Telus loves Rdio – True!
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Hey music lovers “we’ve teamed up with @Rdio to provide access to over 10 million songs,” says arrant piece of puffoonery posted on Twitter by Michael Hennessy (right), Telus VP of government and regulatory affairs.
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are back in the online music bidniz with Rdio, p2pnet said a while back, going on, [...] |  |
Operation paperstorm revival – August 13
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p2pnet view – P2P | Freedom | Politics :- This August the 13th, grab your mask and run.
We invite you to take part in this action, Operation Paperstorm.
Under the cover of darkness, you are invisible. Take to the streets in the dead of night and erect over 9,000 posters, banners, flags, anything to show your [...] |  |
Anonymous says ‘No!’ to New Zealand’s entertainment-cartel inspired anti-P2P efforts
| Google says it, too, is worried about the possible implementation of a new anti-P2P law in New Zealand.
New Zealand, France and Britain are supporting entertainment cartel efforts to gain total control of how ‘product’ is distributed online, both agreeing to act as taxpayer-funded corporate copyright enforcers.
In a submission to New Zealand’s Telecommunications Carriers Forum, “Google [...] |  |
Official version of 1.0 of HTTPS Everywhere
| p2pnet view – P2P | Freedom | Security | Advertising :- The EFF (Electronic Frontier (Foundation), and Tor Project, say they’ve launched an official 1.0 version of HTTPS Everywhere, a tool for Firefox that helps secure web browsing by encrypting connections to more than 1,000 websites.
HTTPS Everywhere was first released as a beta test version in June [...] |  |
#opfacebook– ['...a massive clusterfuck']
| AnonOps, isn’t, apparently, planning Fa$ebook’s demise.
[... "remember the 5th of November”, goes the saying.
It was part of the intro to a recent 2pnet post, which went on "and if AnonOps have anything to say about it, Facebook certainly will remember it. Because that’s the date they’ve earmarked for an attack on the social advertising giant for [...] |  |
‘the streaming era has begun …’
| p2pnet view – P2P | Music | DRM :- Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines, the streaming era has begun.
And it’s going to turn the music business upside down. So much of what now exists will evaporate. The game will be completely different. It will switch from one focused on sales to actual listening. Right [...] |  |
Anonymous ‘Operation Facebook’ — November 5
| ”Remember, remember the 5th of November”, goes the saying.
And if AnonOps have anything to say about it, Facebook certainly will remember it. Because that’s the date they’ve earmarked for an attack on the social advertising giant for allegedly selling private information to “what are viewed as, the corrupt governments of countries such as Syria and Egypt.”
AnonOps, [...] |  |
‘Tolling the Stream’
| As promised …
(originally posted by Keits)
David UltraDavid Graham (for Shoryuken.com) explains why, if bill S.978 passes, you could be jailed for streaming video games, or even uploading them to Youtube …
The United States Senate is in the process of considering bill S.978, a bill “To amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a [...] |
Academics, civil rights advocates, fear ‘lawful ‘access’ legislation
| Civil rights advocates and academics, among them, Christopher Parsons (right) are expressing serious concerns about forthcoming lawful access legislation — the Omnibus crime Bill
And they’ve written to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper voicing their fears
For the past several years, public advocates, academics, the privacy commissioners of Canada, and members of the Canadian Parliament have all [...] |  |
judge jailed for 28 years in ‘Kids for Cash’ Scam
| If you can’t trust a judge to be fair and square? … and honest — who can you trust? -
Certainly not ex-Luzerne County (PA) juvenile court Judge Mark Ciavarella, 61 (right).
Another former judge, Michael Conahan, was also involved.
Ciavarella has been sentenced on Thursday to 28 years in prison for accepting payment to send kids s [...] |  |
Chipzilla scarfs up McAfee
| Lending credence to the saying ‘ fools and their money are soon parted’, Chipzilla has coughed up $7.68 billion for ’security firm’ Mcafee. And Intel will pay in cash, says the BBC.
McAfee recently used Vanity Fair to claim two Canadian government agencies’ computer systems were infiltrated as part of a ‘massive global cyber attack [...] |  |
Anonymous abandons DDoS attacks against Sony
| p2pnet view P2P | Games :- George Hotz (right), became famous for unlocking Apple’s iPhone at the age of 17. He went on to, to winkle out the PS3’s master key.
Then, Hotz (online ”GeoHot”) was served court papers, explained Kayot on Slashdot, going on >>>
Shorty after Team fail0verflow discovered faults in the PS3’s TPMs, Geohot and others [...] |  |
Donald Rumsfeld – sued for torture
| Two Americans have been given a green light to launch a lawsuit against former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, says Reuters.
The two allege they were tortured in Iraq by the US military, says the story, going on “Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel sued in federal court seeking damages from Rumsfeld and unnamed others over their roles [...] |  |
Apologies…
| Hi all:
I should apologise for the paucity of posts and all-too frequent corrections.
A strange, and as yet undiagnosed, visual condition associated with my recent heart attacks and subsequent open-heart operation, and resultant stroke means, I can’t see properly,
This makes it very difficult for me to deal with stories. This makes it very difficult for me [...] |
Dear fellow surfers …
| p2pnet view – P2P | Freedom | Security:-
Operation Payback – the PROTECT IP Bill
Greetings fellow surfers. Time to load your laser cannons …
As you know all too well, vested-interest ‘ trade’ groups have been successfully lobbying to consolidate internet censorship within the United States. They are demanding the ability to take down sites they deem “inappropriate” [...] |  |
Ontario Court on legalities of anonymous posts
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p2pnetview – P2P | Freedom | Security:- The Internet has given rise to thousands of online chat forums, where participants can sound off on the issues of the day often shielded by the cloak of anonymity. Anonymous speech can be empowering – whistleblowers depend upon it to safeguard their identity and political participants in some [...] |  |
