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• Danger tourism

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (1109093.mp3) Download MP3 More and more tourists, it seems, are winding up in places they shouldn’t be. Some travel to war zones or countries their government has warned them not to visit. Robert Reid is an editor with the travel guide series, Lonely Planet. Marco Werman asked him why ...
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• MPAA Asks FCC For Control Of Your TVs Analog Outputs [Video On Demand]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 776
  The Motion Picture Association of American wants to rent movies to TV viewers earlier in the release window, but they dont want anyone potentially streaming that video out to other appliances. Thats why last week they went back to the FCC to once again ask for the power to disable analog ports on consumer television ...
  4 hours ago

• McAfee Notes Brief Surge in BitTorrent Sites

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 135
  McAfee Notes Brief Surge in BitTorrent Sites : “There’s at least one benefit to The Pirate Bay’s brief departure from the Internet in August – it showed the resiliency of the BitTorrent community. Even though the world’s largest tracker was taken offline for a short while, the BitTorrent community, with its ...
  7 hours ago

• Teen Arrested On Piracy Charges Regarding Modern Warfare 2

  
  DailyGamesNews.com — Authority: 159
  Youngster, Christain Del Amo who just turned 18 back in August has been arrested by Miami-Dade County Police in the US for piracy charges relating to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Del Amo was said to be seeking donations on CraigsList for $500 in order to buy a stolen Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle from a retail ...
  7 hours ago

• Wireless users may be shut off if sharing copyrighted files

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 128
  Internet services have created explosive growth in distribution of copyright materials. Some people are distributing it and dont even know it, some argue. The reaction, regardless whether a consumer knows it or not, is to push for extensive reform.
  9 hours ago

• Danish anti-pirate group dump lawsuits

  
  No Rock And Roll Fun — Authority: 490
  Antipiratgruppen, a Danish intellectual property protection group, have decided that its not worth taking people to court for using unlicensed files because, erm, they cant actually prove anything against them: “It requires very strong and concrete evidence to have these people convicted. We simply could not lift ...
  10 hours ago

• Game Released For Free on Torrent Sites by Its Developer

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  While complaints against piracy from the music and movie industries are pouring in daily, and book publishers as well as game producers are catching up with lawsuits and anti-piracy strategies too, others have adopted an entirely different approach. RedLynx, developer of Trials HD, a game you can quickly become ...
  12 hours ago

• VOD – Voyage of Despair

  
  Beyond the Iron Sky — Authority: 411
  (This post was originally published on Zombie Room . This is the second part of the Zombie Room’s look into the world of Video-On-Demand. You can read the first part here .) THE WEBSITE CDON.Com is a web store that operates in the Nordic countries. It’s owned by Modern Times Group , a company that ...
  15 hours ago

• The Colonels says ” The End is coming” For Porn

  
  LUKE IS BACK — Authority: 140
  Through A Glass, DarklyBy The Colonel I recently came across a new book by Ken Auletta. The book is Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. Auletta examines the outsize influence Google had on the changing media landscape. He tells the story of how Google formed and crashed into traditional media businesses, ...
  20 hours ago

• Africa moves to combat piracy

  
  Breakbulk Industry News — Authority: 477
  A group of government transport ministers from several African nations has signed an agreement that includes addressing industry threats such as piracy. The Second African Union Conference of Ministers Responsible for Maritime Transport has adopted the African Maritime Transport Charter, a harmonized pact aimed at ...
  21 hours ago

• Anti-Piracy Group Reports Torrent Site Users to the Police

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 715
  LinkoManija.net is the largest BitTorrent site in Lithuania and one of the prime targets for local anti-piracy outfit LANVA. Last year LANVA was ridiculed by the owner of the site who registered the domain lanva.lt after the group changed its name, something that didn’t do the relationship between the arch rivals ...
  1 day ago

• Anti-Piracy Group Reports Torrent Site Users to the Police

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  LinkoManija.net is the largest BitTorrent site in Lithuania and one of the prime targets for local anti-piracy outfit LANVA. Last year LANVA was ridiculed by the owner of the site who registered the domain lanva.lt after the group changed its name, something that didn’t do the relationship between the arch rivals ...
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• Trials Leaked on Torrents by Developer

  
  Multiplayergames.com — Authority: 136
  RedLynx had a unique way of releasing Trials on the PC (later ported in fancier style to XBLA as Trials HD). They took their own game an uploaded it to a number of torrent sites for download . Gutsy play, giving the game to a set of people who are typically not fond of paying for someone else’s work. However, the ...
  1 day ago

• Baidu/ QTrax deal not as stated?

  
  China Music Radar — Authority: 129
  Last week, ad-supported music download service QTrax announced that Baidu would be referring music search to QTrax’s legal offering.  You can read more HERE . According to a statement from Baidu, QTrax have overstated the significance of this deal, which according to them is simply a text based association ...
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• Africa: economy

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  Africa development indicators 2008-2009 ; Kenya ; SciDevNet Sub-Saharan Africa 23 August 2007 Is Western aid making a difference in Africa? (CSM) Two US economists [Ayub Rioba and Jeffrey Sachs] debate the value of antipoverty efforts. “Is this really how to save Africa?” asks Tanzanian columnist Ayub ...
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• Anti-piracy group raises the surrender flag

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 758
  While it may be a long time before we see this type of thing happen in the US and Canada the people of Denmark can look forward to one less anti-piracy agency trying to sue everyone in sight for downloading music from the internet – legal or otherwise. It appears according to a report over at TorrentFreak that the ...
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• First Group of "Traditionalist" Anglicans in Britain Votes to Enter Catholic Church

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  By Hilary WhiteROME, November 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move that is a surprise to no one, the UK branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), the largest of the groups that broke away from the mainstream Anglican Church over the ordination of woman and the latter’s support for active homosexuality, ...
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• Sunday, November 8: The A.D.D. Detective

  
  criminalbrief.com — Authority: 127
  Deputy Kenneth Moon Inmate Douglas Burden NEWS POT-POURRI by Leigh Lundin Moon Over Tampa Living in Florida provides a rich source of material for writers, though not the kind of anecdotes you want to brag about. This week in Tampa, that changed with a story out of the Hillsborough ...
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• Trials developer put its own game on torrent sites for marketing

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 791
  We all know the timeless adage: "If you cant beat them, then think of cleverer ways to entice them, then break down their spirits, showing them the error of their ways, which will ultimately lead to you beating them ." Developer RedLynx employed this strategy when trying to make a foothold in the piracy-riddled PC ...
  2 days ago

• Anti-Piracy Group Responds to Media, Not DRM Breaker

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 715
  Frustrated Danish citizen Henrik Anderson recently reported himself to anti-piracy outfit Antipiratgruppen for breaking the DRM on more than one hundred legally purchased DVD movies and TV shows for use on his media center. “As the law is today, you can not have a media center without breaking the law,” he told ...
  2 days ago

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