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Internet activists push for greater democracy Associated Press The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say. Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum series, said tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube help people organize “in order to have an impact on the political process and to petition governments to be more responsive to their everyday needs.” Saturday’s conference comes at a time when more and more people are using the Internet to have their say.

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IE bug leaks private details from 50m PDF files The Register A bug in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is causing more than 50 million files stored online to leak potentially sensitive information that could compromise user privacy, a security researcher said. The documents stored in Adobe’s PDF format display the internal disk location where the file is stored, an oversight that can inadvertently expose real-world names and login IDs of users, the operating system being used and other information that is better kept private. The data can then be retrieved using simple web searches

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “A 16-year Gold Coast kid is promoting the theft of music with his new site Vye Music,” says Undercover.com in Australia. But, “With the help of close friends and family, 16-year-old Charles Allatt, has launched Vye Music, an online meta search app for music files around the Net,” says DigitalBeat . “The site pulls search results from other music sites … sites which in turn index hundreds of thousands of sites, blogs and artist pages.” Says Charles on VyeMusic.com , “Vye Music lets you stream full length tracks, share them with your friends and family over social networks, or with a direct link, discover new artists through its similar artists feature, create personal libraries of your favourite tracks, and play them as a list, and even download entire DRM-free music tracks.” Letting users share and download music for free “is what got Napster in trouble for copyright violations back in 2001 and led to the end of that free service,” says DigitalBeat, continuing »»» But Allatt claims that the distinction between his website and Napster is that his site is legal, despite the download availability

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p2pnet news view Music | Advertising:- There’s Big 4 ‘product’. Then there’s music

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p2pnet news view Music:- “Music ingestion Down Under is taking a little longer than expected,”  says Qtrax on its site today. It’s on again, off again, up again, down again, and now it’s failed to meet a launch date. Again

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- MediaSentry has been discredited so many times in so many ways by so many people in so many countries it’s hard to believe it’s still around. But it is — just like some quack medical practitioner or snakeoil salesman who simply moves on somewhere else every time he’s found to be a fake.

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Music industry efforts to force Australian clubs to pay more for their music has seriously backfired. Starting December 1, the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia  wanted to boost tariffs it demanded from all Oz clubs, hotels, restaurants and cafes wanting to play background music. By how much?

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Leslie Stahl Needs To Get a Clue About P2P DaniWeb Leslie Stahl had a piece Sunday night on 60 minutes on the supposed impact of piracy on the movie industry … Her piece was so slanted toward the Motion Picture Association of America, it was almost laughable (if it weren’t so maddening). At one point, Stahl explained P2P networking using Bit Torrent in a way that made it sound like it was used exclusively for movie pirates and that it was the brand new gee-wizz technology — neither of which is true

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Guess Who Else Is Coming to Dinner? Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook-Bing All Things Digital In a stunning one-two punch, Microsoft will announce separate nonexclusive deals today with both Facebook and Twitter to integrate their real-time feeds of status updates into the Bing search service. According to sources, Microsoft (MSFT) digital head Qi Lu will announce the deal onstage in a few hours at the Web 2.0 Summit.

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Marketers want anti-spam bill altered CBC The Canadian Marketing Association is lobbying MPs to change an anti-spam bill so that consumers have to opt out of receiving commercial email messages, rather than opting in to get them. In a message sent to its 800 corporate members — which include Costco, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Home Depot and Rogers — on Thursday, the CMA urged companies to get in touch with their local MPs to demand changes to the proposed legislation, which is expected to enter a critical phase on Monday.

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