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Submission + - French gov't seeks to shut down eBay (itworld.com)

Submitted by hoagiecat on Monday December 03, 2007 @08:47PM

hoagiecat writes: The French government says that eBay is running an auction without a license. Though eBay says that it actually serves as a broker, not an auctioneer, French regulators believe the auction giant is obliged to provide further protections to buyers and sellers. They're threatening to shut the French version of the site down.

Submission + - US Bridge Team to be blacklisted for antiBush sign (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @06:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003, a team of women who represented the United States at the world bridge championships in Shanghai last month is facing sanctions, including a yearlong ban from competition, for a spur-of-the-moment protest.

Feed How To Evade Turkey's YouTube Ban (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @09:52PM

Turkey banned YouTube for hosting videos "insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk." Here's a technical guide to evading the cultural censors. In 27B Stroke 6.

Submission + - Blizzard officially files against WoW Glider

Submitted by

Marcus Eikenberry

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @01:44AM

Marcus Eikenberry writes: "Blizzard and Vivendi ( www.blizzard.com ) today filed against MDY Industries ( www.wowglider.com ) and Michael Donnelly in the state of Arizona USA. Blizzard is seeking injunctive relief and money damages against MDY. What that means is they want him to stop the production of WoW Glider and they want him to pay them damages. Blizzard believes that Glider infringes on their intellectual property. They believe Glider allows players to cheat, giving them an unfair advantage and that they believe Glider encourages Blizzard customers to breach their contracts for playing the game. Last they claim that Glider is designed to circumvent copyright protections. Blizzard officially files against WoW Glider (Previous Story):WoW Glider vs. World of Warcraft in United States District Court"

Submission + - Cuba Adopts Open Source

Submitted by

petro6

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @01:35AM

petro6 writes: "The AP wire released a story (you can find it on The Washington Post's website) stating, "Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire — Microsoft Corp...by converting its computers to open-source software." Sources say it is difficult to say how long the transition will take. Cuba cites cost and security as a main motivator, but Bill Gate's description of open source developers as "some new modern-day sort of communists" perhaps speaks to an idealogical impetus. They are joining Venezuela which announced a similar move last year, and other countries such as China, Brazil and Norway in a move away from proprietary software."

Submission + - Ext3FS/Ext2FS File Recovery Tool

Submitted by

Lakshmipathi.G

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @12:34AM

Lakshmipathi.G writes: "Hi all, I did a program for file recovery tool for Ext3/Ext2 .Try it and Provide your comments or Criticizms. Which will be help me in future projects. And the links is, http://sourceforge.net/projects/giis/ Warm Regards, Lakshmipathi.G"

Submission + - dhsocks - An alternative to BSD sockets

Submitted by

snarfer

on Friday February 16, 2007 @11:51PM

snarfer writes: "Because Jake hates BSD Sockets mortally, and we need a method of networking across platforms with little hassle, dhsocks aims to make a simplified OOP C++ interface for socket programming, namely TCP. It's available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Get it here"

Submission + - Google sues Polish poets over gmail.pl

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl, a member of the cultural collective said. Krawczyk, a poet and IT fan based in the central Polish city of Lodz, said that at the end of last year her group was surprised to discover that http://www.gmail.pl/ was available. They decided to buy the rights to the domain name in order to raise the profile of GMAiL, which publicises the works of young unknowns who have not yet found a conventional editor. http://physorg.com/news90864387.html

War of Words Over Wikipedia Ads Continues 353

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:21PM from the gotta-make-a-buck dept.

Willis W. writes "Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales reiterates his opposition to advertising in response to reports that Wikipedia needs a major cash infusion. Responding to Jason Calacanis' charges that he 'has a fringe, anti-corporate bent to him' that is 'holding Wikipedia back,' Wales says that running ads on Wikipedia is not his decision to make. Though he personally dislikes the idea of advertising on Wikipedia, any decision to utilize ads would have to come from the community. At the moment, he won't rule anything out. 'I can't say if I would ever support something like that,' he tells Ars, 'but I can say that I currently maintain the same position I always have: I am opposed to it.'" What do you think Wikimedia should do to shore up the financial situation of the Wikipedia?

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