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Ethics leaks spur House bill banning P2P apps on .gov PCs
Peer-to-peer filesharing applications have been wildly popular, especially among those interested in accessing pirated software, music, and media. But not everyone who operates a P2P client knows how to properly configure the software, and some clients may share entire directories unless explicitly directed not to. Apparently, some government employees have exhibited this sort of carelessness, as private and secret government documents have shown up on P2P networks.
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IGF attendees: America, surrender the root zone file!
Back in October, the US Commerce Department changed its agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Out went the "Joint Project Agreement" and in came the "Affirmation of Commitments." That may not sound like much of change, but the new document removed even more US control from ICANN. It was welcomed by the international community, but some continue to argue that it didn't go far enough, and this opposition to continued US influence over the domain name system and IP addressing surfaced again at the United Nations-backed Internet Governance Forum going on this week in Egypt.
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Hollywood wants to own your outputs (and that’s a good idea)
We like to encourage debate in hot topics in tech policy and law. This week, we're focusing on Selectable Output Control, which Hollywood and the cable industry are both pushing hard for at the FCC. We invited Kyle McSlarrow, head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (cable's trade and lobbying group in Washington) to take his best shot at convincing Ars readers of the virtue, wonder, and necessity of SOC. Ars will be publishing its own response from our resident SOC expert, Matt Lasar, tomorrow
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"Discount club" scams filch billions from online shoppers
Imagine that you visit Restaurants.com and purchase a gift card for a friend. During the checkout process, a screen asks if you want to save ten dollars on the purchase you just made, and it shows a single "Continue" button, as though this is just one more step in the process. On the next page, you are offered information about some kind of discount club that will give you cash back on the purchase you just made, and there's a box for entering your e-mail address. You do so, thinking to yourself, "What can they do with my e-mail address, right? I'll at least get some more information on what this is all about, or maybe I'll sign up for this free trial
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Broadcasters fighting back against wireless spectrum reform
As the wireless industry makes its case for more spectrum licenses, it's facing stiff opposition from television broadcasters who warn that any reallocation of the band would be "terrible public policy." TV brings "vast efficiencies to our national communications infrastructure," eight broadcast groups led by Sinclair Media told the Federal Communications Commission on Friday, "through their ability to serve 'one to many' in small bandwidth segments, and those efficiencies cannot be achieved in any other way." Ditto, add a slew of state broadcasting associations . "It would be a sad irony if, in response to false warnings of a looming broadband spectrum crisis," dozens of them wrote to the FCC, "the Commission were to abort free, over the air, digital television service, which provides the most obvious savings of disposable income that consumers might use to adopt broadband."
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Pirate Bay kills its own BitTorrent tracker
The Pirate Bay's BitTorrent tracker is down for good—but that's by design. The Pirate Bay has been intermittently unavailable for last few months as copyright holders have pressured its various ISPs to cut off service to the site in the wake of Swedish court decisions against the site's operators. Even though BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer network, it relies on .torrent files that are typically hosted on trackers—and The Pirate Bay's tracker was one of the largest. When the site was down, the tracker was compromised, and the crew behind the Bay decided that the system relied too much on a single point of failure.
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Tim Berners-Lee launches "WWW Foundation" at IGF 2009
Tim Berners-Lee waved his iPhone playfully at the podium, then gave a boyish grin, touched its face, and instantly and wirelessly sent a message to the world, announcing the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation. If that doesn’t seem amazing, you have to think about the context. Just 40 or so years ago, in 1969, the Internet was getting off the ground as a simple connection between two computers. By the end of 1997, almost 30 years later and eight years after Berners-Lee invented the Web, 1.7 percent of the global population—70 million people—had used the Internet. In 2009, the International Telecommunication Union estimated that Internet users jumped to 1.9 billion people, 26 percent of the global population.
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Viacom’s top lawyer: suing P2P users "felt like terrorism"
Michael Fricklas is Viacom's general counsel, and it's his job to oversee the company's legal efforts, including its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube. When people talk about Big Content, they're talking about people like Fricklas. So it might be surprising to watch him tell a class of Yale law students this month that suing end users for online copyright infringement is "expensive, and it's painful, and it feels like bullying." While the recording industry was big on this approach for a while, Fricklas certainly understands the way it came across to the public when some college student went up against "very expensive lawyers and unlimited resources and it felt like terrorism."
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Mac cloner guilty, but "hackintosh" tools will persist
Apple has won a landmark victory against Mac clone maker Psystar, though it doesn't spell doom for the rest of the hackintosh industry just yet. US District Judge William Alsup ruled late last Friday that Psystar had violated Apple's copyrights when distributing Mac OS X with its machines, and that the company was also in violation of the anti-circumvention provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. As a result, Judge Alsup dismissed Psystar's counterclaims and ruled in favor of Apple, but Apple still has a long road ahead if wants to shut down other hackintoshers. The legal battle between Apple and Psystar began more than a year ago in July of 2008, several months after Psystar introduced its first bargain-basement Mac clone for $399 that could run Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
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Spurring IPv6 upgrades through "cash for (network) clunkers"