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Musicians doing it for the music

P2P:- The Beatles and the British Invasion prove there's a huge appetite for music amongst the baby boomers.

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Related Topix: TV, Electronics, Online Music, Train Disaster

Fri Jul 30, 2010

P2pnet.net

Victory for Vidders

P2P:- Now the dust has settled on the long-awaited announcement of new DMCA circumvention exemptions, it's time for an explanation of what they will do for consumers and creators, writes Corynne McSherry in an important EFF post.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, DMCA News, Non-Profit, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, Digital Rights Management

The Recorder

Owings man arrested, charged with distributing child porn

An Owings man was arrested for distribution of child pornography after numerous files containing child pornography videos and images were allegedly posted on a peer-to-peer networking website from his laptop computer.

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Related Topix: Owings, MD, Science / Technology, Prince Frederick, MD, Chesapeake Beach, MD

Telegraph.co.uk

First Wikileaks, now Facebook. Is this the death of privacy?

The parallels between the Wikileaks saga and the openness of Facebook's user data are striking.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Privacy, Science / Technology

Thu Jul 29, 2010

P2pnet.net

TalkTalk admits secretly monitoring users

P2P:- Britain's TalkTalk ISP talks itself up as a Noble Defender of the Great Online Unwashed.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Spyware, Privacy

Hypebot

What I Learned At NMS: Count Clicks To Content

This post is by Ryan Van Etten , Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv ; he was our featured corespondent at New Music Seminar in New York.

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Related Topix: Van Etten, NY, Online Music, Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Government Computer News

FireCloud shares security intell among devices

Red Lambda, a security company that grew out of a University of Florida research program to police peer-to-peer file sharing on campus, is demonstrating at the Black Hat Briefings a new product code-named FireCloud that it claims is the first to integrate the functionality of multiple network security devices.

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Related Topix: University of Florida, Computer Security, Science, Computer Science

The INQUIRER

Facebook details are leaked

THE PRIVATE DATA belonging to 100 million Facebook users has been collected and put onto the peer-to-peer filesharing website The Pirate Bay by an insecurity expert.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Science / Technology, Internet, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Customer Interaction Solutions

Michigan's St. John Providence Health System Deploys eClinicalWorks

John Providence Health System, a provider of inpatient care in southeast Michigan, will be offering eClinicalWorks electronic health record solution for its approximately 3,000 employed and affiliated physicians.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Software as a Service

Wed Jul 28, 2010

TMCnet

Damaka Extends Mobile Unified Communication and Collaboration Platform to BlackBerry Devices

Damaka , a provider of mobile unified communications and collaboration, on Tuesday announced the launch of its UCC product suite for BlackBerry devices.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

KTUL

Man Accused Of Child Pornography

An Oklahoma City man has been arrested for child pornography after an undercover FBI agent says he discovered images of child porn and videos of children engaged in sexual activity on his computer.

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Related Topix: US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US News, Science / Technology

Joi Ito's Web

Thoughts on our P2PU X KMD Digital Journalism course

For the last three years, I've been teaching a course at The Keio Graduate School of Media Design on Digital Journalism.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Science / Technology

Kansas City InfoZine

Congress, Amid Security Concerns, Reviews Skype Policy

By Alejandra Matos - At the Pentagon, employees can use Skype, the free video and telephone service, but at the House of Representatives, ita s banned for fear it could interfere with computer security.

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Related Topix: US News, Startups, Facebook, Computers, Science / Technology, US Politics, Silvestre Reyes, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Nancy Pelosi

Oak Bay News

I-pirates scolded for download activity using Hub

By Andrew Farris - Oak Bay News Published: July 27, 2010 2:00 PM Updated: July 27, 2010 2:25 PM An underground file-sharing network using the University of Victoria's Internet bandwidth has been shut down.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Tue Jul 27, 2010

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Vermont Man Sentenced on Child Pornography Charge

The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Glenn Little, 44, of Georgia, Vermont, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 20 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge that he possessed child pornography.

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Related Topix: Prison, Science / Technology, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US News

BlackBerry Cool

Damaka Announces Unified Collaboration and Communication Product Suite for BlackBerry

Damaka has announced it's launching its mobile Unified Collaboration and Communication platform on BlackBerry.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

P2pnet.net

Nonprofit group goes to bat in UMG v Veoh

P2P:- Veoh may be deceased, but the issues live on. Time Warner, Michael Eisner's Tornante Company, Spark Capital, Shelter Capital Partners, Tom Freston's Firefly3 LLC, Jonathan Dolgen , Intel, and Goldman Sachs are still in deep mourning, p2pnet said in April, going on: "Because their video-sharing site Veoh is dead.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Non-Profit

P2pnet.net

a YAY, buy hookers and coke a a

'YAY, buy hookers and coke ' p2pnet view Music P2P:- In his "Ia TMm blue in the face through saying it , but a musician is in the business of selling their music a ' NOT copies" post, Crosbie Fitch goes on >>> Today and tomorrow, the self-emancipated musician, who has been warned against signing their soul away to a record label, sells their work ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Mon Jul 26, 2010

Oak Bay News

Death of the video store

When Don Nelson started in the movie business, VHS tapes were the new "it" thing.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

P2pnet.net

RIAA and the file sharing a debatea

RIAA and the file sharing 'debate' p2pnet view P2P RIAA:- Professors Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf "now apparently believe that in fact, yes, illegal downloading does undercut sales". Who says? RIAA employees Joshua P. Friedlander and Jonathan Lamy.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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