p2pnet World Headlines: Sept 4, 2010
If you’re in Canada, have a really nice holiday Monday.
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Jon
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Orange and T-Mobile merge networks BBC
Customers of Orange and T-Mobile will soon be able to hop between the two mobile networks. The deal is one of the first practical benefits from the recent merger of the two firms, which have 30 million customers combined. The network sharing deal is limited to 2G signals, meaning that customers will see little benefit when using the mobile web. Analysts said that T-Mobile had the most to gain from the merger.
Brazil battles image problems amid movie boom Hollywood Reporter
It was the middle of the night in Jardim Tiradentes, one of Sao Paulo’s rougher neighborhoods. A two-man crew was waiting to film a police raid when chief inspector Rafael Correa Lodi broke the bad news. “If there’s a risk of them killing the girl, there’s also a risk they will fire at us — so you guys have to stay here.” He was addressing director Jorge Atalla and his cameraman, who had been following the inspector’s anti-kidnapping team for close to a year for the upcoming documentary “Sequestro.” Now, just as the cops were about to storm a shabby building where a 6-year-old girl was believed to be held, Atalla was forced to withdraw. If some had their way Atalla might cease making his film altogether. With Brazil’s film industry in the midst of a major resurgence, local filmmakers, intent on chronicling the country’s character in unflinching fashion, find themselves at odds with a strategy to improve the global perception that Brazil is a crime-ridden land with little to offer the international film community. Regardless of image concerns, within the local film sector plenty has changed and optimism is running at an all-time high. Box office revenues rose 33% in 2009, while the market share for indigenous releases was up 43% to 14.2%, according to Pedro Buchter, editor of preeminent local film trade Filme B. Ticket grosses are up 20% through July and the film sector is expected to crack the R$1 billion ($568 million) mark for the first time by year’s end.
EFF Asks Court to Protect Craigslist from Defamation Suit EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of public interest groups and law professors have asked a California appeals court to protect craigslist from a lawsuit that could spur websites to be less helpful in responding to complaints about user behavior. In Scott P. v. craigslist, Inc., the plaintiff complained about a series of craigslist ads he said were written by impersonators. While craigslist removed the ads within minutes of his phone calls, the plaintiff sued, contending that craigslist broke a promise to “take care of it” when the impersonators posted additional ads. In cases like these, federal law — specifically Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — shields Internet forums like craigslist from liability. Section 230 was designed to encourage parties to pursue action against those who created the questionable content instead of the platform that hosted it. But the California Superior Court has ruled that this case can continue because of the plaintiff’s allegations that craigslist said it would help.
Facebook glitch let spammer post to walls Good Gear Guide
A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook’s photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week. Facebook confirmed the bug Friday, after notifying affected users of the issue.
New BBC iPlayer launches today Telegraph
A new and improved version of the BBC’s catch-up television service, iPlayer, will go live later today. [Hooray hooray]
Bahamas drops charges in Travolta extortion case Associated Press
A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the island chain. Prosecutor Neil Braithwaite had submitted a motion to drop the case just as a retrial was about to start for the two defendants. “The Travolta family has said that this matter has caused them unbelievable stress and pain and they wish to put this whole thing behind them,” Braithwaite told the court after a jury had been picked to hear the case. Ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne and his attorney, politician Pleasant Bridgewater, were accused of threatening to release private information about the January 2009 death of Travolta’s 16-year-old son, Jett, at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama.
Left Party’s Ohly rebuked for ‘breast pump’ advice The Local
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has been slammed by breastfeeding experts and Red-Green coalition colleagues for advising nursing mothers to pump milk out of their breast so that they can go back to work earlier.
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