p2pnet World Headlines â Oct 14, 2009
‘New’ Jackson Song Is 26 Years Old IMDb
After onetime [Canadian] pop star Paul Anka complained over the weekend that he was the principal composer of “This Is It,” the title song of the upcoming Michael Jackson documentary — and threatened to sue — the Jackson estate quickly conceded that Anka’s claims were justified and quickly granted him 50 percent of the copyright.
Youth ‘cannot live’ without web BBC
The 16-24 age group has been dubbed “digital natives”. A survey of 16 to 24 year olds has found that 75% of them feel they “couldn’t live” without the internet. The report, published by online charity YouthNet, also found that four out of five young people used the web to look for advice. About one third added that they felt no need to talk to a person face to face about their problems because of the resources available online.
iiNet signs deal with courtroom rival Australian IT
iiNetis weeks away from launching a new online entertainment service for kids after it signed a distribution deal with one of the companies pursuing it for copyright infringement in the NSW Federal Court. As the trial entered its sixth day, iiNet lawyers revealed that the company had recently signed a content distribution agreement with Village Roadshow, which is one of the litigants pursuing the ISP in the trial. A spokesman for iiNet later confirmed that the internet company planned to offer a series of children’s programming under license from Roadshow in its “freezone” online material it supplies without levying download charges against customers. The spokesman said that the content would be free for customers to watch “just like the ABC iView service”. The programs include The Wiggles, The Fairies, Maggie & the Beast, Franklin, Saddle Club, Lazytown, DoodleBops and The Star Girls. iiNet had not planned to reveal the deal for another three to four weeks but it’s now expected to go live this weekend, the spokesman said.
Microsoft Issues Record Number of Security Updates Washington Post
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday issued an unprecedented number of updates to fix security problems in PCs powered by its Windows operating systems and other software: The software giant released patches to plug at least 34 security holes, the highest number of vulnerabilities it has ever addressed in a single month. October’s batch of patches offer a little something for all Windows users, fixing security issues in Windows applications from the Internet Explorer (IE) browser and Microsoft Silverlight, to Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) server, said Tyler Reguly, lead security research engineer at security vendor nCircle. “Again we see a month of client-side issues in almost every major Microsoft product,” Reguly said. “Whether you run Office, Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer, .NET or just Windows itself, there’s a vulnerability for you.”
EMI Drops Suit Against Grooveshark Music Service, Licenses It Instead Wired
EMI has dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit against the music streaming service Grooveshark, opting instead to license its sound recording and publishing catalogs to Grooveshark in the United States under undisclosed terms. “We now have a licensing deal with [EMI],” Grooveshark vice president of communications Isaac Moredock told Wired.com, and both companies confirmed to us that the lawsuit has been dropped. EMI`s sound recording and publishing catalogs represent “about 26 percent of the music that`s out there,” said M. [26%? Wowee !!!!]
Flyer advocate says Delta obtained hacked e-mails Associated Press
A passenger rights advocate accused Delta Air Lines Inc. in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of conspiring with a Virginia company to obtain hacked e-mails from her computer to help them derail her efforts to protect air travelers from lengthy tarmac delays and other inconveniences. The suit, filed by Kate Hanni of FlyersRights.org in U.S. District Court in Houston, seeks at least $11 million in damages and a jury trial. A spokesman for the world’s biggest airline operator, Trebor Banstetter, denied that Delta hacked Hanni’s e-mail account. He says Delta can’t comment further on the lawsuit.
Digg`s Vote-for-Ads Experiment Is Raising Revenue New York Times
When the social news site Digg introduced sponsored links into its main news flow this summer, the company knew it was taking a gamble. Would the notoriously rambunctious community revolt or boycott the site for cluttering up its news feed with advertisements? “The response has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Mike Maser, chief strategy officer, during a recent visit to The New York Times. The experimental advertising platform, which began a measured introduction at Digg.com in August, incorporates the same social voting principles as the news site, allowing users to vote for the ads they like and against the ones they don`t.
Yahoo settles pay-per-click fraud suit CNet News
Yahoo has settled a lawsuit over pay-per-click ads sold by Yahoo that wound up in some shady corners of the Internet. Back in 2006 Yahoo was sued by a class of advertisers who alleged that Yahoo sold them ads that were supposed to appear on “highly targeted” sites and instead wound up on sites filled with spyware or run by typo squatters. Without admitting any wrongdoing, Yahoo has agreed to settle the lawsuit and change the way it sells certain ads across its sites, according to a settlement notice posted by Rust Consulting, the settlement administrator. Yahoo will create an “Ad Placement Option” for advertisers to guarantee their ads will appear only on sites owned by Yahoo or sites designated as “premium” partners. That feature should appear early next year but Yahoo has a deadline of September 30, 2010, to provide advertisers with that option.
October, 2009
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October 14th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Model in altered Ralph Lauren ad speaks out
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/10/14/11403736-ap.html
A former Ralph Lauren model whose image in a roundly criticized advertisement was digitally slenderized said Wednesday that the apparel maker did not renew her contract because she was âtoo large.â
Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. is contending that it dismissed Filippa Hamilton because of a contract dispute and that the photo was mistakenly released.
âThey fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldnât fit in their clothes anymore,â 23-year-old Filippa Hamilton, who worked for the company since she was 15, told the Daily News. She said she considered Polo Ralph Lauren her second family.
The company acknowledged in a statement that the image of Hamilton that appeared last week in a Tokyo mall had been digitally altered.
She went public after the photo surfaced.
âI saw my face on this super-extremely skinny girl, which is not me; itâs not healthy, itâs not right,â she said.
October 14th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/10/wi-fi-direct-protocol-to-ease-peer-to-peer-wifi-connections.ars
Wi-Fi Direct protocol to ease peer-to-peer WiFi connections
Entertainment kartels RIAA/MPAA/BSA won’t be happy at all…
October 15th, 2009 at 8:52 am
http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/domestic-news/politics/3179.html
The Finnish government said after an informal evening session on Wednesday that it would put in place measures to the effect that no household, bar about 2,000 in far-flung corners of the country, would be farther than two kilometres from a connection capable of delivering broadband internet with a capacity of at least 100 megabits of data a second.
Suvi Lindén (cons), the communications minister, said the broadband internet market had reached a point where new infrastructure would not necessarily be built on a purely commercial basis.
and CRTC won’t lift a finger because they are in bed with big telcos.
October 15th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Oh Village roadshow lol ): iiNet ftw XD
I am ‘youth’ lol I can live without the Net… maybe :p