piracy

a Cyberculture roundup: US copyright enemies list, Facebook ‘Organ Donor’, Digital Activism, CISPA, the Pirate Bay

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US copyright enemies list is worst ever, including countries whose crime is poverty from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Michael Geist sez, The U.S. Trade Representative released its annual Special 301 Report [an annual enemies list of countries judged not to be doing enough to police US copyrights] yesterday, unsurprisingly including Canada on the Priority … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: CISPA threat continues, Stop Cyber Spying Week, Google Drive,

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CISPA Authors Confident Bill Will Pass Despite Rising Opposition from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick   Google’s Sergey Brin: China, SOPA, Facebook Threaten the ‘Open Web’ from Wired Top Stories by Tim Carmody Google’s search engine was created when most of the web’s information was open and available to anyone willing to capture it. In today’s … Read more

Copyright wars, Assange Trial, Facebook IPO, Pirate Bay and more… A Cyberculture roundup

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Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Men and Women in the Entertainment Industries from EFF.org Updates by parker Dear Hollywood, You don?t need us to tell you that your position on anti-“piracy” laws has been unpopular recently. Last month?shistoric protests, with millions of Americans registering their opposition, have made that point pretty clear. … Read more

ACTA, worse than SOPA, comes to Europe…

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  ACTA ?Is More Dangerous Than SOPA? by Lance Ulanoff SOPA and PIPA are stalled (or dead) in the halls of the U.S. Congress. Yet, there may be a bigger, perhaps more dangerous threat to Internet freedoms on the way, called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. At least that?s how U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Understanding Twitter’s country-specific basis blocking; Pew Report on Tablet and E-book reader Ownership and more…

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Twitter caves to global censorship, will block content on country-specific basis as required by Xeni Jardin   EFF: “What Does Twitter?s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression?” by Xeni Jardin What Does Twitter?s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression? from EFF.org Updates by eva Yesterday, Twitter announced in a blog post … Read more

“Piracy Wars and Internet Censorship in 2011” another cyberculture roundup…

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2011: Piracy Wars and Internet Censorship from TorrentFreak by Ernesto At the end of the year when new developments draw to a close, it?s time to take a look back and take stock. Below is our overview of some of the most interesting events we reported during the first half of 2011. Take a deep … Read more

brief portrayals of LulzSec and Anonymous by PC magazine and a cyberculture roundup..

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LulzSec? Anonymous? Know Your Hackers PC Magazine More recently, the group made headlines for going after security firm HBGary Federal, companies that cut ties with Wikileaks, and Sony. Anonymous attacked HBGary’s site on February 6, days after CEO Aaron Barr told the Financial Times that he knew and Hackers claim CIA website disruption Financial Times … Read more

by the way, welcome back Özgür Gündem! [and a journalism roundup]

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Legendary pro-Kurdish daily is back. It has recently been launched. In fact, the paper is always on the stacks but with different names. now it has its own name back. official site here. I am proud to state that I have worked in that daily for 6 months once in my life… Ozgur Gundem Re-launched … Read more

Anonymous vs. HBGary. Al Jazeera piece on cyberwar. and a cyberculture roundup…

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  Lessons from Anonymous on cyberwar   A cyberwar is brewing, and Anonymous reprisal attacks on HBGary Federal shows how deep the war goes. Haroon Meer “Cyberwar” is a heavily loaded term, which conjures up Hollywood inspired images of hackers causing oil refineries to explode. Some security celebrities came out very strongly against the thought … Read more

Such a frustrating day…A few words on manners and Open source in academy (!)

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I was accused of Piracy today by a quite well-known scholar on web censorship issues.  Not publicly though. In a previous post I gave a link to his book whose link I found through my friendfeed news flow. I admit it was my mistake to give link to a piratedly submitted copy of the book. … Read more

Cyb-Roundup: Google’s new search index, COPPA,

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Our new search index: Caffeine

from Google Webmaster Central Blog by Michael Wyszomierski
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)
Today, we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.

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A video: Free software pioneer Richard Stallman talks to Mashable

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Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms“,[1] is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[2] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software … Read more

Istanbul Police to have online surveillance teams

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In order to fight with increasing online fraud, Istanbul police is creating Online Security Teams, a news site states….

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DVDs vs. Pirate copies..

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http://friendfeed-media.com/a16d7ef68be15b34f6e7f5be0d914ae9a846fc6c

via: Infographic: buying DVDs vs pirating them

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