p2pnet World Headlines â Oct 12, 2009
Three million Swedes file share illegally: study The Local
More than one in three Swedes continue to ignore the country`s anti-file sharing laws, according to a new study by a recording industry interest group. The survey, carried out by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), reveals that 40 percent of Swedes between 15- and 74-years-old actively share music files illegally over the internet on a daily basis, or with less frequency. The figure is equivalent to 2.8 million people, or nearly one third of Sweden`s population of 9 million people, a figure much higher than suggested by previous studies. {And the moon is made of green cheese.]
AT&T vs. Google Voice: Sex, money, the feds, and your phone bill DailyFinance
Despite what a handful of lawmakers may say, the dispute between Google (GOOG) and AT&T (T) over the search giant’s Google Voice application is not so much about fairness or rural access as it is about steamy phone sex and piles of money. These lawmakers, including Steve Buyer, an Indiana Republican and John Shimkus, an Illinois Republican — who have received a combined $200,000 from AT&T and Verizon over their careers, according to Opensecrets.org — have written to the FCC complaining that Google’s refusal to connect expensive rural calls is “ill conceived and unfair to our rural constituents.” The FCC is set to open an investigation to determine if that’s true, according to Dow Jones, and will formally notify Google of the inquest later Friday. But why all the interest in Google Voice from AT&T, Congress and now the FCC? After all, Google Voice is available by invite only, and only a relative handful of people are using it. So why is everyone in such a lather about it? And why is AT&T expending so much energy to create roadblocks to its tiny new rival? Technically, the dispute is over FCC regulations governing how long-distance and local phone companies pay each other for traffic that passes from national to local networks. Since Congress deregulated the telecommunications industry in 1996, much of this traffic comprises extremely lucrative sex chat lines, which the national carriers wind up paying for. AT&T has never been happy about that, and it’s now livid that Google Voice can avoid having to connect such calls — thus dodging this twisted fee scheme.
N.B. man who lost finger fashions his own replacement from bike, car parts Canadian Press
A New Brunswick man who recently lost a finger decided he wouldn`t sit around feeling down, and set about creating a mechanical replacement. A severe infection cost 44-year-old Richard Roy of Moncton the index finger from his left hand earlier this week. Roy says instead of sitting on my butt feeling depressed, he decided to make his own prosthetic. He used a Harley-Davidson motorcycle foot peg to replace the bone closest to the hand, and a clamp used to hold down a truck cap for the bone further from the hand. He`s also attaching some parts from a remote-controlled toy car to his homemade appendage so that, when he flexes his hand, the finger will bend and grasp objects. So far, it looks like Roy`s prosthetic is going to work, but he won`t know until next week, when the swelling goes down enough for him to fit the rig onto the stump of his missing digit. Everyone who has seen the contraption has marvelled at it, Roy says. Everybody`s shaking their heads around here.
BREIN vs. The Pirate Bay legal information and potentially forged Experian 2009 Wikileaks
The ZIP file presents 4 PDF documents from the context of the ongoing legal battle of BREIN (Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland) against The Pirate Bay: A copy of the SIBA (Seychelles registry) documents, A fax from Mossack Fonseca, a secretarial service company on the Seychelles, Two copies of a related query from Experian, a business information directory. Notably, the Experian report in “original” contains metadata that suggests, while it had been created on the 30th July, it had been modified again on August 28th. As the document most likely was created automatically, a manual modification of the original by Experian seems very unlikely. The two Experian reports have been published with their original metadata, contrary to WikiLeaks usual proceedings, so this detail can be independently verified by readers. More information can be found in a comment on Broke P’s blog. The SIBA documents can be verified via SIBA.net. Mossack Fonseca and Experian can be contacted for further information. According to the source, these papers are leaked since the dutch courts have not yet released them, but there is an interest to understand the details of BREIN’s efforts against The Pirate Bay.
Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV is branded ’snooper’s paradise’ DailyMail
A new internet game is about to be launched which allows ’super snooper’ players to plug into the nation’s CCTV cameras and report on members of the public committing crimes. The ‘Internet Eyes’ service involves players scouring thousands of CCTV cameras installed in shops, businesses and town centres across Britain looking for law-breakers. Players who help catch the most criminals each month will win cash prizes up to £1,000. The CCTV website allows access to a network of cameras where watchers can report crimes to camera owners The Internet Eyes’ website will also feature a rogue’s gallery of the so-called ‘criminals’ along with a list of their offences and which internet user caught them. But civil rights campaigners today condemned the game, which launches in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, next month, and branded it ‘a snoopers paradise’. They claim nosey neighbours could snoop on homeowners putting the wrong rubbish in bins and even motorists guilty of the most minor misdemeanors.
Teens film assaults on mall shoppers Edmonton Journal
Police have charged three 15-year-olds in two separate assaults at west edmonton mall early saturday morning. Both random attacks were filmed by the assailants with a cellphone, police said. “It’s very disturbing, very graphic, and it’s a very violent attack,” west division const. colin leathem said of the video taken of the first assault …
Apple director Levinson leaving Google board Associated Press
Google Inc. said Monday that a board member who also serves as a director for computer maker Apple Inc. is stepping down, removing a potential conflict of interest as the two companies look to compete more directly. Arthur Levinson, chairman of the biotech company Genentech Inc. and a Google board member since April 2004, resigned effective immediately. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Levinson has been “a key part of Google’s success these past five years” but offered no specific reason for the departure. The announcement comes amid scrutiny from government regulators over ties between the companies.
Microsoft readies bumper update BBC
One of the updates is for the yet to be released Windows 7. Microsoft will issue its biggest ever security update on 13 October. The update will include 13 bulletins that between them tackle 34 vulnerabilities. Microsoft said that eight of the bulletins were rated as critical – the most serious sort of vulnerability. The security patches will close loopholes in many different programs including different editions of Windows, Internet Explorer and some elements of Office. One update, rated as critical, tackles a loophole in Internet Explorer 8 running under Windows 7. The next version of Microsoft’s operating system is due to be released on 22 October.
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October, 2009
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October 13th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
@BRIEN, TPB, Experian Wikileaks documents
Jon, Are those the documents TF wrote a story on that, were leaked to thebay a couple days ago? lol Oh BRIEN haha