In the copyright case brought against Usenet provider in the United States by Perfect 10, Judge Marilyn L. Huff of California's US District Court granted Giganews' request for an extension to review the case against them. Usenet newsgroups providers have long enjoyed safe harbor thanks to the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), as do all ISPs in the United States. Will this lawsuit rock the foundations of the DMCA, or will Giganews emerge victorious?
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Published on 05-02-2011 04:11 AM
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Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi-born terror boss who plotted and funded the 9/11 attacks nearly a decade ago, has been killed and his body is in the hands the U.S. military, President Obama was set to announce Sunday night.
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Due to the PlayStation Network's recent security failure, it was only a matter of time before legal action came against Sony. Kristopher Johns, a local California man, strikes first in the legal arena by filing a class action lawsuit against the electronics conglomerate. The man appears to be taking Sony's breach of security extremely serious and is coming at them with a team of six lawyers from two separate law firms.
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Pull all those banned consoles out from under your bed or from in your closet, because Microsoft just made one of the biggest mistakes they have ever done!
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Sony has finally revealed the extent of the recent "external intrusion" to the PlayStation Network and it is bound to upset countless users. Millions of users's names, addresses, billing information, credit card details and more were all exposed to hackers in this wide scale hack. As everyone knows by now, Sony responded to hacks by shutting down the PSN completely. Unfortunately, its come out that the hacks took place three days before the networks were shut down. Sony has also hired an external security firm to investigate the incident.
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Sony has had their hands full responding to the recent Playstation 3 hacks. Most recently they've been dealing with the early leak of Killzone 3, one of their flagship franchises. This leak has Sony troubled by the "thought of their console becoming a mainstream threat to piracy." In response, Sony has already been hard at work designing a brand new hack proof Slim model PS3.
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Los Angeles – The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) on behalf of several of its member studios today filed a lawsuit against the operators of the download hub service Hotfile (www.hotfile.com) for copyright infringement. Hotfile facilitates the theft of copyrighted motion picture and television properties on a staggering scale and profits handsomely from encouraging and providing the means for massive copyright infringement.
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RipTen is reporting on several users who are claiming they got the ol’ heave-ho from COD: Black Ops online. I’m not clear on how or why these bans are happening, or if they actually are happening, but if they are — it’s a sure bet it all stems from the recent hacks and mods, especially if you’re cheating the game.
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We knew it would happen. Geohot released on his blog the PS3 “root key” and various tools to run homebrew on the PS3. Geohot posted on his blog the following:
As of 1/11/2011 7:20 PM EST, I have been served with papers, see below…
Motion For TRO
Proposed Order
old front page, with relevant info removed, is here
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I have done some updates since 2010, but if you're willing to make something more thorough and organized it would be very welcome (and also made sticky).
Re: What are you listening to right now?
grizzli Today, 09:09 PM