Time Warner Cable tries to put brakes on massive piracy case Ars Technic
Time Warner Cable has no intention of complying with thousands of requests asking it to identify copyright infringers. Remember the US Copyright Group? They’re the DC legal outfit that is turning P2P copyright infringement into cash, partnering with independent movie studios (the big players are not involved) to sue individual file-swappers in federal court—and ISPs are not pleased with the plan. Yesterday, Time Warner Cable told a federal court overseeing a massive 2,094-person lawsuit targeting the poor folks who downloaded (and, what’s worse, apparently watched) Uwe Boll’s Far Cry that the US Copyright Group’s subpoenas were out of control. [Also see Hurt Locker in new file share farce ]

Conroy goes unopposed in TV filtering debate Computerworld
The vice-chair of the Electronic Frontiers Association has laughed off being snubbed by Channel 7’s Sunrise program for a segment on net filtering with the communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy. Despite being invited to participate Geordie Guy told Computerworld Australia that he was asked not to come on to the show at the last minute due to a request from the minister. “I got called by Sunrise yesterday asking to come on the show tomorrow morning [14 May], but at the last second it appears that Senator Conroy wanted to speak just by himself,” he said.

Merciless website exposes Facebook indiscretions Toronto Star
A new website is exposing embarrassing and potentially job-threatening Facebook messages posted by users who probably don’t realize their privacy settings are turned off. There are posts with people brazenly admitting to playing hooky from work and others pull no punches in making fun of their bosses. Some are of a very personal nature, falling into the category of too much information. The founders of FacebookSearch, which started Thursday, say they have no malicious intentions and simply hope to show naive Facebook users that there are real consequences to not guarding their privacy online. “Facebook privacy has been gradually eroding . . . and I try to tell my friends, ‘Hey, you’ve got to be careful. Basically, unless you go through all these byzantine steps, your stuff is public,” said Will Moffat, a 29-year-old programmer from San Francisco. “You tell people but they just don’t get it and so I thought we’ve got to come up with a way to really show people something they can actually understand.”

Rochdale men jailed for iTunes gift voucher scam BBC
Five Rochdale men have been jailed for using iTunes music gift vouchers to launder money in an internet scam. The men used stolen credit card numbers to buy £750,000 worth of vouchers to sell at cheaper prices through eBay. They were caught when police stopped one of the men during a search at Hull port in 2007 and seized his laptop. It led them to orchestrator Suhail Tufail, 26, who admitted fraud charges and was jailed for five years at Manchester Crown Court. In May 2007, Humberside Ports police stopped three men – including Mohammed Arfan Rasool and Imran Aslam – as part of a routine search when they arrived from Amsterdam.

Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls New York Times
Liza Colburn and her 12-year-old daughter, Abigail, use their cellphones for many tasks, but make relatively few phone calls. She taps out her grocery lists, records voice memos, listens to music at the gym, tracks her caloric intake and posts frequent updates to her Twitter and Facebook accounts. The one thing she doesn’t use her cellphone for? Making calls. “I probably only talk to someone verbally on it once a week,” said Mrs. Colburn, a 40-year-old marketing consultant in Canton, Mass., who has an iPhone. For many Americans, cellphones have become irreplaceable tools to manage their lives and stay connected to the outside world, their families and networks of friends online. But increasingly, by several measures, that does not mean talking on them very much.

Cougar gal gagged by Google QMI Agency
Claudia Opdenkelder, the founder of Cougarlife.com, suddenly has run into opposition from Google which has banned advertising by sites that link older women with younger men. Cougars are an endangered species on Google. I mean the ones wearing fur. Faux fur, usually, and Chanel and Gucci. The common two-legged cougar.“This is an insult to women everywhere,” fumes Toronto cougar queen Claudia Opdenkelder, 39. “I’m shocked.” Ms Opdenkelder’s knickers are in a knot because Google has suddenly banned advertising by sites that link older women (cougars) to younger men (cubs).

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