. In late 2008, Wikileaks released the secret Internet censorship list for Denmark, together with a press release condemning the practice for lack of public or judicial oversight. An Australian anti-censorship activist submitted the page to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), requesting that they censor it, under their internal guidelines. The activist wished to expose the “slippery scope” of the proposed Mandatory Internet Censorship scheme. The press release and the list itself have now been placed into the secret Australian government blacklist of “Prohibited Online Content”. The content on the blacklist is illegal to publish or link to in Australia, with fines of upto $11,000 a day for contraventions.
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Australian police hacking bill passed ZDNet
Legislation to boost New South Wales Police covert searching and computer hacking powers looks set to go ahead after facing almost no opposition in the lower house of the NSW Parliament earlier this week.
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Canada’s first street view map service unveiled amid privacy concerns IT Business
The first Web-based, interactive, street-level map of Canada launched yesterday at Canpages.ca featuring panoramic photos of Vancouver, Whistler and Squamish, B.C has caught the attention of privacy watchdogs. Similar to Google`s Street View launched in 2007, Canpages` Street View service allows users to take a virtual walk on city streets thanks to
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Passwords of 8,000 Comcast Customers Exposed New York Times
A list of more than 8,000 user names and passwords for customers of Comcast, one of the nation`s largest Internet service providers, sat unprotected on the Web for the last two months. Kevin Andreyo, an educational technology specialist in Reading, Pa., and a professor at Wilkes University, came across the list Monday on Scribd, a document-sharing Web site. Mr. Andreyo was reading a recent article in PC World entitled People Search Engines: They Know Your Dark Secrets And Tell Anyone, when he was inspired to find out what information about him was online. He searched for his own e-mail address on the search engine Pipl.
March, 2009
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March 17th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I think the date today is the 17th, not the 1st.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
LOL
look at this (from separate articles above):
1. “The communications regulator has been forced to change its internal processes after the address of a prohibited anti-abortion web page in its top-secret blacklist was widely distributed on the internet.”
2. Australia secretly censors Wikileaks press release and Danish Internet censorship list, 16 Mar 2009
That made me laugh.
March 18th, 2009 at 2:18 am
ya istn censorship grand
quick hide the truth…..
and btw member how im leaving the net
goto dslreports.com and look at teksavvy’s forum
you will see the 200GB TSI offering in future will cost about 160+ bucks
like i said guys you didn’t listen to me months ago.
and its why they hound me soo. I actually have it right.
If we all banded together and said we’ll ;eave the net for two months and i mean every P2p user and every user you can gt too.
THEY will end the madness, TALK is cheap and they need to lose money FAST, after losing large on bells no go sale, now another big hit so quick will get stockholders a shiver of things to come.
So the fact is mister legite/legal wannabe , ONLY the rich very shortly across canada will be able to afford internet.
Disabled and poor people are about to get the shaft from corporations and there hollywood buddies, SO next time i see a musican or actor DONT think im gonna be nice to them in the least( if i knew i could get away with it i just might swat em with my cane)
and instead a JUST posting here find out where bell people post , find out where there execs are find out all we can and post all you can about there lives and such.
POOR them.
and why should we care if bell goes out of business , its not like htey actually hire a lot of Canadians anyhow aka offshore outsourcing.
March 18th, 2009 at 11:17 am
LOL @ COMCAST
Oh dear!
@Australian Gov
Just stop please–the longer this goes on the harder it will be to climb out of your massive hole
March 18th, 2009 at 11:22 am
and you cant fine hosts that arent hosted in that country
Duh!
March 18th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Poor f’n Aussies.
Looks like they have all sorts of things secretly censored from their fragile little eyes.
Then again, we don’t know what the US and Canada is censoring….