p2pnet World Headlines: Jan 18, 2010
France joins Germany warning against Internet Explorer BBC
France has echoed calls by the German government for web users to find an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to protect security. Certa, a government agency that oversees cyber threats, warned against using all versions of the web browser. Germany warned users on Friday after malicious code – implicated in attacks on Google – was published online. But Microsoft told BBC News that IE8 was the “most secure browser on the market” and people should upgrade.
Cancer-stricken Easy Rider star Dennis Hopper files for divorce from his deathbed Mail Online
The actor Dennis Hopper has filed for divorce from his fifth wife on his deathbed, according to U.S. reports. The 73-year-old star of Easy Rider, Rebel Without A Cause and Apocalypse Now has prostate cancer. He is said to have less than a month to live after the disease spread to his bones. In his final days, Hopper has separated from his wife and is understood to be trying to cap the amount she will receive from his will.
SESAC To Offer Watermarked Files Music Row
Nashville-based SESAC has joined with Activated Content Corporation (ACC) and Digsound to create a web-based delivery system for watermarked audio files named Ruby DS. The advanced audio-recognition technology is designed to improve the performing rights organization’s ability to track performances for music licensing and royalty distribution. Ruby DS securely delivers audio files via email with metadata that identifies the sender and the downloader creating a unique watermark in the process. The watermark becomes available to anyone with a web browser.
Court asked to allow prosecution for ’sexting’ MSNBC
A teenage girl who appeared topless in a “sexting” cell phone picture that was distributed among her middle-school classmates should face child-pornography charges, a Pennsylvania prosecutor argued before a U.S. appellate court on Friday. In the first U.S. case to test the constitutional status of “sexting,” the American Civil Liberties Union countered that the incident does not come close to meeting the definition of child pornography which typically depicts graphic sexual acts with minors and is done for commercial gain.
Twitter insult leads to alleged murder Telegraph
A man has been charged with shooting and killing a childhood friend after the pair allegedly traded insults on social networking site Twitter. Kwame Dancy, 22, reportedly died from a shotgun blast to the neck at his home in Harlem, New York on December 1. But now 140-character tweets allegedly exchanged between Mr Dancy and Jameg Blake, also 22, in the build-up to the death could be used as crucial evidence after Blake was accused of murder. Hours before he died, Mr Dancy – who was training to be a nurse – used the social networking site to say: “——- is lookin for u don’t think I won’t give up ya address for a price betta chill asap!” in what police believe could have been a taunt to Blake.
Does the Fourth Amendment cover ‘the cloud’? CNet
One of the biggest issues facing individuals and corporations choosing to adopt public cloud computing (or any Internet service, for that matter) is the relative lack of clarity with respect to legal rights over data stored online. I’ve reported on this early legal landscape a couple of times, looking at decisions to relax expectations of privacy for e-mail stored online and the decision to allow the FBI to confiscate servers belonging to dozens of companies from a co-location facility whose owners were suspected of fraud. However, while I’ve argued before that the government has yet to apply the right metaphor to the modern world of networked applications and data, there has been little literature that has actually dissected the problem in detail. Even worse, I’ve seen almost no analysis of how the United States Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, applies to Internet-housed data. However, I just had the pleasure of reading an extremely well-written note in the June 2009 edition of the Minnesota Law Review titled “Defogging the Cloud: Applying Fourth Amendment Principles to Evolving Privacy Expectations in Cloud Computing (PDF).” Written by David A. Couillard, a student at the University of Minnesota Law School expected to graduate this year, the paper is a concise but thorough outline of where we stand with respect to the application of Fourth Amendment law to Internet computing. It finishes by introducing a highly logical framework for evaluating the application of the Fourth Amendment to cases involving cloud-based data.
Sneakernet Piracy Under The Microscope: Home Taping Is Killing Stereotypes NewTeeVee
Okay, let’s admit it. We all have our own ideas of what a movie pirate looks like. Maybe we think of him as a sun-depraved teenager, spending his nights scouring torrent sites. Or we remember the guy who tried to sell us bootleg DVDs downtown the other day. Maybe we believe in a connection between movie piracy and organized crime. Or maybe we just think of the guy we get to see in the mirror every morning. Either way, it might be time to do away with these stereotypes and think of piracy as a much more pervasive practice. That’s one of the conclusions of a new report titled ‘Changing Attitudes & Behaviours in the ‘Non-Internet’ Digital World and their Implications for Intellectual Property’ that was just released by the U.K.-based Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP). It focused on all the types of piracy that don’t have to do with downloading and file sharing, ranging from bootleg DVDs to shared hard drives. And it turns out that this kind of ’sneakernet’ piracy is at least as popular as P2P file sharing.Students angered by Spotify ban
Students angered by Spotify ban Cherwell
Students have expressed their shock this week at OUCS’s decision to ban the popular music sharing website Spotify. The University’s computing services, OUCS, attributed the ban to the excessive bandwidth that the program requires, especially when so many people are using it. The decision has not gone down well with students. “I was shocked when I realised there was a total ban,” said Finola Holyoak, a first-year student at Lincoln. Students were baffled when Spotify suddenly stopped working, and no explanation was sent out as to why such a popular site was banned. A second-year Economics and Management student describing it as “discrimination against music lovers… I hoped that it was a technical glitch, and that the university would be able to fix it. I never realised it was against the rules.” The University website states that “…the unauthorised use of peer-to-peer resource-sharing software on machines connected to the Oxford University Network is prohibited.”
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