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4. June 2007 @ 14:37 |
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NT FILE RECOVERY..........
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4. June 2007 @ 14:41 |
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ProCleaner 1.0.1.10
Author: ProCleaner.net
Date: 2007-06-04
Size: 208 Kb
License: Freeware
ProCleaner is a freeware system optimizer and privacy tool offering a top notch history eraser, startup manager, software uninstaller, and dependency viewer. ProCleaner automatically removes the footprints you leave on your computer during every day use and web browsing, as well as freeing up wasted hard drive space. ProCleaner is Free, Fast, and contains NO Adware / Spyware!
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4. June 2007 @ 14:48 |
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K-Lite Mega codec Pack 2.15
Author: KL Software
Date: 2007-06-04
Size: 27.5 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All
K-Lite codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.
The K-Lite codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs: It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs; It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want; It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn't contain any conflicting codecs; It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies; and has different packages.
The K-Lite Mega codec Pack combines the contents of three codec packs:
* K-Lite codec Pack Full
* QuickTime Alternative
* Real Alternative
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K-Lite codec Pack Full 3.15
Author: KL Software
Date: 2007-06-04
Size: 14.2 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All
K-Lite codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.
The K-Lite codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs: It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs; It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want; It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn't contain any conflicting codecs; It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies; and has different packages.
Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.
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K-Lite codec Pack Standard 3.15
Author: KL Software
Date: 2007-06-04
Size: 6.07 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All
K-Lite codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.
The K-Lite codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs: It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs; It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want; It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn't contain any conflicting codecs; It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies; and has different packages.
Standard contains everything you need to play all the commonly used formats. This package should be enough for the average user.
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K-Lite codec Pack Basic 3.15
Author: KL Software
Date: 2007-06-04
Size: 2 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All
K-Lite codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.
The K-Lite codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs: It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs; It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want; It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn't contain any conflicting codecs; It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies; and has different packages.
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4. June 2007 @ 14:51 |
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JetPhoto Studio 3.6.2
Author: Atomix Technologies
Date: 2007-06-04
Size: 11.6 Mb
License: Freeware
A full-featured digital photo organizing and web publishing platform.
JetPhoto contains a PC desktop software ? JetPhoto Studio, and a PHP-based web service software ? JetPhoto Server.
JetPhoto Studio enables user to organize photos by notes, keywords, time and location. The specified date or time the user took the photos will be highlighted in calendar (Month View or Week View).
Using the calendar, you can log your travel by taking photos or use digital camera to compose your multimedia diary. As another innovative feature, JetPhoto also integrates GPS technology to locate and link photos on geographical map.
JetPhoto Studio provides some utilities to resize pictures and stamp watermarks in batches, generate Flash movie with photo slideshow and crop pictures for your cell phone or PDA screens.
Once the photo album is prepared on a user?s personal Macintosh, only one click is needed to synchronize local album with online web photo album based on JetPhoto Server.
All uploaded pictures will be resized and stamped with watermark automatically while web publishing. JetPhoto Server enables users to quickly build and customize a searchable, full-featured photo web site.
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4. June 2007 @ 16:12 |
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ireland you make me smile. :)
Thanks for your efforts. ;)
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4. June 2007 @ 16:54 |
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RIAA throws in the towel in Atlantic v. Andersen
By Eric Bangeman | Published: June 04, 2007 - 04:04PM CT
One of the most notorious file-sharing cases is drawing to a close. Both parties in Atlantic v. Andersen have agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice, which means that Tanya Andersen is the prevailing party and can attempt to recover attorneys fees.
Tanya Andersen was originally sued by the RIAA in 2005. She's a disabled single mother with a nine-year-old daughter living in Oregon; she was targeted by the music industry for downloading gangster rap over Kazaa under the handle "gotenkito." She denied engaging in piracy and in October 2005, she filed a countersuit accusing the record industry of racketeering, fraud, and deceptive business practices, among other things.
As we noted earlier today, counterclaims accusing the RIAA of all sorts of wrongdoing have become increasingly common. Late last month, Andersen filed a motion for summary judgment, saying that the plaintiffs have "failed to provide competent evidence sufficient to satisfy summary judgment standards" to show that she engaged in copyright infringement. Most notably, a forensic expert retained by the RIAA failed to locate "any evidence whatsoever" on Andersen's PC that she had engaged in file-sharing.
The RIAA has already taken a beating in the press in this case?accusing a disabled single mother of sharing songs like "Hoes in My Room" over Kazaa and then pressing doggedly ahead with the case despite mounting evidence that it had erred tends to look bad. Faced with the prospect of a case that was all but unwinnable, the RIAA has cut its losses by agreeing to dismiss the case.
What's unusual is that the RIAA has stipulated to a dismissal with prejudice, completely exonerating Andersen. Next to a negative verdict, an exonerated defendant is the last thing the RIAA wants. When faced with an undesirable outcome, the RIAA's tactic has been to move to dismiss without prejudice, a "no harm, no foul" strategy that puts an end to a lawsuit without declaring a winner and a loser. Dismissing a case with prejudice opens the RIAA up to an attorneys' fee award, which happened in the case of another woman caught in the music industry's driftnet, Debbie Foster.
With the original RIAA complaint has dismissed, Andersen told Ars Technica in an e-mail that the counterclaim is "now standing on its own," meaning that she will still have the opportunity to argue her counterclaims before the court. Given the allegations she has made, prevailing with the counterclaim could prove even more troubling to the RIAA.
Given the facts of the case and the precedent set by Capitol v. Foster, an attorneys' fee award is not out of the question. Getting the RIAA to actually cut a check may prove to be a bit more difficult, as Foster's attorneys have discovered. You can track the progress of Foster's attempts to recover fees?and many other file-sharing cases?at Recording Industry vs. The People.
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arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070604-RIAA-throws-in-the-towel-in-atlantic-v-andersen.html
ps i do not see this posted anywhere on this site
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5. June 2007 @ 04:05 |
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Four New Browser Vulnerabilities Surface
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
June 4, 2007, 6:17 PM
Four new unpatched vulnerabilities have been published for Internet Explorer and Firefox, with two coming for each browser. The flaws were discovered by security researcher Michal Zalewski who published them to the Full Disclosure mailing list on Monday.
The most severe of the bugs is an issue in IE that could lead to cookie stealing and/or setting, page hijacking, and memory corruption. Zalewski referred to it as the "bait and switch vulnerability."
1) Title : MSIE page update race condition (CRITICAL)
Impact : cookie stealing / setting, page hijacking, memory corruption
Demo : http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ierace/
Navigating from one page to another within a domain allows an attacker to execute malicious JavaScript code that has the permissions of the previous page. The issue was found on fully-patched versions of both IE6 and IE7.
A vulnerability in Firefox comes as the second most serious issue. In that flaw, a cross-site IFRAME hijacking issue exists. The attacker could use about:blank frames to launch keyboard snooping and content spoofing attacks on the browser.
Next is another flaw in Firefox that allows the non-consentual download or execution of files. A sequence of what is called "blur" and "focus" operations bypasses delay timers and confirmation downloads allowing for the flaw to occur.
Finally, a spoofing vulnerability exists in IE6 that allows for specially-crafted websites to spoof address bar data. IE7 is not affected, however.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Four_New...face/1180992674
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5. June 2007 @ 04:22 |
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Alcohol 52 1.9.6.5403
Author: Alcohol Soft
Date: 2007-06-04
Size: 7.60 Mb
License: Shareware
Requires: Win All
Alcohol brings a new meaning to the word multimedia! It is without a doubt a leader in it's class, bringing the ability to emulate and record CDs and DVDs together into one amazingly easy to use software program.
Editors Note: This does install the Alcohol Toolbar to your browser, but it can be uninstalled and Alcohol 52% can still be used.
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Alcohol 120 1.9.6.5403
Author: Alcohol Software
Date: 2007-06-04
Size: 7.60 Mb
License: Shareware $49.95
Requires: Win All
Alcohol 120% lets you backup your original game cds/dvds even if they are protected.
Can create 31 virtual CD & DVD-ROMs, allowing the user to play the discs without the need to insert the physical disc.
In addition, it also allows you to create copies of your CD & DVD to CD-R / CD-RW / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD-RAM and DVD+RW discs. Since virtual CD-ROMs can be accessed a lot faster, you can play them at a reading speed of 200X. The program offers an easy to use non-technical interface and several wizards that will assist you with all available tasks. Alcohol 120% supports various normal CD & DVD and CD RAW sub-channel reading methods
RAW reading method enables to emulate all CDs. When it comes to CD and DVD Burning (writing), the program supports Session-At-Once and Disc-At-Once, as well as several RAW session and disk methods for CD burning. Additional features include support for Buffer-Under-Run prevention, including BurnProof, Power-Burn, SafeBurn and others as well as simultaneous recording to multiple drives.
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5. June 2007 @ 06:04 |
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Free Alternatives:to Photoshop,Illustrator InDesign and Kompozer
Photoshop -> Gimp [gimp.org]
http://www.gimp.org/windows/
Illustrator -> Inkscape [inkscape.org]
http://www.inkscape.org/index.php?lang=en
InDesign -> Scribus [scribus.net]
http://www.scribus.net/
Web Design -> Kompozer [kompozer.net],
http://kompozer.net/
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
Inkscape's main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
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6. June 2007 @ 06:09 |
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Answer or else, RIAA tells universities
p2pnet.net news:- Presidents at American colleges are being ordered to answer a Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG-initiated survey demanding explanations of the schools' positions on file sharing, or piracy, as the Big 4 organise music cartel calls it.
Following a a massive and ongoing multi-million-dollar campaign in the mainstream media, it's now almost a given that the priority at US universities, not to mention other schools, isn't teaching: it's to act as corporate copyright cops, putting education second.
American students, with the Big 4's RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) breathing down their necks, already have more than enough to worry about. But things just got worse. They now have a US political group adding to the pressure.
Last month the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, led by Hollywood Howard Berman (bottom), gave universities "with high volumes of student piracy violations" 30 days to return a survey on so-called Net piracy and network practices, and the committee is slated to resume its meetings Tuesday in Washington, says TechNewsWorld.
"The entertainment industries have been leading contributors to Berman since 1993, topping up his coffers with amounts totalling close to $1,000,000," p2pnet posted recently.
And yet, "Unfortunately, many schools have turned a blind eye to piracy," Berman felt able to declare unashamedly.
TechNewsWorld quotes a letter sent to Purdue University president Martin C. Jischke. It says, "The fact that copyright piracy is not unique to college and university campuses is not an excuse for higher education officials to fail to take reasonable steps neither to eliminate such activity nor to appropriately sanction such conduct when discovered."
But, "The real problem lies with leveraging the students through their schools," the story has lawyer Donald David saying. "We are dealing with 17- and 18-year-olds. You go to the college and accuse them of a crime and say [they] owe us money. I have a problem with that,."
He's not the only one.
Ohio University had the misfortune to be singled out as the most attacked US University. But it decided caving in to the RIAA was the better part of valour and in effect put p2p file sharing off limits.
"Students on campuses throughout the United States, many of whom are experiencing their first year as members of university communities, are facing unprecedented legal intimidation at the hands of the recording industry," said Joe Hazelbaker. "It appears that many institutions are simply prepared to wash their hands, refusing even to question the tactics of the industry, let alone providing meaningful legal assistance to their students," he told p2pnet.
Now, "There's a good chance that the Congressional inquiry could result in a legal backlash and misdirected new laws," says David in TechNewsWorld.
"They are trying to make 17- and 18-year-olds afraid. That bothers me. This is the equivalent of going to your boss and saying you want the employer to send the employees a letter. We need some kind of change in the criminal law because nobody will ever be prosecuted," said David.
Ultimately, the inquisition could backfire on the RIAA with a class action suit alleging a violation of state laws, invasion of privacy and possibly the fair debt collection act, according to David.
"As of Monday, federal legislators have not yet determined how many university presidents failed to reply by the May 31 deadline," says the story, adding:
"While the letter encouraged the school officials to respond in their best interests, it did not threaten penalties to those who did not cooperate, said Jean Smith, spokesperson for Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property.
"We may require penalties, but we won't know how many replied until we study the results," she told TechNewsWorld. "We presume the universities respect the laws involving Internet piracy."
Berman is also among US politicians listed by The Consumerist as having received payments from the RIAA.
http://p2pnet.net/story/12428
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File sharing safety guide
p2pnet.net news special:- With the entertainment cartels apparently hell bent on completely alienating their own customers by trying to sue them into buying product, as they correctly call their low quality, high price offerings, discretion is obviously the better part of valour.
Students are currently the primary targets of choice but sooner or later, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG's RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) gets around everybody, not excluding very young children.
With that in mind, ZeroPaid's Jared Moya has come up with a few handy thoughts aimed at keeping you and your identity safe. It shouldn't be necessary, but since it is >>>>>>>>
1. Use Private BitTorrent tracker sites
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6341/PUBLIC...+sites+explored
The first is fairly obvious and that is of the inherent risk of using public BitTorrent tracker sites instead of private members only ones. The risk stems from the fact that almost anybody can connect to the swarm and take a peek at your IP address.
2. Don't act as a Supernode
http://www.zeropaid.com/kazaalite/
The RIAA has targeted subpoenas at users who allow their computers to be "Supernodes" on the FastTrack P2P System (used, for instance, by KaZaA or KaZaA Lite). In order to further reduce the risk of having your ISP subpoenaed or of being sued yourself, we recommend that you make sure your computer isn't being used as a Supernode. To learn more about Supernodes and how to make sure your computer is not one, look here: Disabling the Supernode function with KaZaA (EFF - PDF 331k).
3. Try to use campus DC Hubs:
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/archive/index.php/f-6.html
The RIAA and MPAA have sued college students for using publicly-accessible file sharing networks, including systems like i2hub. However, with one particularly notable exception, the RIAA and MPAA have not targeted users downloading or uploading music over closed, college campus intranets -- in other words, students sharing with other students at the same school over the school's own network. Tracking intranet infringements is practically more difficult, though not necessarily impossible.
4. Use IM data transfer programs:
http://waste.sourceforge.net/
Similarly, the RIAA and MPAA have not targeted file sharing through instant messaging systems, closed networks such as WASTE, and other sharing tools in which users can limit access by third-parties.
5. Use PeerGuardian:
http://phoenixlabs.org/
This handy tool blocks "harmful" IP addresses from connecting to your PC. Using a list that's regularly updated on Blocklist.org, it detects and closes connections from specified IP ranges.
6. Use Safe Peer:
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6384/Top+Azureus+Plugins+Revealed#a9
This handy Azureus plugin for BitTorrent users is similar to PeerGuardian in that it also imports a list of IP addresses from Blocklist.org to use as an IP filter before connecting to peers.
What else can I do?
The Electonic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has posted a list of additional tips to help you avoid getting busted for illegal file-sharing.
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/howto-notgetsued.php
First off, for those of you who are unware of what constitues illegal file-sharing, the crime occurs in the "distribution" of copyrighted material, the uploading or sharing of content, and not by simply downloading it.
The EFF points out that there is no way to know for sure as to exactly what the RIAA and MPAA are going to do or who they are going to sue but, in the meantime users of publicly-accessible P2P networks can take the following steps to reduce their chances of being targeted:
Either...
Make sure there are no potentially infringing files in your shared folder. This would ordinarily mean that your shared folder contains only files 1) that are in the public domain, 2) for which you have permission to share, or 3) that are made available under pro-sharing licenses, such as the Creative Commons license or other open media licenses, and
Remove all potentially misleading file names that might be confused with the name of an RIAA artist or song (e.g., "Usher" or "Madonna") from your shared folder
Or...
Disable the "sharing" or "uploading" features on your P2P application, if your application allows it (see below).
We hate this option - it blocks your non-infringing sharing, and it doesn't get us any closer to a real solution that gets artists paid while making file sharing legal. But, at the moment, it does appear that turning off sharing will reduce your chances of becoming a lawsuit target.
This can usually be accomplished in the "Options" or "Preferences" of your P2P application by removing all shared directories and sometimes setting an explicit option not to share files or to allow zero uploads. The specific method will vary depending on your P2P application, but looking at a few examples can give you the general idea.
The EFF suggests (but can't guarantee) the following links for instructions (you can also try Google searches for ("turn off sharing"+the software's name):
University of Chicago's resources: http://security.uchicago.edu/peer-to-peer/no_fileshare.shtml
Duke University resources: http://www.oit.duke.edu/helpdesk/filesharing/steps.html
Note: Not all clients allow you to turn off "sharing."
If you use software such as BitTorrent and eDonkey (as well as related clients like Azureus and eMule, respectively), you'll automatically be uploading whatever you're currently downloading.
In eDonkey, these files may appear in search results and thus become visible to the MPAA and RIAA.
In BitTorrent, you must connect to a BitTorrent "tracker" to download a file, and your Internet address is visible to anyone else - including the MPAA or RIAA - connected to that tracker. In these instances, you may be at greater risk.
Slashdot Slashdot it!
Also See:
primary targets - Answer or else, RIAA tells universities, June 5, 2007
young children - Tanya Andersen beats the RIAA, June 5, 2007
ZeroPaid - Tips on how to not get busted for file-sharing, June 5, 2007
http://p2pnet.net/story/12435
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6. June 2007 @ 16:21 |
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Password Reset Disk
In the event you have forgotten your account password, Windows XP has made this feature available so that your password can be easily reset. The tips below include instruction for creating and using a Password Reset Disk for both Windows XP Home and Professional editions:
To create a Password Reset Disk: [Home Edition]
1. Open Control Panel from the Start Menu
2. Open User Accounts
3. Click on the User for which you want to create a Password Reset Disk.
4. Along the upper left side of the window, click on Prevent a Forgotten Password. This starts the Forgotten Password Wizard.
5. Insert a blank floppy disk and follow the prompts through the Wizard.
6. When the process is complete, label the disk and store it in a safe place.
Here is how to use your Password Reset Disk:
1. From the Welcome screen, click your user name
2. Click the Question Mark button.
3. Click Use Your Password Reset Disk. Follow the instructions to create a new password.
Note: Once you have logged in with your new password, be sure to store your Password Reset Disk in a safe place.
To create a Password Reset Disk: [Professional Edition]
Note that this procedure requires one blank, formatted floppy disk. To create a password reset disk for your local user account:
1. Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE. The Windows Security dialog box appears.
2. Select Change Password . The Change Password dialog box will appear.
3. In the Log on to box, click the local computer. For example, click Computer (this computer).
4. Select Backup . The Forgotten Password Wizard will now start.
5. On the "Welcome to the Forgotten Password Wizard" page, choose Next .
6. Insert a blank, formatted disk in drive A, and then choose Next .
7. In the Current user account password box, type your password, and then select Next . The Forgotten Password Wizard will create the disk.
8. When the progress bar reaches 100 percent complete, select Next , and then choose Finish . The Forgotten Password Wizard will quit and you return to the Change Password dialog box.
9. Remove and label the newly created disk. Be sure to store it in a safe place.
10. In the Change Password dialog box, click Cancel .
11. In the Windows Security dialog box, click Cancel.
Here is how to use your Password Reset Disk:
1. In the Welcome to Windows dialog box, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE.
2. In the Log On to Windows dialog box, type an incorrect password in the Password box, and then select OK .
3. In the Logon Failed dialog box that appears, select Reset . The Password Reset Wizard starts.
4. On the "Welcome to the Password Reset Wizard" page, choose Next .
5. Insert the Password Reset Disk in your floppy drive and select Next.
6. On the "Reset the User Account Password" page, type a new password in the Type a New Password box.
7. Type the same password in the Type the Password Again to Confirm box.
8. In the Type a New Password Hint box, type a hint that will help you remember the password if you forget it.
Note : This hint is visible to anyone who attempts to log on to the computer by using your user account.
9. Choose Next , and then click Finish . The Password Reset Wizard will quit and return you to the Log On to Windows dialog box. The Password Reset Disk is automatically updated with the new password information. You do not have to create a new password reset disk.
10. In the Log On to Windows dialog box, type your new password in the Password box.
11. In the Log on to box, click the local computer. For example, click Computer (this computer) , and then click OK . You are logged on to the local computer with your local account information.
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6. June 2007 @ 16:27 |
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Speed Up Windows XP by Keeping the Operating System in Memory
One thing you can do to speed up Windows XP is to make sure that key operating system functions stay in memory. Memory (also called "RAM" for Random Access Memory) is much faster than the hard disk. Perform the following steps to boost your XP computer's performance:
1. Click the Start button. Click the Run command and type regedit in the Open text box. Click OK. As always, be very careful when editing the Registry.
2. In the Registry Editor, go to the following registry key:
HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
3. Right click the DisablePagingExecutive entry in the right pane of the Registry editor and click Modify.
4. In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, type the number "1" (without the quotes) in the Value data field. Click OK.
5. Close the Registry Editor and restart the computer.
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6. June 2007 @ 16:31 |
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To set the computer to clear the pagefile without directly editing the registry is:
1. Click on the Start button
2. Go to the Control Panel
3. Administrative Tools
4. Local Security Policy
5. Local Policies
6. Click on Security Options
7. Right hand menu - right click on "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile"
8. Select "Enable"
9. Reboot
Another way to do the Task
If you want to clear the page file on each shutdown:
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\ClearPageFileAtShutdown
3. Set the value to 1
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7. June 2007 @ 10:48 |
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RIAA gets writ for extortion
Allegedly
By Tamlin Magee: Thursday 07 June 2007, 16:17
EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE lawsuit-happy p2p-annoyer the RIAA is being sued for extortion by one Suzy Del Cid, accusing the massive alliance of extortion.
Del Cid is making claims that the RIAA is using unlicensed private investigators to dig out dirty filesharing secrets of hers. She also reckons that the group is extorting money through the court system.
In the filing, Del Cid says that subpoenas were sent out by the RIAA without even knowing the identity of the p2p sharer then sending in its alleged financial bullies the Settlement Support Center, which will tell the user that they're in deep dung and asks for a couple (thousand) bob to escape trouble.
Suzy also reckons that the RIAA goes after vulnerable targets on purpose, such as the technologically clueless - though we presume the Amish are safe - as well as the elderly and disabled. Read more, at vnunet.com. µ
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8. June 2007 @ 04:45 |
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go here to see the report
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Report: little-known AV packages outdo those of Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft
By Jeremy Reimer | Published: June 07, 2007 - 10:55PM CT
Andreas Clementi, who runs the web site av-comparatives.org, has released his latest report that looks at how well antivirus programs do against threats that have not yet been identified and included in standard AV signatures. The test looked at 17 different products, including offerings from Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Kaspersky, and Microsoft, and tested how well releases dated February 2 (with no updates) fared against a swath of new malware?viruses, scripts, trojans, and other nasties?that were discovered between February 2 and May 2.
The winner of this antivirus sweepstakes was a product called Avira, which managed to detect and defeat 71 percent of the unknown malware. Right behind it was the equally-obscure NOD32, which swept away 68 percent of the threats. The more well-known commercial products fared more poorly. Norton Antivirus and McAfee tied at a mere 24 percent, while Microsoft's OneCare did even worse by only identifying 18 percent of the new threats. Resting at the bottom of the barrel were Kaspersky and eScan at nine percent, and AVG, which detected only eight percent of malicious software in addition to producing many false positives.
Most virus companies proudly promote the ability of their software to "preemptively" fight viruses that haven't been identified yet, but it is surprising how poorly most of the programs fared at this task. While the chances of being hit by a virus that hasn't been found is low, it does happen: a few years back I worked at an office that got hit by a virus on a Friday afternoon, and Norton didn't have an update ready until the following Monday. New viruses can be created easily by making minor modifications to existing code, and such mutant strains often fly under the radar of traditional signature-based scanners.
Clementi has been running comparative tests of antivirus software for some time: his first test was back in February 2004, doing tests on both known ("on-demand comparative") and unknown ("Retrospective/Proactive") threats. The last test for known malware was released in February, and the winner there was TrustPort AV from AEC which had an overall detection rate of 99.36 percent, with Norton at 96.83 percent, McAfee at 91.63 percent, and Microsoft OneCare achieving the lowest score at 82.4 percent.
Overall, the tests seem to indicate that for dealing with malware, the two leading programs (McAfee and Norton) are quite firmly in the middle of the pack in terms of effectiveness, and Microsoft evidently has some work to do to bring OneCare up to the level of its competitors.
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10 Ways to Outwit Your Appetite
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You don't have to be smarter than a quiz show fifth-grader to learn how to control the urge to eat. Just follow these ingenious tips:
1. Feed it protein for breakfast. You'll be less hungry later on and end up eating 267 fewer calories during the day. At least that's what happened on days when St. Louis University researchers gave overweight women two scrambled eggs and two slices of jelly-topped toast for breakfast rather than about half that protein.
2. Make it climb a flight of stairs. At home, store the foods that tempt you most way out of reach. For instance, Cornell University food psychologist Brian Wansink, PhD, keeps his favorite soda in a basement fridge. "Half the time I'm too lazy to run down there to get it, so I drink the water in the kitchen."
3. Sleep on it. People who don't get their eight hours of zzz's experience hormonal fluctuations that increase appetite, report researchers.
4. Give it something else to think about. When scientists scanned the brains of people eating different foods, they found that the brain reacts to fat in the mouth in much the same way that the nose responds to a pleasant aroma. So if you feel a craving coming on, apply your favorite scent.
5. Never let it see a heaping plate. The more food that's in front of you, the more you'll eat. So at a restaurant, ask your waiter to pack up half of your meal before serving it to you, then eat the extras for lunch the next day.
6. Put it under the lights. You consume fewer calories at a well-lit restaurant table than you do dining in a dark corner. "In the light, you're more self-conscious and worry that other patrons are watching what you eat," explains Wansink.
7. Talk it down. Entertaining friends with a great story doesn't give you much time to eat up, so you'll probably still have food on your plate when they're done. Once they're finished, call it quits too.
8. Offer it a seat. If you sit down to snack -- and use utensils and a plate -- you'll eat fewer calories at subsequent meals.
9. Satisfy it with soup. Start lunch with about 130 calories worth of vegetable soup and you'll eat 20 percent fewer calories during lunch overall, say Penn State experts.
10. Give it little choice. Packages that contain assorted varieties of cookies, candy, dips, cheese, etc., make you want to try all the flavors. The effect is so powerful, says Wansink, that when people are given 10 colors of M&Ms to munch on, not seven, they eat 30 percent more!
Oh, and one more thing: Feeding your appetite a diverse diet that is low in calories and high in nutrients can make your RealAge as much as four years younger. Sweet.
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WHAT IS RUNNING..........Gives you an inside look into your Windows system.
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ULTIMATE BOOT CD FOR WINDOWS..........
UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair, restore, or diagnose almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the ultimate free hardware and software diagnostic tool. All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. UBCD4Win is based on Bart's PE©. Bart's PE© builds a Windows® "pre-install" environment CD, basically Windows® booted from CD. We include many free hardware and software diagnostic tools that allow you to fix almost any problem you will face with your computer. With network support, the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scan hard drives for viruses, etc. this project includes almost everything you need to repair your system problems. This project has been put together to be the ultimate recovery cd and not a replacement OS (Operating System). Please visit the "List of Tools" page for a complete list of what is included in the latest version of the project
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What is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows?
UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair, restore, or diagnose almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the ultimate free hardware and software diagnostic tool. All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. UBCD4Win is based on Bart's PE©. Bart's PE© builds a Windows® "pre-install" environment CD, basically Windows® booted from CD. We include many free hardware and software diagnostic tools that allow you to fix almost any problem you will face with your computer. With network support, the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scan hard drives for viruses, etc. this project includes almost everything you need to repair your system problems. This project has been put together to be the ultimate recovery cd and not a replacement OS (Operating System). Please visit the "List of Tools" page for a complete list of what is included in the latest version of the project.
There are requirements for building this CD which can and may make it difficult for everyone to build the project. Please understand that these requirements and restrictions are due to copyright laws, etc. When starting this project I wanted it to be as easy as possible. I wanted it to be a simple ISO file download just like the original Ultimate Boot CD. I had to weigh the ease of build and functionality very carefully. After much thought and research I decided that Bart's PE© was the best way to accomplish this task. That decision required a different type of build and more steps for the end user. Yes more complicated, but I prefer to think of these additional steps in a positive way. We provide detailed instructions, email support, and the forum for help. Inexperienced users will feel a sense of accomplishment and gain knowledge when they successfully build the CD.
How did this project start?
This project was started because of requests from members of the original Ultimate Boot CD yahoo group. Several members wanted a "Windows®" version of the Ultimate Boot CD. After a few days no one had volunteered! So I decided that I had enough time to do this and it was my way to give something back to the computing community. The "true" and "pure" ideal of helping people quickly spread, after 2 1/2 years the project continues to grow.
April 2, 2004, I created the UBCDWindows group. The first few weeks consisted mostly of discussions on how to accomplish this. We had to decide what should be included and searched for great stuff. After searching and reading a lot of web pages I finally decided that Bart's PE© was the best option.
One of the first issues I saw was one of the requirements for Bart's PE©, an XP CD with SP1. I personally had upgraded to XP right when XP came out so I did not have SP1 on my XP CD. I found several solutions for this issue but manually slipstreaming required several applications and would add more complexity to the project. I didn't like this added complexity but figured we would be able to do something about that. A better solution was created and is discussed below.
April 20, 2004 was an exciting day for me, I launched this site. After a few days of getting everything setup I realizing it was easy to setup a forum. So I announced the imminent closing of the yahoo group and requested that everyone join the forum. The project and forum have grown since it's start. Member registrations continue to grow and new teams have been created to help the development and support of the project.
The slipstreaming problem needed addressed so I contacted one of my friends that is a programmer. Raptor was glad to help and we started working together on creating a slipstreaming application. We worked pretty hard for several weeks creating the application. Well, he did all the coding work and I just helped with testing, minor details, and the dialogue for the prompts. On July 9, 2004 we released AutoStreamer 1.0!!
February 23, 2006 is another great day in the history of this project. Only a week after starting a "donation rally" to purchase an OEM license for Bart PE©, we hit our goal!! We now own a license for Bart PE©! This has helped simplify the project in many ways. Now when you download the project it is ONE download. There are no extra or complicated extraction steps, no "extract this here....delete....extract here", etc. Having the license has given us the ability to change and simplify many other things also. I thank all the great users who helped us purchase the license in order to make it better and easier for EVERYONE!!
February 2007, another donation rally and another OEM license for the project!! Thanks to everyone who donated towards our RamDrive license. That annoying little "popup" asking people to purchase RamDrive or error screen are gone. This is a newer version with few restrictions and is capable of creating up to a 2 Gigabyte RamDrive. Thanks again everyone for helping to make the project better and easier for everyone.
April 3, 2007 yet more capabilities are added to UBCD4Win. After over a year of my development team working with BTS driverpacks driver team, BartPE support is added to the BTS driverpacks! I can't congratulate or thank the members of my development team that worked on this enough. Bashrat has a great driverpack that he has been working hard on for years and we greatly appreciate his help and support. Kudos to OverFlow for all of his work and time spent working on this implementation.
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Goodbye wires, Hello WiTricity
p2pnet.net news:- Electrical power cables and plugs may soon become things of the past thanks to WiTricity, a technique developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
WiTricity, wireless power transfer over two meters (about 6.5 feet), has been achieved from the coil on the left to the coil on the right, where it's powering a 60W light bulb.
The team which made it happen are: front row, Peter Fisher (left) and Robert Moffatt; second row: Marin Soljacic; third row: Andre Kurs (left), John Joannopoulos and Aristeidis Karalis.
And their experiment opens up a future in which cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronic devices could charge themselves without ever being plugged in.
Even better, some of them might not even need batteries at all.
WiTricity is based on using coupled resonant objects, says MIT, going on >>>>>
Two resonant objects of the same resonant frequency tend to exchange energy efficiently, while interacting weakly with extraneous off-resonant objects. A child on a swing is a good example of this. A swing is a type of mechanical resonance, so only when the child pumps her legs at the natural frequency of the swing is she able to impart substantial energy.
Another example involves acoustic resonances: Imagine a room with 100 identical wine glasses, each filled with wine up to a different level, so they all have different resonant frequencies. If an Opera singer sings a sufficiently loud single note inside the room, a glass of the corresponding frequency might accumulate sufficient energy to even explode, while not influencing the other glasses. In any system of coupled resonators there often exists a so-called "strongly coupled" regime of operation. If one ensures to operate in that regime in a given system, the energy transfer can be very efficient.
While these considerations are universal, applying to all kinds of resonances (e.g., acoustic, mechanical, electromagnetic, etc.), the MIT team focused on one particular type: magnetically coupled resonators. The team explored a system of two electromagnetic resonators coupled mostly through their magnetic fields; they were able to identify the strongly coupled regime in this system, even when the distance between them was several times larger than the sizes of the resonant objects. This way, efficient power transfer was enabled.
Magnetic coupling is particularly suitable for everyday applications because most common materials interact only very weakly with magnetic fields, so interactions with extraneous environmental objects are suppressed even further. "The fact that magnetic fields interact so weakly with biological organisms is also important for safety considerations," Kurs, a graduate student in physics, points out.
The investigated design consists of two copper coils, each a self-resonant system. One of the coils, attached to the power source, is the sending unit. Instead of irradiating the environment with electromagnetic waves, it fills the space around it with a non-radiative magnetic field oscillating at MHz frequencies. The non-radiative field mediates the power exchange with the other coil (the receiving unit), which is specially designed to resonate with the field. The resonant nature of the process ensures the strong interaction between the sending unit and the receiving unit, while the interaction with the rest of the environment is weak.
Moffatt, an MIT undergraduate in physics, explains: "The crucial advantage of using the non-radiative field lies in the fact that most of the power not picked up by the receiving coil remains bound to the vicinity of the sending unit, instead of being radiated into the environment and lost." With such a design, power transfer has a limited range, and the range would be shorter for smaller-size receivers.
Still, for laptop-sized coils, power levels more than sufficient to run a laptop can be transferred over room-sized distances nearly omni-directionally and efficiently, irrespective of the geometry of the surrounding space, even when environmental objects completely obstruct the line-of-sight between the two coils. Fisher points out: "As long as the laptop is in a room equipped with a source of such wireless power, it would charge automatically, without having to be plugged in. In fact, it would not even need a battery to operate inside of such a room." In the long run, this could reduce our society's dependence on batteries, which are currently heavy and expensive.
At first glance, such a power transfer is reminiscent of relatively commonplace magnetic induction, such as is used in power transformers, which contain coils that transmit power to each other over very short distances. An electric current running in a sending coil induces another current in a receiving coil. The two coils are very close, but they do not touch. However, this behavior changes dramatically when the distance between the coils is increased. As Karalis, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, points out, "Here is where the magic of the resonant coupling comes about. The usual non-resonant magnetic induction would be almost 1 million times less efficient in this particular system."
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MIT - Goodbye wires?, June 7, 2007
If your Net access is blocked by government restrictions, try Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies. Go here for the official download, and here for details. And if you're Chinese and you're looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent web site blocking outside of China. Download it here.
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BitTorrent site ordered to enable server logs, turn them over to MPAA
By Eric Bangeman | Published: June 10, 2007 - 11:21PM CT
In a ruling made last month but only unsealed last Friday, a federal judge ordered BitTorrent site Torrentspy.com to begin tracking its users as possible evidence in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a handful of movie studios and the MPAA. According to the terms of the order (PDF), TorrentSpy will be required to keep server log files detailing its users' activities while on site, including IP addresses and torrent files downloaded.
The judge's ruling would force TorrentSpy to act in a manner contrary to its privacy policy, which says that the site does not collect any personal information about its users. In a message to the "friends of TorrentSpy" published on the TorrentSpy front page, its administrators say that they are appealing the judge's order and will not create logs of what its users do throughout the site without their consent.
TorrentSpy was targeted by the MPAA in a series of lawsuits that also named other BitTorrent sites IsoHunt, NiteShadow.com, TorrentBox.com, and BTHub.com, along with an eDonkey site and three membership-based sites that provide access to binaries posted on Usenet. The suit accuses the sites of providing illegal access to tens of thousands of copyrighted works, including feature films.
As part of the discovery process, the plaintiffs filed a motion on March 12 of this year seeking to force TorrentSpy to preserve and produce server log data. The MPAA was looking for IP addresses of those seeking "dot-torrent" files, the requests for the torrent files themselves, and the dates and times the requests were made. The defendants pointed out that they had never had server logs enabled because it wasn't a necessary part of their business operations, and because they believed that privacy laws in the Netherlands?where the TorrentSpy servers are located?prevented them from maintaining and turning over logs.
Judge Jacqueline Chooljian said that since the data sought by the MPAA was at least temporarily available in RAM, it was covered by the rules of evidence. Therefore, it must be logged.
The judge has stayed the enforcement of the order pending an appeal, which must be filed by June 12. Should the motion stand, users of TorrentSpy run the risk of having some personally identifying information fall into the hands of the MPAA. Unlike the RIAA, which has used IP addresses to identify and sue thousands of suspected file-sharers, the MPAA has yet to go after individuals, choosing instead to target BitTorrent sites.
TorrentSpy will be allowed to mask IP addresses in the newly-maintained logs, and the MPAA is prohibited from using "brute force" or other means to try and unmask the addresses once the log files are turned over. The original IP addresses, however, must be retained and could conceivably be turned over to the MPAA as well.
Should TorrentSpy fail to overturn the judge's order, the site would have no choice but to begin compiling log files on all its users. The prospect that their IP addresses would be logged and possibly turned over to the MPAA may be enough to discourage some users from using TorrentSpy, which would mark another small victory for the motion picture industry.
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RIAA uses local cops in Oregon bust
p2pnet.net news:- Fake cops employed by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the venal members of the Big 4 organised music cartel, started acting like real police officers quite a while ago, one of the earliest examples showing up in Los Angeles in 2004.
"Though no guns were brandished, the bust from a distance looked like classic LAPD, DEA or FBI work, right down to the black 'raid' vests the unit members wore," said a feature in the LA Weekly.
"The fact that their yellow stenciled lettering read 'RIAA' instead of something from an official law-enforcement agency was lost on 55-year-old parking-lot attendant Ceasar Borrayo."
But it's also SOP for the so-called music industry 'trade' outfit to tout genuine officers paid for entirely from citizen taxes as copyright cops.
Police were used in an RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) inspired raid at two flea markets in Beaverton, Oregon.
"Sgt. Paul Wandell, Beaverton police spokesman, said officers seized more than 50,000 items worth about $758,000," says The Oregonian.
The emphasis is wholly on product produced by the Big 4 members of the organised music cartel, although also included were, "knockoff designer purses, sunglasses and clothing, and counterfeit brand-name toys," the story quotes Sgt Paul Wandell as saying.
Wandell said Beaverton police, "got a tip about counterfeit items being sold at a Beaverton market in December, and the investigation led them to the Hillsboro flea markets".
No prizes for guessing where the tip came from, and about "20 recording and movie industry investigators" arrived from California to "help" police identify counterfeit items, says the story.
But this is merely the tiny tip of an iceberg of absolutely mind-boggling dimensions. Under it, police forces across the United States are routinely used in purely commercial activities.
GrayZone says it provides "investigative, paralegal and research services" to members of the entertainment community, including the labels.
In an April, 2006, report slugged RIAA Anti-Piracy Seizure Information, for New York alone it lists:
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April 25, 2006 - The New York Police Department's 30th Precinct, assisted by the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a burner lab in New York City. As a result, five suspects were arrested and two towers containing five CD/DVD burners, 1,150 piratical CD-Rs, and 307 counterfeit music DVD-Rs were seized.
April 14, 2006 - The New York Police Department's 67th Precinct, assisted by the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a CD burner lab located on Church Avenue in Brooklyn. The enforcement action resulted in the arrest of three suspects and the seizure of eight CD-R burners, 10,396 piratical CD-Rs, 204 counterfeit CD-Rs, and 210 counterfeit movie DVDs.
April 13, 2006 - The New York Police Department, Midtown South, assisted by the RIAA, conducted enforcement action at a distribution location on West 39 Street in New York City. Seized in connection to the enforcement action were a total of 8,900 counterfeit/piratical CD-Rs and 7,400 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs.
April 6, 2006 - The New York Police Department's Midtown South Precinct, assisted by the RIAA investigators conducted enforcement action at a distribution location on West 35th Street in New York City. As a result, two suspects were arrested and 11,120 counterfeit/piratical CD-Rs and 5,750 counterfeit DVD-Rs were seized.
April 6, 2006 - Also on this date, the New York Police Department's 1st Precinct, assisted by the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a distribution location on Canal Street in New York City and arrested two suspects. Seized as a result were 6,880 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs.
April 13, 2006 - The New York Police Department's 40th Precinct, assisted by RIAA investigators, executed a search warrant at a burner lab located on West 146 Street in New York City. Resulting from the enforcement action were one arrest and the seizure of two DVD/CD towers containing 14 CD-R burners, 785 piratical CD-Rs, 1,518 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs, 100 master CDs, and raw materials.
April 3, 2006 - As part of an ongoing investigation into "Operation Deceitful Wares" the New York Police Department's Organized Crimes Investigations Division, along with the United States Secret Service ECTF, executed seven state search warrants at a building on Broadway in New York City. As a result, eight suspects were arrested and charged. Seized in total as a result of the enforcement actions were a total of 20,800 counterfeit CD-Rs, 71,428 counterfeit movie DVDs, 5,597 counterfeit handbags, 2,866 counterfeit sneakers, 900 counterfeit wallets, 770 counterfeit sunglasses, 206 counterfeit boots, 176 counterfeit shoes and $9,898 in US currency. Several of the trademarks violated included Coach, Louis Vitton, Kate Spade, Prada, Gucci, Fendi, Nike and Timberland.
April 2, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the New York Police Department's 13th Precinct in enforcement action on West 28th Street in New York City that resulted in one arrest and the seizure of 16,600 counterfeit/piratical CD-Rs and 4,000 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs.
March 16, 2006 -The Spring Valley Police Department, along with the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a burner lab located on North Main Street resulting in one arrest and the seizure of five towers consisting of 11 CD-R burners, two printers, assorted raw material, 1,300 piratical CDs, 1,200 pirated CD-Rs and 500 counterfeit CDs.
March 16, 2006 - At another location, also on this date, the Spring Valley Police Department along with the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a burner lab also located on North Main Street resulting in one arrest and the seizure of one tower consisting of eight CD-R burners, 1,245 piratical CD-Rs, and various raw materials.
March 14, 2006 - The 67th Precinct of the New York Police Department, along with the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a CD-R burner lab located on Church Street in Brooklyn resulting in two arrests and the seizure of seven towers containing 46 CD-R burners, 3,200 piratical CD-R, three computers, two laptops, one mirage printer, one laser printer and a loaded 9mm handgun.
March 13, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the New York police with enforcement on West 37th Street in New York City. This action resulted in two arrests and the seizure of 12,600 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs and 4,300 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs.
March 10, 2006 - The 70th Precinct of the New York Police Department conducted enforcement action at a retail store in Brooklyn. This resulted in one arrest and the seizure of 56 CD-R burners, 1,300 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs and 450 movie DVD-Rs.
March 9, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the Bronx District Attorneys Squad in the execution of a search warrant at a burner lab on Morris Avenue. This warrant resulted in one arrest and the seizure of 25 CD-R burners, 900 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs, 100 counterfeit music DVDs and 2,600 counterfeit movie DVDs.
March 9, 2006 - The New York Police Department's 25th Precinct, assisted by the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a storage unit acting as a distribution location on Park Avenue in New York City. Seized as a result were 4,000 counterfeit CD-Rs, 4,800 piratical CD-Rs and 2,800 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs.
March 8, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the Brooklyn District Attorneys Squad in the execution of a search warrant at a burner lab on Patchen Avenue. The warrant resulted in one arrest and the seizure of 80 CD- R burners, 5,850 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs, one rimage printer, 5,000 insert labels and 1,980 counterfeit movie DVDs.
March 8, 2006 - At a separate location, RIAA investigators assisted the Brooklyn District Attorneys Squad in the execution of a search warrant at a distributor location on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn. This warrant resulted in the seizure of 5,600 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs, 2,600 counterfeit music DVDs and 14,500 counterfeit movie DVDs.
March 7, 2006 - RIAA investigators received information from the Suffolk County District Attorney's Rackets Bureau that a Queen's man pled guilty to a felony and was sentenced to 1 1/2 years in state prison. The suspect was arrested in August of 2003 with 725 counterfeit CD-Rs in his possession and again in July of 2004 with 48 counterfeit CD-Rs and 225 piratical CD-Rs.
March 2, 2006 - The New York Police Department's Organized Crimes Investigations Division, along with RIAA and MPAA investigators, conducted multiple search warrants in Brooklyn. This first enforcement action on Vernon Avenue resulted in the arrest of three suspects and the seizure of 69 CD-R burners, 1,200 piratical DJ mix CD-Rs, 1,606 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs, a laptop computer, one printer and several boxes of raw materials.
March 2, 2006 - A second operation was led on Fulton Street. This action resulted in the arrest of one suspect and the seizure of 28 CD-R burners, 16,900 piratical DJ mix CD- Rs, 1,900 music DVD-Rs, 9,909 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs and boxes of various raw materials. Also on Fulton Street, a further warrant led to the arrest of another suspect and the seizure of seven burners and 5,100 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs. A seizure at a third location on Fulton Street resulted in the seizure of 35 burners, 10,300 piratical DJ mix CD-Rs, 1,400 music DVD-Rs and 7,105 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs.
March 2006 - The enforcement actions in the state of New York resulted in the seizure of more than 70,895 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs, 56,350 counterfeit movie DVDs and 365 CD / DVD Burners.
February 20, 2006 - The Suffolk County Police Department's 1st Precinct Crime Section, along with the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a burner lab located at 325 Merritt Ave in Wyandanch, resulting in the arrest of one suspect who is known to be a gang member. Seized from the lab were five CD-R burners, 1,050 piratical CD-Rs, 255 counterfeit music DVDs, two printers, 111 master CDs, 200 blank CD-Rs, $20,000 in US currency and 140 counterfeit movie DVDs as well as other trademarks that included Duracell Batteries, Nike and Reebok.
February 16, 2006 - The New York Police Department's Organized Crimes Investigations Division Unit executed a search warrant on Broadway in New York City. As a result of this enforcement action, one suspect was arrested and 6,300 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs, 600 counterfeit music DVDs and 7,004 counterfeit movie DVDs were seized.
February 15, 2006 - The New York Police Department's 28th Precinct, assisted by the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a CD burner lab and a distribution operation located on 7th Avenue in New York City. As a result of these enforcement actions, three suspects were apprehended and seven towers containing 44 (52X) CD burners were seized. Also confiscated during the search were 16,000 counterfeit CD-Rs, 11,800 piratical CD-Rs, a printer, one shrink wrap machine, one heat gun, two boxes of raw materials, inserts and one box of CD Masters.
February 13, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the New York Police Department's 13th Precinct in the execution of a search warrant on West 29th St in New York City. This action resulted in the seizure of 12,200 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs and 4,000 counterfeit movie DVDs.
February 9, 2006 - The United States Probation and Parole Department, while conducting a search on a supervised parolee, observed an active burner lab resulting in the arrest of one suspect and the seizure of 20 CD-R burners, 307 counterfeit music DVDs, 54 counterfeit CD-Rs, 74 piratical CD-Rs, 304 counterfeit movie DVDs, one computer, one printer and various raw material.
February 9, 2006 - The New York Police Department's 13th Precinct executed a search warrant on 5th Avenue in New York City that resulted in the seizure of 7,938 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs and 5,450 counterfeit movie DVDs.
February 8, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the New York Police Department's Organized Crimes Investigations Division execute a search warrant at 247 West 35th Street in New York City. This action resulted in one arrest and the seizure of 8,300 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs and 8,300 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs.
January 26, 2006 - The New York City Police Department Organized Crimes Investigations Division Unit with the United States Secret Service and assisted by the RIAA and MPAA, executed four search warrants on Broadway in New York City. As a result, three suspects were arrested and the seizure of 23,000 counterfeit CD-Rs and 32,000 counterfeit movie DVD-Rs.
January 18, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the New York Police Department's 79th Precinct in executing a search warrant at a retail record store on Fulton Street in Brooklyn. This action resulted in the arrest of 3 subjects and the seizure of 30,408 piratical and counterfeit CD-Rs. January 17, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the New York Police Department's 63rd precinct with the execution of a search warrant on Church Street in Brooklyn. This action resulted in the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of 4,734 piratical CD-Rs. It was later discovered that one of the offenders admitted to making the CD-Rs in the basement of his apartment. After giving consent to search his residence, 44 CD-R burners and other raw materials were seized.
January 10, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the New York Police Department's Organized Crimes Investigations Division Unit in the execution of a search warrant on West 27th St in New York City. Seized were a total of 8,100 counterfeit / piratical CD-Rs and 4,300 counterfeit movie DVDs.
January 5, 2006 - The New York Police Department's 13th Precinct assisted by the RIAA, executed a search warrant at a sandwich shop in New York City. The enforcement resulted in one arrest and the seizure of 13,000 counterfeit / pirated CD-Rs and 6,505 counterfeit movie DVDs. An additional search on 8th Avenue resulted in five additional arrests and the seizure of 33,600 counterfeit CD-Rs and 19,104 counterfeit movie DVDs.
January 3, 2006 - RIAA investigators assisted the New York Police Department's Organized Crimes Investigations Division Unit in the execution of a search warrant on Rosedale Avenue in the Bronx. The enforcement resulted in one arrest and the seizure of eight towers containing 74 CD-R burners (52x), 3,400 counterfeit / piratical CD-Rs and 2,304 counterfeit movie DVDs. A separate search warrant executed on West 36th Street in New York City resulted in the seizure of 12,400 counterfeit and piratical CD-Rs and 12,960 counterfeit movie DVDs.
The cost to New York taxpayers must have been, and no doubt still is, phenomenal, not to mention the fact they'd undoubtedly have been better employed serving and protecting New York citizens, not corporate music industry profits.
http://p2pnet.net/story/12469
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Deal with it, Hollywood tells parents
p2pnet.net news:- How's this for the ultimate in hypocrisy?
"We've got to figure out a way to empower parents to exercise more responsibility than they do. It's tough. The world is different. Kids are more technically competent than their parents ... We've got to figure out a way to let parents know they can engage their kids in what they do, and that's a big societal problem."
The words are Hollywood spin doctor Dan Glickman's, quoted in the The Wichita Eagle.
Ostensibly in charge of Hollywood's trades union, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), he was emparting his wisdom to lawyers in his home town of Wichita:
Movies rated PG-13 may not be suitable for kids of any age, says the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences unit.
"Violence permeated nearly 90 percent of the films in this study," says Theresa Webb, a researcher in the department of epidemiology and the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences unit.
"And while the explanations and causes of youth violence are very complex, the evidence is clear that media depictions of violence contribute to the teaching of violence."
The MPAA hasn't changed its movie ratings since it added PG-13 in 1980 and it was recently forced to pull back from its position on smoking in movies.
"Descriptions on sex, violence and language that accompany movie ratings now will include such phrases as 'glamorized smoking' or 'pervasive smoking'," says MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) boss Dan Glickman.
And, "When we look back 10 years from now, this will be a defining moment," said Lisa Paulsen, president and ceo of the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
However, "This announcement is wholly inadequate and will cost countless lives," says American Legacy Foundation president and ceo Cheryl Healton "Since more than 80 percent of smokers start before turning 18, youth exposure to smoking in youth rated movies is a vital concern for our nation's health."
It goes on:
According to April 2007 data from the University of California-San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, 72 percent of all U.S. produced live action films that grossed at least $500,000 from 2004 - 2006 depicted smoking. Also, between 2004 and 2006, only 42 percent of movies that depicted smoking were already R rated, not the 75 percent claimed by the MPAA.
The MPAA quotes the 2006 Monitoring the Future Study and states that "the percent of smoking during a monthly period was down about 60%, 50% and 40% in grades eight, ten and twelve respectively." What it doesn't say is that the comparisons were to youth smoking rates in the mid-1990s when they reached a peak. MPAA's letter also fails to mention that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated four times in the last five years that high levels of smoking in movies are responsible for the fact that youth smoking remains as high as it is and that there was no decline in daily youth smoking rates between 2005 and 2006.
"Smoking is inherently a killer," Glickman told The Eagle, following his talk to the Kansas Bar Association convention. "It's not like moderate drinking - excessive drinking is the problem."
But, he went on, smoking itself isn't enough to affect ratings: content has to "glorify" smoking as something that might entice young people.
"It's not to censor," Glickman told The Eagle, "it's to try and give parents tools they need to exercise their responsibility."
So, mums and dads, Hollywood is blameless. If there's smoking in movies, it's up to you, not the folks who put it there in the first place, to deal with it. Exercise more responsibility.
http://p2pnet.net/story/12465
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$3 DRM movies for iTunes
p2pnet.net news:- DRM king Apple, which for the past several months has been cynically milking a pseudo anti-DRM stance for all it's worth, now apparently wants to introduce DRM-loaded movies on iTunes.
A "rental" service is, " being pitched aggressively by Apple", with titles costing $3 "for a set number of days before expiring," The Wall Street Journal quotes two studio executives as saying.
"It is unclear which studios might participate, with Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures currently in favor and General Electric Co.'s Universal Studios Inc. currently opposed, for example," says the story, going on:
"If Apple can persuade Hollywood to offer its new movies for rent, it could pave the way to offering them for sale. Studios are balking at Apple's pricing, which is currently $14.99 for new titles, compared to around $18 for a new DVD, potentially undercutting a major income source for studios."
But, says the WSJ, "Many are concerned about Apple's copy-protection policies. Copy protection is an issue for the rentals, as Apple wants titles to be playable not just on the computer but also on a second device such as a video iPod. Some studios believe that policy might result in lost sales or rentals."
Meanwhile, as has been proved over and over again, anything which can be seen or heard them be copied by one means or another, and any supposed copyright protection technology introduced by the cartels will be quickly hacked.
http://p2pnet.net/story/12471
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