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  Global experiment on the 3rd of May: Shutdown Day![->] 2008-04-25 23:12 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25, @11:12PM
Anonymous Coward writes "Have you ever tried to stay away from your computer for a whole 24 hours! Well, two geeks from Montreal are asking precisely that question. "Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?" is the bold frontpage question. This year, the annual Shutdown Day falls on the 3rd of May.

Here's their direct challenge: "It is obvious that without computers we would find our life extremely difficult, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope?

Be part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the Internet. The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!""
http://www.shutdownday.org/
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 [+] submission, tech, humor

  Federal Bureau without Internet access since 2001[->] 2008-01-18 15:23 Paul Flannery

Submitted by Paul Flannery on Friday January 18 2008, @03:23PM
Paul Flannery writes "The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs has been without Internet access since 2001 thanks to a ruling in a civil trial. This is very important for the Commonwealth for the Massachusetts as the bureau can rule if the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe can open a casino and circumvent the commonwealth. "It impacts our job," said Bureau spokesman Gary Garrison. "When we put out a news release we have to spend an hour and a half at a fax machine faxing to our list.""
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/blogs/boston/2008/01/17/federal-bureau-still-waiting-for-internet/
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 [+] submission, politics, government

  Your Rights Online: Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures 2008-01-14 14:47

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 14 2008, @02:47PM
from the like-a-child-shouting-MINE dept.
Mike Rogers writes "In a move that can only be described as 'Copyright Insanity', Ford Motor Company now claims that they hold the rights to any image of a Ford vehicle, even if it's a picture you took of your own car. The Black Mustang Club wanted to put together a calendar featuring member's cars and print it through CafePress, but an attorney from Ford nixed the project, stating that the calendar pics and 'anything with one of (member's) cars in it infringes on Ford's trademarks which include the use of images of their vehicles.' Does Ford have the right to prevent you from printing images of a car you own?"
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 [+] story, yro, patents, business, idiots, badsummary, ford, !copyright

  BitTorrent and uTorrent, coming together 2006-12-07 15:35 dweezil7777

Submitted by dweezil7777 on Thursday December 07 2006, @03:35PM
dweezil7777 writes "http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=17279

Full text from the forums.

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This is Bram Cohen, the creator of the BitTorrent protocol, and Ludvig (Ludde) Strigeus, the writer of Torrent.

Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and Torrent AB have decided to join forces. BitTorrent has acquired Torrent as it recognized the merits of Torrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together Torrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent's expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client.

What does this mean for the Torrent community? Not much, at least not at first. The intention is to maintain the website as it is, and keep the forums and community active. Moving forward behind the scenes, we will continue to develop Torrent and will be using the codebase in other applications, especially ones where a fast, lightweight implementation is more suitable, such as embedded systems on TVs, cell phones, and other non-PC platforms.

The existent Torrent and BitTorrent communities are immensely valuable to us, which is why we are announcing this here first to make sure you're all the first to know about the news. The plan is to continue to foster the health and growth of the community that has been critical to the success of Torrent. Thank you in advance for your support.

Bram and Ludde

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both Bram and Ludde are available now on IRC #utorrent and will be answering questions for the next few hours.

A new forum has been created — uTorrent/BitTorrent — please use this new forum for all topics related to the uTorrent acquisition"
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  Your Rights Online: RIAA Victims Bring Class Action Against Kazaa 2006-12-07 15:22

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 07 2006, @03:22PM
from the playing-right-into-their-hands dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Chicago, Illinois, a Kazaa customer has filed a class action against Kazaa, Lewan v. Sharman, U.S.Dist. Ct., N.D. Ill 06-cv-6736. The lead plaintiff, Catherine Lewan, was a Kazaa customer who was sued by the RIAA for her use of Kazaa, and paid a settlement to the RIAA, and she sues on behalf of others in her position. In her complaint(pdf) she alleges, among other things, that Kazaa deceptively marketed its product as allowing 'free downloads' (Complaint, par. 30); it designed the software in such a manner as to create a shared files folder and make that folder available to anyone using Kazaa, while at the same time failing to make the user aware that it had done so (Complaint, par. 36-37); and it surreptitiously installed 'spyware' on users' computers which made the shared files folder accessible to the Kazaa network even after the user had removed the Kazaa software from his or her computer (Complaint, par. 42-45)."
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 [+] story, yro, music, riaa, kazaa, haha, idiots, killallthelawyers

  Does portable music have to be compressed? 2006-12-02 21:24 FunkeyMonk

Submitted by FunkeyMonk on Saturday December 02 2006, @09:24PM
FunkeyMonk writes "http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1201/p11s01-stct.htm l The Christian Science monitor has an article discussing the gap between music fans and audiophiles when it comes to portable music. Would slashdot readers pay a few cents more to have lossless downloads from iTunes and other online music retailers? As a classical musician myself, I choose not to download most of my music, but rather rip it myself in lossless format."
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 [+] submission, music
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