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“Six Strikes” Evidence Still Waiting for Impartial Re-review

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Last year it was revealed that the “independent and impartial expert” that reviewed the six-strikes scheme evidence was a former RIAA lobbying firm. To restore the public’s faith in the BitTorrent monitoring scheme, CCI promised to promptly appoint a new independent expert. However, TorrentFreak has learned that after several months the group is still to decide who will carry out the review of the evidence review.

Source: “Six Strikes” Evidence Still Waiting for Impartial Re-review

The Premise of Digital Surveillance Precludes Scholarship

Since 9/11, sweeping and indiscriminate digital surveillance of all computer and telecommunications users has been conducted, and more recently, systems have been developed to store every byte of that information forever. This means that if actors within some government agency decide to target you, they can immediately access every telecommunication: email, phone call, etcetera, that [...]

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Paul Scott, the late syndicated columnist, was so paranoid about the CIA wiretapping his Prince George’s County home in the 1960s that he’d make important calls from his neighbor’s house. His teenage son Jim Scott figured his dad was either a shrewd reporter or totally nuts. http://m.washingtonpost.com/local/long-ago-wiretap-inspires-a-battle-with-the-cia-for-more-information/2013/03/02/8ebaa924-77b0-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.htmlRelated PostsAnti-Piracy Company ‘Tests’ Mega’s Copyright Takedown Skills Craig [...]

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Comcast’s “Six Strikes” Email With Infringement Details Surfaces

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Together with four other internet providers in the United States, Comcast has started sending copyright alerts to customers who use BitTorrent and other P2P networks to pirate movies, TV-shows and music. Those who are “caught” will receive a browser notification, a voice-mail message and an email with details on the file that was allegedly shared. We have a copy of one of the first emails that went out on Tuesday.

Source: Comcast’s “Six Strikes” Email With Infringement Details Surfaces

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Al Gore’s Reality Drop spreads climate change science through gamification | Polygon

A new social media tool called Reality Drop from former vice president Al Gore aims to counter false information about global climate change by turning discussions into a game. http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/2/4056590/al-gores-reality-drop-spreads-climate-change-science-throughRelated PostsLarge rise in CO2 emissions sounds climate change alarm Urbanites combat climate change with rooftop farms | MSNBCMSNBC Geert Lovink, Miriam Rasch (eds.): Unlike Us [...]

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Download a Fresh Copy of The Pirate Bay, With Permission

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There are no signs that The Pirate Bay will disappear anytime soon, but pirate preppers anticipating such a doomsday scenario can now download an updated and improved copy of the world’s most resilient BitTorrent site. A backup of all crucial data has been packed into a tiny 75 megabyte archive, small enough to carry with you at all times. The archive of more than 2 million magnet links has received a seal of approval from The Pirate Bay team and is now up for grabs.

Source: Download a Fresh Copy of The Pirate Bay, With Permission

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Pirate Bay Proxy Crowdfunds Legal Fight Against Hollywood Group

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Hollywood’s war against The Pirate Bay website continues in Europe with yet another legal battle. Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN is taking the operator of the popular proxy site Kuiken.co to court, demanding the shutdown of the service as well as a ban on encouraging others to circumvent court-ordered blockades. Tristan, the operator of the proxy, is prepared to fight in court and is running a crowdfunding project to support his legal battle.

Source: Pirate Bay Proxy Crowdfunds Legal Fight Against Hollywood Group

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I Can Haz Internet Freedom?

The U.S. government and the government of the U.K., along with almost every corporation and governing body ever targeted by Anonymous, have unsurprisingly treated the banner and its users as a criminal, terrorist group. Our government, as well as law enforcement across the pond, has charged dozens of anons, threatening decade-long prison terms—or worse. Anonymous [...]

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Marc Augé: Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1992-) [EN, ES, CR]

A provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space. An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Augé calls “non-space” results in a [...]

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“The Social War in Portugal”

Jaime Semprun’s “La sociale guerre au Portugal” was originally published by Éditions Champ Libre on 16 May 1975, a mere three weeks after the manuscript was completed. It was composed of a brief introduction and two main parts: the first covers the period from 25 April 1974 to 28 September 1974; the second the period [...]

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FBI Opens Fresh Criminal Investigation Into Anonymous Following Hack

Bankers affected say it’s no big deal Jo David Cummins, president and CEO of Community First Bank of the Heartland in Illinois, laughs off Anonymous’ mid-January “hack” of a U.S. Federal Reserve database, which scooped up his record and over 4,000 others. He tells Reuters, “It hasn’t been much of a hassle. The information that was on the contact system was [...]

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Black Bloc Communiqué: On Tactics And Organization

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*With the Black Bloc playing a leading role in the intensifying uprising in Egypt, this Communiqué on Tactics is again being made available. This document, drafted by the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective and elements of Anti-Racist Action, was published over a decade ago in the immediate wake of the Battle of Seattle and A16. The [...]

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J. C. R. Licklider: Libraries of the Future (1965)

In this book J. C. R. Licklider discussed how information could be stored and retrieved electronically. Although he had not read Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think,” he realized that Bush’s ideas had been diffused through the computing community enough to have provided a base for his own ideas. His theoretical information network, which he [...]

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UK: Surveillance Devices to Monitor Web Traffic

The U.K. plans to install an unspecified number of spy devices along the country’s telecommunications network to monitor Britons’ use of overseas services such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a report published Tuesday by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. The devices — referred to as “probes” in the report — are meant to underpin [...]

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WikiLeaks Probe Exposes Secret Gov’t Searches – Breaking Analysis

While federal investigation continues on WikiLeaks, their tactics for obtaining information from people’s private communications encountered a stumbling block from Twitter. SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto gave some background information, saying that the WikiLeaks investigators are trying to tie certain people to the WikiLeaks organization by going through their private communications, including their Twitter accounts. [...]

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Ivan Edward Sutherland: Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System (1963/2003)

This technical report is based on a dissertation submitted January 1963 by the author for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The Sketchpad system uses drawing as a novel communication medium for a computer. The system contains input, output, and computation programs which enable it to interpret information drawn [...]

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Double Helix Serves Double Duty

Last Wednesday, a group of researchers at the European Bioinformatics Institute reported in the journal Nature that they had managed to store digital information in synthetic DNA molecules, then recreated the original digital files without error. The amount of data, 739 kilobytes all told, is hardly prodigious by today’s microelectronic storage standards: all 154 of [...]

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The Obama Administration Wants States to Grab Your Personal Data

Last year, when I tried to use my (perfectly legal, thank you) Montana state driver’s license to enter a bar in Washington, DC, the bouncer rejected it on the basis that “no real ID would have bear holograms.” Actually, in the Big Sky state we do—but the guy was on to something: Montana is one [...]

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