Former Google CIO: LimeWire Pirates Were iTunes’ Best Customers
posted 07/26/2011, 10:26 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
Delivering his keynote address at this week’s annual CA Expo in Sydney, former Google CIO Douglas C Merrill added to the growing belief that punishing and demonizing file-sharers is a bad idea. Merrill, who after his Google stint joined EMI records, revealed that his profiling research at the label found that LimeWire pirates were iTunes’ biggest customers.
Yesterday, during his keynote speech at the CA Expo in Sydney, former Google boss Douglas C Merrill said that companies stuck... (more) |
70 Year-Old Grandma Threatened Over BitTorrent Download
posted 07/17/2011, 7:05 AM (TorrentFreak)
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As the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits continue to pile up in U.S. courts, more stories of what appear to be wrongfully accused persons hit mainstream media. A 70 year-old retired widow from San Francisco falls into this category. The grandma was recently ‘caught’ sharing porn on BitTorrent and was offered a $3,400 settlement, or the option to risk a $150,000 fine in a full court case.
Since 2010 tens of thousands of regular people have been sued in the U.S. for sharing films on P2P netw... (more) |
Final Ruling Confirms 'Pirate' Sites Act Lawfully in Spain
posted 07/15/2011, 9:39 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
Lawyers defending a file-sharing site say a new legal victory provides final confirmation that sites providing links to copyright works act lawfully in Spain. In a complaint filed during 2009, SGAE claimed that Index-web.com violated its rights but in yet another blow to the music rights group and Spain’s Ley Sinde anti-filesharing law, this week a court disagreed.
Several rulings over the past couple of years have indicated that sites providing mere links to copyright works act l... (more) |
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Wednesday July 13th, 2011
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It's official -- climate alarmists know less and can't count too well
posted 07/13/2011, 3:13 AM (Financial Post)
[Category: Science/Technology]
A draft study produced by researchers at Yale University and four other research institutions has arrived at a surprising (to them) finding: The more that people are scientifically literate, and the more that they’re numerate, the likelier that they’ll be climate change skeptics.
Even more surprising (to them): socialistic types and free market types are poles apart in their thinking on climate change, with those most knowledgeable in each camp having the strongest views. ... (more) |
Ten Myths About Patents
posted 07/09/2011, 5:11 AM (Rick Falkvinge)
[Category: Science/Technology]
 Patents were an instrument during the guild era that regulated how knowledge could pass from master artisans to their apprentices. For some reason, this monopolization on knowledge and brake on innovation has survived into the free enterprise age, after 1850.
Many people have a lot of preconceptions about patents that aren’t true, just like a lot of people had preconceptions about the necessity of copyright before file sharing became widespread and people experien... (more) |
Would You Give Up The Internet For 1 Million Dollars?
posted 07/09/2011, 5:10 AM (YouTube)
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The number of Internet users worldwide has now surpassed two billion and so many of us have integrated the web into our lives so much that it's hard to quantify how much it's worth to us. But why not give it a shot? Think about it.
How much would someone have to pay you to give up the Internet for the rest of your life?
Would a million dollars be enough? Twenty million? Ho... (more) |
File-Hoster Returns With Guns Blazing After Police Raids
posted 06/27/2011, 10:43 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
Two weeks ago raids and arrests in several European countries took out several prominent websites. Aside from the main target, movie streaming links portal Kino.to, the raids also affected several file-hosting sites including Duckload.com. Despite taking a big hit Duckload is not giving up. Instead, the site has respawned with a full-blown movie streaming site that’s already generating millions of page views a day.
On June 11th Europe witnessed one of the largest piracy-related bu... (more) |
Study: Concept of property rights may come naturally to preschoolers
posted 06/23/2011, 7:45 PM (Science News)
[Category: Science/Technology]
WASHINGTON — Young children are possessed by possessions. Preschoolers argue about what belongs to whom with annoying regularity, a habit that might suggest limited appreciation of what it means to own something.
But it’s actually just the opposite, psychologist Ori Friedman of the University of Waterloo in Canada reported on May 28 at the Association for Psychological Science annual meeting. At ages 4 and 5, youngsters value a person’s ownership rights — say, to a crayon — far mo... (more) |
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Wednesday June 15th, 2011
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Next False Flag to Be Cyber?
posted 06/15/2011, 2:11 AM (The Daily Bell)
[Category: Science/Technology]
The Western power elites have three main thrusts in our humble view to pursue. 1. They have an evident urgent need to continue their lunge toward world government. 2. They have to create war and chaos to do so. (Out of chaos, order.) 3. And finally, they have to ameliorate the damage that is being done to their plans by the Internet.... (more) These idiot lulzsec hackers scream of being government shills. |
Malaysia: Pirate Bay, MegaUpload & Others Blocked By Government Order
posted 06/09/2011, 11:53 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
In what appears to be a memo sent to ISPs by the regulator of Internet industries in Malaysia, all service providers have been ordered to completely block various file-sharing sites including The Pirate Bay, MegaVideo and other hosting services. The move follows an April statement by the country’s Prime Minister in which he promised his administration would never censor the Internet.... (more) Coming soon to the good ol' U S of A! |
The Pirate Bay Ships New Servers to Mountain Complex
posted 05/18/2011, 12:38 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
Despite continuous pressure from the entertainment industries, The Pirate Bay isn’t planning to cease its operations anytime soon. Instead, the crew ordered 10 shiny new servers which just arrived at a datacenter located in a Swedish mountain complex. With the new hardware the site should be more redundant, reducing possible downtime to a minimum.... (more) |
The Pirate Bay: "The Battle of Internets is About to Begin"
posted 05/09/2011, 10:17 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
Talks on implementing a Europe-wide firewall to censor and block ‘illicit’ websites has caused concern among many Internet users in recent weeks, and today one of the targeted sites has joined the discussion. Quoting one of Churchill’s most famous speeches, The Pirate Bay team is rallying the public to defend the free Internet and end the threat posed by the entertainment industries’ copyright lobby.... (more) |
Gallup: Majority of Human Race Does Not See Global Warming as Serious Threat
posted 04/26/2011, 9:25 PM (CNSnews.com)
[Category: Science/Technology]
(CNSNews.com) - Most of the human race does not see global warming as a serious threat, according to a Gallup poll released last week that surveyed individuals in 111 countries.
Respondents were asked: "How serious of a threat is global warming to you and your family?" They were given the options of anwering: not at all serious, not very serious, somewhat serious or very serious.
Worldwide, only 42 percent told Gallup they believed global warming was either a "somew... (more) |
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Thursday April 21st, 2011
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UCLA's first hand transplant patient adapting well to new hand
posted 04/21/2011, 8:01 PM (YouTube)
[Category: Science/Technology]
26-year-old single mom looking forward to doing the 'little things' again
Six-and-a-half weeks after receiving the first hand transplant in the western United States, Emily Fennell is becoming so accustomed to her new right hand that she barely remembers when she didn't have one.
The 26-year-old from Yuba City, Calif., underwent transplant surgery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Med... (more) |
Official: wind farms are totally useless
posted 04/08/2011, 11:12 PM (The Telegraph)
[Category: Science/Technology]
...I cannot resist drawing your attention to a new report on wind farms - perhaps the most damning I have ever read. What makes it even more significant is that it has been sponsored by an environmental charity. Normally the people most busily pushing these bird-chomping, bat-crunching, taxpayer-fleecing monstrosities on our magnificent landscape are those who claim, ludicrously, to be “green.” Thank you, John Muir Trust, for reminding... (more) |
RIAA Lobbyist Turned Judge Backpedals On BitTorrent Cases
posted 04/08/2011, 11:12 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
In the ongoing mass-BitTorrent lawsuits, last month U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell laid down a landmark verdict in favor of copyright holders. The verdict was widely publicized, but put in doubt after it was uncovered that the Judge was a former RIAA lobbyist. This critique appears to have had an effect. In two new orders in the same cases, Howell has now backpedaled on her earlier stance.... (more) |
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Wednesday April 6th, 2011
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Thursday March 31st, 2011
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How Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget Movies Into Big Bucks
posted 03/31/2011, 8:19 PM (Wired)
[Category: Science/Technology]
On March 7, Camelot Distribution Group, an obscure film company in Los Angeles, unveiled its latest and potentially most profitable release: a federal lawsuit against BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the company’s 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns between January and March of this year. The single lawsuit targets 5,865 downloaders, making it theoretically worth as much as $879,750,000 — more money than the U.S. box-office gross for Avatar. |
NYTimes: When We Do It, It's Journalism, When HuffPo Does It, It's 'Piracy'
posted 03/11/2011, 9:09 PM (Techdirt)
[Category: Science/Technology]
We regularly see established newspaper journalists look down on the world of sites that add value to news by assuming that aggregating, commenting on and providing context for news first reported by others is somehow a "lesser" product. Of course, what they're doing in some sense is overinflating their own role in the media ecosystem. After all, they don't make the news (usually). They're really adding value to the actual events by reporting on it. The others are then adding additiona... (more) |
Game Changing Study Puts Piracy in Perspective
posted 03/11/2011, 9:05 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
To counter the many one-sided piracy studies that have been released by the entertainment industry in recent history, a group of dozens of academics have bundled their powers to write the most objective and elaborate piracy study to date. As many would have predicted, the results differ quite significantly from the message pro-copyright lobby groups have put out over the years.... (more) |
Piracy is Theft? Ridiculous. Lost Sales? They Don't Exist, Says Minecraft Creator
posted 03/06/2011, 3:00 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
 The "piracy is stealing" argument raises its head in the media every week and is on the lips of anti-piracy outfits and copyright holders every day. To them, every unauthorized copy is a lost sale and another small dent in the company spreadsheet which, when added to a million others, will destroy it bit by bit. To the maker of Minecraft, however, its an opportunity. Piracy is theft? You must be kidding. Lost sales? They don't exist.
A quick look at the stats for the still-in-beta... (more)
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70% of the Public Finds Piracy Socially Acceptable
posted 03/01/2011, 8:18 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
A recent study on moral standards and whether some law breaking is socially acceptable has revealed an interesting stance on file-sharing among the public. Of those questioned in the study, 70% said that downloading illicit material from the Internet is acceptable. Three out four, however, felt it was completely unacceptable to then sell that product for profit.... (more) |
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Monday February 28th, 2011
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Thursday February 17th, 2011
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Saturday February 12th, 2011
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How One Man Tracked Down Anonymous -- And Paid a Heavy Price
posted 02/12/2011, 4:12 PM (Wired)
[Category: Science/Technology]
Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous. The loose hacker collective had been responsible for everything from anti-Scientology protests to pro-Wikileaks attacks on MasterCard and Visa, and the FBI was now after them. But matching their online identities to real-world names and locations proved daunting. Barr found a way to crack the code.
In a private e-mail to a colleague at his security firm HBGary Federal, which sells digital tools to the US government, the CEO bragged ... (more) |
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Thursday February 10th, 2011
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Friday February 4th, 2011
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Internet Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Study Concludes
posted 02/04/2011, 6:42 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
A prestigious economics think-tank of the Japanese Government has published a study which concludes that online piracy of anime shows actually increases sales of DVDs. The conclusion stands in sharp contrast with the entertainment industry’s claims that ‘illicit’ downloading is leading to billions of dollars in losses worldwide. It also puts the increased anti-piracy efforts of the anime industry in doubt.... (more) |
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Wednesday February 2nd, 2011
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Friday January 28th, 2011
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Thursday January 27th, 2011
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Wikileaks ISP Anonymizes All Customer Traffic To Beat Spying
posted 01/27/2011, 6:29 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
In order to neutralize Sweden’s incoming implementation of the European Data Retention Directive, Bahnhof, the Swedish ISP and host of Wikileaks, will run all customer traffic through an encrypted VPN service. Since not even Bahnhof will be able to see what its customers are doing, logging their activities will be impossible. With no logs available to complete their chain of investigation, anti-piracy companies will be very, very unhappy.
In 2009, Sweden introduced the Intellectu... (more) |
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