Copyright and Creation, a policy brief from a collection of respected scholars at the rock-ribbed London School of Economics, argues that the evidence shows that piracy isn’t causing any grave harm to the entertainment industry, and that anti-piracy measures like the three-strikes provision in Britain’s Digital Economy Act don’t work. They call on lawmakers to take an evidence-led approach to Internet and copyright law, and to consider the interests of the public and not just big entertainment companies looking for legal backstops to their profit-maximisation strategies.
Piracy Isn?t Killing The Entertainment Industry, Scholars Show
Over the past years there have been ample research reports showing that file-sharing can have positive effects on the entertainment industries.
Industry lobbyists are often quick to dismiss these findings as incidents or weak research, and counter them with expensive studies they have commissioned themselves.
The Silk Road Is Dead. But Bitcoin Lives On
Feds Bust the Amazon of Drugs, Seize Its Untraceable Loot
It was the Amazon.com of the illegal drug trade. An online black market in which cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and LSD were bought and sold by anonymous customers and dealers, using untraceable digital currency. U.S. authorities called it “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet…” And today, they announced they’ve taken it down.
DOJ Rejects Request For More Transparency By Facebook, Others
The Department of Justice rejected motions made by Facebook and other tech companies that would allow them to share more details with users on the frequency and types of requests the government makes under its surveillance programs, according to AllThingsD. The DOJ petition was filed with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court earlier this week.
Google nears EU antitrust deal
A deal between the EU and Google edges closer after the US search engine makes concessions related to how its software links to rival services
Twitter Opens the Books, But Facebook’s IPO Looked So Much Better
The Big Data Conundrum: How to Define It?
Big Data is revolutionising 21st-century business without anybody knowing what it actually means. Now computer scientists have come up with a definition they hope everyone can agree on.
US jury indicts Anonymous members
Aljazeera.com
The indictment said that from September 2010 to January 2011,Anonymous members participated in a campaign using software known as the Low Orbit Ion Cannon to flood websites with huge amounts of internet traffic to shut them down. They used what are …
Thirteen suspected members of Anonymous indicted
US indicts 13 Anonymous members for DDoS attacks
Feds Charge 13 Members Of Anonymous In ‘Operation Payback’ Attacks
EFF: the NSA has endangered us all by sabotaging security
The Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s Cindy Cohn and Trevor Timm look at the NSA’s Bullrun program, through which the US and UK governments have spent $250M/year sabotaging computer security. Cindy is the lawyer who argued the Bernstein case, which legalized civilian access to strong cryptography — in other words, it’s her work that gave us all the ability to communicate securely online. And so she’s very well-situated to comment on what it means to learn that the NSA has deliberately weakened the security that ensures the integrity of the banking system, aviation control, embedded systems in everything from cars to implanted defibrillators, as well as network infrastructure, desktop computers, cloud servers, laptops, phones, tablets, TVs, and other devices.
How Twitter’s Business Compares to Facebook’s
Anonymous Members Indicted for DDoSing Pirate Bay Enemies
In early September 2010, a little known anti-piracy company admitted that in the course of their work they sometimes go the extra mile to end copyright infringement.
India-based AiPlex Software said that when faced with uncooperative torrent sites they ?flood the website with requests, which results in database error.? The admission, that the company engaged in what amounts to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, started off a momentous chain of events.
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