Topic: HOLLYWALD - on January 23, 2012 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Anonymous Documentary We Are Legion Peels Back Hacktivist Group’s History
New documentary We Are Legion puts an actual human face on Anonymous, the hacktivist group whose members usually are seen wearing Guy Fawkes masks — if they are seen at all.
Considering Anonymous’ retaliatory acts against websites run by the Department of Justice and the entertainment industry just last week in response to the government takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists could almost be mistaken for a 93-minute news segment.
But unlike most news segments about the group, the documentary contains genuine moments with actual Anons (some maintain their anonymity in the doc, but others don’t).
“The last two or three days we’ve seen a lot of what Anonymous does,” We Are Legion director Brian Knappenberger said in an interview with Wired.com here Saturday, the morning after the documentary’s premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival. “You know, there was a film about the Weather Underground that came out a few years ago, and that was made 30 years after they were blowing up buildings, and I love that film. But picture making a film like that while they were still blowing up buildings — that’s what I’m talking about.”
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 23, 2012 at 10:59:00 AM CET
Österreich unterzeichnet Anti-Piraterieabkommen
Österreich will das umstrittene Anti-Piraterieabkommen ACTA, mit dem Produktpiraterie und Urheberrechtsverletzungen bekämpft werden sollen, demnächst unterzeichnen. Die Vorbereitungen für die Umsetzungen des Paktes in nationales Recht laufen, Gesetzesänderungen werden geprüft. Das EU-Parlament muss dem Abkommen noch zustimmen. Österreichische Internet-Anbieter befürchten, dass sie durch den Anti-Pirateriepakt zur Überwachung ihrer Netze gedrängt werden könnten.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 23, 2012 at 10:57:00 AM CET
Petition - End ACTA and Protect our right to privacy on the Internet
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, is a 'plurilateral' trade agreement, currently being negotiated between the US, Canada, Japan, the European Union, South Korea, Mexico, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand. It is somewhat similar to SOPA/PIPA, however ACTA is an executive agreement between countries besides the United States, and it can be passed without the approval from Congress and the Supreme Court. It is potentially hazardous to the Internet we know and how it works.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 23, 2012 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Kim Dotcom erklärt sich für unschuldig
Megaupload-Gründer Kim Dotcom wird der Internetpiraterie und Geldwäsche beschuldigt. Vor einem Gericht in Neuseeland erklärt sich der verhaftete Deutsche für nicht schuldig. Dennoch muss er in Haft bleiben.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 23, 2012 at 10:52:00 AM CET
Megaupload founder seeks bail in New Zealand court - Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music
The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload has appeared in a New Zealand court seeking bail.
German national Kim Dotcom - also known as Kim Schmitz - was arrested with three others in Auckland on Friday in a raid requested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Not so long ago, a legal video was taken down by repetitive DMCA requests to YouTube. In response, Megaupload filed a lawsuit against Universal Music.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 22, 2012 at 2:22:00 PM CET
Journal 2012. Medien & Strategie.
Die angstfreie Debatte. Erstmals geht der ORF aus einer politischen Posse gestärkt hervor. Aus guten Gründen.
Nur einmal angenommen; auch wenn wir wissen, dass es nicht so war... Angenommen ein Superstrategenhirn und/oder eine einander ergänzende Experten-Runde innerhalb des ORF hat Ende letzten Jahres zu folgendem wichtigen Thema getagt: wie kriegen wir den ORF raus aus der ewigen Miesmacher-Kampagne der interessensgetriebenen Verlage und Konkurrenten, raus aus der Negativ-Spirale des österreichischen Eh-Ollas-Oasch-Fatalismus und rein in eine effektive Präsentation seiner Kompetenz, am besten innerhalb einer aktuellen wutbürgerlichen Occupy-Ästhetik; am allerbesten verbunden mit der Bewusstseinsmachung des Themas "Entpolitisierung der Aufsichtsgremien" oder zumindest einem Dämpfer für die ewigen politischen Besetzungs-Begehrlichkeiten. Und das alles ohne totale Beschädigung der aktuellen Führung.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 22, 2012 at 2:20:00 PM CET
Identifizierung von Verbündeten - Berater Peter Hochegger kassierte fünf Millionen Euro für politisches Lobbying
Aufträge zwischen 2002 und 2008 für „parlamentarische Überzeugungsarbeit“ und „Regierungslobbying“
Die Telekom Austria zahlte Peter Hochegger insgesamt fünf Millionen Euro für politisches Lobbying: Wurden Parteien und Gesetze gekauft?
Die nahende parlamentarische Aufarbeitung des Telekom-Skandals könnte für den einen oder anderen Volkstribun eine eher unfreiwillige Reise in die eigene Vergangenheit werden. Ab 26. Februar wird sich der Untersuchungsausschuss der Korruptionsfälle der jüngeren Geschichte annehmen. Ganz oben auf der Agenda: die Zahlungen der Telekom Austria an deren früheren Lobbyisten Peter Hochegger.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 22, 2012 at 1:39:00 PM CET
Polish lawmaker smokes ‘marijuana’ in parliament
Janusz Palikot, the leader of a new party which brought in Poland’s first trans-gender and openly gay MPs, launched a drive Friday to legalise marijuana by smoking pot in parliament.
“This is the weed,” he told reporters in his office in the lower house of parliament, lighting up a large incense joint containing what he said was a legal quantity of marijuana.
Palikot said his party had submitted a bill to legalise marijuana.
Earlier on Friday, the philosophy graduate known for his flamboyant political stunts, caused a stir when he announced he would “light up” in parliament.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 22, 2012 at 1:38:00 PM CET
wall street vs. reality
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 22, 2012 at 1:36:00 PM CET
Do Drones Undermine Democracy?
IN democracies like ours, there have always been deep bonds between the public and its wars. Citizens have historically participated in decisions to take military action, through their elected representatives, helping to ensure broad support for wars and a willingness to share the costs, both human and economic, of enduring them.
In America, our Constitution explicitly divided the president’s role as commander in chief in war from Congress’s role in declaring war. Yet these links and this division of labor are now under siege as a result of a technology that our founding fathers never could have imagined.
Just 10 years ago, the idea of using armed robots in war was the stuff of Hollywood fantasy. Today, the United States military has more than 7,000 unmanned aerial systems, popularly called drones. There are 12,000 more on the ground. Last year, they carried out hundreds of strikes — both covert and overt — in six countries, transforming the way our democracy deliberates and engages in what we used to think of as war.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 22, 2012 at 1:34:00 PM CET
Pakistan official says US military will be allowed to return, but not CIA drones
U.S. military trainers will be invited back into Pakistan "as early as April or May," but the nation has ruled out allowing CIA drones back into the country, Fox News has learned.
Relations between the two nations have been at an all-time low since 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an inadvertent aerial attack by NATO in November.
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Topic: Apple - on January 22, 2012 at 1:31:00 PM CET
Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released
It certainly took long enough, but the untethered jailbreak for Apple's A5 based iOS devices (iPad 2, iPhone 4s) has been released (official site, struggling due to traffic). It's currently only available for OS X, though ports of it to Windows are forthcoming.
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