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Submission + - DDOS Hacker gets OWNED by Cannabis Culture Forums (digg.com)

Submitted by ArghMonkey
ArghMonkey writes: Looks like the hacker responsible for over 20 DDOS attacks on various sites, Eric Leech, finally has been exposed and through some internet investigation his name, picture, address, house picture, phone number etc. is available to the public. Suffered from a DDOS? Check out the link to see if you recognize the guy.
Censorship

Submission + - The Great Firewall: a temporary workaround? (wordpress.com)

Submitted by
ccellist
ccellist writes: "I don't know if this method has been scooped somewhere else, but I've stumbled onto a way of browsing websites that are banned in China that is faster than Privoxy/Tor/Vidalia, and requires moderate computer expertise, and the ability to point and click in Linux. It involves using NX Client and an NX test server available "out there"... Details on my blog."
Censorship

Submission + - Senate Committee Votes to Expand TV Ratings Techno (wired.com)

Submitted by
UltraAyla
UltraAyla writes: "WIRED is reporting that the Senate Commerce Committee voted on Thursday to advance the Child Safe Viewing Act to the Senate floor. From the article:

The Federal Communications Commission shall consider advanced blocking technologies that — 1. may be appropriate across a wide variety of distribution platforms, including wired, wireless, and Internet platforms; 2. may be appropriate across a wide variety of devices capable of transmitting or receiving video or audio programming


The article points out that "it's not clear how any filtering technology could work with the explosion of video-sharing sites like YouTube, the amount of content that isn't created by American companies.""
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Id Goes Full Steam Ahead

Submitted by Dr. Eggman
Dr. Eggman writes: Today, quite wisper and rumors became fact as two FPS giants, Id and Valve joined forces to bring Id games back catalog to Valve's Steam. This marks a huge influx of old classics as well as opening up the possibility of bringing some of the newest, most anticipated Id games to Steam. Expect to hear more from Valve's appearance at Quakecon soon.
The Courts

Submission + - New Fair Use Project for User-Generated Media

Submitted by
NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "In an effort to protect and nurture the online dissemination of user-generated media, American University's Center for Social Media and Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property are undertaking a multifaceted project called "Copyright and Fair Use in Participatory Media," to promote standards for the use of copyrighted materials in user-generated media that is broadcast over the internet. This project builds on the two organizations' success in helping to establish "best practices" for fair use by documentary filmmakers." Their announcement states that "Nonprofessional, online video now accounts for a sizeable portion of all broadband traffic, with much of the work weaving in copyrighted material. "We're pretty much a mixed-media generation," one student told American University researchers. A new culture is emerging — remix culture, an unpredictable mix of the witty, the vulgar, the politically and culturally critical, and the just plain improbable. For a greatest-hits-of, watch Remix Culture. What's fair in online-video use of copyrighted material? The healthy growth of this new mode of expression is at risk of becoming a casualty of the efforts of copyright owners to limit wholesale redistribution of their content on sites like YouTube, and of videomakers' own uncertainties about the law.""
Privacy

Submission + - Recording a judge for YouTube is a felony?

Submitted by Let's Kiosk
Let's Kiosk writes: A Florida woman faces three felony charges after covertly videotaping a judge she once dated and then posting a clip on YouTube. In the video, the judge is on an island popular with swimmer and boaters and comments on the "nice breasticals" of woman nearby, according to the article in The Palm Beach Post. The woman is charged with one count of intercepting oral communications and two counts of publishing those communications. The circuit's chief judge comments: "Judges like everyone else are entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy, especially when they are out of the courthouse not performing judicial duties." But how much privacy can anyone expect at the beach?
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Console Modders Raided by ICE (xbox-scene.com)

Submitted by
Mixinitup4Christ
Mixinitup4Christ writes: ""FallsInc — When ICE hit me, they had a warrant for my grandma's house where I had all my packages sent. They had a picture of the house, and a description of it, meaning they were ready to come find me. When they were there, they didn't find much, since I hadn't had my computer and most modding stuff there for a while, but I continued to have the orders sent there for security of the packages. They went in the house and woke everyone up and watched them get dressed and started going though everything that was in my old room, and the stuff I had in the garage. They took anything that was related to gaming. They opened all the mail I had waiting for me there (which included someone's Xbox and $150 for a mod and 400gb), and took all the consoles and all console parts that I had stored there they even took my original xbox1 games, that were in retail cases. They took my 360, power brick and video cable, while its modded with xtreme 5.1b, it has never had 1 single burned game booted on it. They also felt it necessary to take all my old Xbox parts, mostly dead, my controllers for the 360 and Wii (?) and packed it in a box, and left."


Hmmm....Whats next?"
The Internet

Submission + - Increase in ISP Throttling? (azureuswiki.com)

Submitted by
stresspuppy
stresspuppy writes: "I've done some research into this and yes it seems Bandwidth Throttling is very much on the increase everywhere. It's just a matter of time until more of the US and the UK get it too. The thing is it's the ISP's way of saying "too many people are using up too much bandwidth with P2P so we'll cut them off". What I imagine it's really about is the RIAA/Hollywood people looking for a less visible and PR-happy way of completely stopping P2P. My Azureus is basically useless now — and many torrent sites (rightly) have sharing levels which, if they get too low, kick your account. Thing is — it's going to start effecting everything, especially gaming. I read accounts of gamers who are getting totally cut off in WOW and GoW because the system (it's a hardware box, one comcast use is sandvine allegedly — of course no one can find out for sure!) sees the one to many connection and assumes it's P2P. It's not going away, it's going to get worse and worse until you basically can't use the internet for sharing anything — err Web 2.0? I think not. Minimal research seems more and more ISP's are doing this 'P2P throttling and it sucks. Right now, other than complaining there's little we can do except switch providers. People in Germany, Canada and Australia seem to have had this for ages. It's going to get worse and worse in the USA for sure. The danger is it basically criminalize's us all — it assumes anyone using P2P is dloading illegal warez which isn't always the case. Guilty until proved innocent, it's the American way! Sure some of what I dload is in the gray area but increasingly companies like errr. Microsoft are using P2P to share important patches. Sure you can dload but then if you can't seed too what's the point right? if anyone has any ideas/hints/links?? S"
Businesses

In Australia, An Ebay Sale is a Sale 267

Posted by Zonk from the almost-by-definition dept.
syousef writes "An eBay sale is a sale says an Australian New South Wales State Judge in a case where a man tried to reneg on the Ebay sale of a 1946 World War II Wirraway aircraft. The seller tried to weasel out of the deal because he'd received a separate offer $100,000 greater than the Ebay sale price. The buyer who had bid the reserve price of $150,000 at the last minute took him to court. 'It follows that, in my view, a binding contract was formed between the plaintiff and the defendant and that it should be specifically enforced,' Justice Rein said in his decision." I haven't found anything like this in previous discussions; have there been similar decisions like this handed down in the US, Canada, or Europe?
The Courts

Submission + - Germans reject file-sharing paranoia (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by
athloi
athloi writes: "German prosecutors have begun denying requests to force ISPs to identify the subscribers behind IP addresses, saying that the alleged file-sharing was a "petty offense." According to German-language Heise Online, the court said that the labels did not explain how a "criminally relevant damage" could have arisen from the alleged file-sharing. Unlike the US legal system, German law has no provision allowing for civil proceedings to obtain ISP subscriber info.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070802-file -sharing-is-a-petty-offense-say-german-prosecutors .html"
Censorship

Submission + - SOCAN goes after p2pnet

Submitted by
newtley
newtley writes: "SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) is after me for using a parody pic based on its logo in my p2pnet story headlined SOCAN goes after hair dressers. "Your unauthorised use of the mark unavoidably infringes our rights in the SOCAN trade-mark," it says in a threatening letter. — Jon"
Privacy

Submission + - Do Not Call Registry gets wake-up call (networkworld.com) 2

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "If you signed up for the federal or your state's Do Not Call Registry a few years ago, you might want to thing about refreshing it. Pennsylvanians this week got a wake up call, so to speak from the state's Attorney General Tom Corbett who kicked off a public awareness campaign designed to remind people what many have forgotten or never knew — that the 2002 law set registrations to expire after five years. That is of course unless you want to start hearing from those telemarketers as you sit down to dinner. Corbett said about 2 million people signed up in the immediate aftermath of the law taking effect and those who do not act by Sept. 15 will have their numbers dropped from the registry on Nov. 1. The Pennsylvania action is a reminder that the National Do Not Call Registry has a five year life span as well. The Federal Trade Commission is set to being a nation campaign in Spring 2008 to remind all US citizens to refresh their federal Do Not Call Registry standing. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18066"

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