p2pnet World Headlines – June 26, 2009
MPAA says Real’s patent attempt saps RealDVD argument CNET News
The Motion Picture Association of America has accused Real of misleading the court about the company’s attempts to circumvent ARccOS and RipGuard and about whether the technologies are true copy-protection measures. Real wrote in patent applications filed with the Patent and Trademark Office in 2007 and 2008 that the two software were indeed copy protections, despite arguing the opposite in court, the MPAA alleged in a document filed with the court on Wednesday. The patent applications were published by the patent office two weeks ago. The MPAA has taken Real to court to try to stop the company from selling RealDVD, a software that enables users to copy DVDs to a hard drive, as well as Facet, a DVD player that can also create digital copies of DVDs and store them as well. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel is due soon to decide whether to continue banning sales of RealDVD until a full trial decides whether the technology violates copyright law.
If You’re Going To Meter Broadband, Shouldn’t You At Least Make Sure The Meters Work? TechDirt
Take, for example, Canadian cable provider Cogeco, who apparently has started offering metered billing, but whose “meters” apparently don’t work. Customers are reporting very inaccurate readings on the tool provided by Cogeco for customers to watch their own bandwidth, and they’re receiving usage emails from the company that don’t match up with what the online tool says at all. [Comment: Bell Canada internet is the exact same. Makes me wonder about their Cell usage they charge people.]
Bell Canada to outsource projects to India Business Standard
Canadian telecom giant Bell Canada, a subsidiary of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc (BCE Inc), is planning to outsource key voice-based projects for its internet and satellite TV divisions to India. The telecom giant, , according to market sources, is currently in the nascent stages of scouting for an outsourcing partner in India and will float a formal tender once it frames a vendor shortlist. “The projects being sent to India will be inbound in nature and Bell Canada is looking at a BPO partner with strong competencies in front-end work for international clients. A formal tender to the effect is yet to be floated as the scouting process for a partner is still in the initial stages. The deal size could be between $15 million to $25 million annually on initial estimates,” sources said.
AEG Facing $85 Million-Plus Jackson Ticket Refund Bilboard
Billboard.biz understands AEG Live will hold a meeting at 9am L.A. time to discuss the situation regarding the 50 O2 Arena dates. As reported yesterday, the promoter and its ticketing partners will have the cost and logistical challenge of refunding more than $85 million on 750,000 ticket sales.
Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain The Register
How web giants are stealing the future of knowledge – Special report The public domain is the greatest resource in human history: eventually all knowledge will become part of it. Its riches serve all mankind, but it faces a new threat. Vast libraries of public domain works are being plundered by claims of “copyright”. It’s called copyfraud – and we’ll discover how large corporations like Google, Yahoo, and Amazon have structured their businesses to assist it and profit from it.
Google’s real YouTube strategy The Register
Meet the new boss – Telco 2.0 – We believe that YouTube is used indirectly to drive profits at the parent, and that Google is currently incentivised to keep these profits hidden from prying eyes. The key indirect benefits accruing to Google of owning YouTube are as follows:…
Spammers swift to exploit Jackson death to punt malware The Register
Updated Miscreants have wasted no time exploiting the shock death of Michael Jackson to run email harvesting and banking Trojan campaigns.
PC makers race to comply with China’s Web filter Washington Post
Days before a deadline abruptly imposed by China, computer makers are scrambling to comply with an order to supply Web-filtering software with PCs amid concerns about what it might do to their reputations.
No bail for blogger accused of threatening judges Washington Post
A judge denied bail Thursday to a New Jersey blogger charged with threatening to assault or murder three Chicago-based federal judges. U.S. Magistrate Michael Shipp ordered Harold “Hal” Turner transferred to Illinois to face the charge, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.
Minnesota Court of Appeals decision extends privacy claims to Internet Twin Cities
If you post it on MySpace, you’re telling the world. That’s what the Minnesota Court of Appeals held, reviving a lawsuit filed by a Twin Cities woman who sued Fairview Health Services and a former employee, claiming the employee helped post private medical information on the social networking site. The decision Tuesday helps bring Minnesota’s invasion-of-privacy law into the Internet age.
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June, 2009
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June 26th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
right on bell Canada send more of our money over seas and employ less canadians then ever during a recession when we need jobs.
Then raise prices more and tell us your broke you greedy buggers.
lets throttle them so they cant use the net or ther service and also make em pay more hten ANYWHERE else so we cna live high on the hog ( beaver)
June 26th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Mythbusters’ Adam Savage hit with $11,000 AT&T bill
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=4809
Mythbusters’ Savage The Latest Socked With Huge 3G Bill
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/Mythbusters-Savage-The-Latest-Socked-With-Huge-3G-Bill-103147
Adam Savage Twitter
http://twitter.com/donttrythis
“They’re claiming I uploaded/downloaded 9 million kilobytes (9 gigs) while in Canada. Frakking impossible.”
“Almost forgot: Hey AT&T! I will fight this bullshit.”
“Text messaging fees are stupid robbery? (they are), AT&T is attempting to charge me 11k for a few hours of web surfing in Canada. Pls RT!”
“@virgiliocorrado I believe the RIAA to be a bunch of venal idiots. I don’t think much of the MPAA either for that matter.”
LOL Welcome to our world….
These made-up fee’s should be a mythbuster show.
Data transfer charges while roaming are a rip off? Myth confirmed!
June 26th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Savage’s twitter:
“I agree with everyone: it shouldn’t just work for me. The data carriers MUST stop thinking in kilobytes and start thinking in customers.”
June 27th, 2009 at 9:47 am
well when you pay 1 million times what i do to transfer text messages then you get what you pay fo rpeople
i use dsl landline and also am not getting suckered into that wireless crap they reinvent as the next thing only its half the speeds and more expensive big time.
savage isn’t a dumb person and his show makes a lot a cash so if hes whining why is it really?
There cool show not being renewed? Bowed up everyhting did yahs hehe.
how about just putting a phone by at&t on a stick a dynamite and see how hi it will fly
or if it will fly , the myth would be that it would.
June 27th, 2009 at 10:04 am
now THIS is awesome!
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/6749/rhea-jeong-void-lp-palyer.html
June 27th, 2009 at 10:52 am
@surfer:
(Re: VOID PLayer)
Ya know that’s not real, right?
; )
June 27th, 2009 at 11:57 am
oh man, dont pop my bubble like that, fer real?
fuck! that thing was frikkin rad daddy-o
June 28th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Savage hits mainstream media
MythBuster uses Twitter to fight $11,000 phone bill
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Technology/MythBuster+uses+Twitter+fight+phone+bill/1740546/story.html
June 29th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Actually, if you wanna see something cool beyond cool, there’s these things where the “needle cartridge” is actually a laser — no physical contact with the disc whatsoever, so no needle-wear.:
http://www.elpj.com/
I so desperately want one of these, but alas, I have insufficient resources at this time….(frown.)
This thing just strikes me as screamingly awesome.
(I did get one of those USB turntables, and all I can say is: Thank the AudioGodz that it also has RCA outputs — the USB audio thing is dissapointing, maybe it’s the codec, I dunno.
But when I saw this thing from Japan, I went all swoony and stuff, like Scarlett O’hara, or Blanche from “StreetCar named desire” or something…..(I’m like that.)