Topic: POLICE REPORT - on February 13, 2008 at 3:00:00 PM CET
Demo in Graz: Bedeutende Folgen eines Mittelfingers - Polizei zeigte 14-Jährigen an
Das Vorgehen der Grazer Polizei im Zuge von Demonstrationen und Kundgebungen gegen das BZÖ und die FPÖ sorgen seit Monaten immer wieder für Aufregung. Die Grünen warfen der Polizei "einen Kleinkrieg gegen Anti-Rechts-Demonstranten" vor - der Standard berichtete. Auch Bescheide des Unabhängige Verwaltungssenat des Landes verurteilen regelmäßig Amtshandlungen bei solchen Veranstaltungen. Nun wurde ein weiterer Fall bekannt, der für Aufsehen sorgt: Ein 14-Jähriger, der im November gegen eine Wahlkampfveranstaltung des BZÖ protestierte und dem BZÖ-Kandidaten Gerald Grosz seine Mittelfinger entgegenstreckte, weil dieser Demonstranten als "Schmutz" bezeichnete, wurde nach der Demo angezeigt. Nicht von Grosz, sondern von einem Polizisten.
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Topic: WEB - on February 13, 2008 at 2:59:00 PM CET
Tagoo Emerging as the Russian Napster?
Until Tuesday, it wasn't on THREAT LEVEL's radar. But it appears to be a new site offering virtually any copyrighted music downloads for free. It's as easy to use as iTunes, minus the credit card. (Soon after this story was posted, the site was periodically crashing because of "too many connections," according to a warning.)
The site, based in Russia, is on Tuesday's "hotlist" in the popular social-bookmarking site del.icio.us. The apparent popularity of the music-pilfering site underscores what is already largely known: Russia, like China, is often a haven for intellectual property piracy.
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Topic: WEB - on February 13, 2008 at 2:56:00 PM CET
UK Moves to Disconnect P2P Pirates
There are plenty of Americans who hate the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). It explicitly deters copyright circumvention, stifles fair use, and has given the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) ammunition to identify suspected P2P pirates. At the end of the day, however, the DMCA has probably done more to help file-sharing than hurt it.
Why's that? As much as the DMCA is regarded as the scourge of the Internet, it has a very special section called the "safe harbor provision" for ISPs. During the late 90s, ISPs such as AT&T fought very hard to have this provision entered into the DMCA. The safe harbor provision protects the ISP from any and all criminal and/or civil infractions that may transpire across their networks.
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