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Submission + - All Your Rights Are Belong to Us

Submitted by

cyrusmack

on Monday May 21, 2007 @05:42PM

cyrusmack writes: "For those of us that thought US copyright law was about the most draconian in the world, we were shocked by today's announcement of a new lobbyist group that wants even stronger copyright law. The group, called the "copyright alliance", features the usual suspects: Microsoft, MAFIAA, Viacom und herr Maus ("Look, it's Walt Disney! Shoot him now!"). Funnily enough, there was no mention of information access rights nor of US copyright law's gross violations of basic human rights. Funny that."

Spyware Still Cheating Merchants 82

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 21, 2007 @10:42AM from the players-still-be-hatin dept.

Jamie found an interesting story about how Spyware is still on the move. It talks about how Spyware vendors are trying to clean up their image, but still doing fishy things. It breaks down several common types of spyware and some analysis of each.

Submission + - Buy my software or I'll sue you!

Submitted by

jandrese

on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @02:51PM

jandrese writes: "LONDON (Thomson Financial) — Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc could face a possible lawsuit for failing to include measures to control access to copyrighted material in products such as Vista OS, iTunes and the iPod, two companies have warned.

Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com have issued cease and desist letters to both companies and to Adobe Systems Inc and Real Networks — which produce the Adobe Flash Player and Real Player respectively — for actively avoiding their X1 SeCure Recording Control, which they said is an effective copyright protection system.

I guess DRM companies have gotten so used to suing their customers that suing potential customers seems like a good idea."

Submission + - Gov't requests sex offender data from MySpace

Submitted by

athloi

on Monday May 14, 2007 @02:15PM

athloi writes: "Attorney generals from seven states sent a letter to MySpace.com on Monday, asking the social networking site to provide the names of registered sex offenders who use the site.

While no one wants to defend sex offenders, this could lead to account signups that require real identification so the provider is not subjected to subpoenas for sex offenders on a regular basis."

Submission + - Rinbot Worm Wreaks Havoc on Business Systems

Submitted by Scott Tracy on Thursday March 01, 2007 @02:49PM

Scott Tracy writes: As reported by CNN Money, some major businesses in the U.S. are being hit by a worm that was apparently created by someone with a grudge against Symantec. This is also happening in Canada, where my company (which has hundreds of Windows PCs) has been completely off the Internet for days as IT tries to wipe the worm from every desktop and laptop.

Submission + - Daylight Saving Time

Submitted by

lilbudda

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @02:30PM

lilbudda writes: "Given the new Daylight Saving time in the US, how are you preparing your servers and users for the change?"

Feed Hawking Will Taste Zero Gravity (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday March 01, 2007 @01:12PM

The renowned physicist has always had a hankering for space travel. He'll start with a brief zero-gravity flight in April. By the Associated Press.

Submission + - Asus announce laptop made from Bamboo

Submitted by on Thursday March 01, 2007 @10:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: It seems like Asus has recently been inspired by what nature has to offer judging by its latest laptop designs. The Asus EcoBook comes with real bamboo panelling and will be available early next year. "Making a laptop out of wood doesn't sound all that sane a project, but we should probably get accustomed to this sort of thing — Asus has already delivered the first leather-bound laptops, and Tulip does a range of crazy laptop skins for its Ego range." All I can say is watch out for pandas.

Submission + - Boycotting the RIAA?

Submitted by on Thursday March 01, 2007 @08:44AM

An anonymous reader writes: ExtremeTech asks: Will boycotting the RIAA for a month do anything? Is it a practical campaign? Is DRM evil, or is it a tool most often used for evil?

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