You could have almost predicted it: WikiLeaks has been nominated to receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Snorre Valen, a member of Norway's parliament, said that the website deserves the Nobel Peace Prize because of its contribution to democracy and freedom of speech. Each year, nominees for the prestigious prize are chosen by invitation of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested.
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Transfer a song to your phone. Seems pretty fast, right? Now imagine transferring the entire printed catalog of the Library of Congress in a minute and a half. Intel says they've got the technology to make it happen (eventually).
...but strictly for security purposes. New DMCA rules make it legal to rip your DVDs, jailbreak and unlock your phones too.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) got a big revision today that will likely change the way that users may lawfully use and enjoy the products and media that they own.
July 21, 2010 - BY Kit Eaton - Source : www.fastcompany.com
The new pirate political party in Sweden, which takes a stern anti-copyright stance, and helps out torrent-sharer Pirate Bay, now plans to launch the world's first "pirate ISP." It'll be anonymized, safe, and feed funds to the party itself.
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No doubt busy with Windows Phone 7, its new mobile OS set for launch at the end of the year, Microsoft has kept pretty quiet about iPhone 4. However, it seems one Microsoft executive couldn't resist making just one smug remark about Apple's latest iPhone.
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A Wisconsin teenager has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a Facebook sex scam that enabled him to sexually abuse seven of his male classmates.
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Re: Last one to post wins the internets
This has got to be the dumbest Administration in our entire history.
megabyteme Yesterday, 11:46 PM"Buttery males!"
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