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China court rules Yahoo China violated copyright by linking to filesharing sites
Mike Rosen-Molina at 3:16 PM ET
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[JURIST] A Chinese court has found Yahoo China [corporate website] liable for copyright infringement by linking to websites that illegally offered free downloads of copyrighted music, Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. Yahoo China was ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 yuan and to remove the links. Although most of the music was hosted on third-party websites, Beijing's No. 2 Intermediate Court ruled that the search engine was still partly responsible for the copyright violations since it enabled websurfers to find the illegal music. In January, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) [trade website], a trade organization that fights against music piracy, filed suit against Yahoo China on behalf of recording companies, including Warner Music Group [corporate website], for alleged copyright infringement involving over 200 unlicensed songs. Yahoo China said it would file an appeal. Reuters has more.
In 2005, the US Trade Representative office placed China on a "priority watch list" [JURIST report] due to what the US considered rampant copyright infringement in the country. This month, the United States is filed a case against China [JURIST report] at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for lax enforcement of copyright violations and trademarks.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/20...na-violated.php
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Cracked DirectX 10 for Windows XP?
Posted on Wednesday, April 25 2007 @ 04:30:35 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Inquirer reports a hacker from San Diego, California claims to have created a wrapper for DirectX 10, allowing people to run it on Windows XP. Additionally he also promises a way to run Windows games on Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.
A chap called Cody Brocious from San Diego, California, claims to have started to create an wrapper for Windows executables so that they can be ran on another operating system, with no prejudice about that operating system.
A year in, the Alky Project has gone live under the cover of a company Falling Leaf Systems. Members of its Sapling Program will be able to get the wrappers for DirectX10 applications and run them not just on DX10 hardware under Windows XP, but with some DX9 hardware as well.
Although this sounds like a fairytale, Cody claims he reverse-engineered the Geometry Shader code, and that users will be able to run Windows games intended on the Mac OS X on x86-based Macinteltoshes as well as Linux.
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[quote]Head of DrinkorDie cops to copyright charges
After more than five years, Feds get their 'Bandido'
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco → More by this author
Published Wednesday 25th April 2007 00:26 GMT
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The kingpin for one the world's oldest and best-known piracy groups has pleaded guilty to software piracy charges, bringing a close to an international cat-and-mouse game that took more than five years to play out.
Hew Raymond Griffiths - better known in warez circles as Bandido - faces up to 10 years in prison and $500,000 in fines at sentencing, which is currently scheduled for June 22 in fe[quote]deral court in Alexandria, Virginia. The 44-year-old British national pleaded guilty to one count each of criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. He was extradited to the US in February after spending three years fending off extradition attempts from a detention center in Australia.
According to US prosecutors, Griffiths rose through the ranks to assume the top spot at DrinkOrDie, which came to prominence after releasing a pirated copy of Windows 95 days before the OS was officially available. It was formed in 1993 and was among the first "security-conscious" warez groups, meaning it used passwords, encryption and other sophisticated measures to thwart law enforcement efforts.
DrinkOrDie specialized in cracking anti-piracy measures in popular software, movies and other digital content, so it could be copied and used over and over. The group then distributed the warez using online storage sites filled with tens of thousands of titles, prosecutors allege. DrinkOrDie is estimated to have caused the piracy of more than $50 million worth of digital material.
The group was dismantled after the US Justice Department and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out more than 70 raids on targets in the US and five other countries in late 2001. To date, "Operation Buccaneer," as the campaign came to be called, has netted more than 40 convictions.
Griffiths is accused of heading several other warez groups, including Razor1911 and RiSC. Prosecutors also say he boasted in a published report that he ran all of DrinkOrDie?s day-to-day operations and controlled access to more than 20 of the top warez servers worldwide. Federal prosecutors returned an indictment against him in 2003.
Griffiths isn't accused of profiting financially from his deeds. His case marks one of the first time a defendant has been extradited on charges related to intellectual property. ®
logoeng, check afterdawn news...these have been posted...no need to send our users elsewhere
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logoeng, check afterdawn news...these have been posted...no need to send our users elsewhere
Went back through the news and didn't see the article you had referenced as already been posted so I couldn't change the link to and AD one. Saw the China article....so sorry, so sad. Sorry for the confusion.
Found it...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9497.cfm
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[quote]logoeng, check afterdawn news...these have been posted...no need to send our users elsewhere
Went back through the news and didn't see the article you had referenced as already been posted so I couldn't change the link to and AD one. Saw the China article....so sorry, so sad. Sorry for the confusion.
Found it...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9497.cfm[/quote]
no problem bro, just for future reference ;)
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not tested by me!
Scan your Computer and network for devices
Published 20:54:37 30.04.2007
EndPointScan, is an industry-first, free online service that allows anyone to check what devices are or have been connected to computers on their network and by whom. Using this diagnostic tool, one can identify those areas where the use of portable storage devices could pose a risk to the integrity of the company?s systems and data.
ASTALAVISTA tested this service for you. Here is the conclusion:
First the service works only with Internet Explorer 6 or higher. After changing the browser you can choose to scan a single, a range or a list of computers. The lokal scanning goes very fast and the results a pretty designed. You can see all devices which have been connected to your computer once. A graph tells you how many devices was conected in relation to the usage and another tells you the thread level.
On the list you see all details about the device, if it is still connected, the thread level, device type, port and the drive letter.
It's a nice handy tools for companies to see what all have been connected to the computer and for auditing. This link should be in every security specialist bookmark.
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http://www.endpointscan.com
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U.S. is ready to move to digital TV
By Jason Oxman
Published: May 1, 2007, 4:00 AM PDT
perspective The Consumer Electronics Association asked to respond to a column by Michael Hulfactor, the managing director of DecisionTrend Research, on the nation's transition to digital television. In this piece, Jason Oxman offers a different perspective.
The stage is set for the most exciting and dynamic change in broadcasting since the advent of color television. The nation is transitioning from analog to digital television, and this new technology holds enormous benefits for consumers.
The technical standards setting process has been completed. The government is finalizing details of a program that will subsidize low-cost converter boxes for consumers who want to continue using their analog televisions. And the Federal Communications Commission has opened a proceeding to begin reallocating the old analog television spectrum to public safety entities for use in improving emergency response. The nation is ready for digital.
February 17, 2009, marks the end of the transition, as broadcasters discontinue their analog streams. (Most stations are broadcasting both analog and digital stations today.)
The transition to digital has been under way for nearly a decade, ensuring that all technical and operational issues are addressed. Digital television sets, including the high-definition variety, have been on the market since 1998 and more than 52 million sets have been sold.
Additionally, broadcasters have already launched digital stations to prepare for the final transition date. Broadcasters are no longer limited to a single station--in the digital world, many broadcasters have launched three or four separate digital channels, each carrying programming of interest to diverse communities. Broadcasters have also added thousands of hours of high-definition programming to their lineups to satisfy consumers' demand for compelling HD content.
Consumers have truly taken to this new technology. Amazingly, digital television has been adopted even faster than color television was years ago. In the first 10 years, U.S. color TV penetration was only 5 percent versus over 50 percent household penetration of digital TV in the first decade.
At first glance, the transition offers consumers drastically improved picture and sound quality, but the underlying benefit is to America's first responders and our personal safety. This transition will free up valuable spectrum that will be reassigned to firefighters, police officers and other emergency personnel. This high-quality TV spectrum is efficient and will ensure first responders can better communicate during emergencies.
But in the end, consumers want to know: what does the digital transition mean to me?
Between now and February 17, 2009, all new television sets shipped to retailers will include a digital tuner capable of receiving over-the-air digital broadcasts. Cable and satellite households will be equipped by their service provider with everything they need for the transition, so consumers will see no change. And for those over-the-air households who haven't made the switch, there are plenty of choices and government-industry resources available to make the transition smoothly.
Free over-the-air television, broadcast with crystal-clear digital clarity, will be available to households that wish to receive it after the February 2009 analog shut-off. Consumers who already have a digital television will be able to receive these broadcasts via an antenna, cable or satellite.
Consumers who do not own a digital television, and do not subscribe to a multichannel video provider, can purchase from local retailers an inexpensive (as low as $60) and easy to install digital-to-analog converter box to connect to their analog sets. Even better, the government will have two $40 coupons per household available for these boxes beginning in January 2008 that will bring the cost down to around $20 per box.
Consumers will undoubtedly have questions as the transition date nears and the converter box program is rolled out, so consumer education will be paramount to ensure that the digital revolution reaches every American television household. A wide range of parties involved in the migration--consumer groups, broadcasters and cable companies, and the consumer electronics industry, among others--are working hard to ensure that consumers are fully informed about the exciting new world of digital television.
The education Web site DTVtransition.org has been developed by a coalition of business, trade and consumer groups with the core mission to ensure no consumer is left without broadcast television because of a lack of information about the transition.
Through these privately funded efforts and other campaigns run or funded by the federal government, the February 2009 end of analog broadcast television will find all consumers looking toward a bright digital future.
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Jason Oxman is vice president of communications for the Consumer Electronics Association.
http://news.com.com/2010-1041_3-6180235....-0-20&subj=news
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t's Official: Dell To Offer Pre-Installed Ubuntu
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 2007-05-01 13:08:03 UTC, submitted by Jack
After yesterday's unconfirmed rumour about Ubuntu being pre-installed on Dell machines, it has now become official. In a joint statement released today, Dell and Canonical announced that Dell will now offer laptops and desktop computers pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux 7.04. The computers will be sold via Dell's web site, said Canonical's director of operations Jane Silber. "We have worked with Dell to get Ubuntu fully supported and fully certified on Dell hardware," she said. "Ubuntu has the full endorsement of Dell." Update: Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Feisty Fawn review by Extremetech.
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Dell to offer Ubuntu Linux desktops and laptops
By Jack Loftus, News Writer
01 May 2007 | SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
In a joint statement released today, Dell Inc. and Canonical Ltd. announced that Dell will now offer laptops and desktop computers pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux 7.04.
The computers will be sold via Dell's web site, said Canonical's director of operations Jane Silber. "We have worked with Dell to get Ubuntu fully supported and fully certified on Dell hardware," she said. "Ubuntu has the full endorsement of Dell."
Silber said specifics of the partnership -- including specific hardware configurations and product pricing -- will be available from Dell at a later date. However, Linux desktop news site DesktopLinux.com reported Tuesday that sources said Ubuntu would be released on a Dell e-series "Essential" Dimension desktop, an XPS desktop, and an e-series Inspiron laptop in late May.
The move was hardly a surprise for Ubuntu supporters and analysts, who have seen the OS thrive over the past few years as a free desktop alternative to Microsoft Windows and even commercial Linux distributions like Red Hat and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux. In addition to Ubuntu, Dell also offers pre-installed Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux on many of its server and desktop models.
Fueling the fire even more was Dell CEO Michael Dell, who purportedly acquired a Precision M90 mobile workstation and loaded it with Ubuntu 7.04 and a host of open source applications in late April.
When Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth was asked about the purchase during a recent conference call, he said: "I won't comment on conversations that may or may not be happening ? I am certainly happy that Michael Dell is forward looking and looking at Ubuntu ? it was a fun story, but I don't see any subliminal messaging going on there."
Dell customers have been lobbying for pre-installed Linux desktops at Dell's IdeaStorm. The IdeaStorm program, introduced by Dell in February, is a site where users submit and vote for ideas to be implemented at Dell. Tens of thousands of requests have been made, and the popular requests page has been dominated by Ubuntu/openSUSE/Fedora-related queries. To date, more than 129,000 visitors have visited the site asking for pre-installed Linux on Dell machines.
"Generally, this news is good for the entire open source ecosystem," Silber said. "It broadens access to Linux in general terms and Ubuntu in particular."
Server-side Ubuntu to follow?
Raven Zachary, senior analyst with the New York-based 451 Group, said the news also meant users could expect an Ubuntu server offering from Dell in the near future. "I think you will find Dell, over time, also offering Ubuntu across its server product line as Ubuntu grows in popularity in the data center," he said.
Ubuntu on the server would mean one distribution to manage, from the developer's desktop to the data center, Zachary said, and would feature Canonical's 24x7 support offering.
Ubuntu version 7.04, the most operating system's more recent iteration, launched on April 19.
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget....1253364,00.html
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Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Feisty Fawn Review
It's a tough thing when you're doing a review of a distribution that you want to like but end up having to pan it. The latest version of Ubuntu Linux is called Feisty Fawn, and about all I can see it being good for is venison. We found it to be a real stinker in some ways, despite past versions of Ubuntu having been fairly good.
This version of Ubuntu has a number of new features, including
* Windows Migration tool
* Easier Multimedia
* Plug and Play Network Sharing
* The Linux 2.6.2.0 kernel and Gnome 2.18
Updating My Ubuntu Linux System
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Installation
As always, installing Ubuntu was easy and fast. I popped the Ubuntu Linux CD into my test computer and booted into a fully functional Ubuntu Linux desktop. From there I clicked on the Installation icon on my desktop and began the process. Since I had full network connectivity, I was able to do other things while the installation was completing.
I opted to install Ubuntu on a box that already had Windows Vista installed so that I could test the migration tool. My test computer is a relatively old machine, but I like using it because it gives me an idea of how well newer versions of Ubuntu run on older hardware. Here are the basic specs:
* AMD Athlox XP 3000+
* 1GB RAM
* Nvidia Geforce 5900 XT
* 160GB Hard Disk
I really do love being able to install Linux this way: Why should my computer be inoperable while installing an operating system? The "live" desktop thing really comes in handy while doing installations. I think all operating systems (Windows, etc.) should have that option when you pop the CD/DVD into your computer.
Partitioning My Disk in Ubuntu
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Playing DVDs on Ubuntu Linux.
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Ubuntu's installation was quite speedy, it took about 10 minutes or so to complete. There's not too much that can be said about doing an Ubuntu installation. It's pretty easy, even if you've never seen or used it before. Continued...
Ubuntu Linux 7.04 comes with a good but not overwhelming selection of software. Here's a list of some of what you'll find in this release:
Office Software
Evolution (personal information manager)
OpenOffice Org (office suite)
Sound and Video
Rhythm Box Music Player
Sound Juicer CD Extractor
Totem Movie Player
Internet
Firefox
Ekiga Softphone
Gaim Instant Messenger
Graphics
GIMP (image editor)
F-Spot Photo Manager
XSane Image Scanner
Games
Blackjack
Chess
Five or More
Gnometetris
Mines
Nibbles
Robots
Sudoku
Tetravex
To add or remove software, just click the Applications panel at the top of your screen and choose Add/Remove. There's a whole bunch of other software that's available with just a click or two of your mouse. The software in the Add/Remove tool is broken down into the following categories:
* Accessibility
* Accessories
* Education
* Games
* Graphics
* Internet
* Office
* Other
* Programming
* Sound & Video
* System Tools
You can filter the software you see by choosing from these various views:
* All Available Applications
* All Open Source Applications
* Supported Ubuntu Applications
* Third Party Applications
* Installed Applications
You can also click the Preferences button to configure your software management by adding additional sources and otherwise customizing how your system's software is handled.
Here's a sampling of some of the additional software that you can add to your Ubuntu system:
XMMS Media Player
Abiword Word Processor
Atlantik Game
Dia Diagram Editor
Devhelp
digiKam Photo Management
Educational Suite GCompris
Epiphany Web Browser
gFTP
GNU Paint
GQView Image Viewer
Gxine TV and Video Viewer
K3B CD Writing Program
Juk Music Player
K Address Book
Kaffeine Media Player
Keep Backup System
Kivio Flowchart and Diagram Editing
KMail
Kopete Instant Messenger
Quanta Plus Web Development
Thunderbird Mail
There's quite a bit available if you want it, too much for me to list here but you get the idea. You won't lack for software with Ubuntu, with all of these options, and it's all available to you with just a few clicks. Continued...
a lot more to read here
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,15...2129TX1K0000532
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Software: Intel Chipset Software 8.3.0.1013
=>Posted by: Regeneration.
=>Tuesday, May 01 @ 03:12:36 CEST
Warp2Search News Intel Corporation has released a new Intel Chipset software. The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility installs the Windows INF files. The INF files inform the operating system how to properly configure the chipset for specific functionality, such as AGP, USB, Core PCI, and ISAPNP services.
download here
paste in ye browser to download
ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/10884/eng/INF_ALLOS_8.3.0.1013_PV.EXE
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Software: Mozilla Firefox 3 PreAlpha 5
=>Posted by: Regeneration.
=>Tuesday, May 01 @ 03:11:39 CEST
Warp2Search News Firefox 3 is focused on improved memory handling, performance, and stability, improved XUL, and new core components such as application data stored in SQLite. Firefox 3 could break a few existing extensions and applications built on top of Firefox, and it will definitely include new optimizations if you like to build on the popular browser. Firefox 3 should have additional JavaScript and SVG features if you're into that sort of thing.
download here,
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Software: Winamp 5.340 build 1278
=>Posted by: Edskes.
=>Monday, April 30 @ 22:48:36 CEST
Warp2Search News Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video (AVI, ASF, MPEG, NSV) types, custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x and 2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping and CD burning.
This version is available in three editions: Pro, Full and Lite.
This new version can be installed over a previous version.
What's New in Winamp 5.340 build 1278:
More information: www.winamp.com
Download: Winamp 5.340 build 1278 Pro
http://wa.edskes.com/winamp534_pro.exe
Download: Winamp 5.340 build 1278 Full
http://wa.edskes.com/winamp534_full_emusic-7plus.exe
Download: Winamp 5.340 build 1278 Lite
http://wa.edskes.com/winamp534_lite.exe
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µTorrent 1.7 Build 1552 beta
Author: Ludvig Strigeus
Date: 2007-05-01
Size: 200 Kb
License: Freeware
µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients.
Main Features:
- Multiple simultaneous downloads
- Smart bandwidth usage
- File level priorities
- Configurable bandwidth scheduling
- Global and per-torrent speed limiting
- Quickly resumes interrupted transfers
- UPnP support (WinXP only)
- Supports popular protocol extensions
- Localized to different languages
- Typical memory use less than 4 MB
- Incredibly small
[b]download here[/b]
http://www.majorgeeks.com/%B5Torrent_d4818.html
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Malware Removal Tool May 2007
Author: Joe Pestro
Date: 2007-05-01
Size: 289 Kb
License: Freeware
Malware removal information and instructions
For best results, run the Malware Removal Tool in safe mode. Double click the setup.exe icon to install, and click "Start Scan" to detect and remove the following malware:
WinTools (and variants)
SpecialGoods.info / NewGenLook.info
Nail.exe (Aurora)
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Manually update your AVG Free Edition when the automatic update fails.
AVG Anti-Virus Updates May 1, 2007
Author: Grisoft, Inc.
Date: 2007-05-01
Size: 7.7 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All
Editors Note: Grisoft tends to silently update, so if you receive an error downloading, you can download the latest update directly from Grisoft here.
In order to provide the highest level of antivirus protection for users of AVG Anti-Virus, GRISOFT continuously develops information about new viruses. This information, as well as product improvements, is provided to the users of AVG Anti-Virus in the form of Updates. Timely virus database updates are the critical component for the effectiveness of any antivirus program. In order to ensure that your AVG is providing the maximum amount of antivirus protection, your AVG Anti-Virus System must be kept up-to-date.
Download the latest AVG Free from MajorGeeks.
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Harvard and the RIAA
p2pnet.net news:- In their efforts to increase sales and turn students into fully compliant consumers, EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US) turned their RIAA loose in junior and senior schools across America, allowing it to run wild, disrupting classes, sucking up valuable staff time and interferring with campus life.
The Bush government seems not only content to allow this to happen, but is actively encouraging it.
Here, Wendy Seltzer and Charles Nesson point out the Harvard University's educational mission is broader than RIAA demands >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Protect Harvard from the RIAA - The Harvard Crimson, May 1, 2007
By - Wendy M. Seltzer and Charles R. Nesson
Since its founding, Harvard has been an educational leader. Its 1650 charter broadly conceives its mission to include 'the advancement of all good literature, arts, and sciences, [and] the advancement and education of youth in all manner of good literature, arts, and sciences.' From John Harvard's library through today's my.harvard.edu, the University has worked to create and spread knowledge, educating citizens within and outside its walls.
Students and faculty use the Internet to gather and share knowledge now more than ever. Law professors at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, for example, have conducted mock trials in the online environment of Second Life; law students have worked with faculty to offer cybercourses to the public at large. Students can collaborate on 'wiki' websites, gather research materials from far-flung countries, and create multi-media projects to enhance their learning.
Yet 'new deterrence and education initiatives' from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) threaten access to this vibrant resource. The RIAA has already requested that universities serve as conduits for more than 1,200 'pre-litigation letters.' Seeking to outsource its enforcement costs, the RIAA asks universities to point fingers at their students, to filter their Internet access, and to pass along notices of claimed copyright infringement.
But these responses distort the University's educational mission. They impose financial and non-monetary costs, including compromised student privacy, limited access to genuine educational resources, and restricted opportunities for new creative expression.
One can easily understand why the RIAA wants help from universities in facilitating its enforcement actions against students who download copyrighted music without paying for it. It is easier to litigate against change than to change with it. If the RIAA saw a better way to protect its existing business, it would not be threatening our students, forcing our librarians and administrators to be copyright police, and flooding our courts with lawsuits against relatively defenseless families without lawyers or ready means to pay. We can even understand the attraction of using lawsuits to shore up an aging business model rather than engaging with disruptive technologies and the risks that new business models entail.
But mere understanding is no reason for a university to voluntarily assist the RIAA with its threatening and abusive tactics. Instead, we should be assisting our students both by explaining the law and by resisting the subpoenas that the RIAA serves upon us. We should be deploying our clinical legal student training programs to defend our targeted students. We should be lobbying Congress for a roll back of the draconian copyright law that the copyright industry has forced upon us. Intellectual property can be efficient when its boundaries are relatively self-evident.
But when copyright protection starts requiring the cooperation of uninvolved parties, at the cost of both financial and mission harm, those external costs outweigh its benefits. We need not condone infringement to conclude that 19th- and 20th-century copyright law is poorly suited to promote 21st-century knowledge. The old copyright-business models are inefficient ways to give artists incentives in the new digital environment.
Both law and technology will continue to evolve. And as innovators develop new ways of sharing copyrighted material, the University should engage with both creators and the 'fair users' who follow and build upon their works. Finding the right balance will be challenging, but projects such as Noank Media, developed by faculty and fellows at the Berkman Center, provides one glimpse into what the future may hold. Just this year, Noank Media became a functioning international corporation with operations in both China and Canada.
With the goal of fostering 'limitless legal content flow' through innovative licensing deals, Noank makes shared music look 'free' to its listeners while reimbursing the copyright holders directly for downloads of their materials. Noank does this by serving as an aggregator, collecting payment through institutions such as libraries and schools, as well as Internet Service Providers. Forward-thinking copyright holders recognize that this system may offer them more rewards, not less control.
The University's educational mission is broader than the RIAA's demands. We don't have all the answers either, but rather than capitulating to special interests, we should continue to search for fair solutions that represent the University's mission, its students, and the law in a way that educates students to be leaders of the digital 21st century.
[Seltzer ?96 (HLS ?99), is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Nesson ?60 (HLS ?63) is William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Re-printed from The Harvard Crimson.]
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Paying homage to Jack Valenti
p2pnet.net news:- Jack Valenti, until recently, Hollywood's principal mouthpiece and someone who uttered some of the movie industry's more glaringly outrageous (in the negative sense) proclamations, died at the age of 85.
His funeral was held at St Matthew's onb May 1 and he'll be buried at the famous Arlington National Cemetery.
The Hollywood Reporter says Honorary pallbearers were "in the dozens" and included California governor Arnold 'Terminator' Schwarzenegger, his creator, director Steven Spielberg, "News Corp honcho" Peter Chernin, Disney boss Robert Iger, and, "nearly a quorum call of lawmakers" including house speaker Nancy Pelosi, senators Ted 'The Net is a Pipe' Stevens, Joe Biden, Patrick Leahy and John Dingell, chairman of the house commerce committee.
Valenti's successor, the new boss of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), Dan Glickman, wasn't mentioned in the write-up.
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principal mouthpiece - Jack Valenti dies, aged 85, April 27, 2007
Hollywood Reporter - Long list of names set for Valenti funeral, May 1, 2007
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NOTE I USE THIS ALL THE TIME...A GREAT PROGRAM.....
McAfee AVERT Stinger 3.4.9
Author: Network Associates
Date: 2007-05-01
Size: 1.8 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All
Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system. Stinger utilizes next generation scan engine technology, including process scanning, digitally signed DAT files, and scan performance optimizations.
This version of Stinger includes specific detection and repair for W32/Polip only. At this time, because of the nature of the infection algorithm, repair of files infected with W32/Polip may not return the files to their pristine, pre-infected state, and can cause problems with self-checking applications.
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McAfee AVERT Stinger
Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system. Stinger utilizes next generation scan engine technology, including process scanning, digitally signed DAT files, and scan performance optimizations.
How do I use Stinger?
1. Download Stinger.exe v2.5.2 [996,359 bytes] (5/1/2007)
* or Download ePOStg245.Zip EPO deployable version (for EPO administrators). Instructions for EPO 2.5X and EPO 3.X are available.
This version of Stinger includes detection for all known variants, as of MAY 1, 2007:
BackDoor-AQJ BackDoor-ALI BackDoor-CEB
BackDoor-JZ Bat/Mumu.worm Exploit-DcomRpc
Exploit-LSASS IPCScan IRC/Flood.ap
IRC/Flood.bi IRC/Flood.cd NTServiceLoader
PWS-Narod PWS-Sincom.dll W32/Anig.worm
W32/Bagle@MM W32/Blaster.worm (Lovsan) W32/Bropia.worm
W32/Bugbear@MM W32/Deborm.worm.gen W32/Doomjuice.worm
W32/Dumaru W32/Elkern.cav W32/Fizzer.gen@MM
W32/FunLove W32/Klez W32/Korgo.worm
W32/Lirva W32/Lovgate W32/Mimail
W32/MoFei.worm W32/Mumu.b.worm W32/MyDoom
W32/Nachi.worm W32/Netsky W32/Nimda
W32/Pate W32/Polybot W32/Sasser.worm
W32/SirCam@MM W32/Sober W32/Sobig
W32/SQLSlammer.worm W32/Swen@MM W32/Yaha@MM
W32/Zafi W32/Zindos.worm
2. When prompted, choose to save the file to a convenient location on your hard disk (such as your Desktop folder).
3. When the download is complete, navigate to the folder that contains the downloaded Stinger.exe file, and run it. WindowsME/XP users read this first.
GO HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS FREE VIRUS SCAN PROGRAM
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bad news for us in the usa
FDA: Millions of Chickens Fed Contaminated Pet Food
May 1, 2007 03:55:48 PM PST
By E.J. Mundell and Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporters
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TUESDAY, May 1 (HealthDay News) -- Up to 3 million broiler chickens were fed melamine-tainted pet food and then sold on the U.S. market beginning in early February, U.S. health officials said in a press conference held late Tuesday.
The contaminated pet product made its way into poultry feed at 38 Indiana farms, 30 of which produced broiler chickens destined for restaurants and supermarkets, said officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Approximately 2.5 million to 3 million chickens fed contaminated pet food have already been sold, Kenneth Peterson, assistant administrator for field operations at the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, said during the teleconference. "That's out of a total of 9 billion broilers processed in the U.S. each year," he noted.
Experts from both agencies downplayed any potential threat to human health.
"We still have no evidence of harm to humans or to swine" from the use of the tainted pet product, said Dr. David Acheson, who began his tenure as the FDA's new assistant commissioner for food protection on Tuesday. Acheson said that the contaminated food constituted only about 5 percent of the total feed at the farms. "The risk to humans is small," he said.
Peterson added that some 100,000 breeder chickens are being held in quarantine at some of the Indiana farms. Those chickens have been quarantined and may be euthanized, the FDA and USDA said. The agencies also warned in a statement issued late Monday that "as the investigation continues, additional farms will likely be identified that received contaminated feed."
The announcement comes on the heels of similar discoveries at hog farms across the United States. The USDA first announced on Thursday that meat from 345 hogs suspected of eating the contaminated feed had entered the U.S. food supply. Some 6,000 hogs suspected of eating the contaminated product have since been quarantined and meat from these animals will be withheld from the food supply, both agencies said.
"As with exposure from hogs fed contaminated pet food and for similar reasons related to the dilution of the contamination, FDA and USDA believe the likelihood of illness after eating chicken fed the contaminated product is very low," the agencies said Monday night. "Because there is no evidence of harm to humans associated with consumption of chicken fed the contaminated product, no recall of poultry products processed from these animals is being issued."
In a similar vein, U.S. health officials have continued to reassure American consumers that pork products from hogs fed contaminated pet food were safe, even as reports surfaced that China has routinely added the contaminant melamine to its exported animal food supplements.
In a joint statement issued late Saturday, the FDA and USDA stressed that, "We are not aware of any human illness that has occurred from exposure to melamine or its byproducts." They added that they have also identified no illnesses in swine fed the salvage food tainted by melamine, which was imported from China as an additive to wheat gluten used in dog and cat food.
Melamine, a derivative of coal, is at the center of the United States' largest pet food recall, involving more than 60 million packages of 100 name-brand products. The chemical has been linked to the deaths of at least 16 pets and the illness of possibly thousands of animals.
In the Saturday statement, the FDA and the USDA said the possibility of human illness from eating swine exposed to melamine remains low for several reasons: "First, it is a partial ingredient in the pet food; second, it is only part of the total feed given to the hogs; third, it is not known to accumulate in the hogs, and the hogs excrete melamine in their urine; fourth, even if present in pork, pork is only a small part of the average American diet."
On April 25, the Pet Food Institute (PFI), which represents U.S. pet food manufacturers, asked the U. S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab and the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration Andrew von Eschenbach for "swift action to answer questions about how melamine, a substance foreign to pet food, ended up in specific ingredients from China," according to a PFI statement.
On Monday, The New York Times reported that Chinese producers routinely add melamine to wheat gluten and rice protein in animal feed products to falsely inflate levels of protein.
In interviews with agricultural workers and managers in China, the newspaper reported that animal feed producers have secretly added melamine to their feed for years because, during tests, it appears to be a protein, even though it doesn't add any nutritional benefits.
"Many companies buy melamine scrap to make animal feed, such as fish feed," Ji Denghui, general manager of the Fujian Sanming Dinghui Chemical Company, which sells melamine, told the Times. "I don't know if there's a regulation on it. Probably not. No law or regulation says 'don't do it,' so everyone's doing it. The laws in China are like that, aren't they? If there's no accident, there won't be any regulation."
"We don't know if this has been going on in China for a long time," Acheson said during a teleconference Monday. "But I have read reports that this is something that has not started recently," he said.
On Thursday, China banned melamine from its food products, but rejected the charge that the substance caused the U.S. pet deaths, the Associated Press reported.
It's not clear how -- or even if -- melamine became fatal in pet food, because it's not believed to be particularly toxic. But U.S. law bans its presence in any form of food, the newspaper said.
The rice protein was imported to the United States by Wilbur-Ellis, an agricultural product importer and distributor. The FDA said it is continuing its investigation of the source of the adulterated pet food, including "tracing products distributed since August 2006 by Wilbur-Ellis throughout the distribution chain."
In their latest statement, the FDA and the USDA said that, as of April 26, they had identified sites in six states where contaminated pet food was received and used in feed given to hogs: California, Kansas, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Utah.
On Friday, FDA officials searched the facilities of a pet food manufacturer and one of its suppliers in the continuing probe of the contamination, the Associated Press reported.
The officials searched an Emporia, Kan., pet food plant operated by Menu Foods and the Las Vegas offices of ChemNutra Inc., the news service said, citing information supplied by the companies.
Menu Foods made many of the major brands of dog and cat foods that were recalled because of the melamine-contaminated wheat gluten. ChemNutra supplied Menu Foods with the wheat gluten, which was also imported from China but reportedly from a different supplier than the rice protein.
Both companies said they were cooperating with the investigation, the AP said.
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2. May 2007 @ 08:29 |
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Software: QuickTime 7.1.6.200
Warp2Search News QuickTime 7 is Apple's cutting-edge digital media software for both Mac and Windows-based computers delivers unparalleled quality for creating, playing and streaming audio and video content over the Internet. Besides playing MPEG-4 and MP3 content, it supports timecode tracks as well as MIDI standards such as the Roland Sound Canvas and GS format extensions.
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2. May 2007 @ 08:37 |
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iTunes 7.1.1.5
Author: Apple Computer
Date: 2007-05-02
Size: 36.1 Mb
License: Freeware
Download iTunes 7 and make yourself at home. Buy music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks, or download free podcasts from the iTunes Store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Play everything on your Mac or PC. Then sync it to your iPod and bring it along. Anywhere.
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2. May 2007 @ 08:38 |
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CPU-Z 1.40
Author: Frank Delattre
Date: 2007-05-02
Size: 432 Kb
License: Freeware
CPU-Z is a freeware utility that provides some information on your CPU :
# Processor name and vendor
# Core stepping and process
# Processor package
# Processor current core voltage
# Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier
# Partial overclock detection
# Processor features, including supported instructions sets.
# L1 and L2 cache informations : location, size, speed, technology.
# Motherboard informations : BIOS, chipset, memory, AGP.
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2. May 2007 @ 08:41 |
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ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.90.2
Author: ClamWin Free Antivirus
Date: 2007-05-02
Size: 15.2 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003.
ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:
- High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
Scanning Scheduler;
- Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
- Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;
- Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.
The latest version of ClamWin Free Antivirus is 0.90
Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.
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2. May 2007 @ 09:01 |
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Coffee can be good for you, experts say
By Anne Harding Tue May 1, 12:41 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drinking coffee can help ward off type 2 diabetes and may even help prevent certain cancers, according to panelists discussing the benefits -- and risks -- of the beverage at a scientific meeting.
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"We're coming from a situation where coffee had a very negative health image," Dr. Rob van Dam of the Harvard School of Public Health, who has conducted studies on coffee consumption and diabetes, told Reuters Health. Nevertheless, he added, "it's not like we're promoting coffee as the new health food and asking people who don't like coffee to drink coffee for their health."
Van Dam participated in a "controversy session" on coffee at the Experimental Biology 2007 meeting underway in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Lenore Arab of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA also took part, presenting results of a review of nearly 400 studies investigating coffee consumption and cancer risk.
There's evidence, Arab noted, that the beverage may protect against certain types of colon cancer, as well as rectal and liver cancer, possibly by reducing the amount of cholesterol, bile acid and natural sterol secretion in the colon, speeding up the passage of stool through the colon (and thus cutting exposure of the lining of the intestine to potential carcinogens in food), and via other mechanisms as well.
However, Arab did find evidence that coffee may increase the risk of leukemia and stomach cancer, with the case for leukemia being strongest.
The findings suggest that people who may be vulnerable to these risks -- for example pregnant women and children -- should limit coffee consumption, van Dam noted in an interview.
He and his colleagues are now conducting a clinical trial to get a clearer picture of the diabetes-preventing effects of coffee, which were first reported in 2002. Since then, he noted, there have been more than 20 studies on the topic.
Van Dam and his team are also looking for which of the "hundreds to thousands" of components of coffee might be responsible for these effects. It's probably not caffeine, he noted, given that decaf and caffeinated coffee have similar effects on reducing diabetes risk.
His top candidate, van Dam says, is chlorogenic acid, an antioxidant that slows the absorption of glucose in the intestines.
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2. May 2007 @ 09:18 |
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Multiple IRC Vulnerabilities in Trillian
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Trillian versions 3.1 and lower IRC module.
Remote exploitation of multiple vulnerabilities in the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) module of Cerulean Studios? Trillian could allow for the interception of private conversations or execution of code as the currently logged on user.
When handling long CTCP PING messages containing UTF-8 characters, it is possible to cause the Trillian IRC client to return a malformed response to the server. This malformed response is truncated and is missing the terminating newline character. This could allow the next line sent to the server to be improperly sent to an attacker.
When a user highlights a URL in an IRC message window Trillian copies the data to an internal buffer. If the URL contains a long string of UTF-8 characters, it is possible to overflow a heap based buffer corrupting memory in a way that could allow for code execution.
A heap overflow can be triggered remotely when the Trillian IRC module receives a message that contains a font face HTML tag with the face attribute set to a long UTF-8 string.?
All Trillian users that use it to connect to any IRC server or IRC network are urged to immediately upgrade to Trillian 3.1.5.0 or better or use a (safe and full featured) IRC client.
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/usrbing...es-in-trillian/
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