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In world of copyright craziness, BitTorrent, Inc. soars to new heights
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It's a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated its already considerable power to take copyright-infringing websites offline, and several hosting and torrent sites have gone dark voluntarily to evade prosecution. In the middle of...
People Realizing That It Wasn't Google Lobbying That Stopped PIPA/SOPA
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We've been pointing out for a few weeks now just how ridiculous the narrative is that it was "Google lobbying" that stopped SOPA and PIPA from moving forward. Having been involved in much of what happened, I know that it really was much more about the internet rising up and...
RIM behind 'Wake Up' flash mob at Sydney Apple store
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The Australian "Wake Up" campaign that included a flash mob faux-protest outside of Apple’s Sydney store last week was actually sponsored by RIM, the Waterloo company has revealed. Many were expecting Samsung to be behind the campaign, given its history of lampooning Apple and the upcoming launch of "the...
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, GRPN, FB, GOOG, YHOO)
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Good morning! Here's the news: There's a big protest planned at the Grand Central Apple Store today. Groupon beat earning expectations but its stock still dropped. Activist hackers released a bunch of secret data from Foxconn computers. Mark Zuckerberg used to buy shareholders' voting rights for $100. Google is...
French government to digitize out-of-print 20th century works, plans ebook initiative
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It's a case of having one's cake and eating it, too. Or, in this instance, digitizing the works of others and reselling them online for a 40 percent cut. According to Le Temps, a controversial new law recently passed by the French government will see out-of-print books from the...
RIM admits it was behind 'Wake Up' mock protest
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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion on Monday admitted that it orchestrated the "Wake Up" flashmob protest that took place at a Sydney Apple Store, claiming that the stunt was part of a larger Australian campaign....
How Twitter’s trending topics helped catapult a human interest story into the spotlight
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Last week, very few people had probably heard of Khader Adnan, I’ll admit myself included. The Palestinian prisoner was on hunger strike for over two months, when efforts by Twitter users brought his story into the spotlight via Twitter’s trending topics. Accused of being a member of the Islamic Jihad,...
Foursquare 5.0 hands-on
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Foursquare just posted its promised mobile app overhaul this morning, and it's a doozy: virtually everything in 5.0 has been given a fresh look or, in some cases, a complete rethink. The changes are, ideally, to goad us into using Foursquare to find places to visit, not just to...
‘Anonymous’ hackers plan to shut down the Internet this Saturday
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Notorious hacker group Anonymous has previously stated its intentions to shutdown the Internet on Saturday, March 31st, as a form of protest. “To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, on March 31,...
Indian ISPs Targeted in Anonymous Censorship Protest
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The websites of Indian government-run communications company Mahanagar Telephone Nigam and the Internet Service Providers Association of India faced DDoS......
AUDIO: Berners-Lee: 'Protest necessary'
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World wide web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said people should protest against current plans to increase internet monitoring....
Anonymous may be 'the most powerful organization on Earth,' says hacker
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Christopher Doyon or Commander X, head of Anonymous offshoot the People's Liberation Front, doesn't think the hacktivist group will be fazed by the arrest of several of its members. In an interview with the National Post, Doyon, who is currently facing 15 years in prison for a "virtual protest"...
The Instagram-Facebook backlash?
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As you all know, I am just massive Instagram junkie. I spend an inordinate amount of time on the service. And so do a lot of other people. Many of them are very passionate people who signed up for the service because it was anti-Facebook. It seems like these passionate...
Senator admits: SOPA "really did pose some risk to the Internet"
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A protester asks for an intact Internet. Backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, the Protect IP Act (PIPA), have been railing against the bill's critics ever since the legislation plunged to a fiery death earlier this year. The unprecedented online protest by Google,...
Ustream Says Russian Citizen Journalist Is The Focus Of Today’s DDoS Attack
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Developing story: Ustream has sent out some details on the DDoS attack that is currently attacking its system — which was reported on earlier by GigaOm, along with another DDoS attack on Bambuser. A Ustream spokesperson says that the attacked is targeted on user “reggamortis1″, a prominent protestor’s live Ustream...
Greepeace stages protest on roof of Apple's European HQ in Ireland
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Protesters with the environmental organization Greenpeace staged an hourlong demonstration atop Apple's European headquarters in Ireland on Wednesday, opposing the use of coal-powered electricity to power the iCloud service....
Thank Twitter For Standing Up For User Rights
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We recently wrote about Twitter's decision to stand up for a user in court, fighting against a court ruling that said that a user has no proprietary interest in their own tweets and info, such that those users cannot contest a government attempt to subpoena information from Twitter. This is...
BioWare responds to Mass Effect ending complaints as protest continues to grow
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The growing throngs of Mass Effect fans that have taken to the internet to demand changes to the game's ending have drawn a response from Bioware executive producer Casey Hudson, who says "insights and constructive feedback" from fans will help shape new content for the game going forward. Read...
Wikipedia Boss Jimmy Wales Is Dipping His Toe Into Politics
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has taken on an unpaid job as advisor to the British government on how to make policy decisions more transparent, reports The Telegraph. [I]t is expected that Mr Wales will also advise civil servants on how the public can be better engaged through the internet...
Samsung hires protesters and tells Apple to ‘wake up’ [video]
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A marketing agency called Tongue has reportedly begun a guerrilla marketing campaign against Apple in Australia. The agency recently hired protesters who were sent in a large black bus to an Apple Store, where they repeatedly chanted “Wake Up.” To accompany the protest, Tongue created a website called “Wake...
The Things You Learn When You Send A Freedom Of Information Act Request About What The Gov't Knows About You
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I've been meaning to post this story for a little while, but am finally getting around to it. On a whim, a woman decided to send off some Freedom of Information Act requests to various government agencies to see if they had any information about her. She said she had...
The Things You Learn When You Send A Freedom Of Information Act Request About What The Gov't Knows About You
Twitter fights back against subpoena of Occupy protester's tweets
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Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris may be inciting a very different kind of revolution than the one he intended: a fight between Twitter and the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Twitter today filed a motion to quash a subpoena by the DA's office requesting "any and all user information"...
Greenpeace projects giant images onto Apple HQ in protest for cleaner iCloud
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Greenpeace took its push for a "clean" iCloud to Apple's Cupertino, Calif., campus this week, projecting images onto the main building of its corporate headquarters....
Samsung reportedly behind mock protest flashmob at Apple Store
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An Australian Apple Store was bombarded by a mob of people chanting "wake up" and holding signs emblazoned with the same slogan on Thursday, with one source claiming that the stunt was orchestrated by an ad agency working for Samsung....
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (ZNGA, GOOG, AAPL)
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Good morning! Here's the news: The next iPhone will reportedly have a larger 4.6-inch display. Here's how Google plans to fix Google Wallet. An expert finally explains why people love zombies. Zynga bought Draw Something developer OMGPOP. Zynga's mobile chief explains why they bought the company. Here's why $200...
Steve Jobs's Last Gift To Apple Employees (AAPL)
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Before Steve Jobs died in October, he made one last hire: a sushi chef for Apple's Cupertino headquarters. He hired Toshi Sukama, the chef and owner of a Menlo Park restaurant called Kaygetsu's. A regular at Kaygetsu's tells us: "I ate there many times and also at his previous Menlo...
Robot takes your protest tweet to the street
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Political protesters have a new brother in arms -- the ONE Street Tweeter, a mobile robot that prints nearly real-time tweets right onto the pavement. It made its debut at the G8 Summit. [Read more]...
Twitter turns six; 140 million active users, 340 billion tweets per day
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Exactly six years ago Wednesday, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey published the first post on his new service Twttr. “Just setting up my twttr,” Dorsey wrote in his brief note. No one knew at the time, but his tweet was the first of trillions of messages that would be posted to...
Privacy groups launch protest against CISPA bill
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Several groups Monday launched a week of protests against a controversial proposed cybersecurity bill they claim would eviscerate online privacy rights....
RIM's 'Wake Up' campaign expands, tells users to 'Be Bold'
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The culmination of Research in Motion's "Wake Up" advertising campaign, which kicked off with a mock protest outside an Apple Store in Sydney, Australia, is a new website that tells users to "Be Bold" and use BlackBerry for business....
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