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UK faces file-sharing crackdown

Thieves that steal copyrighted...material have ruined P2P for legitimate users. Fines are obviously not enough and perhaps it is time to move to jail time. I'm not even sure warnings are appropriate anymore. everyone has been warned enough. Downloading copyrighted material is stealing and jail time is what most thieves...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), file-sharing crackdown, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

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How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system--the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network--played a role in his downfall. On the surface, Spitzer's downfall is a New York...

Tags: Bank, Information System, Transaction, Financial, FBI, Data, Institution, Internal Revenue Service, Technology, Eliot Spitzer, Wall Street, FinCEN, CTR, Federal Government, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-11

The real question: How to keep Microsoft on the transparency track

The April Wired Magazine cover story on "Radical Transparency," with its case study on Microsofts Channel 9 and blogging initiatives, is making some waves, but for the wrong reasons. Some media members are simply shocked that Microsofts PR team keeps dossiers on the reporters and bloggers who cover the...

Tags: Public relations, Blogging, Microsofts, Microsoft Corp., dossier, team

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Net companies pledge child porn crackdown

Net companies pledge child porn crackdownI've noticedIn newsgroups you'd have spammers posting child-porn headers with some sort of exe attachment in newgroups that had nothing to do with porn. Like a year ago I was in a newsgroup for Halflife2. There was all kind of Pre-teen this and that headers....

Tags: Nothing, DMCA, child pornography

Discussion threads 2006-06-27

Senators threaten new Net porn crackdown

Senators threaten new Net porn crackdownPossible problem ...This has the same problem as the .xxx domain idea. Who gets to decide what gets blocked and what doesn't? Would you count victoriasecret.com as an adult-oriented web site? Heck, give me some hand lotion and one of their catalogs, and that's just...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, reproduction

Discussion threads 2006-01-19

U.S. protests Net-summit crackdown

U.S. protests Net-summit crackdownMore links on that"-The U.S. government on Friday protested a crackdown by Tunisian secret police on the streets"Here's more links on that story:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/INGPQ40MB81.DTLhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4580991.stmI see......so you're saying, in effect, that "he who lives in a glass house should not throw stones". But if that's the case, if no...

Tags: Carl Rapson, crackdown

Discussion threads 2005-11-18

Feds announce global antipiracy initiatives

Feds announce global antipiracy initiativesA necessary step ...The blatant piracy that occurs in these countries has to be stopped. The vendors need to be paid for their products and GPL software should not have to compete with free commercial software that adds value without pricing it in. This...

Tags: intellectual property, piracy, antipiracy

Discussion threads 2005-09-21

Feds call for crackdown on credit report deception

Feds call for crackdown on credit report deceptionDuped or DUMB?Who in their right mind would fill in their personal information and believe they were getting something for free? Duh is all I can say. They got what they deserved. Not to mention that all these are inquiries on...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, agency

Discussion threads 2005-08-16

Feds target alternative media Web site

Feds target alternative media Web siteCrackdown on independent mediaThese are dangerous times we live in when a secret government can issue a secret court order and close down an independant media site without recourse to legal challenges, and all the ISP is allowed to say is that they can't say...

Tags: Federal government, David Brookbank, Spokane Police Department, Spokane Police Detective Crystal Jolly, FBI

Discussion threads 2004-10-09