Topic: ART - on January 16, 2012 at 9:38:00 PM CET
Postage stamp paintings
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 16, 2012 at 9:37:00 PM CET
30 Planstellen für den Staatstrojaner
Beim Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) sollen 30 Planstellen für das "Kompetenzzentrum Informationstechnische Überwachung" (CC ITÜ) geschaffen werden. Die neue Einheit soll ein eigenes Trojanerprogramm zur sogenannten "Quellen-Telekommunikationsüberwachung" entwickeln. Zusätzlich werden im Bundeshaushalt für das BKA Sachmittel in Höhe von 2,2 Millionen Euro für das CC ITÜ bereitgestellt. Dies geht aus der Antwort der Bundesregierung auf eine Kleine Anfrage (PDF-Datei) des Linken-Abgeordneten Herbert Behrens hervor.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 16, 2012 at 9:35:00 PM CET
The Lies Of NBCUniversal's Rick Cotton About SOPA/PIPA
Chris Hayes, over on MSNBC, decided to be the first to seriously break the mainstream cable news' boycott over SOPA/PIPA with a big debate on the bill -- mainly between NBCUniversal's top lawyer, Rick Cotton, and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Chris's opening discussion is quite good, and suggests he's certainly sympathetic to all of us who are vehemently opposed to the bill.
Alexis does an excellent job in the brief time he's given to speak (though Cotton gets probably four times the amount of time to speak), but what I wanted to focus on, are the lies of Rick Cotton, because it's simply despicable. He flat-out lies about the bills -- and, even worse -- does so in a manner that implies that it's everyone else who's lying about the bills. He kicks it off by insisting that the bills only apply to sites that are "wholesale devoted to theft." That's simply not true. He actually uses the word "wholesale" maybe two dozen times (at least). The text of PIPA -- the key bill at this point -- says that a site is considered "dedicated to infringing activities" if it "has no significant use other than engaging in, enabling, or facilitating" infringement. That does not mean that the site is "wholesale devoted to theft." Under this definition, of course, a site like a YouTube (if it were based on a foreign domain) would be questionable, given that it has no significant use other than enabling infringement. That doesn't mean that it's always used to infringe, but it's main use absolutely enables or facilitates infringement. Cotton may want to believe the language says otherwise, but it does not.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 16, 2012 at 9:33:00 PM CET
Wikipedia to Shut Down in Protest of SOPA
Wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, founder Jimmy Wales announced on Monday.
In doing so, Wikipedia joins a long list of web companies such as Reddit and Mozilla that are taking similar measures against the proposed legislation.
Wales used his Twitter account to spread the news, writing “Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday! #sopa”
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