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Leading ‘Ethical’ TV Show BitTorrent Tracker Shut Down By FACT | TorrentFreak /cc @openrightsgroup
The MPAA-funded anti-piracy group behind the prosecution of UK streaming links site SurfTheChannel has claimed another prominent victim. UKNova, which has been in existence for almost a decade, has a strict ‘ethical’ policy which forbids users from uploading any material which is available to buy, but that didn’t stop the Federation Against Copyright Theft targeting…
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If you like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, go listen to this and buy the album #Lido /cc @darrenhayman
Darren Hayman’s Lido – he’s doing a digital release, and (I think) a physical one too that you can order online. Lido by Darren Hayman He’s also (entirely understandably) fretting that someone’s torrented the album already: So depressing that a torrent of Lido is up already. We’ve sold pretty much every copy ourselves so this…
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QOTD: cyberwar == involuntary remote system administration
From Ranum in 2008, a reminder: The cost factor To attack a network, you have to have effective management control over it (unless you’re just DOSsing it, in which case your attack may be deflectable) Therefore: cyberwar == involuntary remote system administration So, we need, what, a combat version of UniCenter? See where this is…
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“Cyber Situational Awareness: We want the benefit of hindsight & we want it now!” # How Cyberpeople Think
I don’t know whether to be excited or horrified: http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/cyber-situational-awareness-we-want-the-benefit-of.ashx Cyber Situational Awareness: We want the benefit of hindsight & we want it now! The MoD Cyber & Influence research programme (in collaboration with wider government) seeks to enable freedom of manoeuvre across all operating environments by finding ways to defend all of MoD’s digital…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-27
@guy_herbert Its alue has reached the tipping point, tho'; the book is only 1/3rd the size of a few years ago. The other 2/3rds didn't die. # Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music Video Sensation – The Atlantic #MUSTWATCH http://t.co/dXDYLXkQ # @pjakma Did he fail any and if so how many?…
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Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music Video Sensation – Max Fisher – The Atlantic #MUSTWATCH
You need to watch the video, but a lot of my friends won’t be able to cope without the analysis: Park Jaesang is an unlikely poster boy for South Korea’s youth-obsessed, highly lucrative, and famously vacuous pop music. Park, who performs as Psy (short for psycho), is a relatively ancient 34, has been busted for…
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It’s an Austrian Wine Dispenser – well done Superelf!
regards this, it seems to be one of these: Austrian Wine Dispenser – Google Search.
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Yet more interesting reading on the #Lendink fiasco
Including what may be a retrospective face-saving manoeuvre; read this and note the “update” at the end: http://feralintensity.com/2012/08/10/online-mobs-controversy-and-lendink/ See also: …which helps explain things.
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Digital rights activists set up in Manchester – MULE # #ORGManchester – Meeting 28 August, 7pm /cc @openrightsgroup
Set up to promote and protect rights to free speech, privacy and freedom of information in the internet era against “governments and vested interests”, the group is encouraging local branches to set up and take action across the country. Organisers say they wish to campaign against internet censorship, “snooper’s charter” government powers to track online…