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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collective piracy threatens to make public classified documents and was killed when Aaron Swartz line has been crossed '
hacktivist group Anonymoussaid 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.
- information that was like a nuclear weapon, the group said it had "enough fissile material for multiple warheads," which will be launched against the Department of Justice and organizations linked to it.
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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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
- Anyway, employment or jobs - as it is marketing - receiving its world premiere tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, and draw attention to that they released this short video. Kutcher, as Jobs and Steve Wozniak Josh Gad, fur Jobs co-founded Apple Computer, Wozniak discussing possibililties operating system recently developed in what is probably supposed to be the parking lot of Hewlett Packard, where they both worked in the summer of 1970.
- Whether or not Jobs will be a good movie, we'll have to wait until the reviews come, but this clip has at least one critic famously Wozniak himself that published cutting a response at the site Gizmodo. To say that the scene was not "close ... never had this interaction, "Wozniak went on to say. "People are very badly although mine is closer" also suggested that, at the time the job was learning a Wozniak likely impact on the future of computing.
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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 NackersThe 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 "
- Nackers said Biden is "more than one school onion old character" and compared its action to the interpretation of the role of Bill Clinton during his presidency (Clinton suffering from Senioritis, the sources of the White House ie, October 2000).
- "He [Clinton] type of work that this man of many hats and could go in any situation," said Nackers. "I think Mr. Biden, who is similar to that, except, in his opinion, the onion is slightly narrower."
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.
- The digital economy has often been called a new industrial revolution. And while factories dominated the Industrial Revolution, the factory today is the human body. Instead of seeing people as "consumers" companies are beginning to consider them as "producers" that emit a constant stream of digital exhaust gas, in fact, the authors of the report suggest that the tax function as a given tax pollution. Some brands have even used the idea of ??the body as a factory - or in the case of Nike, a "sweatshop" - in its marketing activity. In a campaign with their sweat, created a sports brand online auction in which the only currency accepted is that he fled. Each register miles with Nike + system has become the currency could buy Nike booty.
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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- course, the easy answer is that Doctorow, Stross and Gaiman are all successful authors who can afford to hold such opinions. But like most easy answers, it lacks most of the argument. Writers who are able to understand the market in which you work, and understand that file sharing and digital copying, all adverse changes produced by technology, creating opportunities that many problems. The digital economy works on the model of the long tail, and the copy is part of how a book or digital creation moves in the queue. Copy and share files on the Internet are mouth - and like all good bookshops know, word of mouth is really sells books
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is attractive for the business author. You want to develop limited editions of his book and sell them on Etsy? You can. Want to find a kick-ass illustrator on deviantART for your presentation? You can. Discover a Kickstarter to fund the next volume of the epic fantasy saga? You can. You want to make a marketing agreement with a sponsor who loves brand? You can. You want to make copies of his book on The Pirate Bay to find new readers? You can. The options for authors ships are huge, and the potential for creativity really exciting. In the past, the authors relied on publishers to make these decisions for themselves creative, but changes in digital publishing means that many writers are not only creative but financially better or acting on his behalf or negotiate new types of relationships with publishers.
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Huawei and Vodafone World Complete First 2 Tbit / s WDM field trial
Shenzhen, China January 24, 2013:
Huawei, information and communication leading global provider of technology solutions and Vodafone, one of the largest mobile companies in the world of communications, today announced the test successful two fiber technologies Tbit / s optical transmission network Vodafone Live. The field test was 2 transmission capacity Tbit / s over 3325 km. This gives a data highway capacity 20 times higher than current commercially deployed 100Gbit / s systems and has a speed equal to download 40 high-definition video in a second. This is an important milestone in the progress of the 100G optical transport technology beyond.
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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.
- was a move that many considered risky, given the significant presence of Microsoft in the mobile and the immense popularity of Google's Android software, Nokia could have chosen to use.
- "We are encouraged by our execution of our business strategy started to result in financial results," said Stephen Elop. "We remain focused on our transition moving through, including improving our product competitiveness, accelerate the way we operate and manage our costs effectively."
"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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performance was driven by its business network equipment, Nokia Siemens Networks, which after lower costs and strong sales growth reached its highest operating margin since its inception in 2007.
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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
PrivacyThe 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. "
- The ICO has not revealed how many players who think they have been affected by the security breach. At the same time, it was estimated that nearly 100 million users may have been affected.
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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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.
- Goodman also called for new legislation and training, saying they needed more clarity between several pieces of legislation designed to promote the protection of children, bullying and misuse of information, and remained long way to cybercrime and cyber bullying to be taken seriously.
- He referred to Fiona Mactaggart MP suggested that a code of conduct could be designed to protect children and adults online.
"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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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
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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.
- Stefan Szymanski, an economist sport that has co-authored an article on cheating in sport, argues that it is foolish to think wistfully English football is worse than it was before. Football was codified and administered by the knights, who believed that sport should train people to run an empire. They may have been imperialists, but the idea that English players should take the lead and win the respect due to filtering. With the end of the empire and the end of the leader of England in the football world, the English players did not see the need to behave better than players from any other country. No more than their fans.
Cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew
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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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 new site, which should exceed the competing sites offering users 50GB of free storage, was partly motivated by the awareness of "how the U.S. government works and how to spy actually happening, how much intrusion into privacy is the reality of today, "he said.
- dotcom conclusion of U.S. Attorneys Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and activist who committed suicide last week, reflecting their own treatment. Although reluctant to discuss details of the case, Swartz identified "similarities in the way they have been handled. Abuse of power more powerful, without due process - just crazy, two of our case"
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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