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NBC Plots Crackdown On Olympic Pirates |
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02-09-2010 - 03:45 AM - by Rart
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NBC Plots Crackdown On Olympic Pirates
February 08, 2010
" In 2008 Olympic torrents were hugely popular. The opening ceremony was downloaded more than 2 million times in the first week, outraging the International Olympic Committee. With Vancouver 2010 starting later this week, several broadcasters have declared war on Olympic pirates.
The 2008 Summer Olympics were a huge hit online, both through legal and illegal channels. NBC streamed a record breaking 2,200 hours of live video to the delight of millions of people, but strangely enough this year the network will limit its live coverage to hockey and curling.
An NBC representative explained that the network will only cover the highlights because people “are not dying to watch lots of long-form content on a 13-inch screen.” However, at the same time NBC contradicts itself by announcing that it will do all it can to prevent people from accessing unauthorized live feeds or downloads of Olympic broadcasts.
While NBC doesn’t believe there is much demand for live coverage, it will do all it can to prevent the ‘few’ people who do from downloading or streaming the events online. “Our aim is to make access to pirated material inconvenient, low quality and hard to find,” said Rick Cotton, NBC’s Executive Vice President commenting on their Olympic mission.
Once again one of the major entertainment industry outfits has got it entirely wrong. If NBC really wants to prevent piracy they have to offer at least some sort of alternative. Cutting 2,200 hours of live web coverage... [Read More]
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China Closes Hacker Training Site w/ 180K Users |
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02-08-2010 - 04:15 PM - by Darth Sushi
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China Closes Hacker Training Site w/ 180K Users
by Jane McEntegart, February 8, 2010
" China has shut down a training site for computer hackers and arrested three people in connection with the site.
Chinese media reports today say that the country has shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, a website that gave lessons in hacking and sold downloads of malicious software.
According to China Daily, Black Hawk Safety Net had recruited more than 12,000 premium or paid members, collecting more than 7 million yuan ($1m or £650,000) in membership fees. The site had also garnered 170,000 users registered for unpaid, free membership. Users were provider with cyber attack lessons and Trojan software, however it is unclear if the 170,000 members with free accounts received the same lessons and software as paid members.
Additional reports say China has arrested three people in connection with the website.
Read the full story here. "
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LG Shows How To Play Pirated Movies On TV |
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02-06-2010 - 09:51 PM - by Rart
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LG Shows How To Play Pirated Movies On TV
February 05, 2010
" Some of the newer LG TVs have USB support, allowing consumers to hook up an external drive to their screen in order to view photos, listen to music, or enjoy a movie. In the manual that comes with these devices, LG doesn’t try to hide the most popular use for this feature as they show customers how to play a pirated movie.
Using pirated films as promotional material to sell consumer electronics is nothing new. The John Lewis store has used aXXo rips to sell iMacs in the past and Saturn, Europe’s largest retailer of consumer electronics, showed pirated films to sell Macbooks.
In these previous cases the pirated films were only on display in the stores, but the multinational electronics company LG takes it a step further. The company is selling TVs that have the functionality to accept a connection from an external USB device. This allows customers to enjoy pictures, music and videos directly on their TVs, all with a piracy endorsement from the manufacturer.
In the packaged English language manual, LG does not try to obfuscate the true purpose of this nifty USB feature – playing pirated movies. In the picture below, LG included pirated versions of The Incredibles and The Aviator, while explaining how easy it is to play the films directly on a TV.
LG seems to understand perfectly what customers want, but we doubt that the movie studios will be very... [Read More]
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FBI Wants ISPs to Keep Record of Sites You Visit |
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02-06-2010 - 07:27 AM - by Darth Sushi
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FBI Wants ISPs to Keep Record of Sites You Visit
By Jane McEntegart, published on February 5, 2010
" The FBI is calling for Internet service providers to keep a record of what sites customers visit and retain said log for two years.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly pressing ISPs keep a record of all sites visited by customers for a period of two years. According to CNet, the FBI believes that taking this measure could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
Citing a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday, CNet's Declan McCullagh reports that FBI Director Robert Mueller (pictured) supports storing Internet users' "origin and destination information." McCullagh goes on to say that Mueller has backed this kind of data retention at the hands of ISPs for as long as four years and in 2008, he asked Congress to enact a law making it mandatory.
At yesterday's meeting, Greg Motta, the chief of the FBI's digital evidence section, said the bureau was not asking that content data, such as the text of e-mail messages, be retained.
"The question at least for the bureau has been about non-content transactional data to be preserved: transmission records, non-content records...addressing, routing, signaling of the communication," Motta said. Director Mueller recognizes, he added "there's going to be a balance of what industry can bear...He recommends origin and destination information for non-content data." "[Read More]
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Judge: ISP Not Responsible for Illegal Downloads (Australia) |
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02-05-2010 - 01:04 AM - by Darth Sushi
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Judge: ISP Not Responsible for Illegal Downloads (Australia)
By Kevin Parrish, published on February 4, 2010
" A Federal Judge ruled than an ISP can't be held responsible for what subscribers download, nor can it stop the process.
In its fight to beat down piracy, major Hollywood studios have demanded that a Federal Court hold an Australian Internet Service Provider responsible for illegal content--namely pirated movies and TV shows--downloaded by its customers. Studios such as Paramount, Disney, and Twentieth Century Fox hoped that the case would open the door to an enforcement of copyright protection rights on an ISP level.
However, Justice Dennis Cowdroy didn't hold iiNet, Australia's third-largest ISP, accountable for the alleged copyright infringement. In fact, the judge ruled that iiNet did not authorize the downloads of the copyrighted material, nor did it have to power to stop the process. Although Cowdroy acknowledged the presence of widespread copyright violations, he did say that these violations were not the responsibility of iiNet.
According to the AFP, the case in question stems around "thousands" of downloads taking place on iiNet's Perth-based network. In a period of 59 weeks starting June 2008, nearly 90 films and TV episodes were downloaded using BitTorrent including "Heroes" and "Batman Begins." However the current ruling deems that... [Read More]
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