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Pirate party founder: 'Online voting? Would you want 4chan to decide your government?' ... - 0 views

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    "In 2012, a contest for US schools to win a gig by Taylor Swift was hijacked by members of the 4chan website, who piled ​on its online vote in an attempt to send the pop star to a school for deaf children. Now, imagine a similar stunt being pulled for a general election, if voting could be done online. Far-fetched? Not according to Rick Falkvinge, founder of Sweden's Pirate ​party. "Voting over the internet? Would you really want 4chan to decide your next government?" he said, during a debate about democracy and technology in London, organised by the BBC as part of its Democracy Day event."
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI's Pirated-Books Problem - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    "When employees at meta started developing their flagship AI model, Llama 3, they faced a simple ethical question. The program would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with products such as ChatGPT, and acquiring all of that text legally could take time. Should they just pirate it instead?"
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Security alert: notes from the frontline of the war in cyberspace | Technology | The Gu... - 0 views

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    The battle for control of cyberspace is turning nasty, with young hackers, pirates and activists facing long prison sentences. We report from the frontline
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RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP-Addresses | TorrentFreak - 0 views

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    Does not this suggest one reason that people should not be prosecuted - as an IP address is never a secure and final way of identifying a downloader?
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Powers to disconnect pirates in Digital Economy Bill - Telegraph - 1 views

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    Another interesting article - but is this Government and Politics as an Area of Impact?
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Touring the haunting ruins of abandoned Second Life university campuses / Boing Boing - 0 views

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    "In the meantime, I actually like how most of these islands represent an attempt by education institutions to embrace the weirdness of the web. The current crop of education startups seem bland and antiseptic in comparison to these virtual worlds. I can't take a Coursera class on a pirate ship, or attend office hours in front of an edX campfire. And honestly, that's probably a good thing. But it makes the web slightly less interesting."
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Anti-Piracy Advert Music Was Stolen - Ransom Note - 0 views

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    "One of the biggest cases of hypocrisy was uncovered last year with little more than a whisper. Most of us will remember seeing the "You wouldn't steal a car" piracy adverts on every dvd we played in the early 00s. What most people have yet to discover is that the music for the anti-piracy campaign was actually pirated from a Dutch musician named Melchior Reitveldt. In a move that would have marketing specialists turning in their graves, Reitveldt's music (which had been sanctioned for a local film festival's anti-piracy campaign) was used repeatedly for the standardised anti-piracy warning that appeared constantly. In a tale that became pointlessly complicated, Reitveldt dealt with corrupt royalty collectors such as Jochem Gerrits (who tried to gain profit for himself through the situation) before finally reaping his just rewards in 2012, 6 years after he originally composed the music."
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