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United States government interference in Spain’s intellectual property laws had long been suspected, but it was revelations from Wikileaks that finally confirmed the depth of its involvement.More than 100 leaked cables showed that the US had helped draft new Spanish copyright legislation and had heavily influenced the decisions of both the government and opposition.Now, another diplomatic leak

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While the American government requires that UK citizens are dragged into one of their courts to face sixty-year sentences, it looks like it is not even reluctant to hand over one of its own hackers over to a more sensible French court.The US cyclist Floyd Landis had a go at cracking the PCs of the anti-doping lab that found him cheating during Tour de France 6 years ago. He was charged by the

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They have announced a list of cities eligible to bid for super-fast broadband funding. However, the experts think that the cash might make no difference to a lot of British cities.After the authorities have announced that the 4 capital cities in the United Kingdom will be awarded part of a £100 million fund created for developing high speed broadband, they revealed a list of cities who’ll scrap

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Recently the Swiss government made a decision to endorse a law according to which non-profit file-sharing is considered legitimate. The Swiss government believes that the so-called “illicit” downloads don’t actually hurt the entertainment industry like various anti-piracy groups claims they do. However, this decision has led to a hostile reaction from the Italian government.Italy is known in

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Google has just opened its new French headquarters, but it seems that they won't be receiving a warm welcome in the nearest future. The reason is that the company has recently landed itself in hot water over the abuse of its dominant position one more time, facing a lawsuit that demands over $30 million for damages to some navigation software firm.French company named NAVX is currently suing

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Security experts claim they’ve discovered a yet-to-be-patched vulnerability in the Apache HTTP server. The hole, according to their claims, allows hackers to access protected resources within the internal network. Due to the importance of the issue, Apache developers gathered a conference where they tried to decide how to fix the problem.All you need for “goodnight Vienna” to happen on the

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The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry), the voice of the British recorded music bizz, is reported to make desperate efforts of extending its Internet-blocking policy about The Pirate Bay onto other largest broadband providers, including TalkTalk, Virgin Media, Sky, O2, and Orange.The British Recorded Music Industry outfit officially demanded BT to block access to the “rogue” website known as

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After Chipzilla had bought the worldwide-known insecurity company McAfee, lots of industry experts wondered why, and recently Intel finally released the results of its collaboration.Intel has developed a security system called Deepsafe. According to the giant, this system will work outside the operating system at the chip level, watching the hardware for signs of malware being active. The system

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According to the technology chief of the European Union, the industry’s ways of using copyright legislation as an instrument of punishment will lead to the breakdown of the whole system of copyright, because today artists already get nothing from it.Neelie Kroes, digital agenda commissioner of the European Union, claimed that creative industries really need to develop new technological methods

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Valve’s download service Steam has been hacked, and security experts suspect that as a result, credit card data could be stolen. The company admitted that the intruders managed to hack a Steam database, which contains a lot of sensitive information, including user names, hashed and salted passwords, as well as information about the members’ game purchases, email addresses, and even encrypted

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Recently, BT – one of the largest broadband providers in the country – has been forced to block the famous file-sharing site Newzbin2. However, the story doesn’t seem to be coming to an end with the court ruling: while the service keeps struggling by developing more and more way to circumvent the ban, two other UK’s Internet service providers, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, feel the pressure from

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Dutch anti-piracy outfit named BREIN represents multiple members of the entertainment industry. Recently it has won a two-year battle against the company News Service, whose main activity is reselling Usenet services to multiple providers.Despite all its attempts and appeals to go on with their operations, the company was recently forced by court order to cease its activity and delete all

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Product search online service called Foundem has said that Google was directly targeting household name search websites via Google Panda, with the algorithm being central to ongoing antitrust cases. The website kicked off the antitrust investigation of EC against Google after it monitored their website drop down the page rankings upon introduction of Universal Search four years ago.After the

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Despite having booked and paid for their booth at Gamex, Sweden’s largest gaming exhibition, the Pirate Party have been excluded from the action this week. The party, who say they were nagged for 2 to 3 months to book for the event, were this week informed they were too controversial and no longer welcome. Running from the 3rd to 6th November, Gamex is Sweden’s biggest gaming show. All the big

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Hackers who developed the latest doomsday virus named Duqu seem to have moved their illegal operations to Belgium. This country, known for being the birthplace of French fries, and also the rudest word in any language, is reported to have become the new headquarters of operations for the software developers who created this malware.The hackers have begun using a server located in Belgium in

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Iain Lobban, a head of the UK’s largest intelligence agency, has recently warned of a rapid increase in cyber attacks that could jeopardize the country’s economic well-being. He emphasized the increasing problem of hacks on the government, pointing at a considerable attack on the Foreign Office this past summer. In addition, Lobban has noted an increase in the number of cyber attempts to steal

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McAfee, the worldwide-known insecurity outfit, which was purchased by chip giant Intel, has just lost a couple of key employees. Meanwhile, the company is expected to introduce a new generation of security products in the nearest future. George Kurtz, the worldwide chief technology officer, known for helping lead the McAfee’s product strategy, is going to leave the company by the end of

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Last week, the country’s Chaos Computer Club published a detailed analysis of the state trojan used by different police forces for spying on suspects. The outfit pointed out that the trojan in question breached tight limits set by the country’s highest court. Restrictions imposed by the high court limited any kind of trojan used by police and other intelligence services to surveillance of

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For decades now open-sources have been running dual boot set ups featuring both Windows and Linux running alongside from a standardized boot. Nevertheless, the news is that in the new Windows 8, the firmware known as UEFI is going to replace the low level BIOS along with the ability to lock down PCs so that operating systems should be digitally signed through “secure boot”. The industry

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Erik Klinker, BitTorrent’s Chief Executive Officer, attended the Broadband World Forum that took place in France. As a result, he came with a new solution for an old problem of network congestion because of P2P. A new open-source technology called Micro Transport Protocol or xTP has already been introduced into the company’s application in order to increase the performance of network by

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The Czech Pirate Party launched “Linking is Not a Crime” campaign back in July, which was a sign of protest against a teenage being fined $7 million for simply providing links to copyrighted content. Earlier, in frames of this campaign the Czech Pirate Party had already launched 2 film download portals, where it was providing links without hosting the information itself. The high school

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Another research confirms that file-sharing is generally limited in both North America and Europe, but is still on the rise across Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East. Industry observers called piracy “progressive taxation”, which can be considered a great theory reproducing the nowadays situation. In this particular research it is said that the problem is actually not piracy but

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The governing party of Canada – the Conservatives – was planning an omnibus crime legislation which was supposed to include surveillance provision. Although the bill is not yet tabled, opposition to this bill is already growing. Recently the web was hit by the suggestions that the Canadian surveillance bill may be bundled in to omnibus crime legislation and tabled in the near future. That wasn’t

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As you already know, there is a comprehensive list of methods to circumvent the website filtering suggested by the United States, and some of them go way beyond circumventing kinds of censorship as suggested by the proposed legislation. Actually, it will be very interesting to see how the suggested services respond to those supporting online censorship. Today industry observers agree that it

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Microsoft has locked down their Wi-Fi-powered geolocation service. The reason for the decision was that insecurity expert Elie Bursztein recently raised privacy concerns about the data which is being stored within the service. The expert was trying to find out whether it was possible to track a laptop by snuffling the Wi-Fi information stored by Windows each time it connects to an access point.

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