Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 18, 2010 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
Pirate Bay ist zurück am Netz
Die Auszeit dauerte nur einen Tag: Die Filmindustrie hat einen deutschen Provider gezwungen, die Torrent-Suchmaschine The Pirate Bay vom Netz zu nehmen. Jetzt ist die Seite wieder erreichbar - offenbar über einen Provider in der Ukraine.
Die Filmindustrie hat es wieder nicht geschafft: Sie hat zwar eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen den deutschen Provider CB3ROB erwirkt und damit der Torrent-Seite The Pirate Bay die Verbindung gekappt. Das Landgericht Hamburg verbot dem Berliner Provider, die Seite ans Internet anzubinden, soweit darüber bestimmte Filme zugänglich gemacht werden. Genannt werden sechs aktuelle Filme - einer für jedes der in der Motion Picture Alliance (MPA) zusammengeschlossenen großen Hollywood-Studios.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 18, 2010 at 10:27:00 AM CEST
German police to use 'sniffer' vultures
They will attach global positioning system tracking devices to birds and get them to find the corpses of people who have disappeared in remote areas.
Policeman Rainer Herrmann said: "It was a colleague of mine who got the idea from watching a nature programme."
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 18, 2010 at 10:20:00 AM CEST
Australian Wikileak founder's passport confiscated
Julian Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks, says he had his passport taken away from him at Melbourne Airport and was later told by customs officials that it was about to be cancelled.
Last year Wikileaks published a confidential Australian blacklist of websites to be banned under the government's proposed internet filter.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 16, 2010 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
Erste Urteile gegen Besitzer des 'Anarchist's Cookbook'
Zwei Briten wurden beim Download des bekannten 'Anarchist's Cookbook' ertappt, wodurch ihre terroristischen Absichten auffielen.
Gestern erging in Großbritannien das erste Urteil gegen zwei Männer, die durch den Download der als 'Anarchist's Cookbook' bekannten Datensammlung aufgefallen waren. Einer der beiden hatte das Werk auch zum weiteren Download angeboten. Beim 'Anarchist's Cookbook' handelt es sich um eine Zusammenstellung verschiedener Anleitungen zur Herstellung von Giften, zum Bombenbau und ähnlichem.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 16, 2010 at 10:44:00 AM CEST
In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions
In the UK last month the author/compiler of the well-known-in-Internet-circles 'terrorist handbook' pleaded guilty to seven counts of collecting information that could have been used to prepare or commit acts of terrorism, with a maximum jail term of 10 years. Today the first people caught with downloaded copies have been put behind bars — a white-supremacist father and son pairing getting 10 and two years respectively, convicted of three counts of possessing material useful for acts of terror. How many will be emptying their recycle bins after this conviction? As of writing, the book is still freely available on Amazon.com to buy.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on May 16, 2010 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Polish pop star faces jail for blasphemy - Pop star claims Bible written by drunks
One of Poland's most famous and controversial pop stars faces two years in jail after suggesting that the Bible was written by drunks and people with a fondness for "herbal cigarettes".
Dorota Rabczewska, famed for an unabashed attitude when it comes to flaunting her flesh, and a string of hits, has been charged by Warsaw prosecutors with insulting religious feeling for comments she made in a television interview a year ago.
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 15, 2010 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
US-Behörde soll Ölbohrungen illegal genehmigt haben
Haben staatliche Aufseher in den USA Gesetze missachtet, um Ölgiganten zu schonen? Bohrungen wurden genehmigt, ohne Umweltzulassungen einzuholen - auch an der "Deepwater Horizon", berichten US-Zeitungen und zitieren Forscher, denen zufolge gerade weit mehr Öl ins Meer gelangt als bekannt.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 15, 2010 at 1:00:00 PM CEST
Google gesteht Datenpanne bei Street View
Google selbst spricht von einem "sehr großen Fehler": Entgegen eigenen früheren Angaben hat der Suchmaschinenkonzern mit seinen Street-View-Autos doch Daten aus offenen W-Lan-Netzwerken aufgezeichnet - weltweit und über Jahre hinweg. Die Panne fiel erst dank einer Nachfrage aus Hamburg auf.
spiegel.de Fehler im perfekten System [lol]Google erbost die BundesregierungPolitik fordert von Google Aufklärung über WLAN-Datensammlung [Update] Datenschützer fordern Einblick in Google-Software
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 15, 2010 at 12:58:00 PM CEST
Google admits collecting Wi-Fi data through Street View cars
Google has been accidentally gathering extracts of personal web activity from private wifi networks through the Street View cars it has used since 2007, it said last night.
It was discovered as a result of a data audit demanded by Germany's data protection authority, and is likely to inflame critics of Google concerned about the web giant's use of private data.
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Topic: born rich - on May 15, 2010 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
Keeping It Classy: ATM Dispenses Gold Bars
It's the ultimate hole-in-the-wall - a money machine that dispenses pure gold.
But installed beneath the gold-coated ceilings of Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace hotel, where royalty and billionaires come for cappuccinos topped with gold flakes, the machine almost seems part of the furniture.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 15, 2010 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
Mick Jagger talks downloading and piracy on 40th anniversary of "Exile on Main Street"
This BBC News interview with [Sir] Mick Jagger on the 40th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street contains a few really choice grafs about the myth that the internet has robbed artists of their livelihoods. He seems pretty chill about the perceived threats of downloading, and explains that for a long time, the record labels did a fine job of robbing artists.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 15, 2010 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
Public Image Ltd. Returns For A Thrilling Live Concert
After a nearly 20-year hiatus, the highly revered and often imitated post-punk group Public Image Ltd. has re-formed and launched a new U.S. tour. The band made a stop in Washington, D.C., for a full concert, recorded live at the 9:30 Club.
Public Image Ltd. was frequently overlooked when it originally formed and released a string of records in the 1980s and early '90s, or maybe it was looked at for the wrong reasons.
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