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• Public pressure stops BBCs HDTV DRM drive (for now)

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Hollywoods attempt to force DRM measures on the BBCs over-the-air high-definition broadcasts looks to have come a cropper after intense public pressure.
  7 hours ago

• Rwandans find few physical scars from past war

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  War and civil strife have a lasting effect on the societies that they strike. Although many attempts have been made to quantify the impacts, a recent PLoS One study shows just how difficult this can be. In 1994, some 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda as ethnic tensions exploded into an attempted genocide. Now, ...
  9 hours ago

• Hollywoods antipiracy charm offensive has FCC in crosshairs

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Hollywoods new campaign for government permission to police the Internet for copyright theft began this month with a segment on, of all places, CBSs Sixty Minutes . Viewers expecting another of the shows self-described "hard-hitting investigative reports" watched a feature called The Movie Pirates, in which a ...
  12 hours ago

• Blu-ray discs get Managed Copy; hardware support nonexistent

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  "Managed copy" has been slouching its way toward our living rooms for years now, but the technology that can make backup copies of films will finally come to all Blu-ray discs on December 4, 2009 . Unfortunately, no Blu-ray player yet has the ability to make one of these copies, rendering the whole scheme pretty ...
  1 day ago

• Supernova Conference Returns to SF, Dec. 1-3

  
  Tech Policy Central — Authority: 110
  Were looking forward to taking part in this years Supernova Conference as a media sponsor, and we hope youll join us there. The annual event organized by Wharton professor Kevin Werbach features an impressive line-up of speakers that you wont want to miss (including several Tech Policy Summit alumni we are fans ...
  1 day ago

• Pirates get a taste of Microsoft COFEE

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  Microsoft’s Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor ( COFEE ) has made it into the hands of pirates, and their virtual ships are distributing it quickly for everyone to get a taste. The COFEE application uses common digital forensics tools to help law enforcement officials at the scene of a crime gather volatile ...
  1 day ago

• Pirates get a taste of Microsoft COFEE

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Microsofts Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor ( COFEE ) has made it into the hands of pirates, and their virtual ships are distributing it quickly for everyone to get a taste. The COFEE application uses common digital forensics tools to help law enforcement officials at the scene of a crime gather volatile ...
  1 day ago

• CEA Hosts Apps for Innovation Contest

  
  Tech Policy Central — Authority: 110
  As part of its Innovation Movement campaign, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is hosting its first-ever apps contest for software developers. Developers are invited to submit applications using the platform of their choice in one of two categories: Apps that show how innovation and entrepreneurial ...
  1 day ago

• Glenn Beck loses domain dispute, still ends up with domain

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  Talk show host and one-man media empire Glenn Beck has lost his bid to shut down the glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com domain name. We’ve covered the strange circumstances of the case before : a Gilbert Gottfried comedy routine (NSFW) about Bob Saget raping and murdering a teenaged girl made its way to ...
  1 day ago

• Glenn Beck loses domain dispute, still ends up with domain

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Talk show host and one-man media empire Glenn Beck has lost his bid to shut down theglennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com domain name. Weve covered the strange circumstances of the case before : a Gilbert Gottfried comedy routine (NSFW) about Bob Saget raping and murdering a teenaged girl made its way to ...
  1 day ago

• Premier subscribers: live chat with the EFFs Fred von Lohmann Wednesday night

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Ars Premier 2.0 is our new and improved subscriber program that offers some fantastic benefits for subscribers. So far weve had chats with Mac OS X reviewer John Siracusa and Ars cofounder Jon Stokes . Were excited to announce our next live chat, with Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney Fred von ...
  1 day ago

• Our Newest Twitter Account

  
  Tech Policy Central — Authority: 110
  A quick bit of housekeeping news: We now have two official Twitter accounts for those of you looking for tweets about all things tech policy. Along with @TechPolicy where I have been tweeting since early 2008, you can also follow @PolicyEvents for news and information about tech/policy-related conferences. Its ...
  1 day ago

• Data breach notifications one step closer to law... again

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Every time theres a major data breach in retail or government, theres a chorus of frustrated customers trying to find out whether their information was exposed to would-be identity thieves. The problem is that its near impossible to find out this information unless the organization in question takes the initiative ...
  1 day ago

• USF Reforms Should Include Broadband, NCTA Tells FCC

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 143
  The National Cable and Telecommunications Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission to redirect up to $2 billion in “wasteful” spending from Universal Service programs towards broadband. The association did so in a filing submitted to the Commission on Thursday. With telephone subscriber ...
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• The ACTA Internet provisions: DMCA goes worldwide

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  That warm flood of outrage through the veins is addicting—but it also runs the danger of being addictive, and of being too easy. As the news broke this week about the "Internet provisions" in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), it didnt take long for the outrage to emerge. For instance, the popular ...
  1 day ago

• The ACTA Internet provisions: DMCA goes worldwide

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  That warm flood of outrage through the veins is addicting—but it also runs the danger of being addictive, and of being too easy. As the news broke this week about the “Internet provisions” in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), it didn’t take long for the outrage to emerge. For instance, the ...
  1 day ago

• Week in tech: sexy bootlegged Star Trek slumber party edition

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Tales of Star Trek piracy and sexy slumber party pics topped the weeks tech and science stories. Heres what was hot over the past seven days. Two high school student athletes got in hot water after pictures from a slumber party posted on MySpace—with privacy controls, no less—ended up on the principals desk. ...
  3 days ago

• European Union Takes Its Own Network Neutrality Stance

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 143
  While the U.S. takes steps to make so-called Network Neutrality principles mandatory under official rules, the European Union moved forward this week with its own set of internet access requirements. Under the proposed EU rules, “national telecoms authorities will have the powers to set minimum quality levels for ...
  4 days ago

• If anonymity is no longer needed, let’s ditch the witness protection program…

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 143
  I asked a question of the Social Media: Engage panel at Internet Summit ‘09 about 30 minutes ago and since that moment I’ve been thinking about online anonymity. People seem to hate it. When I blogged about the upside and relevance of anonymous comments as they relate to news stories, some people balked. ...
  4 days ago

• EU adopts "Internet freedom" provision on Internet cut-offs

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  For weeks, the major governing institutions of the European Union have been locked in a battle over three-strikes laws, Internet disconnections, and the appropriate role of judges in the process. Just after midnight last night, the deadlock was broken and all parties agreed to a new "Internet freedom provision" that ...
  4 days ago

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