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Submission + - Student on Myspace Jailed with $1 Million bail

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An anonymous reader writes: Slashdot previously covered the story of Allen Lee, the student jailed for writing a violent essay.
In similar events, A University of Southern Mississippi student remains jailed on a one-million dollar bail since April 18th for posting threating remarks to his myspace blog and bulletins. Athorities have been very quiet, and in an update from last week claim to still be collecting evidence.
The Internet

Submission + - Can regular people order takedowns?

Submitted by slapdfsckr
slapdfsckr writes: Can a regular person order a takedown of site content? What is a takedown anyway? Is it just a threat? I ask because recently I found out that my company launched a pirate ship full of lawers at a popular social networking site to remove content from a disgruntled employee. I didn't notice anything outstandingly damaging about these comments, however they didn't exactly paint a pretty picture and I can understand why certian people would be rather upset. The point is that the content was removed, the account seems quite inactive and for all I know this guy is no longer employeed. Whatever. My concern is how fast and seemingly easy it was to have the content removed. So I query: If I read some defamatory comments about myself on someones blog, can I order them to take it off or do I need the backing of a well paid legal team?
Security

Submission + - MRT Issues Cease & Desist to Microsoft, Apple,

Submitted by The_DoubleU
The_DoubleU writes: Media Right Technologies is sending out Cease and Desist letters to Apple, Microsoft, Adobe and Real Networks. The reason? For not using MRT's DRM in their products to protect digital content.
From the press release

Under the DMCA, mere avoidance of an effective copyright protection solution is a violation of the act.
....
MRT and BlueBeat have developed a technological measure which effectively controls access to copyrighted material.
....
Therefore, Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat.com have issued cease and desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real Networks and Apple with respect to the production or sale of such products as the Vista OS, Adobe Flash Player, Real Player, Apple iTunes and iPod.
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MRT asserts Apple, Microsoft, Real and Adobe have produced billions of these products without regard for the DMCA or the rights of American Intellectual Property owners, actively avoiding the use of MRT's technologies.


Is this the end of the John Doe lawsuits?
Security

Submission + - 1.6 million TPB accounts on the loose

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An anonymous reader writes: According to the Swedish branch of IDG, The Pirate Bay has been hacked. The previously known group Arga Unga Hackare, AUH (roughly Angry Young Hackers) discovered a bug in TPB's blog leading to the leak of all user accounts on the site. This has just recently been confirmed by the team behind TPB on their now repaired blog.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Stupidest DMCA Threat Ever

Submitted by
Mike
Mike writes: "Media Rights Technology, a DRM vendor, has launched what what is probably the most idiotic DMCA threat ever. They're threatening to slam Adobe and Real with cease and desist lawsuits for failing to buy their crap-ass technology. Forbes says that Media Rights Technology advanced the theory that since the DMCA makes it illegal to break DRM, companies with broken DRM have to buy someone's DRM. In other words, "Buy our product or we'll sue you!"."
Privacy

Submission + - The Pirate Bay hacked

Submitted by Mxyzptlk
Mxyzptlk writes: From an article in Computer Sweden: A list of user names and encrypted passwords for all 1.6 million registered users on the site The Pirate Bay has been stolen by a group of swedish hackers.
Security

Submission + - TPB hacked and goes against its own policy

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The piratebay were hacked and their database with users exposed on internet [flashback.info] (Only in swedish). The database was put out on TPB itself to challange TPB's policy over not deleting any torrents and believing that all information should be free. It was swiftly deleted but still it circles the internet. IP's and password hashes had been censored by the hackers.

TPB mentions nothing of being hacked (although loging in to TPB redirects you to changing your password) and the post on the underground forum Flashback urges TPB to respond why they went against their own policy.

It certainly can be argued that TPB didnt do anything wrong by takeing it down, but still a very clever way of challangeing their policy. Right?
The Internet

Submission + - IPv6 flaw could greatly amplify DDoS attacks

Submitted by tygerstripes
tygerstripes writes: The Register has a story about the discovery of a flaw in part of the IPv6 specification which has experts scrambling to have the feature removed, or at least disabled by default. From the article:

The specification, known as the Type 0 Routing Header (RH0), allows computers to tell IPv6 routers to send data by a specific route. Originally envisioned as a way to let mobile users to retain a single IP for their devices... RH0 support allows attackers to amplify denial-of-service attacks on IPv6 infrastructure by a factor of at least 80.
Paul Vixie, president of the Internet Systems Consortium, described the fault bluntly. "It can be exploited by any greedy Estonian teenager with a $300 Linux machine."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - "Cease and Desist NOT using our technology!

Submitted by Erwin_D
Erwin_D writes: Media Rights Technologies (MRT), developers of technology that prevents users from ripping digital media streams, has filed a Cease and Desist letter against Apple, Microsoft, Real and Adobe. The organization claims that these companies are responsible for violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and intellectual property law, by not using MRT's X1 SeCure Recording Control in Vista, Adobe Flash Player, Real Player, iTunes and the iPod products.

Naturally, this will fail hard in court, as MRT does not hold any copyright to any material being alledgidly infringed upon (which is a requirement of the DMCA in order to send S&Ds). It's just an example of "legal marketing", one that may backfire...
Media

Submission + - Lawsuit Invokes DMCA to Force DRM Adoption

Submitted by TechnicolourSquirrel
TechnicolourSquirrel writes: Forbes.com informs us that Media Rights Technologies is suing Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and Real Networks for not using its DRM technology and therefore 'failing to include measures to control access to copyrighted material,' alleging that their refusal to use MRT's X1 Recording Control technology constitutes a 'circumvention' of a copyright protection system, which is of course illegal under the Digital Millenium Copryight Act. I would say more, but without controlling access to this paragraph with MRT's products, I fear I have already risked too much...
Music

Submission + - April Foo...oh, wait, what?

Submitted by
Wade Tregaskis
Wade Tregaskis writes: "I'm tempted to post this under "It's funny, laugh", but I'm terrified that they might actually be serious. Media Rights Technologies, a company that develops DRM technology, have — according to their own press release — "issued cease and desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real Networks and Apple with respect to the production or sale of such products as the Vista OS, Adobe Flash Player, Real Player, Apple iTunes and iPod." They assert these companies are "actively avoiding the use of MRT's technologies", and seek damages of "$200 to $2500 for each product distributed or sold". I don't even know how to respond to that."

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