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Pirate Bay Founders Sentenced to Jail, Fines for Violating Copyright Law : Rolling Ston... - 0 views

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shared by Peter Ruwoldt on 18 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Peter Ruwoldt on 18 Apr 09
     
    A Swedish court found four men behind popular torrent hub the Pirate Bay guilty of breaking copyright law today, and sentenced them to a year in prison and fines of roughly $3 million to be dispersed among entertainment companies
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ABC Science Show - 29December2007 - Alfred Deakin Innovation Lecture - 0 views

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shared by Peter Ruwoldt on 01 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Peter Ruwoldt on 01 Apr 08
     
    Brian Fitzgerald, Head of the Law School at Queensland University of Technology, will discuss the success of open source in the information technology world, and the lessons for other fields of science. Transcript and Audio available at this link
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Every Click You Make - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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shared by Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08 - Cached
  • companies involved say customers' privacy is protected because no personally identifying details are released.
  • Although common tracking systems, known as cookies, have counted a consumer's visits to a network of sites, the new monitoring, known as "deep-packet inspection," enables a far wider view -- every Web page visited, every e-mail sent and every search entered. Every bit of data is divided into packets -- like electronic envelopes -- that the system can access and analyze for content.
  • There's a fear here that a user's ISP is going to betray them and turn their information over to a third party
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  • uidelines for behavioral advertising have been outpaced by the technology and do not address the practice directly
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      Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
       
      Example of where law lags technology
  • Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
     
    The online behavior of a small but growing number of computer users in the United States is monitored by their Internet service providers, who have access to every click and keystroke that comes down the line
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Man Arrested For Exploiting Error In Slot Machines - Slashdot - 0 views

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shared by Peter Ruwoldt on 07 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Peter Ruwoldt on 07 Jan 11
     
    "A man awaiting trial in Pennsylvania was arrested by Federal agents on Jan. 4, and accused of exploiting a software 'glitch' within slot machines in order to win payouts. The exploit may have allowed the man to obtain more than a million dollars from casinos in Pennsylvania and Nevada, and officials say they are investigating to see if he used the method elsewhere. The accused stated that 'I'm being arrested federally for winning on a slot machine. Let everybody see the surveillance tapes. I pressed buttons on the machine on the casino. That's all I did.' Apparently, slot machine software errors are fairly common. The lesson here seems to be that casinos can deny you a slot machine win any time they wish by claiming software errors, and if you find an error that you can exploit, you may find yourself facing Federal charges for doing so
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