❤ Thursday, July 2nd 2009

Anna Nalick - Breathe (2AM) (via spleetoog)

Heard on Grey’s Anatomy. Fell in love. It’s all over YouTube but I can’t seem to buy it on iTunes, very frustrated.

❤ Wednesday, July 1st 2009

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Notez ce mot : qui. La plus grande valeur qu’un média peut apporter à ce nouvel écosystème de l’information est d’identifier, d’organiser, de passer en revue et de former les gens. Idéalement, cela doit se faire avant que l’événement éclate."

— Du bon usage de Twitter dans le nouvel écosystème de l’information | Rue89

❤ Tuesday, June 30th 2009

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Canada should leverage its position among the G-8 to convene a meeting of major powers to formulate a Treaty of Cyberspace recognizing that this domain is now of equal importance to that of land, air, space and sea. Cybersecurity should not be just a question of national security but of global security. The preamble of this treaty should make it clear that cyberspace is a valuable global commons that should be protected and preserved for citizens of all the world."

— Canada online

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While much of the world’s attention is focused on Iran, Psiphon is involved in a very similar battle unfolding in a country nearby: Kyrgyzstan. Unfortunately, this crisis receives very little media scrutiny. In Kyrgyzstan, authorities have coerced ISPs to filter access to opposition websites leading up to elections in July. Working with Kyrygyz media and civil society, we have set up right-2know nodes and are pushing content into that country. This follows our active engagements in China-Tibet and in Burma."

— Canada online

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So instead of superficial support, like Twitter users changing their avatars to green to support Iran’s reformist movement, Silicon Valley minds and money should pool resources as a way to help Iranians get around this information blockade by providing easier-to-use proxies, anonymizers and maybe even unfiltered Internet access through hardware."

— Silicon Valley should step up, help Iranians

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One way to get Iranians online help is to provide support by “anonymizing” online traffic through software like Tor or creating proxy servers through tools like Psiphon and Freegate. These allow computers to send their Web traffic encrypted through other computers so that it can’t be traced by Iranian authorities. But even these software tools have had little success as Iran’s authorities crack down."

— Silicon Valley should step up, help Iranians

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Twitter famously received a call from the U.S. Department of State nearly two weeks ago asking the company to postpone its scheduled maintenance to suit those in Tehran’s time zone, rather than those on Pacific time. Facebook recently added Persian language support for its iconic social networking site. Google took things to an entirely new level by launching its Persian version of Google translate, which allows for decent machine translation between English and Persian and vice versa."

— Silicon Valley should step up, help Iranians

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But now that Iran has been experiencing turmoil surrounding its recent election, many Bay Area technology leaders finally realize the importance their technology and services can play in shaping world events. As foreign media have been kicked out of the country, information technology services suddenly have become a crucial tool to get and receive information from Iran."

— Silicon Valley should step up, help Iranians

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Our advice, if you get a settlement offer from one of Nexicon’s partners please forward it to your spam folder - after forwarding it to us first of course."

— Automated Legal Threats Turn Piracy Into Profit | TorrentFreak

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The process is simple. Their software monitors BitTorrent swarms and other filesharing networks and records the IP-addresses of those people who share the work of their clients. It then automatically sends an email to the ISP linked to the IP-address with a request to forward it to the associated customer. Thus far, this is very similar to the warning letters that the movie and music studios have been sending out for years. However, there is one big difference. The emails sent out by Nexicon to alleged infringers contain veiled threats of legal action if they don’t choose to settle within 10 days."

— Automated Legal Threats Turn Piracy Into Profit | TorrentFreak

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Piracy watchdog Nexicon has found the ultimate way to turn piracy into profit for the fresh copyright holders added to their clientele. They offer alleged file-sharers the chance to settle for $10 per downloaded song or an equal amount for a pirated movie. If you decide not to settle, they promise to bankrupt you in court."

— Automated Legal Threats Turn Piracy Into Profit | TorrentFreak

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Up to now, this hasn’t worried Logistep, DigiProtect, Davenport Lyons or ACS:Law since they say in their claims letters: “We do not claim that your computer was used to commit the infringing act (although we do not exclude this possibility), nor do we claim that you downloaded our client’s work. Our claim is that your Internet connection was used to make our client’s work available via one or more P2P networks. The file may not, therefore, be on your computer.” So, in a nutshell, they admit that the people named in their letters may not have carried out any infringement. Absolutely priceless."

— ISPs Doubt Accuracy of Anti-Piracy Evidence | TorrentFreak

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Of even greater concern and embarrassment to ACS:Law are the accusations they leveled at Colin Dixon, Technology Director at a UK software developer. “My wife and I are middle aged (51 and 49) and work from home, and the computers here are owned by our employer, and are strictly controlled for pirated software - that’s my job!"

— ISPs Doubt Accuracy of Anti-Piracy Evidence | TorrentFreak

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The hypocritical law firm - who were recently shown to be copyright infringers themselves - partner with Swiss anti-piracy tracking company Logistep (and another company DigiProtect) in order to demand settlements of around £665. However, time and time again there have been allegations against individuals who have absolutely no idea why they are being accused of copyright infringement."

— ISPs Doubt Accuracy of Anti-Piracy Evidence | TorrentFreak

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Le Parti Pirate aura donc toute liberté sur les sujets liés aux nouvelles technologies et à la vie privée, mais devra se plier à la discipline du groupe sur tous les autres sujets. Un compromis qui était à la base de la stratégie du PiratPartiet pour les élections européennes : se concentrer exclusivement sur les sujets qui leur sont chers, et mettre de côté tout ce qui pourrait diviser ses membres par ailleurs."

— Le Parti Pirate rejoint les Verts de Cohn-Bendit au Parlement Européen - Numerama

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