The Pirate Bay recently got a new range of IPs and to everyone’s surprise they are now linked to several movie and music industry lawyers involved in the TPB trial.
Ant writes in to mention the World Privacy Forum’s top ten information collector/user list, which shows opt-out instructions (or at least a starting point): “As privacy experts, we are frequently asked about ‘opting out,’ and which opt outs we think are the most important. This list is a distillation of ideas for opting out that the World Privacy Forum has developed over the years from responding to those questions. … Many people have told us that they think opting out is confusing. We agree. Opting out can range from the not-too-difficult (the FTC’s Do Not Call list is a fairly simple opt out) to the challenging (the National Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt out can be tricky). Our hope is that this list will clarify which opt out does what, and how to go about opting out. In this list, some opt outs can be done by phone, some have to be sent in a letter via postal mail, and some can be accomplished online. Some opt outs last forever, some have time limits, and others can be changed at will. If an opt out is on this list, it is because we thought it might be important enough to be worth whatever annoyance it may pose. “
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The Narrative Fallacy writes “The Washington Post has an interesting profile on Barbara A. Ringer, who joined the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress in 1949 and spent 21 years drafting the legislation and lobbying Congress before the Copyright Act of 1976 was finally passed. Ringer wrote most of the bill herself. ‘Barbara had personal and political skills that could meld together the contentious factions that threatened to tear apart every compromise in the 20 year road to passage of the 1976 Act,’ wrote copyright lawyer William Patry. The act codified the fair use defense to copyright infringement. For the first time, scholars and reviewers could quote briefly from copyrighted works without having to pay fees. With the 1976 act that Ringer conceived, an author owned the copyright for his or her lifetime plus 50 years. Previously under the old 1909 law, an author owned the copyright for 28 years from the date of publication and unless the copyright was renewed, the work entered the public domain, and the author lost any right to royalties. Ringer received the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the highest honor for a federal worker. Ringer remained active in copyright law for years, attending international conferences and filing briefs with the Supreme Court before her death earlier this year at age 83. ‘Her contributions were monumental,’ said Marybeth Peters, the Library of Congress’s current register of copyrights. ‘She blazed trails. She was a heroine.'”
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Hong Kong, Minding SARS, Takes Strict Swine Flu Measures
New York Times By KEITH BRADSHER HONG KONG – Hong Kong, the epicenter of a SARS outbreak six years ago, announced some of the toughest measures anywhere on Sunday in response to a swine flu outbreak in Mexico and the United States. Video: Swine Flu Fears Prompt Global Quarantine Plans The Associated Press Obama has no flu symptoms after Mexico visit Los Angeles Times Reuters – The Associated Press – Times Online – Bloomberg all 14,726 news articles |
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Pakistani forces battle militants
BBC News Pakistani security forces have clashed with Taleban militants in the troubled north-west of the country, close to the Swat Valley. US public warning of Pakistan collapse has risks Daily Times Many reported dead as Pakistani army attacks Taleban near Swat Times Online The Associated Press – Aljazeera.net – Reuters – Voice of America all 5,335 news articles |
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Cobourg mother drives to Trenton to honour Major Mendes
Northumberland News By Bill Tremblay TRENTON — Maureen Whaley says she's never watched as a repatriation motorcade made its way to Toronto from CFB Trenton, however, the Cobourg mother made the trip to the Trenton Sunday to pay tribute to Major Michelle Knight Mendes. Fallen Canadian Soldier Comes Home CityNews Fallen Canadian soldier to return home Sunday 680 News Toronto Star – Globe and Mail – Toronto Sun – Winnipeg Sun all 346 news articles Langue : Français |
Who knew that swine flu could also infect Twitter? Yet this is what appears to have happened in the last 24 hours, with thousands of Twitter users talking about this nascent and potentially lethal threat. There are quite a few reasons to be concerned about Twitter’s role in facilitating an unnecessary global panic about swine flu.
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Gorgonzolanoid notes a post on TorrentFreak reporting that the German Rapidshare is divulging uploader information to rights holders. Record labels are apparently making creative use of “paragraph 101” of German copyright law, which gives them a streamlined process to ask a court to order disclosure of information such as an IP address. “In Germany, the file-hosting service Rapidshare has handed over the personal details of alleged copyright infringers to several major record labels. The information is used to pursue legal action against the Rapidshare users and at least one alleged uploader saw his house raided.”
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