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Submission + - Netflix to deliver content via web

Submitted by crowbarsarefornerdyg on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @01:35AM

crowbarsarefornerdyg writes: Netflix is planning to provide movies and TV shows through streaming media using a proprietary application. Current and future users will be allowed to stream a certain amount of content based on the rate they pay every month. According to the article, the application Netflix users will be required to run to view the content will "prevent piracy".

From the article:

The Los Gatos-based company plans to unveil the new "Watch Now" feature Tuesday, but only a small number of its more than 6 million subscribers will get immediate access to the service, which is being offered at no additional charge.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/01/16/instan t.netflix.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech

Submission + - Xbox IPTV, What it is and What it isn't

Submitted by

jayintune

on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @01:25AM

jayintune writes: "2old2play has an article up explaining the new announcement of Microsoft's IPTV via the upcoming Xbox 360 version 2. The article talks about a new IPTV edition Xbox 360 that will be used as your set top box tuner as well as what providers and markets will use the service."

Submission + - The Cross-Site Request Forgery FAQ

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @11:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: "Cross-site Request Forgery (also known as XSRF, CSRF, and Cross Site Reference Forgery) works by exploiting the trust that a site has for the user. Site tasks are usually linked to specific urls allowing specific actions to be performed when requested. If a user is logged into the site and an attacker tricks their browser into making a request to one of these task urls, then the task is performed and logged as the logged in user.

Submission + - MSN hacker gets 27 months jail

Submitted by Jerry Macorny on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @10:08PM

Jerry Macorny writes: A 24-year-old undergraduate was sentenced to 27 months in prison for stealing the instant messenger identities of several women and blackmailing one. He also doctored pictures of some of the women, superimposing their heads on naked bodies and threatened to make public the image of one victim if she refused to send photos of her breasts.

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