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Submission + - Aereo Wins Preliminary Injunction Hearing

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: Aereo, a company that offers live broadcast tv via the internet to New York City residents has won a preliminary injunction hearing today. Today, a federal judge has rejected a bid by major U.S. broadcasters to stop Aereo from rebroadcasting some of their programming over the Internet. District Judge Alison Nathan said that while the broadcasters have shown that they faced irreparable financial damage if were the venture were allowed to continue, Aereo also showed it would face severe harm if the requested preliminary injunction were granted. The full injunction denial ruling can be found here.
Privacy

Submission + - Will ISPs be driven to spy on their customers

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: In regards to the new 'voluntary' graduated response deal; where no one really knows how ISPs will track and accuse customers of copyright infringement, according to CNN, it may be the ISP directly spying on their customers. "But now that they're free from individual blame, there's also the strong possibility that the ISPs will be doing the data monitoring directly. That's a much bigger deal. So instead of reaching out to the Internet to track down illegally flowing bits of their movies, the studios will sit back while ISP's "sniff" the packets of data coming to and from their customers' computers." This could be a problem for people who use US based internet services. If the US wants to be an internet savvy country, they still need the competition in the market place that's always been missing; and a digital bill of rights that isn't a sneaky anti-piracy measure.
Security

Submission + - Dutch ISP discovers 140,000 customers with default password 1

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: In Holland, a major ISP known as KPN has found a major security flaw for their customers. It seems that all customers have had the same default password of 'welkom01'. Up to 140,000 customers had retained their default passwords. Once inside attackers could have found bank account and credit card numbers. KPN has since changed all the passwords of the 140,000 customers with weak passwords. They also do not believe anyone has actually been burglarized since discovering this weak spot in security.
Piracy

Submission + - Copyrights to Reach Deep Space

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: Voyager 1 is expected to reach interstellar space soon. It will be the first made made object to cross the heliosphere, which is the final stop in our solar system. Voyager 1, famously contained a gold phonographic record. The record was filled with iconic sights, images, and sounds from earth, and the prevailing message, "we come in peace". The disc was comprised by a man named Carl Sagan, and it contained many pieces of art, songs, and images, that are all copy-written. According to NASA, "Most of the material they used was copyrighted by the creators/owners and Sagan had to get copyright releases in order to assemble the original record. Subsequently, Warner Multimedia was able to obtain copyright releases for the 1992 version of "Murmurs of Earth" .. Unfortunately, the book and CDROM are no longer being published and are hard to find as a set.". Some used copies still exist for sale, versions of Murmurs of Earth published before 1992 will not contain the CDROM. Perhaps the next interstallar probe should be run on open source software and use creative commons music, so our first encounter doesn't involve us suing aliens for copyright infringement.

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