p2pnet: no posts on Monday
2pnet.net News:- Hi all —– it’s going to be a no post day on Monday, similar to last Wednesday, and for the same reason. I have to be in Vancouver while Nikki Hemming’s Canadian lawyers attempt to gut my defence before I get to a jury trial, whenever that may be.
Last week I had a bit of time before I went to the ferry (I live in Vancouver Island, about 1.5 hours from the mainland) and I was able to post a few headlines and links, but that’s not going to happen tomorrow.
So if you feel like it, you could use ‘comments’ under this to post a url or two pointing to items you think may interest other readers.
And on that, comment post spammer activity has been severely curtailed by the presence of the verification system, and I’m managing to nail most of the new stuff within a few hours of it being posted. But obviously, that’s not going to happen tomorrow either, so you’ll probably see a few junk comments under some stories.
Just ignore them. I’l trash them when I get back from Vancouver.
If you’re not familiar with the law suit, it’s a libel case launched again me initially by Australia’s Sharman Networks and Nikki Hemming, who runs Sharman’s Kazaa p2p file sharing application. However, Sharman dropped out and now it’s Hemming by herself.
Cheers! And thanks. And all the best …
Jon
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September 25th, 2006 at 1:12 am
Good luck, and kick some butt tomorrow Jon.
September 25th, 2006 at 4:15 am
Second that. Good luck tommorrow,
sincerely,
-A Canadian who admires your fight for our digital rights
September 25th, 2006 at 11:41 am
NYPost:
September 22, 2006 — Worried about its massive DVD sales, retail behemoth Wal-Mart has told some of Hollywood’s biggest players it will retaliate against them for selling movies on Apple’s iTunes.
http://www.nypost.com/business/retail_iation_business_tim_arango.htm
September 25th, 2006 at 11:43 am
gpl-violations.org project prevails in court case on GPL violation by D-Link
BERLIN, Germany – September 22, 2006 — The gpl-violations.org project prevails in court litigation against D-Link Germany GmbH regarding D-Link’s alleged inappropriate and copyright infringing use of parts of the Linux Operating System Kernel.
http://gpl-violations.org/news/20060922-dlink-judgement_frankfurt.html
September 25th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
The 2 new, critically rated, exploits (which ms plans to only fix next month) had ZERT issues their own patch (affects outlook and Explorer)
GRC:
UPDATE: A Third-Party Non-Vendor Patch and Benign Vulnerability Test is Available A reputable group known as “ZERT” — Zeroday Emergency Response Team — has produced a very nice GUI and Command Line patch utility which repairs the VML buffer overrun design flaw in Microsoft’s VGX.DLL file.
Revesable Patch, Explaination of, and a vulnerability test site found at isotf.org, grc, and zert:
*Warning! If you visit the vulnerability test page from isotf.org with an unpatched version of Internet Explorer it will crash. Patched systems will not.*
Zeroday Emergency Response Team (ZERT):
http://isotf.org/zert/download.htm
Zeroday Emergency Response Team (ZERT):
http://isotf.org/zert/
Gibson Research:
http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-058.htm
September 25th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared:
http://comparebt.blogspot.com/
September 25th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Sept. 25, 2006
The Luv press:
One individual… One lawsuit… One individual called upon to change Canada… One person to protect us all… One verdict…
http://Jon.Newton.youaremighty.com
September 25th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
http://tinyurl.com/mt5s3
On Monday, September 25, Thompson will journey to another state and announce, with his co-counsel, the filing of what will likely prove to be hugely significant wrongful death action against Sony and Take-Two. The angel is in the details, as this battle in the “culture war†may indeed eclipse even what is going on in Alabama.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service
25/09/2006 08:10:11
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1316513149;fp;4;fpid;1398720840
A Chinese journalist jailed in part due to e-mail evidence provided by a Yahoo subsidiary plans to file a lawsuit in the U.S. against the Internet company within the next few months.
Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders have both criticized Yahoo over the Tao incident, and a group of U.S. lawmakers blasted a group of Internet companies earlier this year, including Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Cisco Systems, for failing to uphold free expression in China.
“Internet companies should not disclose personal information that could violate the basic human rights of their users,” Ho said.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
http://news.com.com/British+Library+calls+for+digital+copyright+action/2100-1025_3-6119043.html?tag=nefd.top
CNET News.com
Published: September 25, 2006, 7:35 AM PDT
The British Library hopes to protect statutory exceptions and fair dealing, which enable libraries to make and preserve copies of content, and make them available for research purposes and for disabled people.
“This is a global, international issue,” Brindley said. “We have to have the same balance as in traditional print. We are seeking a triage ensuring creators are rewarded but also that the public good is served.”
The Open Rights Group, a digital civil-rights organization, said it “whole-heartedly supported” the British Library’s call for a clarification of copyright law.
September 26th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Thanks folks : )
Cheers!
Jon
September 26th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Reliable? copyright education is now available to save all sinners out there who are criminals because of their ignorance, and as some enlightened 14th. century judges say, ignorance is no excuse.
Just see this press release:
iCopyright Launches Copyright Education Website… at
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=166514
Here:
“Internet users can learn about copyright and report copyright piracy.”.
No explanation is given how to avoid a defamation lawsuit (or gunfire) when reporting the criminal copyright infringement habits of your close acquaintances.
“Internet users can also submit a permissions request to use any online content.”.
No explanation is given how the people who run the site were able to reach licensing agreement with over 300 million web site owners thoughout the world so as to be able to represent those owners for licensing purposes. Clearly there is a miracle in efficieny here or a big lie.
Also no explanation is given on how to avoid a lawsuit if the license obtained from these folks turn out to be worthless.
Will anyone ivestigate these “educators”.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com