Thursday, January 31, 2013
For years, we've been covering a key legal battle in the music business, involving producers Eminem, FBT, and Universal Music, more than the amount owed on iTunes sales. The key question is: Is this an iTunes purchase a "sale" or a "license". Old music contracts prior to the age of the Internet tend to focus on sales, in which artists tend to get royalties of about 15%. "Licenses" on the other hand, tend to be things like commercials or movies, but he sent about 50% of royalties. But when we speak of the songs on iTunes, you can do something compelling case that is either a sale or a license, according to information focus. Universal Music, of course, insisted that it was a sale of CDs. FBT argued that it was like a license. There are many other similar ongoing trial, but after losing the district court, FBT won on appeal. This resulted in a fight crazy and controversial pay much universal, universal tapping a judge to conceal income with complicated accounting counterfeit money, and even try to count the cost of this litigation goes against what they should .



However, damage phase of the case is set to go to trial in the spring, and must (1) reveals much about the black box of the accounting practices and Universal Music (2) provides a roadmap for many other similar lawsuits against Universal Music (and other majors). Given this, it should not be a surprise that Universal Music was quick to find a way to get FBT to solve ... with the terms of the agreement remain secret. This means that almost certainly UMG paid through the nose, in the hope of making it more difficult for other similar artists to earn rewards, and while allowing Universal to keep their secret for you ... for the moment


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For many of us, the alternative to a manager password is the password using the same everywhere. This means that if the user database from any website that you sign up for is compromised, the attacker can (and often do) just try your username and password to many websites and access. So, seriously: Use a unique password, hard for each site sign up, no matter how you intend to visit. KeePass allows you to keep all these pairs of username / password in a secure encrypted database protected by a master password which is the password you'll ever have to remember. And unlike commercial competitor LastPass, KeePass does not automatically your password database in the cloud (although you can put in Dropbox).

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

collective piracy threatens to make public classified documents and was killed when Aaron Swartz line has been crossed '

hacktivist group Anonymous

said Saturday he had removed the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission in a blatant act of cyber-revenge for the death of freedom fighter Aaron Swartz Internet.

Swartz committed suicide just over two weeks when he faced trial for hacking an online collection of journals related to MIT with the intention of releasing millions of research papers on the Internet.

The 26-year-old had a history of depression, but his family, friends and supporters said it was the threat of a prison sentence for an act he considers a statement policy that led suicide. Since his death, Swartz became a powerful symbol for hackers and activists fighting against Internet controls.

The site of the commission, an independent judiciary involved in the decision, was replaced with a message saying that when Swartz committed suicide two weeks ago, "a line has been crossed. ' In a message posted on the website and an accompanying video YouTube, said hackers had infiltrated various government computer systems and copied secret information that threatened to make it public.


anonymous, which has been the subject of numerous detentions and FBI probes, took a relatively high profile in several recent cases. In the small town of Steubenville, Ohio, which has been rocked by accusations of rape against several football players from high school, the group has organized protests and said published data shows evidence of concealment of the crimes charged.

Anonymous is a poorly defined group of so-called hacktivists who oppose attempts to limit the freedom of the Internet.


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Monday, January 28, 2013

See the first clip of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, the charismatic co-founder biopic of Apple Computers has its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

"How can we know what they want, if you have ever seen?" Ashton Kutcher dams, channeling the spirit of Steve Jobs in the new biopic late Apple founder and CEO. This may be the heart cry of frustrated inventor, but history tells us that Steve Jobs has made things a little differently: Apple, after all, were geniuses to come up with things that people do not know that you wanted in the first place

employment is due to be released in the U.S. on April 19.



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Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Onion published "autobiography" of an e-book of the Vice-President. Now the real Joe Biden please stand up?

Before you begin, make one thing clear, the man in the photo above Diamond Joe Biden, loved and famous portrait of Vice President Joe Biden onion. To what extent is related to the flesh and blood of Vice-President is up for debate, but the style of the onion seems to have generated a certain mystique about Joe Biden and their actual behavior.

The Onion, Joe Biden fantasies cheap beer and nights of debauchery, now Biden does not drink alcohol and is one of the youngest elected to the Senate at the age of 29. Autobiographical narratives of the latter are now preserved in The Onion first e-book, the vice-president, who was released last week.

An excerpt from the first chapter. "I squeezed in this crazy world in 1942, more or less a year little doubt about my exact age because I had a hell of a lot more time after my birthday."

Chad Nackers

The Onion has been with since 1997 and is the principal adviser on all activities Biden. Nackers said he really liked the character now Biden has arrived in the form of a story involving the extraction Vice President and photoshopping him in front of the White House, washing a Trans Am

"This is where Biden actually formed in this multi-faceted character that is part Dirtball head metal type, uncle scary part," said Nackers.

He told the Guardian that if Biden Biden and real diamond are almost opposite, Biden might be more of his own cup appearance.

"If you look at that smile - that this great smile, flashy - there is a sort of nod off," said Nackers. "Then you look at it and think, hey there is something here. "

other media have certainly understood this context also, but it is unclear whether in cash or inspired Biden Biden The Onion. Talking Points Memo video welcome to the Senate in 2013 swearing-in ceremony to show Biden Biden is cut in a way that is similar to its counterpart onion.

The Office of the Vice President issued a response to the onion its official Twitter account that also gave credit to caricature onion. The post includes a picture of Joe Biden next to a Corvette and a text that says Biden prefer the car for a Trans Am

"So this is the only thing, it is still a muscle car," said Nackers. "This guy is so real, maybe they amplify -. Cover stories that the rest of the mainstream media tend to overlook "

The Onion, Joe Biden took Twitter site for the vice-presidency in October 2012 debate and answered questions from a Reddit AMA last week to promote the vice president. Most of the questions were related to sex, even if some were related to politics.

AlabasterWaterJug Reddit user: "In addition to you, the member parties of the firm toughest" The Onion, Joe Biden: ".. [U.S. Energy Secretary] Steven Chu is responsible for its Nobel has a killer stereo system in your home, ideal for jams mine "


even rude, bro-tastic voice used in Vice President. The Onion Alex Blechman had "dispute" Biden for the project and stated that the worst of the creation of the book was "Biden tour time on their pages."

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map of France with tax data shows how governments now want to enjoy the plunder of our online information

France has been very busy lately. Last week, seems to have lost his rights while Pong Pong produces both the best and the News Ever. This is a government report confirming widespread suspicions that the time spent on Facebook is really mucking "work", you should be paid.

Commissioned by the Minister of Innovation and the economy, the report essentially Colin and Collin class users sites like Facebook and Google as unpaid workers. The logic is that, in the use of these services, you free valuable personal information that can be used for targeted advertising revenue. It is a sort of prostitution digital Google makes about $ 30 billion per year, an estimated $ 2 billion in France. In light of these shocking facts, the report concludes, France should introduce a tax on the collection of personal data.

He is absolutely right to say that users are giving away your personal information. Access to "free" services such as Google or Facebook is based on an exchange value, and data are exchanged. General confusion about what is the value that represents the data means that most people accept this agreement. After all, would you be willing to pay "real money" to finance their habit Google Chat? Research shows that Google pays about $ 5,000 in personal data in exchange for their services. Given the possibility of paying $ 5,000 in cash, credit or biscuits I imagine that most people fill the cookies.

But things change. Year French proposal data is unlikely to become law in the short term, but that has been discussed is indicative of a progressive drive towards a more formal quantification data. This can already be seen in the large number of new companies that are trying to help people transform their data into dollars: an industry that is worth ? 1 billion in 2016 in the UK alone. Now, apparently, governments are beginning to wonder if they too can charge in.

not only businesses and governments begin to see the individual as factory data: we begin to think of ourselves in those terms. This is evident in the inclusion of quantified self, a movement in which participants carefully measure all aspects of their daily lives. You probably know people who have a tracking device like a Fitbit or Nike Fuelband. And if not, soon: a press release from the recent International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) provides that in the next five years, we will 169.5m fitness phone ", the body becomes a peripheral input / output where all can be followed. "



body as an "input / output" is just one example of how digital technology is creating a new type of biological discourse. We started talking about ourselves in terms of number of technology: be quantified, followed by life, life hacking, vocabulary, etc. is always embraced by new age type would be most interested in your chakras their teams. Deepak Chopra, for example, promoting their participation at CES with a tweet saying: ". Our biology is a workshop on nanotechnology in our consciousness "Yes, I do not know what that means, except that it is probably an example of nano-syntactic absolute bullshit.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013


Sharing files and self-publishing is becoming the standard for a generation of writers who seek publication beyond a dying ecosystem

community of writers of science fiction have reason to dislike digital copying or "piracy" as it is commonly labeled in the tabloids. Genre writers are generally published in mid-list, where sales may seem mediocre easily eroded by the specter of illegal downloads. SF, fantasy and horror literature are also more choices for geeks more likely to share the works of his favorite authors "on the torrent sites. Not surprisingly, many writers and editors respond to such professionals increasingly the reality of copying the absolutist position that piracy is theft and should be punished as such by law.

writers of science fiction, but they are far from united in this position. Novelist, blogger and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow is well known for providing free digital copies of their books as a marketing strategy, arguing that in a digital economy, the darkness is a far greater threat than piracy . Charlie Stross blogged argument effectively against digital rights management for ebooks that have influenced at least leave an imprint of DRM in their novels. And questioned on the subject in 2011, Neil Gaiman, always the gentleman, please remember that if you are a writer woo fans, shouting "Stop thief!" In them and threatening legal action for copy could be cons ... productive.

is at the confluence of file-sharing and self-publishing a new type of "artisan author" makes its appearance. In his guide to self-publishing, Guy Kawasaki coauthor with Shawn Welch currency term APE: author, publisher, entrepreneur. Kawasaki argues that the performance of the three functions, writers opened enormous opportunities for creative work that big publishers are too slow and cumbersome to respond. Self-published writer Huw Howey, whose collection of SF short stories, Lana became a bestseller ebook before it is published by Century and bought the film rights to Ridley Scott, said that he and pirates "are tight", he loves his readers, "even those with eye spots. "For a self-published author in Howey, download from torrent sites are not a lost sale, but won a reader own sites not dens of piracy, but places where people who are fans of interesting things fetch things interesting for fans new. artisan For author, self-publishing is a preference file sharing is an opportunity.

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Huawei notches 2Tbps data transmission over Vodafone's network in Germany, calls it a 'world's first'

as terabit speeds go, the last exploit of Huawei fiber falls into the lower end of the recent achievements in the industry. In 2Tbps, Chinese test field company - one that is hailed as "first world" - even comes close to 100Tbps experiments on the likes of NEC and NICT. But speed is not quite the point here, the real return is. By leveraging existing infrastructure owned by Vodafone fiber in parts of Lower Germany, Huawei has managed to successfully demonstrate 200G record two programs:. "The Ultra-long range solution" covering a 1500 km and 3325 km, the other via a To give you an idea of ??what kind of data networks such theoretical launches can reach, Huawei claims that this ultra connection fast is "equivalent to the discharge of 40 HD video in a second." Fantastic, really. 'But do not let this contract or broadband FiOS TWC again. While it is good to know that this technology exists, practical implementation is still far off. far, is the gigabit mode.

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Finnish mobile phone manufacturer made a profit of € 439m compared with a loss of about € 1 billion a year ago, sales of smartphones relive

Nokia has returned to profitability, ending a 18-month period during which piled up losses of more than € 4 billion (? 3.36bn), but it has canceled its dividend for the first time more than a century in order to conserve cash.

The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer has registered an operating profit of € 439 million, against a loss of about € 1 billion per year, while consumer demand for its smartphones and boosted decision to reduce its workforce by 20,000 reduced costs. The company has returned to growth, with net sales up 11% compared to the previous quarter, to € 8 billion.

In a sign that the Windows operating system that is widely used in the market Nokia's flagship Lumia phones began to gain strength, the key devices and services division also returned to profit.

The number of smartphones sold totaled $ 6.6 million at Christmas, against 6.3 million in the previous quarter to 4.4 million in total Lumia range. Although Nokia sold 20 million smartphones last year, the average selling price rose 33% to € 186, the quality of their mobile phones has improved.

to keep more money, the dividend was canceled in 2012 - Nokia has paid € 0.2 per share for 2011. The company has paid a dividend since electronic records began in 1989, even if a researcher requests Finland shareholders received an award every year since 1971, when Nokia was in the paper business.

"The fourth quarter of 2012 was the final result for Nokia," said Francisco Jeronimo of IDC market. "Significant results should be delivered this year, from the first quarter of 2013 of Nokia only two options: .. Be significantly increase sales or radically change its strategy "


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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Company

ordered security vulnerabilities fines after millions of players details disclosed online in 2011

Sony Computer Entertainment has been fined a record ? 250,000 by watchdog data protection after the personal data of millions of players - including passwords and credit card numbers -. Leaked online

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The error occurred in April 2011, when hackers targeted the Sony PlayStation Network.

The Information Commissioner Office said Thursday the security breach was "one of the worst" who operated in accordance with the Act on Data Protection. The fine is ? 250,000 the maximum penalty provided by the ICO against a private company.

"There is no disguise that this is a company that should have been better. D a company that is listed on their technical expertise, and there is no doubt in my mind that they had access to both the expertise and the resources to keep this information secure, "said David Smith, deputy commissioner and director of UCI data protection.

The watchdog said that millions of users have been exposed to the risk of identity theft after their names, addresses, email addresses, date of birth and passwords of accounts leak online.

ICO has launched an investigation into the leak immediately after the court in April 2011. A concluded Thursday that the attack could have been avoided if the software was Sony so far, and separately, they found that the passwords are not treated well by the gaming giant.

The security flaw has been a blow to Sony, forcing her direction then chief Sir Howard Stringer, in a humble apology and cause its stock price to fall as investors worry final cost of court.

The ? 250,000 fine is the third-largest penalty ever imposed by the ICO, with only two local authorities fined more than Sony.

Smith said: "If you are responsible for data and data access card payments, then now all that personal data should be safe when their priority in this case, has not happened, and. database was white - but in a determined criminal attack - security measures simply were not enough

"The punishment that we released today is obviously important, but we do not apologize for it. Anyway, one of the most serious reported. This directly affects a large number of consumers, and so at least put them at risk of identity theft. "

not know who was responsible for the trick, described by the ICO as a "focused and determined criminal attack" on Sony's network. Hackers group Anonymous denied that he was involved in May 2011 after some members cited reports as an admission of liability.



Protection Agency data said the attackers took advantage of a "vulnerable" Sony's network, after the refusal of several distributed service (DDoS), which overwhelmed Sony network in the flooding of requests for download information.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Business Taxation and social media research

criticized by Labour MP

Google, Twitter and Facebook are facing renewed scrutiny of its tax provisions in the United Kingdom after the Labour Party has criticized the lack of corporate social responsibility and has asked for help against cyberbullying bottom measures.

debate in Westminster Hall on Wednesday, Labour MP Helen Goodman said social media companies constitute an additional burden on public finances in the UK by the workload of teachers, social workers and police faced threats and harassment carried out in social networks.

"These companies are a costly burden on the public purse again, but do not act as responsible corporate citizens," said Goodman debate.

"The government can not go back and ignore it. Ministers must ensure that [the authorities] tax use all the weapons at their disposal and, if necessary, further legislative action to end these avoidance devices. "

Goodman reiterated his concern about what he called artificial devices intended to support profit, referring to British royalty paid to its parent company Google to use its search technology and advertising.

cited Facebook's advertising sales in the UK of ? 175 million in 2011 and accounts show that ? 238,000 of taxes paid, while Twitter has not filed accounts in the United Kingdom. Google paid ? 6.09m tax in the United Kingdom in 2011 revenues of ? 395m.

"strategy [Google] is to minimize taxes and compensate with some corporate social responsibility -.?, But in the grand scheme of things, it's titchy Will we accept that" Goodman asked.

"We can not continue as we are, the industry may decide it is in their interest to change their behavior, or the government can put in place a coherent strategy that works in all departments . "

Google and Starbucks were summoned to a hearing common public accounts committee on Monday, with the IRS and Customs, where MPS toast both sides of corporate contributions to the company. Google told the Guardian he would not attend as a guest of the manager was not available in the short term. "We are making a substantial contribution to the UK economy through the local payroll and corporate taxes. Therefore employ more than 2,000 people, helping hundreds of thousands of online businesses grow and invest millions to support technology startups in East London. We comply with all tax rules in the UK, "said Google.

William Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute, said that it was a kind of moral panic on social networks similar to the rise of television in the 1950s .

"This concern focuses on people who do not use social media," said Dutton.


"Protecting children has nothing to do with taxation Facebook. Children should not be used as a lever for control legislation online content or prosecutors."

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Monday, January 21, 2013

in sport and other areas of national life, being courteous is now a foreign concept

say that Britain has become a land where cheaters prosper and both are lost in disputes relating to the definition. People wonder what you mean by traps and say you can not compare the present with the past. Aggressive attacks that were once legal defects become. Benefits Violins work once become crimes sackable

Because I make my living with words, I ignore the sophists and look instead at how the language has changed. Phrases that emphasized the old virtues have almost disappeared: "No cricket", "fair play", "good person", "Mr. Natural", "Lady". Reassuring prejudices about the superiority of British manners have followed the same path.

Fifty years ago, could explain Lance Armstrong scandal by saying: "Well, it's an American" and his listeners would have taken seriously. Americans were greedy and unscrupulous. They are from a culture that would aggressively capitalist success by any means necessary. There may be some black sheep among the British athletes, may be granted, but "Do you play! Do you play and play!" - To use another phrase that has disappeared

Today, nobody would be surprised to know that British athletes were bent. In the case of fraud Armstrong, in fact, have been used by English lawyers to help perpetuate his disappointment. The firm Schillings very expensive London took about ? 600,000 of

Sunday Times

because, as we now know, the newspaper told the truth about his client twisted. He warned the rest of the media on the dangers of muckraking sport. If you ask the lawyers if they feel no shame for having represented a fraud, look at you with suspicion. If a firm had not received money from Armstrong, someone else would have, for example. They have no moral responsibility beyond their professional obligations.

They are not alone. If a modern football player had to say to an arbitrator who was not worth it, colleagues and supporters will turn against him. A sample of how British football has become cynical and selfish listen Robbie Savage and the other players who have become commentators. They may be angry if someone suggests that a player must not mislead officials and take every advantage. It might frown upon diving. But deception within these limits, it is a double game, but to be a "professional." It is the job of the officials to see a criminal act. If they do, they, rather than the players are to blame.

While Armstrong was at the stage management of his confession, the Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, has published an adjustment to say. Luis Suarez had dived to win a penalty against Stoke. Anyone who watched the match in October saw what he had done, and Rogers, who defended his player. Last week after Suarez admitted he was down, Rodgers will explode. He did not seem too concerned about the deception. Instead, Rodgers fears that Suarez had told the truth "undermining our prospects and made it less likely that the referees give Liverpool the benefit of the doubt.

speak well and runs the risk of idealizing the past. But there is another trap that liberal commentators usually fall. They reject complaints from conservative cultural standards falling in saying that there is nothing new under the sun, and that it was always like a foreign concept if you think about it, because it implies that companies never change.


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told me that you can measure the decline of sportsmanship to see what has become rare to walk batters. Almost everyone is now waiting for the referee to tell him to leave. The benefits it brings dishonesty have become too important to be ignored, says Agnew. "Over the last 20 years, money has changed sport. I may sound pompous, but cricketers have forgotten that they are the custodians of the game, you must make sure not to damage his reputation. "
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Sunday, January 20, 2013


iPad, iPhone, Social Titans, download 69p

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Saturday, January 19, 2013

internet entrepreneur to launch the successor raided Megaupload mansion in Auckland last year

A year after the arrest of Kim Dotcom and the dismantling of their storage site Megaupload files, Internet entrepreneur is preparing to unveil a successor cyber-locker site, and renewed his attack U.S. prosecutors.

In an interview with The Guardian days before the release of the stepdaughter Megaupload, being called Mega and marked by the launch magnificent challenge to the same house was raided 20 Auckland considerably January of last year, Dotcom said that the purpose of your site has been motivated by "political agenda" at the White House, caused by pressure of the heads of Hollywood to stop Internet piracy.

dotcom tactical said Attorney criminal prosecution and preventively down Megaupload site amounted to "hijack the legal system."


The extradition hearing of the Internet bubble and three of his New Zealand base of his colleagues has been repeatedly delayed amid legal battles that have seen a number of victories for his defense including the conclusion that the search warrant was invalid, the search was conducted illegally, and that the FBI must return the cloned data. The hearing is scheduled for August of this year.

dotcom said he looks forward to the hearing will take place. "We want to expose what happened here. We have a lot of information that shows political interference. Believe that what happened here was made to destroy Megaupload, and we want to show that, "he said.


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