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Japan's ISPs agree to ban P2P pirates: Four of Japan's largest Internet provider organizations have come to an agreement with copyright holders on how to tackle the illegal file trading on P2P Peer to Peer networks. Comprised of about 1000 major and smaller Japanese Internet providers, the four organizations agreed to target flagrant copyright violators by first...; Tags: Internet Provider, Japan, File-trading, P2P, Internet Service Provider, Piracy, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), George Ou; Blog posts 2008-03-16
Judge slows MPAA file-trading suits: Judge slows MPAA file-trading suitsBitty: It's STEALING damnit! You're all thieving trash! Go to Abu Graib!And now for the reality...http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/28/copying_is_theft_and_other/Oh boy, I just LOVE to bang this over his head! YES!!!:-)Pay then now, pay them later. It's all the same.A delay won't help the guilty. (Assuming they are...; Tags: information technology, Josh Madden, MPAA, file-trading; Discussion threads 2004-11-24
New tool would block illegal song swapping: New tool would block illegal song swappingWhat's next?When the RIAA finally buys enough votes in congress to control file swappers, and the music industry still continues to lose money because their business model is outdated, who will they blame next?Yeah... this'll work.What a joke.What's Next?New from your local telephone company,...; Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, tool, RIAA, P2P, file-trading, virus, software, song-swapping; Discussion threads 2004-04-21
RIAA steps up file-trading suits: RIAA steps up file-trading suitsblah blah blah PIRACY ROCKS!!!!!!!About the only thing interesting going on in the music and film biz is PIRACY!!!Getting songs or albums or movies or tv shows or anything you want rocks! Much of what I sample I will buy. Two examples... I d/l a great...; Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), file-trading, RIAA, P2P, piracy; Discussion threads 2004-02-17
'DVD Jon' to seek compensation: 'DVD Jon' to seek compensationTwenty Years of Online File TradingWarez. Where did the word originate? Since the start of the Internet boom, "warez" has been one of the top terms searched for on search engines. In the early 80's, the word "warez" became the slang term for trading...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Games, Nothing, industry, file-trading, software, trader, piracy, compensation; Discussion threads 2004-01-28

Anonymous P2P file trading?: Anonymous P2P file trading?CNET's Brian Cooley gets the scoop from Download.com's Wayne Cunningham on the new version of Blubster 2.5, peer-to-peer file-trading software that claims it protects user anonymity.; Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), file-trading, P2P; Videos 2003-07-01

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How to ... install Ubuntu 8.04 on a USB flash drive: From the Hardware 2.0 mailbag: Can you install Ubuntu on a USB flash drive? Yes, yes you can. Here's what you need: Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD USB flash drive (4GB+) If you don't have an Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD then...; Tags: Ubuntu, USB Flash Drive, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email: Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Flash Player 10 codename "Astro" goes beta: We made available a prerelease version of the Flash Player last night which has a lot of new features. There isn't yet a tooling release we just posted a new Flex SDK that works to support the Flash Player beta so for the time being this is primarily so that...; Tags: 3D, Macromedia Flash Player, Flash Player 10, Complex Effect, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-05-15
DIY phishing kits introducing new features: What are some of the main factors for the increase of phishing attacks, and their maturity from passive emails to blended threats attempting to not just steal personal information, but also infect with malware by embedding client-side vulnerabilities at the pages? It's all a matter of perspective, which in this...; Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released: Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his blog: 1. Safari Carpet Bomb.It...; Tags: HTML, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Issue, Safari Carpet Bomb.It, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Off Topic: Integrating mobile devices can be a challenge: I've been working through a project for a KG client that involves running through the same script on Windows XP, Mac OS X (10.5) and Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. I mentioned the overall parameters of that effort in the post Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and...; Tags: Microsoft ActiveSync, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobile Device, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Linux, Desktops, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Happy Family Electronic Album (rar): Happy Family Electronic Album help you manage your pictures, photos, with 150 transform effect, and generate a complete electronic photo albums or VCD, DVD format paper to facilitate burning of CDs. The CD which will be able to directly broadcast. It is simple that Happy Family Electronic Album operate ,...; Tags: Theme, Picture, Photograph, GuangZhou HwaFull Software, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2008-05-15
Maple4 FTP Connection (zip): The automated copying or carry of data on FTP Server. By means of FC it is possible to set obviously with what files to work (for example, to copy index.html), or easier to specify the catalogue of sending and transfer. The broad gully of work with FC (all work -...; Tags: Catalogue, FTP Server, Maple4, Servers, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-05-15
With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw: So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family to remove the seed used for PRNG Pseudo Random Number Generator used when creating SSL keys. Well, HD Moore set a new record...; Tags: OpenSSL, SSH, Debian, Key, Flaw, HD, ID, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Open Source, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.: Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.Theory vs. enumerationSo, the gov't says Polar Bears are threatened because sea ice will disappear. That's a theoretical prediction.However, actual enumeration of polar bear populations shows their numbers increasing.Perhaps Polar Bears actually do better when there's less ice making it difficult...; Tags: polar bear population, bear population, polar bear, bear, U.S. Global warming, Polar Bear; Discussion threads 2008-05-14
Workday: a tipping point?: Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...; Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Fedora 9 ships, openSuse 11 due June 19: Red Hat's Fedora project yesterday quietly released version 9, an upgrade of its open source Linux operating system with support for live USB bootup, OpenJDK6 , KDE 4 and the ext4 file system. Fedora 9, code-named Sulphur, was developed by more than 2,000 volunteer developers, said Paul...; Tags: Fedora Project, KDE, Fedora 9, KDE 4, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Content Protection madness on Vista: Content Protection madness on VistaBlu-Ray Deserves To FailI agree and am with you 100%. DRM will go away when consumers vote with their wallets. We have already seen some of this with the music industry.Blu-Ray/Sony = EPIC FAILBlu-Ray can kiss my DVD-Loving butt :)I would love to see...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital media, Consumer electronics, digital-rights management, Content Protection, Microsoft Windows Vista, HDCP, mplayer, DVD, DRM IS; Discussion threads 2008-05-14
Business PCs are going nowhere fast: "Everything that can be invented has been invented." If Charles Duell, in 1888 the Commissioner for the U.S. patent office, actually said that, then he would, of course, have been wrong; but I think the claim may have some applicability to the business PC in 2008....; Tags: PC, Business PC, Unix, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-14