p2pnet World Headlines: July 31, 2010
Proposed internet copyright penalties ‘extreme’ NZ National Busines Review
Cutting off internet connections for illegal downloads is akin to cutting off power or phone access, the Commerce Select Committee was told this week. The committee sat this morning to hear further submissions on the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, designed to curb illegal music and video downloads and replace the controversial section 92A of the Copyright Act. The proposed legislation will require internet service providers to suspend the account of repeat offenders for six months, if requested, and will allow copyright holders to apply for up to $15,000 compensation after three notices have been served.
Julian Assange: is ‘Wikileaker’ on a crusade or an ego trip? Telegraph
Julian Assange, the man who published the Afghan war files on his Wikileaks website, is unlikely to be chastened by Admiral Mike Mullen’s claims that he might now have ‘blood on his hands’. He has already said he would ‘deeply regret’ any lives being lost as a result of the leak, but stood firm in his conviction that it was a risk worth taking because of its importance ‘to the history of the war’.
Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch for Critical Windows Flaw Threat Post
Microsoft will issue an out-of-band patch on Monday for a critical vulnerability in all of the current versions of Windows. The company didn’t identify which flaw it will be patching, but the description of the vulnerability is a close match to the LNK flaw that attackers have been exploiting for several weeks now, most notably with the Stuxnet malware. The advance notification from Microsoft on Friday said that the company is patching a critical vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild and affects all supported Windows platforms. The LNK flaw in the Windows shell was first identified earlier this month when researchers discovered the Stuxnet worm spreading from infected USB drives to PCs. Stuxnet has turned out to be a rather interesting piece of malware as it not only uses the LNK zero day vulnerability to spread, but it had components that were signed using a legitimate digital certificate belonging to Realtek, a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer.
Election 2010: Q&A with the Australian Christian Lobby’s Jim Wallace on filters and classification ARN
ACL managing director on what he wants from the upcoming election and why he thinks people against the filter are either misinformed or suffering from ‘extreme liberalism’ The Australian Christian Lobby represents church groups from around the country. ARN spoke with its managing director, Jim Wallace, about what he wants from the upcoming election and why he thinks people against the filter are either misinformed or suffering from ‘extreme liberalism’.
U.S. Copyright Group ‘Steal’ Competitor’s Website TorrentFreak
The U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) has been all over the news in recent months. The lawyer group sued thousands of BitTorrent users who allegedly file-shared motion pictures belonging to their clients, including the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker. However, it turns out that USCG are not copyright purists either, as they have blatantly copied the website of a competitor without permission.
Gay-bashing on the rise in Vancouver: councillor Globe and Mail
With a high rate of hate crimes against gays and lesbians, is Vancouver the ‘the gay-bashing capital of Canada’ or just the city where violence gets reported?
Man jailed after getting 12-year-old pregnant The Local
A man in his early twenties has been found guilty of child rape after impregnating a 12-year-old girl he brought home from a party in Tranås in southern Sweden in January. The rape would likely not have come to light had it not led to the young girl’s pregnancy. The man, who denied committing an offence, was convicted on Friday by Kalmar district court and sentenced to two and a years’ imprisonment, local newspaper Barometern reports.
… and identi.ca
July, 2010
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It`s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
July 31st, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Bristol Palin calls off Shotgun Wedding, because Levi cant keep it in his Pants LOL
http://globalgrind.com/channel/news/content/1716732/oh-wasila-bristol-palin-calls-off-wedding-to-levi-johnston-cause-of-secret-love-child/ (1, August 2010)
Gillard announces a massive a 93% of Australia will be covered by 100mbps Internet Fibre-Optic Connection (from 90%, 93% will cover an additional 300k Houses)
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Technology/2010/07/30/Gillard_announces_increased_NBN_coverage_492388.html (31, July 2010)
If you watch the video on the link above, when the mainnews reader crosses to the Perth Correspondent, you can see the Massive, Massive Coils of blue fibre-optic cables in the background.. still to be layed in the ground and states across Oz.
157 years in the Shadows, Buried in Dirt. An Amazing Find Canada, just like the ship at the base of former-WTC wow!
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/07/29/Canada_locates_ship_lost_157_years_ago_491641.html (29, July 2010)
July 31st, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I’m a big fan of Julian Assange. I don’t think ego has anything to do with what he’s doing.
July 31st, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Wikileaks volunteer detained
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/31/wikileaks-volunteer.html
A volunteer for Wikileaks was detained by officials Thursday while entering the country at Newark International Airport.
Continues..
Update: CNET also has a story up, with more details of the detainment:
Heck, we should all volunteer. I would.
July 31st, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Spotted a very different type of lawsuit. One I can’t say I ever seen or heard of before.
UK: Sniper sues Army over error which put him in danger of being kidnapped by al-Qaeda
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=12493
The soldier was interviewed during a medals parade at his regiment’s barracks.
He revealed how he had shot dead two Taleban fighters manning a machine gun. Although the sniper’s rifle was only designed to be effective over a range of just under a mile, he was able to kill the insurgents at a range of 1.5 miles.
The story was picked up by newspapers around the world and received 1.5million hits on the internet.
The soldier had been given a prior undertaking by MoD officials that none of his personal details or those of his family would be made public.
But it is understood that no such assurance was sought by Ministry of Defence media representatives who were present during the interview.
He told his story. Appears he bragged. Then the military defence media in the UK spilled his photo and info.
With all the wikileaks stuff going around, I can’t help but think that this is kind of media loaded.
However, details of people should be protected, even if paid assassins.. This was not done by the military defence media.
July 31st, 2010 at 10:47 pm
@ story above
Also, 1.5 million hits does not equate to 1.5 million views. Far from it.
July 31st, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Detergent uses GPS to stalk customers
)
(First spotted on pogowasright yesterday, pogowasright.org/?p=12486, but this headline is better
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20012292-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
free-thinking commercial minds decided to slip a GPS tracking device into 50 boxes of this extremely popular detergent. This is not an attempt to pursue shoplifters–though what an excellent idea that might be.
No, this is actually a promotion. This is a step into the ideal future, one in which you don’t have to find the prize in your box of cereal or, I don’t know, bullets. The prize will find you.
You soap knows where you are. Tide is coming for you…
July 31st, 2010 at 11:05 pm
“Julian Assange: is ‘Wikileaker’ on a crusade or an ego trip? ”
Recently there have been a propaganda campaign against Assange and Wikileaks.
No wonder where it is coming from!
Regardless of motivations it remain that this guys is a hero and what he and the Wikileaks teams is doing is very important similarly to the pirate bay work.
For good or bad it is a fundamental human right to be able to know what is going on and what governments and corporations are doing under the table.
Leakers! At your computers!
August 1st, 2010 at 10:51 am
Saudi Telecom ‘confirms’ Blackberry ban
http://www.tradearabia.com/news/newsdetails.asp?Sn=IT&artid=183925
State-controlled Saudi Telecom Company (STC) confirmed the kingdom’s regulator had imposed a ban on Blackberry Messenger services, according to a board member speaking on Al Arabiya television.
The move comes after the United Arab Emirates said it will suspend Blackberry Messenger, email and web browser services on October 11, citing security concerns about encrypted data it cannot monitor.
August 1st, 2010 at 11:00 am
Google Earth being used to go after home owners.
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/high-tech-crackdown-on-illegal-pools-raises-privacy-fears-1.2160201
August 1st, 2010 at 11:02 am
A better link to the above story:
http://mobile.newsday.com/inf/infomo?site=newsday&view=page8&feed:a=newsday_1min&feed:c=topstories&feed:i=1.2160201&nopaging=1
August 1st, 2010 at 11:07 am
Can people ask that google earth images of their property be removed like it’s done with google streetview?
August 1st, 2010 at 5:25 pm
actually 1.5million hits means 1.5million views
IT DOES NOT however tell you how many unique people dropped in it could be one guy coming 1.5million times or 100K people visting 15 times
IT STILL IS 1.5million views
i had a webserver with 8 million uniques a month
August 1st, 2010 at 8:05 pm
I have bots that scoop up headlines. Is that a view? I don’t think so. Just one of the tens of thousands of hits by bots. Not a view at all and what-so ever.
August 1st, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Revealed: [UK] Industrial Revolution was powered by child slaves
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/revealed-industrial-revolution-was-powered-by-child-slaves-2041227.html
Think of the kids…
August 1st, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Boy, 5, cleared of theft gets £6,300
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boy-5-cleared-of-theft-gets-1636300-2037991.html
A boy, aged five, who was wrongly accused by a supermarket of stealing a bag of crisps has won €7,500 in damages for defamation of character.
August 2nd, 2010 at 1:58 am
Soldiers in Afghanistan should also sue the army because it put their lives at risk by including too much information in the database that was accessible to anyone in the army.
August 2nd, 2010 at 1:59 am
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212383-Valedictorian-Speaks-Out-Against-Schooling-in-Graduation-Speech/
The best high school valedictorian speech ever. The student dissects the educational system.
via Reddit
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:25 am
“Soldiers in Afghanistan should also sue the army because it put their lives at risk by including too much information in the database that was accessible to anyone in the army.”
Not only so, but there has been countless data breaches over the years (this year included) where vet’s info have been lost or stolen. Tens of thousands of vets. So you have a point.