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Yahoo!

Submission + - Bot attacks Yahoo! Answers

lightspawn writes: For the past few hours, the Yahoo! Answers user "Man" has 'answered' over 14000 questions with links to the same site. The user seems to have been created at level 7 (which allows posting unlimited answers) even though reaching that level should take weeks for even the most dedicated of participants. Yahoo! staff seem to be gone for the weekend.
Music

Submission + - MPAA Is Helping Their Users Pirate Movies

Rub3X writes: "Have you actually ever read the MPAA's site? It's filled with things to help users pirate movies. They suggest clients to use for P2P, they even give advantages of pirated movies. They say they are cheaper, come out before they are released, and are DRM free. How can these things make users not want to pirate movies? http://cyber-knowledge.net/blog/2006/12/17/mpaa-is -helping-their-users-pirate-movies/"
Enlightenment

Submission + - New Forum Designed To Keep Tabs On The Police

Mike Machlin writes: "In the wake of the shooting of unarmed Sean Bell, BlueBrotherhood.org aims to put the police in their place. Users submit information about what the police are up to locally, and share it with their neighbors, shifting the balance of power, slightly, back into the hands of the public.

Press release can be found here.

http://bluebrotherhood.org/press.html"

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