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Amazon gunning for PayPal, Google Checkout-> 0

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Kanuck54

on Friday August 03 2007, @03:51PM

Kanuck54 writes "Today Amazon officially launched their Flexible Payments Service, firing a shot across the bows of both PayPal and Google Checkout. With the special fee structure on payments below ten dollars — all the way down to a quarter-cent fee on a one-cent transaction — it looks like micropayments just got a whole lot closer to reality. Integration is already completed or well-underway for an online invoicing service, a personal finance website, and a few others hand-picked by Amazon for early participation. There's even talk of a Facebook application for settling personal debts. With no setup or monthly fees and some very good rates, it looks like the online payment industry is about to feel the effects of a major shake-up."
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Comment: Pretexing (Score 1) 263

by p3net on Saturday April 07 2007, @04:30PM (#18650075) Attached to: RIAA & MPAA Seek Authority To Pretext

So now I can pretext to gather information? I'll need to try that out at the bar... Oh, wait, they meant only themselves. Damn. Selfish bastards...

Major Warez Forums DDOSed by the RIAA/MPAA

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on Saturday April 07 2007, @09:55AM

An anonymous reader writes "Several major warez forums have been under heavy DDOS attack by major anti-piracy organizations such as the MPAA and the RIAA. Attacks started early Tuesday night and affected:
www.warez-bb.org
www.projectw.org
www.forumw.org
ForumW was the least affected and able to stay up with little downtime, albeit slowly. Warez-BB was highly affected and went down for hours. ProjectW was also affected and goes down and up constantly. Warez-BB administrators report
"Unfortunately whichever low life that is trying to bring us down is still continuing their miserable attack. I can confirm that it is the same attack that has brought down ProjectW and slowed down ForumW, so far we've blocked over 4000 IP addresses which we believe is apart of the attack and there is still no signs of the attack stopping."
It is unknown when these attacks will stop."