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oink.cd closed
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ivvmm writes "oink.cd, a huge closed music bittorrent tracker was closed "as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI, Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police". The details are on the main page of the site."
OiNK is taken down by Interpol, admin arrested 2
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QuietR10t writes "Scott Gilbertson from Wired raises an interesting point: "However, there is one interesting quote in the IFPI's press release. Jeremy Banks, head of the IFPI's Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, says in the press release: "OiNK was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure. This was a worldwide network that got hold of music they did not own the rights to and posted it online." (emphasis mine)
The IFPI seems to be making a distinction of scale between professional piracy groups and friends sharing files, even if, so far as I know, copyright laws in Britain (and the U.S.) make no such distinctions."
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/oink-is-the-lat.html
There are also rumors of investigation into users, but with 180k users I'm not sure they would know where to start."
The IFPI seems to be making a distinction of scale between professional piracy groups and friends sharing files, even if, so far as I know, copyright laws in Britain (and the U.S.) make no such distinctions."
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/oink-is-the-lat.html
There are also rumors of investigation into users, but with 180k users I'm not sure they would know where to start."
MySpace Teams Up With Skype, Sony BMG->
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eldavojohn writes "MySpace has teamed up with Skype to offer PC to PC phone calls "so they could reach people in their network even when they're not online." They have also signed a deal with Sony BMG allowing MySpace users to post artist materials on their sites within MySpace. It appears that MySpace approached eBay with this offer, it's clear that eBay is desperately looking for a way to build revenue from Skype. I'm sure MySpace is feeling the pressure from other social networking sites and hopes to gain an edge with these new features although both are heavy deterrents for me."
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Yahoo! accused of lying to Congress->
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verybadradio
verybadradio writes "The House Committee on Foreign Affairs is calling Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang to a hearing on 6 November to explain why the company lied to Congress in early 2006 about its knowledge of the investigation into Chinese journalist Shi Tao."
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Aviation Addict Travolta on Global Warming
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theodp
theodp writes "His serious aviation habit — he owns a Boeing 707, three Gulfstream jets and a Lear jet — makes actor John Travolta hardly the best person to lecture others on the environment. But Travolta went ahead and did it anyway, encouraging his fans to do their bit to tackle global warming, suggesting that a global warming solution might lie in other planets and dome cities."
Two large registrars disappear from the Internet.
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Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "On the heals of the recent DomainFly.com debacle, two more large domain registrars are experiencing technical difficulties effecting an untold number of registered internet addresses.
By all appearances GKG.net and Moniker.com have each disappeared from the internet this morning.
Their websites and nameservers are currently non-responsive. How can a company (GKG.net) with an infrastructure of approximately 3,000 nameservers suddenly disappear from the internet?"
Are Most CS Students Getting a Raw Deal?
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Jason Luther
Jason Luther writes "Are most Computer Science students in universities and colleges around the world getting a raw deal? That's what it seems like; especially when you look at all the evidence and realize just how many hundreds of thousands of students are putting long hours and thousands of dollars into studying something that they just won't do well in... Given the disparity amongst the "coding talent" present in different students, is it the universities' duty to inform students of the real hardships encountered in the programming world, and the fact that it's not experience alone that makes a good programmer?"
What topic to use for a Computer Ethics Essay?
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Wizard Drongo
Wizard Drongo writes "So, as part of my degree, I've got to write an essay in the field of computer ethics. It can't be too narrow a subject, but likewise it can't be too broad either. The field is so vast that I'm stuck for choice. DRM or ID cards? Fingerprinting schoolkids or open source vs. propriety? What would you write if this was your essay?"