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Piracy news (!) It is reported that “Sharp Rise in Piracy Rates Across Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Norway”

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Well, there are so many streaming platforms. One cannot subscribe to them all. Sharp Rise in Piracy Rates Across Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Norway With Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway under the spotlight once again, Mediavision’s pan-Nordic consumer survey aims to measure unlicensed content consumption among 15 to 74-year-old respondents, across categories including movies and … Read more

Literati roundup: “IFLA Publishes a Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment…

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IFLA Publishes a Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment At its 14 August 2015 meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, the IFLA Governing Board endorsed an IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment. The FAIFE Committee oversaw preparation of the Statement and benefitted from consultation with IFLA units and various Internet civil liberties advocacy … Read more

Libgen.in seems to have gone, alternatives exist or will emerge…

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Libgen Goes Down As Legal Pressure Mounts  TorrentFreak by Ernesto Most of the top academic articles are published in journals that can only be accessed legally through expensive paywalls…. Some alternatives or mirrors:  http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ http://bookfi.org/ http://scienceengineering.libr… http://bookzz.org/ http://avxhome.se/ebooks Thru Tor: I2p : http://u76v7ha6j4jmtz3k2lseaso5qy36lxs77klhovmptufwcodovatq.b32.i2p/

Cyberculture agenda: “Data-Driven Web Survival Guide…”2015: The Year of the Learner…

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Italy Launches Largest Ever Pirate Site Blockade TorrentFreak   Alongside the United Kingdom, Italy is the most aggressive country in the world when it comes to blocking websites on copyright infringement grounds.   Data-Driven Web Survival Guide The Purple Box by Andy Kahl   If we’re going to make it through what’s sometimes described as a data-collection … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: ” Disruptive Technology of Silicon Valley…”The Pirate Bay Runs on 21 “Raid-Proof” Virtual Machines…

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    Statement on the Use of Finfisher by Members of the Freedom Online Coalition  EFF.org Updates by Jillian York Documents recently released by WikiLeaks have brought new evidence to the public eye that the intrusive surveillance spyware FinFisher may be in use by several members of theFreedom Online Coalition, including Mongolia, Netherlands, and Estonia.1 If this … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Manning trial, Cameron’s Porn Filter, Apple’s ebook crisis…

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  European Commission accepts Penguin?s proposals to scrap Apple ebook agency agreements The European Commission has accepted book publisher Penguin?s proposals to scrap all of its existing ebook agency agreements ? including its deal with Apple, most importantly ? and refrain from adopting any similar partnerships for the next five years. Journalists at Bradley Manning … Read more

U.S. Financial Regulator onto Bitcoin…Megaupload vs. US Gov’t… A guide to staying anonymous online..Linkedin is 10

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U.S. Financial Regulator Considering Setting Rules for Bitcoin from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai   U.S. Govt. Attack on Megaupload Bears Hallmarks of ?Digital Gitmo? from TorrentFreak by Robert Amsterdam Digital Gitmo, by Robert Amsterdam New Zealand is celebrated worldwide for its human rights. Renowned as being the first country in the world to grant suffrage … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “The Life and Times of a TV Show Piracy Release Group”, CISPA behind closed doors…

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CISPA Debate Will Happen Behind Closed Doors from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick     The Life and Times of a TV Show Piracy Release Group from TorrentFreak by Andy In recent decades TV shows have become woven into the lives of hundreds of millions of people but it?s only been during the last few years … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: CISPA, again- Microsoft on government requests for user data the world around…

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Full disclosure: Microsoft releases and breaks down government requests for user data the world around from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm   EFF Joins Coalition Urging White House to Veto CISPA from EFF.org Updates by Adi Kamdar and Adi Kamdar Thirty-seven digital rights groups and businesses have come together this week to urge the … Read more

Ahahah even FBI Employees seem to download pirated stuff…

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FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV-Shows from TorrentFreak by Ernesto US Army to use pre-emptive cyber-strikes against threats from Hurriyet Daily News U.S. military officers have endorsed the principle of pre-emptive cyber-strikes Rupert Murdoch claims Chinese hackers are still attacking the Wall Street Journal from The Next Web by Jon Russell Trolls and Tribulations … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Success of Microsoft?s security team, EFF campaigns on Open Wireless and Transparency and more…

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Microsoft?s security team is killing it: Not one product on Kaspersky?s top 10 vulnerabilities list from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski EFF Launches New Transparency Project from EFF.org Updates by Jennifer Lynch IMAGiNE BitTorrent Piracy Group Members Jailed from TorrentFreak by Ernesto September last year IMAGiNE stopped distributing new films via their private BitTorrent … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Pirates are the biggest spenders…Facebook more valuable brand than Apple and Google…

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Pirates are the biggest spenders: US P2P users buy 30% more music than their non-P2P counterparts by Emil Protalinski Various studies over the years have shown that the biggest music pirates are also the biggest spenders on recorded music. The latest one from The American Assembly goes as far as quantifying the difference between a … Read more

Niklas Femerstrand: Sweden Kidnapped My Friend… a cyberculture roundup…

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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Lands In Sweden, Immediately Charged By Police from TorrentFreak by enigmax Sweden Kidnapped My Friend, Pirate Bay Co-Founder Anakata from TorrentFreak by Guest This is a guest post by researcher, hacker and political activist Niklas Femerstrand. He is involved in projects that include software development for micropayment service Flattr, cryptography and general … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Facebook IPO, World?s first Wikipedia town and more..

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Monmouthpedia: The World?s first Wikipedia town, is set to go live from The Next Web by Jamillah Knowles The Internet of things is becoming easier to grasp as household appliances, pot plants and other objects are connected to the Internet to let us know more about them or update on environmental changes. Though the appearance … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Apple and Microsoft seemingly close to pro-CISPA, Uncle Sam?s ?Pirate? Justice,

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Apple and Microsoft backed trade group parties to celebrate CISPA?s passage from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm Reddit’s TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA’s daddy from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow TestPAC, the PAC founded on Reddit to carry on the momentum from the SOPA fight earlier this year, is in the … Read more