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Submission + - Torrents Being Honey Potted

Submitted by digital_gods
digital_gods writes: The company MediaSentry unit of SafeNet, Inc. owned ARTISTdirect, Inc. is targeting P2P downloaders of torrents. They have recently unleashed a new Anti-Piracy strategy of Honey Potting torrents in order to discover downloaders IP address. Upon the discovery of the downloaders IP address, they contact the ISP of the IP address. There sending out letters informing the ISP about the downloaders recent activities. In return the ISPs are sending out warning messages and or canceling service because of violations of Terms of Service. I just recently received on of their letters that included a strong arm push towards purchasing a legal copy from iTunes. Attached is the letter i received.
RE: Unauthorized Distribution of the Copyrighted Published Work Entitled Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Document) Dear ISP Customer: On behalf of the rights holder for the content listed below, we are writing this letter to state that we have a good faith belief that the unauthorized sharing (distribution) and downloading of this content has occurred by an individual making use of the IP address below at the date and time referenced at the end of this notice. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Document) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx We also state, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notice is accurate and that we are authorized to act on behalf of the rights owner. Since you own this IP address, we request that you inform the individual who engaged in this conduct of the following: Unauthorized file sharing is illegal. However, we truly appreciate your interest in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Document). We are making every attempt to provide this wonderful content to you in a host of legitimate ways, one of which is through the following website: http://www.apple.com/itunes If you believe you have received this notice in error, please contact us at CLCopyright@mediasentry.com ., and kindly include this identification number xxxxxxxxxx, also noted above, in the subject line. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Respectfully, A Kempe MediaSentry Operations — INFRINGEMENT DETAIL — Infringing Work: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Document) First Found: 8 Aug 2009 00:36:43 EDT (GMT -0400) Last Found: 8 Aug 2009 00:36:43 EDT (GMT -0400) IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP Port: xxxxx Protocol: BitTorrent Torrent InfoHash: 64C9951D7A910E5BAF24CB3512B7DECBEA0245E3 Containing file(s): eBooks & Texts.torrent (2,554,748,198 bytes) Infringing Work: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Document) First Found: 8 Aug 2009 00:36:43 EDT (GMT -0400) Last Found: 8 Aug 2009 00:36:43 EDT (GMT -0400) IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP Port: xxxxx Protocol: BitTorrent Torrent InfoHash: 64C9951D7A910E5BAF24CB3512B7DECBEA0245E3 Containing file(s): eBooks & Texts.torrent (2,554,748,198 bytes) Infringing Work: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Document) First Found: 8 Aug 2009 00:36:43 EDT (GMT -0400) Last Found: 8 Aug 2009 00:36:43 EDT (GMT -0400) IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP Port: xxxxx Protocol: BitTorrent Torrent InfoHash: 64C9951D7A910E5BAF24CB3512B7DECBEA0245E3 Containing file(s): eBooks & Texts.torrent (2,554,748,198 bytes)
Microsoft

Submission + - Office Web Apps ignore Opera and Chrome browsers (itpro.co.uk)

Submitted by
nk497
nk497 writes: "Microsoft's Office 2010 will bring with it web-based versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint — but no guarantee that they'll run in Chrome or Opera — or even IE6. Microsoft said IE7 and IE8 will be supported, alongside FireFox 3.5 and Safari 4, but left off the smaller rivals. So much for encouraging browser competition, then."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft refuses to kill off IE6 over personal ch (itpro.co.uk)

Submitted by
nk497
nk497 writes: "Microsoft has said it will keep supporting IE6, despite a campaign to rid the web of the ancient browser. An IE GM said techie folks might like using the latest upgrade, but not everyone wanted to take that route. "The choice to upgrade software on a PC belongs to the person responsible for the PC," said Dean Hachamovitch, adding that, as engineers, they rather hoped people would upgrade but had no intention to cut support. "Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product," he said. "We keep our commitments." While that might apply to browsers, users of XP — which had full support yanked this April and will see just security updates until 2014 — might beg to differ."
The Internet

Submission + - CRIA & MPAA Demand Expanded DMCA for Canada

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Canadian Recording Industry Association and the MPAA's Canadian subsidiary are demanding that Canada adopt copyright laws that go beyond even the DMCA. The groups demand anti-circumvention law, three strikes and you're out legislation, and increased secondary liability for websites. The demands come as part of the national copyright consultation in which hundreds of Canadians have spoken out against such reforms.
The Internet

Submission + - Why don't users mind when Twitter breaks down?

Submitted by
holy_calamity
holy_calamity writes: "New Scientist speculate about why Twitter users are so upbeat in the face of their beloved service suffering downtime and delays. Last week's attacks caused some serious problems, all borne with good grace. Is this an effect of the incredible hype around the service, down to it not really being that useful, or a demonstration that so-called web 2.0 products can create a new kind of relationship between users and companies?"
Games

Submission + - Fifteen classic game console design mistakes (technologizer.com)

Submitted by
Harry
Harry writes: "Some bad decisions in game console design get made over and over. (How many early systems had nightmarish controllers?) Others are uniquely inexpicable. (Like the Game Boy Advance's lack of a headphone jack.) And others stem from companies being too clever for their own good. (Like the way the RCA Studio II and Atari 5200 drew their power through their RF switches.) Benj Edwards has rounded up 15 classic examples, and has attempted to figure out what was going on in the designers' heads--and what we can learn from their mistakes."
Privacy

Submission + - FCC says US broadcasters play no RIAA music (yahoo.com) 1

Submitted by
Death Metal
Death Metal writes: "U.S. regulators have launched an inquiry into whether certain broadcasters are refusing to air the music of artists who demand to be paid when their songs are played on the radio.

The coalition, called musicFIRST, also said in the petition that some broadcasters are refusing to run advertisements that support the legislation.

MusicFIRST, which includes the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), said artists whose songs are played on the Internet and satellite radios are compensated."
Earth

Submission + - Green Cement Absorbs Carbon

Submitted by
Peace Corps Online
Peace Corps Online writes: "Concrete accounts for more than 5 percent of human-caused carbon-dioxide emissions annually, mostly because cement, the active ingredient in concrete, is made by baking limestone and clay powders under intense heat that is generally produced by the burning of fossil fuels. Now Scientific American reports that British start-up company Novacem has developed a "carbon-negative" cement that absorbs more carbon dioxide over its life cycle than it emits. The trick is to make cement from magnesium silicates rather than calcium carbonate, or limestone, since this material does not emit CO2 in manufacture and absorbs the greenhouse gas as it ages. "The building and construction industry knows it has got to do radical things to reduce its carbon footprint and cement companies understand there is not a lot they can do without a technology breakthrough," says Novacem Chairman Stuart Evans. Novacem estimates that for every ton of Portland cement replaced by its product, around three-quarters of a ton of CO2 is saved, turning the cement industry into a big emitter to a big absorber of carbon. Major cement makers have been working hard to reduce CO2 emissions by investing in modern kilns and using as little carbon-heavy fuel as possible, but reductions to date have been limited. Novacem has raised $1.7 M to start a pilot plant that should be up and running in northern England in 2011."
Yahoo!

Submission + - Hadoop Creator Doug Cutting Leaving Yahoo!

Submitted by
e9th
e9th writes: "The New York Times reports that Doug Cutting is leaving Yahoo! Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, will be joining Silicon Valley start-up Cloudera. His leaving Yahoo! makes sense, since Microsoft's Bing will be taking the place of Yahoo!'s own search engine, however Cutting states that he was in discussions with Cloudera before the Microsoft-Yahoo! deal was reached. The Register has a few more details."
Java

Submission + - VMware Acquires SpringSource

Submitted by Comatose51
Comatose51 writes: VMware today announced the acquisition of SpringSource. SpringSource is the privately held company responsible for the Spring framework for Java and other various Java development tools. According to the VMware blog, "... whether it's around speed of deployment, application performance guarantees, or providing resiliency in the face of component outages, we will be able to provide even more capabilities as we bring even more knowledge of the application and infrastructure layers together. We will do this by adding interfaces into vSphere that SpringSource offerings (and other application frameworks) can take advantage of and by extending our management and automation capabilities to be aware of these interactions."
Sony

Submission + - No Windows 7 XP Mode for Sony Vaio Owners

Submitted by
Voyager529
Voyager529 writes: "While virtually every Core 2 Duo processor supports the hardware virtualization technology that powers the Windows 7 XP Mode, The Register UK reports that the Core 2 Duo processors in the Sony Vaio Z series laptops had the virtualization features intentionally crippled in the BIOS. Senior manager for product marketing Xavier Lauwaert stated that the QA engineers did this to make the systems more resilient against malicious code. He also stated that while they are considering enabling VT in some laptop models due to the backlash, the Z series are not among those being retrofitted."
Social Networks

Submission + - Reliable family photo sharing sites? 1

Submitted by
m2pc
m2pc writes: "With the recent death of a distant family member, I have been charged with creating a website for sharing photos among various relatives. While the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook, Flickr and Photobucket make them easy first choices, are there any other options that offer better SLA in terms of uptime, reliability, guaranteed archival/backup of data, etc.? Or am I better off "rolling my own" system using open-source software hosted on my own hardware or with a hosting company?"

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